Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-02-28
cheap,comfortable and easy transit to Kan

heap,comfortable and easy transit to Kan
sas.
WHAT 70 TAKE.
| This will depend upon the time you go
land the place where you start. In all cas-
es carry such articles of necessity and con-
|venience as you have, Unless very heavy
and bulky. Garry abundant bedding,
good strong clothing, few chairs and a
table, the stove if you can take it to pie
ICES, few dishes, and whatever Is tcces-
sary for housekeeping, judged by the pio-
neer standard.
/ Garry also garden seeds, and fruit seeds
|of all kinds. Procure hundred or two
root gratis, apple,pear, plum, cherry. peach
and grape roots, currents, ornamental
shrubs, and other small fruits in cuttings or
roots.
Pack them in damp saw dust in box
and take them with you. You will find
some place to set them and they will pay
you a hundred fold, and SURROUND your
new home with comfort and beauty. If
you have tools take them. If not,
you can purchase quite as cheap at st.
Louis or in Kansas as in the East.
Your coarse stuff should be shipped by
some transportation company to reach
Kansas as cheap as possible.
Freights up the Missouri to Kansas are
from 3octs. to 1920 per hundred, accord
ling to the stage of the water. The high
est rates occur in March, October and No
, vember. Lowest in May and june
/ Present rates are 800.
An estimate of the expense of reaching
the territory by these routes may be form
ed by noticing the prices Of tickle is from
the following points:
Boston to Kansas approximately, $4,000
New York or Albany, 5000
Buffalo Or Dunkirk, 24,00
Cleveland, 21,00
Chicago, 1900
Children under IL years of age half price.
OVERLAND ROUTE.
Persons wishing to 90 with their own
teams can make safe and easy transit
across Iowa or Missouri. The principal
routes cross the Mississippi at Dubuque,
Davenport, Muscantine, Burlington, Han.
nibal, Mo-, and St. Louis. Either of these
are good wagon routes, and the choice
will be determined by the starting point.
A loaded team will make IS miles per day,
the distance from the farthest point named
being about 400 miles. 1t is hardly safe
to start before the1st of May, as the teams
must depend mainly upon green feed
The expense is trifing, if provision is made
flor camping. In a warm weather this
"trip can be taken by females. without ex-
|posure to severe hariships. No difficulty
will be encountered in finding the route
from any of the above starting points
Every party should have tent, cooking
utensils and abundant bedding. They
can live in their wagons and tents after
ARRIVING in the territory, until home is
secured.
i LANpiNG FONTS IN KANSAS.
Persons wishing to go up the Kansas
valley or to the southern portion of the
territory should stop at Wyandott City or
Quindaro, two new towns in close proxim-
lily with each other and located on the
Missouri river, just above the mouth of
the Kansas. Col. Eldridge, late proprie
tor of the Free State Hotel, will ruin line
Of hacks daily from Wyandott to Law
renee; fare three dollars. A steamer re-
Gently purchased by Thaddeus Hyatt, Esq.
|of n. Y, will make regular trips from
Quindaro to Lawrence three times a week,
carrying passengers at three dollars apiece
At these points teams can be obtained for
any part Of the territory, and purchases of
stores can be made. Leavenworth City
25 miles higher up, Atchison 10 miles
beyond, Doniphan and Iowa Point,
with the Northern portion of the territory
and communicate by stage with the inte-
Irior.
j CLAIMS, PRE- EMprIoNs, LAND ENTRIES.
! Persons not familiar with the method of
acquiring titles to lands in new States are
ant to over estimate the difficulties, and
suffer much needless anxiety. The fol-
lowing hints as to Kansas lands may be Of
use to settlers.or persons wishing to invest.
ANY person, who is citizen of the United
Estates, or has fled notice of intention to-
become such, who is either the head OF a
family, widow, or single man over 81
years of age, may enter upon leo acres OF
Government land, wherever he or she may
choose to select it, if not already occupied,
and by residing upon it and improve it, Sc
cure the same at 81, 25 per acre. 1t is ne
cessary only to make an actual residence
on the land, to file notice Of intention to
pre-empt the same, aud to be ready to|
make the payment before the public sale,
which will be advertised for three months.
The land offices of Kansas will be open
ed soon, but at what precise time it is inn
possible to say. Three months are al
lowed for the payment of prescriptions af-
ter the offices are opened. The land is
then offered at pubic auction. after which
it is liable to private entry. Land War
rants can probably be used in payment for
prescriptions. No man who has made
and kept claim by genuine residence