Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1857-03-27

IMPORTANT FACTS TO Kansas ENGRANTs,-
A correspondent Of the St. Louis Demo-
crat makes the following summary Of
them
Il. Kansas has an area Of ia, 7J5 square
mile
2. The land at present open to pre-emp-
ton is large enough to accommodate 10000
families, or half a million Of persons, exclu-
sive of the population Of cities, towns and
villages.
3. Kansas is the Garden as we'll as The
geographical centre OF the United States
a. Its climate is genial and healthy,
and its soil of unsurpassed fertility.
5. 1t has wood enough for all practical
purposes.
G. Coal banks have been discovered in
every district of the Territory.
I. 1t is intersected in every direction by
running streams pure water is found, at
moderate depth, in every part of the Terri
| tory
s. There are numbers of salt springs
few miles westward of Fort Riley
9. The land will be sold at u dollar and
quarter per acre.
10. Every man has the power, if not the
| legal right, to sell his claim before he pays
| for it and if he selects it judiciouslv, he
will find no trouble in dsposing of it,
great deal of money can be made in this
way by young men who have the courage
to % rough it and the industry to i'm
prove their claims.
II. Every male adult or widow is enti-
tied under the laws Of Congress to pre-empt
100 acres and they are not required to
pay for it until the time of the public sale
II. Land warrants-thosc issued in 1850
excepted-will be taken in payment Of pre-
emptiol claims.
10. Those men-Free State men-who
cannot raise 5000, when their land fall due,
will find no difficulty in borrowing It, or in
mortgaging their farm.
IA. All the Indian tribes are friendly tu
the Free State men.
Is. Stone masons, carpenters, black
smiths, plasterers, wagon makers, gun
smiths, cabinet makers, teamsters, brick
makers, shoe makers talors. paiRters
butchers, pedlars, men willing to work at
any manual labor, may emgratc to the
Territory as soon as navigation opens, anC
find little difficulty, if any, in procuring
steady work and remunerative wages.
l6, For tho service of respectable younI
women as teachers, domestic helps ant
seamstresses, there is a great demand il
every new country, and especially so il
!, Kansas
II. While Kansas is prominently tn
country for the poor man, it holds out ad
vantages equally encouraging for the mai
of limited fortune. While a man withou
a dollar can find remunerative work. tn
small capitalist or store keeper will increas
his fortune more rapidly there than in an,
! territory in the United States.
Is. lie can do it by buying Trust Lands
= | Lot ola mi lnar ina n
good security at q heavy rate of interest.
10, He can do it more rapidly still, b.
, establishing workshops or stores by build
Ing and renting houses by keeping hote
) or erecting saw-mill. There are opening
enough fol all these enterprises-and ever
variety OF them-in every town and di;
trict in Kansas.
90 Claims can be purchased around q
the inland towns in Kansas. Tho price de
ponds very much on tie means of the settler
the shrewdness OF the buyer, the charactt
Of the soil, and the location of the claim
81. A log hut can be built on the claim
for from $50 to 500.
%. The price of horses, cows and worl
ing cattle in Kansas IN the adjoining coul
ties of Missouri, is about the same as
the Middle and New England States.
%. Prairie land can be broken from II
first Of May till the middle of September
for SO per acre.
"a o. '"~'~ I'LL ,hreqk from one to tw
ard half acres per day
How far every Statement. in the loregoir
summary is reliable, in all its length al
breadth, we are unable to say. Some
them assert unquestionable facts of impo
lance to those who think of going to Kal
- sas for residence. Others are mere matte
y of opinion. of which each man must iudl
II for himself In 4 practical sense hard
any one man could expect to find all the ci
cumstances as favorable for him as is he
indicated. His experience nigh, fall
h good deal short of that, and yet be all thu
any reasonable man ought to look for in TIN
/. or in any other new country. Emigratic
= to Kansas seems to be moving on this sprir
with great yigor. \ powerful emf rati,
into that territory OF men loving freedom
- they love their own lives is its chief hoI
now.