Kansas weekly herald., 1855-04-06
For the Kansas Herald.
Paruee. Il. T.
March 18th. 1865.

Mr. EprToR:Sn a communication to
the Herald of the 18th of February last, in
replyto an editorial of the s. Frontier News
of january 18th, find the following ze-
mark--shat 'sonly hine ofthe original stock
holders are officers of the Army stationed
at Fort Riley. This is in a manner cor
rect as their names do appear as "original
stockholders" but the site Of 'Pawnee' was
originally selected and determined upon as
the point for The town, by four citizens
of Kansas, among whom was the wri-
ter of the present comuunieation-and. to
these alone belong the credit, if any, of
having selected the location. The officers
stationed at Fort Riley, Gov. Reeder and
others, were aftervards admitted as stock
holders. The Frontier News however
states that they were the originators Of it,
even admitting that such had been the case,
could it in the least detraet from the advan-
tages that the town possession why
should those who happen to De In the ser
vice ofthe General Governments, not be al
lowed the same rights and privileges that
are guaranteed to their fellow citizens
have no doubt, they would prove equally
as capable of determining upon the advan-
tages of point as would the imaginative
Editor of the News btAt it is too well known
that the opinions of such trivial schemers
and petty capitalists cannot in the least con-
fict with or diminish their rights. Again
the News INDUCES In the visionary hope
that it will be able to deter the tide of emf
grafton from the western portion of Kansas,
by endeavoring to depict the barrenness of
the soil and the great lack of TIMBER
whereas it is well known that this portion
of their Territory is by far the most fertile,
we'll watered and timbered-as proof of
this assertion, would refer to all (and the
number is by no means small who have
seen this section of tile country. 1t cannot
be disputed, that the valleys of the Smoky
Hill and Republican, are Of a greater extent
both in length and breadth than those. OF
any other streams in the Territory, besides,
the number and the beauty of the many
tributaries of these faro are much more COM
petent to sustain thickly settled popula-
tion, than the few and scantily timbered
creeks, that meander through the ''border'
portion. The mineral resources of the large
extent of country between, and adjacent to
the two rivers, are every day becoming
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matter of rumor or conjecture but "A fixed
and settled, fact. This spring notwithstan-
ding the Misrepresentation and unauthen-
ticated reports of the Frontier News, We
will have In this portion of our beautiful
Territory population composed of the har
dy sons of this Union, who will soon deyel
op not only its mineral, but its agriculture
resources. The Capitalist, will here inyes
his means as the surest guarantee of sue
cess-as this undoubtedly will be the con
centrating point, for the great food of emf
grafton which yearly passes over the plain
to California, Oregon, Utah and New Mex
ico-that it must be so, is evident from th'
fact, of the amount of land travel saved
from the navigation of the Kansas, and b,
the distance saved onthe new and proposes
routes-over the old ones.
SALINE,