Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-04-10
Important facts to Kansas Emf
grants.

A correspondent of the st. Louis
Democrat makes the following summary
of them -
/. Kansas has an area of 1l4,7sS 50.
miles.
2. The land at present open to pre-
emption is large enough to accommodate
$4,000 families, or half a million of per-
sons, exclusive of the population of cit
les, towns and villages.
8. Kansas is the garden as well as the
geographical centre of the United States.
A. It's climate is genial and healthy,
and its soil of unsurpassed fertility.
). 1t has wood enough for all practical
purposes.
6. Coal banks have been discovered in
every district in the territory.
z. 1t is intersected in every direction
by running streams; pure water is found
at moderate depth, in every part of the
territory.
s. There are numbers of salt springs
few miles westward of Fort Riley.
g. The land will be sold at dollar and
a 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 judicious
Iy he will find no trouble in disposing of
it. A great deal of money can be made
in this way by young men who have the
courage to trough it and the industry to
improve their claims.
IL. Every male adult or widow is en-
titled under the laws of Congress to pre-
empt 16O acres; and they are not re-
quired to pay for it until the time of the
public sale.
II. Land warrants-those issued in
1850 excepted-will be taken in payment
of presumption claims.
10. Those men-free state men-who
cannot raise 5000 when their land falls
due, will find no difficulty in borrowing
it, or in mortgaging their farm.
IA. All the Indian tribes are friendly
to the free state men.
Is. Stone masons, carpenters, black
smiths, plasterers, wagon makers, gun
smiths, cabinet makers, teamsters, brick
makers, shoe makers, tailors, painters
butchers, pedlers, men willing to work al
any manual labor, may emigrate to the
> territory as soon as navigation opens, and
find little difficulty, if any, in procuring
| steady work and remunerative wages.
, 16. For the services of respectable
young women as teachers, domestic help:
and seamstresses, there is great demand
in every new country, and especially 81
. in Kansas.
II While Kansas is pre-eminently
the country of the poor man, it holds on
r advantages equally encouraging for tht
man Of limited fortune. While a mai
without dollar can find remunerativ,
work, the smallest capitalist or store
# keeper will increase his fortune NOR
$ rapidly there than in any other territor,
in the United States.
# IS. He can do it by buying trust land:
o town lots, claims, or by loaning money OIL
= good security at heavy rate of inter
q est.
It 10. He can do it more rapidly still b
@ establishing workshops or stores; b
is building and renting houses; by keepin
D hotel, or erecting saw mill. Their
10 are openings for all these enterprises
and every variety of them-in ever
town and district of Kansas.
NJ 20. Claims can be purchased aroun
all the inland towns in Kansas. Tb
nc price depends very much on the mean
10 of the settler, the shrewdness of til
: buyer, the character of the soil, and tn
l. location of the claim.
W 81. A log hut can be built on a clair
= for from $50 to 500.
10 p. The price of horses, cows, an
working cattle in Kansas, and in the a,
n joining counties of Missouri, is about ii
. same as in the Middle and New Englan
IS States.
u %. Prairie land can be broken fro
ar the first of May till the middle of Sci
q TENDER, for So per acre.
w "a. One team will break from two
of two and a half acres per day.
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