Kansas weekly herald., 1855-06-08

traders, who have started from this point,
yet we are assured that we do not over.
estimate their business in computing the
aggregate number of wagons that have and
will soon start out from our city at twelve
hundred, with,a like numberof teamsters.
The total number of draught cattle en-
ployed by the different traders, will exceed
ten thousand. The great impetus givento
the trade and business of our city by these
traders can better be imagined than esti-
mated.
In speaking of the business of Leaven-
worth, we should not fail to notice her mer-
camille trade. Our city at present has some
six dry goods establishments, which weven-
ture to say, are filled with as fine and COM
plete stocks of goods as can be found west
| of St. Louis. Goods of every description
can be procured in our city on as reasonable
terms as they can be had in the western
country. Our merchants, we rejoice to say,
are conducting their business on liberal
scales and seem, if we should Judge from
the large crowds that daily throng their
stores. to be meeting with the most unpre-
cedented success. We hope that our citi-
zens will encourage home trade by purchas-
ing of our merchants, in preference to those
| of our neighboring towns. This we con-
slider but the bounden duty of each and all
our citizens, who have the future welfare of
our city at heart.
The Grocery and Provision trade of our
city is an important element in her business.
The demand for provisions of all kinds in
this country, as in all new countries, is very
great. The men who have established
| themselves in this branch of business are
reaping golden harvests. We think no
business in new country more lucrative
than the kind Of which we now speak.
The Storage, Forwarding and Commits
sion business of our city is exceedingly ac-
tive in consequence of the large amount Of
freight received at this point. Our ware
houses are densely packed with goods Of
every conceivable description. Boxes Of
all sizes, chairs of all patterns, bedsteads
of every description, bureaus, stoves, hard
ware, etceteras-too numerous to enumer-
ate-are gathered under their roofs. To
one who is unaccustomed to Western life,
it is peculiarly striking to 'stake peep" or
as the Frenchman would say to give a
coup d'Gil, at the contents of our warehous-
es. The first idea that presents itself as he
beholds the vast and pyramid-like piles of
freight there gathered together, is ''where
under the sun is this freight destined for. "
| When he is told that all of it is destined
for different points in the Territory, he
thinks that Kansas surely must have pop
ulation, and that it cannot be long before
| she will knock for admission into the Union.
Our time and space will not permit US to
speak further of the business of Leaven-
worth. We are constrained to forego the
pleasure Of speaking in detail Of her other
branches of business till some future occa-
sion. In conclusion we have only to say,
that the present prospects and business OF
Leavenworth are sufficient to convince ev-
cry sober and unprejudiced mind, that Leav-
enworth must ever remain the primary city
of our Territory. Such verify is our belief
SALT CREEK VALLEY-This valley is
about two and a half or three miles from
Leavenworth, acknowledged to be one oi
the prettiest valleys in the Territory, and
| though we have admired its beauty every
time we have seen it, yet on Saturday last
we were more than ever struck with It's
surprising lovelIness. It IS a valley oi
some three or four miles each way, with a
stream called Salt Creek, meandering Its
course through the very heart of it, and
emptying its waters into the Missouri river
a short distance above Fort Leavenworth
The soil is rich and we'll adapted TO the
growth of hemp, or almost anything else
the surface of the ground gently undula-
ting, covered with rich carpet of greer
foliage with farms here and there II
levery direction in cultivation, and the
squatter's cabin rearing its humble roof or
every quarter section of land. The seen
cry surrounding, particularly at this sea
son of the year, is picturesque and magnif
icent. There are several large farms nov
being opened, and put in high state 0
, cultivation. Claims in this valley rang'
high, those uninproved with only a cabin
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