Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1856-05-14
Correspondence of the N Y. Tribune
IMMIGRATION INTO KANSAS.

LAWRENCE, Kansas, Friday, April ls.
That there is slide in the affairs OF men"
is made evident by the flood of immigration
now setting into this State. Our town is
crowded with immigrants from all parts.-
A number of companies are camping here,
anxiously awaiting the reports OF their ex-
plorinp Committees, who have gone out to
look at different localities. There is a large
company from Ohio-one from Connecticut
one from New Hampshire-and others
are daily arriving. There are delegations,
also, from different States, who have come
out, as Joshua of old, to spy out the land
Pennsylvania is sending noble emigration
also. Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, New York
and New England are not far behind.
Your correspondent has been in Kansas
since it was open for settlement-about two
years-and was one of the original squatters
on the site where Lawrence now stands.
The emigrants of this season are much SUI
perior to those of last year. They come in
the face of difficulties and are prepared to
meet them. They make allowances which
many of those of last year did not seem dis
posed to, for our inability to afford them all
the comforts of older States. The boarding
houses and many private houses are filed
The hotel is about being opened; if the fur
niture was here it could be made ready in
a week. In fortnight Lawrence will have
hotel superior to any west of st. Louis
Col. Eldridge of the American Hotel in
Kansas City has leased it. The Colonel is .
whole soNed gentleman from the old Bay
State-energetic, enterprising and affable.
He has, in connection with his two hotels, a
line of stages between Kansas City and
Lawrence, and is proprietor of the ferry across
the Missouri at Kansas City. Money is
scarce here, and as in all new countries, we
need the help of capital. No State offers
better inducements for settlement than this.
Emigration is coming in like a flood
land and property are advancing and must
increase rapidly in value If the wealthy
men of the North would invest in Kansas
they would add to our circulating medium,
and greatly benefit us as well as themselves.
Efforts are being made to introduce man
ufacturing on large scale in this place.
Some branches of industry must be very
profitable. Missouri on the east and Arkan-
sas on the south manufacture comparatively
nothing. On the west we have an unlimited
market-millions of dollars worth Of goods
are annually transported from the borders of
Missouri Kansas will soon have her share of
this trade. 1t costs from 10 to Is cents per
pound to transport goods across the plains to
Santa Fe. Hundreds of tuns of soap and
candles are sent across the plains all Of which
are brought up the Missouri from St. Louis,
while they can be manufactured here as
cheap or cheaper than at that point 500
miles east.
Lard, oil, furniture, plows, carriages, wooden
goods, all are imported from st. Louis
Lard and wool are sent 400 to 500 miles to
be manufactured. We have plenty of tim
Der for furniture, plows, carriages, and the
like.
Enterprising men may acquire fortunes
rapidly by starting these manufactures not
only in Lawrence, but in all parts Of the
State. ST. Joseph on the Missouri has some
manufactures but would not be a formida-
Bile competitor in any branch.
THERMOMETERS.