The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1857-01-29
Facts for Emigrants to KaRAas.

1. It's fourteen times as large as Mass
achuselts. y
3. 1t is as large as Maine, Vermont,
New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Cohnec-
ticut, NewJ Jersey, Massachusetts, Mary
land and South Carolina combined,
The land at present open toprecmp-
! ton is large enough to accommodate sew
enty-fge thousand families, Or half a mil
lion Of individuals, exclusive of the popu.
Tfatf0n ofcities, Towns and villages.
5. when Kansas is as densely popula-
ted as EEsl2hd, it will contain popula-
ton of thirty -eighGwillion, one hundred
and twelve thousand nine hundred and
thirty-siX souls.
6 Kansas is The garden 3f Tie United
SiateS.
T. lis climate is genial and healthy,
and its soil Of unsurpassed fertility.
8. 1t has wood enough for all practi-
cable purposes
8 Coal-banks have been discovered in
several districts Of the Territory
10. 1t is intersected in every direction
by running streams; pure water is found,
at moderate depth, in every district of
the Territory,
II. There are innumerable salt-springs
few miles westward of Fort Riley.
12. The land will be sold to actual set
tiers at a dollar and a quarter per acre.
l3. Every man has the power, if not
the legal right, to sell his claim before he
pays for it; and if he locates it iudcou8.
ly, he will find no difficulty in disposing
Of it. A good deal Of money can be made
in this way by young men of limited
means, who have the courage to trough
it," and the industry to improve their
claims.
Ia. Every male adult Or widow is en-
titled, under the laws of Congress, to pre-
empt one hundred and sixty acres; and
they are not required to pay for it until
the day of the public land sale.
Is. Land warrants-those issued in 18-
so excepted-will be taken in payment
of preemption claims
l6 Those men-Free State men-who
cannot raise $500 when their land falls
due, will find no difficulty in borrowing it,
or in mortgaging their farm.
II, All the Indian tribes are friendly
to the Free State men.
10, There are at present, at the lowest
calculation, six FIee State men in Kansas
for every friend of the domestic iniquity
of the Southern States.
10. From present indications, in conse.
quence Of the large Northern emigration
that will flow into Kansas next Spring,
there is no doubt that, before next Au.
tumn, there will be twenty to one in favor
of free labor and free soil.
20. Stone-masons, carpenters, black
smiths, plasterers, makers, gun
smiths, cabinet makers, teamsters, brick.
makers, brick layers, shoe makers, tail
ors, painters, peddlers, men willing to
work at any manual labor, may emigrato
to the Territory as soon as navigation
opens, and find little difficulty in procur-
ing steady work and remuncratve wages
81. Physicians, lawyers, clergymen,
real-estate brokers and the like had better
stay at home; for the Territory is already
bountiluIIy supplied with them
22. For the services of respectable
young women as teachers, domestic helps,
and seamstresses, there is a great demand
in every new country, and especially SO
in Kansas.
80. While Kansas is the country for
the poor man, it holds out advantages
equally encouraging for the man of lim-
ted fortune. While a man without dol
lar can find remunerative work, the small
capitalist or slore-kecpcr will increase his
fortune more rapidly there than in any
other Territory Of the United States.
"a. He can do it by buying trust.Iands
towns, lots, claims, or by loaning money
on good security, at heavy rate of inter
est.
rs. lie can do it, more rapidly still, by
establishing work shops or stores; by
building and renting out houses; by keep
ing a hotel or erecting saw-milI There
are openings enough for oil these enter
priseS-and every variety of them-in ev-
cry town and county OF Kansas.
26 Claims can be purchased around
all the inland towns in Kansas. The
price depends very much on the circum-
stances of the settler, the shrewdness of
the buyer the character Of the soil and
tie locat on of the claim.
81. A log.hut can be built on a claim
for from fifty to one hundred dollars.
90. A tent costing from SO to $l5,
provided the settler or his family lives in
(which is no great inconvenience in the
Summer time--is sufficient to enttle him
to hold one hundred and sixty acres.
90. The price of horses, cows and
working cattle in Kansas, and in the ad-
joining counties of Missouri, is cheaper
than in the Middle and New England
States,
80. Fencing with rails costs about Go
cents per rod; with stone about 81; pick
ct fence, l0c. The Usage orange grows
luxuriantly.
81, The prico Of breaking prairie-land
is about S3 per acre.