The Kansas herald of freedom., 1856-03-15

er is found in abundance but few feet
below the surface, on nearly every claim,
while our climate seems especially sdapt-
ed to the growth of the latter. Where
the fires are kept out for few years there
is heavy growth of locust. In a dozen
years. BY proper attention. any occupant
ofa claim can grow all the timber be will
need, and his posterity after him can be
supplied the same way. The soil and
climate being so well adapted to the
growth ofapples and peaches. and they
grow so rapidly, it would be well to
plant them in abundance, and use the trees
after few years for fuel, supplying their
places with young trees. Black-walnut,
oak and cottonwood are the most abund-
ant; though blackberry. hickory, ash,
blackjack, and, in some localities, sugar
maple, are found, besides many other
descriptions notenumerated. The black
walnut grows very large and high, and is
the monarch of the forest in Kansas.
"What are claims worth per acre. say
from two to six miles from Lawrence %
This question cannot be answered.
the value depends up the caprice OF the
holder. Everybody believes claims will
be worth from fifty to hundred dollars
an acre as soon as title from govern
ment is obtained, and hence but few
claims are now offered for sale. We
have good claims registered with us for
S4OO, which are within four miles of
Lawrence. We have others at $500,
and some as high as $1,000. If our
friends here having claims to sell would
register them with US, we could answer
such questions more readily in future, be-
sides finding purchasers for their claims.
We have no timbered claims registered
with us short of four miles from town.
Others from eight to ten miles distant.
"What are good working horses and
oxen worth,-cows, &c."
Horses range from $50 to $50 in
value. Average at about 500. Mules
about the same. Oxen from $50 to
800. Cows from S95 to $40
/" Are the inducements which the
country offers, over and above the disad-
vantages which every man must labor
under in going into new country, suffi-
cient to warrant man with small means
in emigrating thither 90
Kansas offers inducements to the ad-
venturous, who wish to establish them
selves for life, superior to any other
country in the world. Such are ourbon-
est convictions, after one and half years
residence on her soil. Space will not
permit US to go into details in giving our
reasons for such an opinion. Those who
wish for them, and who have desire to
be thoroughly informed on the question,
should send us two dollars and get COM
plete file of the HERALD OF FREEDOM,
for the last year, where this subject will
be found discussed at length.
81 have thought some of making Kan
sas my future home, aud having but lit
tie capital at command, thought best to
make some inquiries in regard to the
country"
Your case is similar to thousands of
others. Before making journey here,
We would advise all persons to read at
tentively the first half of the first volume
of our paper. which can be furnished
complete for 81. We then spoke of the
climate, soil, face of the country, DC, as
we saw it, and more fully than We can
again.
The highest figure above is the price
of the bare claim mentioned by our quer-
rist, an amount quite too large for the
improvements.