White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1857-10-08
Important Facts to Kansas Emigraats.


A correspondent of the St. Louis Democrat
makes the following summary Of them:-
l. Kansas has an area Of ll4,79s square
miles.
9. The land at present open to presumption,
is large enough to accommodate u, 900 families,
or half a million of persons, exclusive Of the
population of cities, towns, and villages.
3. Kansas is the garden as well as the geo
graphical centre of the United States.
4. Its climate is genial and healthy, and its
soil Of unsurpassed fertility.
5. 1t has wood enough for all practical pur-
poses.
6. Coal banks have been discovered in eve
ry district of the Territory.
I. 1t is int ,rsected in every direction BY
running streams; pure water is found, at a mod
crate depth, in every part of the Territory.
8. There are numbers of salt springs few
miles westward of Fort Riley.
9. The land will be sold for a dollar and a
quarter per acre.
10. Every man has the power, if not the le-
gal right, to sell his claim before he pays for il;
and if he selects it judiciously, he will hare no
trouble in dispOsing oft. A great deal Of mo-
ney can be made in this way, by young man who
have the courage to trough it," and the indus
try to improve their claims.
IL. Every male adult or widow is entitled,
under the laws of Congress, TO pre-emFo so
acres; and they are not required to pay for it
until the time Of nuhlic qaia
IL. Land warrsnts-those issued in 1856 ex-
cepted-will be taken in payment for the pre-
emption claims.
Is. Those men who cannot raise $500, when
their land falls due, will find no difficulty in
borrowing it, or mOrtgaging their farm.
IA. All the Indian tribes are friendly.
Is. Stone msOns, carpenters, blacksmiths,
plastarers, wagon makers, gunsmiths, cabinet
makers, teamsters, brick makers, shoemakers,
tailors, painters, butchers, pediars. men willing
TO work at any manual labor, may emigrate to
the Territory, and will find no difficulty in pro-
curing steady work and remunerative wages.
16. For the services of respectable young
women as teachers, domestic help and seam
stresses, there is great demandin every new
country, and especially so in Kansas.
IL. While Kansas is pre-eminently the coun-
try for the poor man, it holds out advantages
equally encouraging for the man Of limited for.
tune. While a man without a dollar can find
remunerative work, the small capitalist or store
there, than in any other Territory in the United
States.
ls. He can do it by buying Trust Lands,
town lots, claims, or by loaning money on good
security, at a heavy rate of interest.
l9. He can do it more readily still, BY estab-
fishing workshops and stores; by building and
renting houses; by keeping hotel, or erecting
saw-mill. There are openings for all these
enterprises-andevery variety. of them-in ev-
cry town and district in Kansas.
20. Claims can be purchased around all in
land towns in Kansas. The price depends very
much on the means of the settler, the shrswd-
ness of the buyer, the character Of the soil, and
the location of the claim.
81. A log hut can be built on a claim for
from $50 to 800.
%. The price of horses, cows and working
cattle in Kansas, and in the adjoining Counties
of Missouri, is about the same as in the Middle
and New England States.
%. Prairie land can be broken from the first
of May to the middle of September, for 50 per
acre.
"a. One team will break from two TO two
and half acres per day.