Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-03-10
lFrom the correspondence of tho Mo. Democrat.I
Important Facts to Kansas LIN
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!. Kansas has an area of ia, 798 square
miles.
2. The land at present open to pre-emp-
tion is large enough to accommodates 49,
600 families, or half million of persons,
exclusive of the population of cities, towns
and villages.
3. Kansas is the garden as we'll as geo.
graphical centre of the United States.
g. Its climate is genial and healthy, and
its soil Of unsurpassed fertility.
5. 1t has wood enough for nil practic,l
purposes.
6. Coal banks have been discovered in
every district of the Territory.
7, 1t is intersected in every direction by
| running streams; pure water is found, at
moderate depth, in every part Of tho Ter.
| ritory.
8. There are numbers of salt springs ,
few miles westward of Fort Riley.
8. The land will be sold at dollar and
a quarter per acre.
10. Every man has the power, if not tho
legal right, to sell his claim before he nav,
for it; and if he selects judiciously, he viii
find no trouble in disposing of it. A great
deal OF money can be made in this waT bv
young men who have the courage to "rougb
it, and the industry to improve Their
claims.
II. Every male adult or widow il en-.
titled under the laws of Congress, to pre.
empt 1GO acres; and they are not reonirod
to pay for it until the time of the publ;o
sale.
IL. Land warrants-those issued ~
1850 excepted-will be taken in navnen.
of pre-emption claims.
l3. Those men-Free State men-vbo
cannot raise $500 when their land f.iIs
due. will find no difficulty in borrowing il
or in mortgaging their farm. ~
II. All the Indian tribes are friendly to
the Free State men.
10. Stone masons, carpenters. blocL.
smiths, plasterers, wagon makers, oun
smiths, cabinet makers, teamsters b1T;cL
makers, shoe makers, tailors. painte,s
butchers, peddlars, men willino to worl,
at any manual labor, may emipTate 70 the
Territory as soon rs navigation onens and
find little difficulty, if any, in nrocnr;no
steady work and remunerative WAGES
16. For the services of respectable yo,,ro.
women as teachers, domestic helms snS
seamstresses, there is a great demand ;o
every new country and especially 60 in
Kansas. -
II. While Kansas is pre-eminentlv the
country Tor the poor man, it holds out ad
vantages equally encouraging for the man
of limited fortune. While man witbout
dollar can find remunerative work the
small capitalist or store keeper will increa se
his fortune more rapidly there than in anv
other territory in the United States,
10 he can DO 1T by buying Trust Lands
, town lots, claims, or by ioanino money IN
7 gooa security at a heavy rate of interest.
f l9; He can do it more rapidly still, bv
f establishing work shops or stores: bv build :
ing and renting houses; by keeping a hotel
or erecting saw mill. There are open-
lngs enough for all these enterprises-and
| every variety of them-in everv town and
district of Kansas.
g 20. Claims can be purchased aronnd al
the INLAND towns in Kansas Tba nr;ro
: depends very much on the means Of the
: settler, the shrewdness of the buyer, the
character of the soil and the location Of the
claim.
81. A log hut can be built on claim
Z for from $50 to 500,
9 22. The price of horses, cows. ent
working cattle in Kansas, and in the adj
: joining counties of Missouri. is about the
o same as IN the middle and New England
States.
%: Prairie land can be broken from tn,
lst OF May till the middle of September
here. for 50 per acre.
"a. One team will break from, Two {.
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