Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1857-01-23
From the Tribune Jan. l7th1
FACTS FOR EMIGRANTS TO KAN
SAS.

| l. Kansas has an area Of of one hum
dred and fourteen thousand, seven hum
bred and ninety-eight square miles
Q 1t is fourteen times as large as Mas
sachusetts.
3. 1t is as large as Maine, Vermont,
New-Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connec
ticut, New Jersey, Massachusetts,. Mary
land and South Carolina combined
4. The land at present open to pre-
cmption is large enough to accommo
date saventy-five thousand families. or
half million of individuals. exclusive
of the population of cities, towns and
villages.
/ 5. When Kansas is as densely popu-
lated as England, it will contain popu
lation of thirty-eigLt million, one hun
bred and twelve thousand, nine hundred
and thirty-six souls.
6. Kansas is the garden Of the United
States.
:. It's climate is genial and healthy.
and its soil of unsurpassed fertility.
s. 1t has wood enough for all practi-
cable purposes.
9. Coal-banks have been discovered
in several districts of the Territory,
20. 1t is intersecsed in every direction
by running streams: pure water is found
, at moderate depth, in every district of
the Territory.
/ II. There arc innumcrable salt-springs
4 few miles westward of Fort Riley.
u. The land will be sold to actual
settlers at 4 dollar and quarter per
acre.
10. Every man has the power, if not
the legal right. to sell his claim before
be paws for it and il he locates it Judi
ciouslv, he will find no difficulty in dis
posing 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. t.
preempt 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-.hose issued in
1850 excepted-will be taken in pay
ment of preemption claims.
l6. Those men Free-Sta.e men
who cannot raise 5000 when their land
falls due. will find no difficulty in Dor
rowing it. or in mortga-ins their farm.
II. All the Indian tribes are friendly
to the Free-State men.
IS. There are at present, at the low
Eroo WAN
Kansas for every friend Of the domestic
niquity of the Southern States.
10. From present indications. in con-
sequence of the large Northern emigra-
ton that will flow into Kansas next
Spring. there is no doubt that. before
next Autumn, there will be twenty to
one in favor of free labor and free soil.
90. Stone masons, carpenters. black
smiths, plasterers, wagon-makers. gun
smiths, cabinet makers. teamstcrs. brick
makers. bricklayers. shoe makers, tall
ors, painters. peddlers. men willing to
work at any manual labor, may emigrate
to the Territory as soon as navigation
opens. and find little difficulty in procur-
ing steady work and remunerative wa
ges.
81. Physicians, lawve~s. clc-gvman.
real-estate brokers and the like had bet
ter stay at home for the Territory is
alre 'dy bountifully supplied with them
q. For the services of respectable
Young women as teachers, domestic helps
and seamstresses, there is great demand
in every new country, and especially so
in Kansas.
%. While Kansas is the country for
the poor man. it holds ont advantages
equally encouraging for the man of limi-
ted fortune While a man without a
dollar can find remunerative work the
small capitalist or store-keepcr will in
crease his fortune more rapidly there
than in any other Territory of the Init
ed States.
81. He c do it by buying trust Lanes
towns, lots. claims. or by loaning money
on good security, at a heavy rate of in
tercst.
IS. He can do it, more rapidly still.
by establishing workshops or stores, by
building and renting out-hauscs BY
keeping hotel or erecting saw-mill
! There are openings enough for all these
enterpriscs-and every variety of them
in every town and county of Kansas
&c. 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
the location of the claim.
-. A log-hut can be built on claim
for from fifty to one hundred dollars.
27. A tent. costing from So to Is.
provided the settler or his family lives il.
Iit-which is no great inconvenience in
the Summer-time-is sufficient to entitle
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 abou,
soc. cents per rod with stone about
81; picket-fence, 40c The Usage