The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1857-10-27
Important Fact, to Kansas EmIgrants.

A correspondent OF tho st. Louis DEM
ocrat makes tho following summary Of
them -
l. Kansas has nm area Of l14,79s square
miles.
2. The and at present open TO pre-
emption, is large enough to accomodate
$4,000 families, or halfa million Of per-
sons. exclusive Of the population Of cities,
towns and villages
8. Kansas is the garden ms we'll as the
geographical center Of the United States.
4. It's climate is genial and healthy,
and its soil cf unsurpass ID fertility.
8. 1t has wood enough for all practical
purposes.
8. Coal banks have been discovered in
every district Of the Territory.
2. 1t is intersected in every direction by
running streams; pure water is found, at
a moderate depth, in every part Of the
Territory.
z. There are numbers Of salt springs
few miles westward Of Fort Riley.
8. Tho land will be sold for dollar and
quarter per acre.
10. Every man has the power, il not
the legal RIGHT, to sell his claim before he
pays for it; and If he selects it judiciously,
he will have no trouble in disposing Of it.
A great desl of money can be made in
in this way, BY young men who have the
courage to "rough IT," and tho industry TO
improve their claims.
IL. Every male adult or widow il en-
titled, under the laws Of Congress, to pre-
emp 100 acres; and they arc not required
to pay for! it until the time of public sale.
12. Land warrants--those issued in
1856 exceptcd-will be taken in payment
for the presumption claims.
Is. Those men who cannot raiso 5000,
when their land fall due, will find no diff
Guilty in borrowing it or mortgaging their
farm.
ID. MI the Indian tribes are friendly.
l5 Stone masons, carpenters, black
smith, plastep, wagon makers, gunsmiths,
cabinet makers, teamsters, brick makers,
shomakers, tailors, painters, butchers, ped
lars, men willing to work at any manual
labor, may cmigrate to the Territory, and
will find no difficulty in procuring steady
work and remnuerative wages.
18. For the services of respectable
young woman as teachers, domestic help
and seamstress, there is great demand
in every country, and especially 60 in Kan
sas
IL. While Kansas is prominently the
country for the poor man, it holds out ad-
vantages equally encouraging for the man
Of limited fortune. While man without
a dollar can find rcmunerativc work, the
the small capitalist or store keeper will in.
crease his fortune moro rapidly there, than
in my other Territory in the United States.
1s. He can do it by buying Trust Lands,
town lots, claims, or by loaning money on
good security, at heavy rate Of interest.
10. He can do it more readily still, by |
workshops and stores; by |
building and renting houses; by keeping
hotel, or erecting saw-mill. There are
openings for all these enterprises-and
every varity Of them-in every town and
district in Kansas.
90. Claims can be purchased around all
inland town in Kansas. The price depends
very much on the means of the settler, the
'hrewdness of the buyer, the character Of
'oil, and the location Of the claim.
21. A log hut can be built on claim
or from $50 to 800.
%. The price of horses, cows and work.
ng cattle in Kansas, and in the ajoin-
ng Counties of Missours, is about the
anne in the midle and the Now England
States.
%. Paririe land can be broken from
he first Of May to tho middle Of Septem-
'er, for 80 per acre.
"a. Ono team will break from two to
wo and half acres per day.