Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-01-14
Facts for Emigran.s to Kuuzaa.

l. Kanzas has an area of one hundred and
fourteen thousand seven hundred and ninety-
eight square miles.
2 1t is fourteen times as large as Massa-
chusette.
8. 1t is as large as Maine, Vermont, New
Hampshire, Rhode Island Connecticut, New
Jersey, Massachusetts, Maryland, and South
Carolina, combined.
4. The land at present open to preemption
is large enough to acc ommodate seventy i've
thousand families, or half a million Of indi-
viduals, exclusive of the population of cities,
towns, and villages.
5. When kanzas is as densely populated as
England, it will contain a population of thirty
eight million one hundred and twelve thou
sand nine hundred and thirtv-six souls.
6. KGnzas as the garden ofthe United States.
Z. Its climate is genial and healthy, and it's
soil of unsurpassed fertility.
s. 1t has wood enough for all practicable
purposes.
9. Coal banks have been discovered in sew
eral 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 Ter.
ritory.
IL. There are innumerable salt springs a
few miles westward of Fort Riley.
II. The land will be sold to actual settlers at
a dollar and quarter per acre.
10. Every man hes the power, if not the lie.
gal right, to sell his claim before he pays for
it and if he locates it judiciously, he will
find no difficulty in dlsposing of it. A good
deal of money can be made in this way by
young men of limited means, who have the
courage to CROUCH it, and the industry to
improve their claims
IA. Every male adult or widow is entitled,
under the laws of Congress, to preempt one
one hundred and sixty acres and they are
not required to pay far it until the day of the
public land sale.
10. Land warrants-those issued in 1850
excepted-will be taken in payment of pre-
emption claims.
Is. Those men-Free State men-who can-
not raise 5000 when their land falls due, will
find no difficulty in borrowing it, or in mort
gaging their farm.
II, All the Indian tribes are friendly to the
Free State men.
Is. There are at present, at the lowest cal
culation, six Free State men in Kanzas for
every friend of the domestic iniquity of the
Southern States.
49, From present indications, in conse-
quence of the large Northern emigration that
will flow Into Kanzas next spring, there is no
twenty to one in favor OF free labor and free
soil.
20. Stone masons, carpenters, blacksmths,
plasterers, wagon makers, gun smiths, cabi-
net makers, teamsters, brick makers, brick
layers, shoe makers, tailors, painters, pedlars,
men willing to work at any manual labor, may
emigrate to the Territory as soon as navigation
opens, and find little difficulty in procuring
steady work and remunerative wages.
81. Physicians, lawyers clergymen, real
estate brokers and the like had better stav at
home for the Territory is already beautifully
supplied with them.
%. For the service of respectable young
women as teachers, domestic helps, and
seamstresses, there is a great demand in every
new country, and especially SO in Kanzas.
%. While KanZas is the country for the
poor man, tholds out advantages equally en-
couraging for the man of limited fortune,
While man without dollar can find remun-
erative work, the small capitalist or store
keeper will increase his fortune more rapidly
there than in any other Territory of the Uni
ted States.
"a. lie can do it by buying trust lands,
towns, lots, claims, or by loanlng money on
good security, at a heavy rate of interest.
25. He can do it, more rapidly still, by es-
tablishing work shops or stores by building
aud renting out houses by keeping hotel,
or erecting a saw mill. There are openings
enough for all these enterprises and every
variety of them-in every town and county Of
| Kanzas.
&c. Claims can be purchased around all
the inland towns in KanzAs. The price de-
ponds very much on the circumstances of the
settler, the shrewdness of the buyer, the char
acter Of the SOIL and the location Of the claim.
| 27. A log hut can be built on u claim for
from fifty to one hundred dollars.
2S. A tent costing from eight to fifteen
dollars, provided the settler or his family lives
in it which is no great inconvenience in the
summer time-is sufficient to entitle him to
| hold one hundred and sixty acres.
20. The price OF horses COWS, and work
ing cattle in Kanzas, and in the adjoining
counties Of Missouri, is cheaper than in the
Middle and New England States.
30. Fencing with rails costs about sixty
cents per rod with stone about one dollar
picket fence forty cents. The Usage orange
grows luxuriantly. EIr1 q
81. The price of breaking prairie land IL
about t,,rae dolinrA per AGRA