Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-02-26
Kansas its Advantages and Prospects.

Gle, for your paper and give Through
you'll such information as / may, and as
they may desire, relative to the physical
advantages of the Territory andits prob,
able future condition, as it regards Sla.
very. This, briefly, l will do. Those
who purpose immigration into a new
country usually desire to be informed
upon three substantial facts.
j, Where does the country lie?-2
What are its physical looks, what is its
landscape?-Is it handsome or an i'll
looking country?-3, What are the ca
pacities of its soil and surface, its ability
to sustain and enrich dense population:
| answer briefly, Kansas lies Direct,
west Of Missouri, between 80 . 80 min
and 40 9 north latitude.
2, 1t is country truly magnificent
superb, glorious to look at.
Such is the abiding picture in my eye
of winter view.
What it is when invested in its sum
mer garniture have not seen but l car
imagine.
There are few fairer visions upon the
green earth--it must be SOFAS beautiful
and fruitful as the perfect world which
Adam trod. After leaving the Nilsson.
ri River which forms a portion of hel
eastern boundary and which is bordered
throughout its length with bold bluffs
crowned with trees; after leaving the
river about n mile the bluffs sway away
into waving prairie which bears stri-
king likeness to the ocean in huge gen.
tie swell. The prairie is not RI gged ex-
cept when cut through (which is fire..
quently) by water courses of all dimen-
sions from a rill to river; but the wave
and valley lines are s.4arp and well de-
fined. When every quarter section Of
these prairies and river valleys shall be
dotted with civilized habitation and
subjected to civilized culture, where
shall we find such picture on this side
of the Atlantic? have yet to look up
on it. have not seen it. 3, But there
are more important advantages in new
country than those which address the
eye. Your practical readers will desire
more to hear of the soil, the climate, of
building the burning and the fencing
of the heaIthfulness of the eli
mate and of the facilities for foreign
and domestic marketing, ofits prospect
i've educational advantages, and the
probable character of the emigration. /
will speak of these.
The soil is loan of superintendent
richness, based on a bed of clay. 1t
grows large crops ofallthe cereal grains,
1t is perhaps degree or two too warm
fot the most perfectproduction Of wheat,
50 far rs climatic influences affect it; but
the soil itself is so perfectly adapted to
wheat culture that it it is probably fully
as good wheat-growing country as
All other grains RIOT in lux
uriance and return one hundred fold to
the cxertions of industry. The region
verges towards the Tropics and here we
shall see richer variety of fruits than
in this more northern locality. Here is
the peculiar home of the Peach, the
Grape, the Pear, the Apple, the Plum
DC.
The climate is of course warmer, as
a whole than here, not rs indicated by
the thermometer, but from the fact that
the warm season is longer and more
regular and constant. The winters are
milder as rule, and there is approach
towards that eiuibility of temperature
which appertians to tropical regions. i
cannot speak ofthis from any experience
of my own. Kansas must be healthful
state from physical necessity it seems
to me; that is-those classes of diseases
which prevail most in the low attitudes
find here their antidote and enemy i'll
the singular and almost unprecedented
absence of such other circumstances as
most usually produce them. What are
usually regarded as Observation-Disclosures
and fever-generators. are quite unknown,
and Kansas is perhaps the only territory
within the limits of our country which
does not contain a ngleswamp, slough
or stagnant pool.
Experience also justifies me in saying
that Kansas will be one of the most
heathful states in the Union.
There is not much deficiency of tim
Der, but it is not as equally distributed
as would be desirable. The scarcity of
timber in localities has its compensation
in the abundant building stone ia blue
limestone of great fneness and durabil-
ty) and in the exquisite texture of the
brick-clay, which / venture to declare
cannot be equalled elsewhere; and also
in the rich coal veins which are every
where found. Water is plenty. There
are many springs and many running
streams, and water may anywhere be
had by digging from ten to forty feet.
Kansas in a few years will be one way
ing field of grain and fruit, and the ques-
ion, how shall her surplus products find
their way to the consumer, is an impor-
tant one. AS | have said the great Mis-
souri, river forms nearly the one half of