White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1858-11-25

NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN hANsAs.-I
We find the following in late issue of
the Kansas City Journal Of Commerce
CoMxo BAcK.-During the past three
weeks we have noticed many emigrants
coming down the river and disembarking
at this city, having travelled through the
Northern portion of the Territory, and
finding that it did not suit them. We
learned from several that their great OBJ
lection to settling in the Counties North
Of the Kansas River was that they could
find nothing but vast prairies destitute Of
timber amid water We deem it our duty
to make this announcement, that we may
aid in preventing other emigrants from
being misled. In all the Counties of
Southern Kansas there are thousands Of
acres plentifully supplied with timber and
water In no portion Of Kansas are there
as many good opportunities for sucesss
offered to the pioneer as in the yallies
South Of the Kansas River.
The Journals object in making the
above statement. can be explained in a
few words. Emigrants to Southern Kan
sas make Kansas City their landing point,
and emigrants to Northern Kansas do not.
In soil. climate, timber, water, and health,
Northern Kansas is equal in every respect.
il not superior to Southern ! ansas and
in peace and harmony, Southern Kansas
is Pandimonium beside Northern Kan
ssas. We believe we could safely say that
at least one-fourth Of the settlers in Nor
therR Kansas. are persons who first tried
it South of the Kansas River. Persons
are daily arriving from that region, who
Frefer Northern Kansas. But because a
flmily or two real or imaginary leave
the North for the South, great ado is
made about it. Many persons in the
East, have heretofore been ignorant of the
existence of such a place as Northern
Kansas, and have swarmed into the Sou
thern portion. And there seems to have
been an effort made, to keep them in the
dark. The Leavenworth, Lawrence, and
Kansas City papers, have correspondents
in the Territory, but they are all in the
South. Every week these papers contain
letters from various portions of Kansas
all in the Southern part. We scarcely
ever see one from Northern Kansas
When one of the editors wishes to take a
jaunt into the Territory, and lay before
his readers accounts of the country,
he always goes to Southern Kansas, and
never to the North. Thus people have
been kept in the dark, until within about
year past, since which time few press
es have been established in Northern Kan
sas, and attention thus directed to this
portion of the Territory.
The Kansas City journal is a mono
maniac on the subject of Kansas City
We like to see paper take interest in its
locality, but the Journal overdoes the
thing. 1t comes TO MS filed with glowing
accounts from Pixies Peak, sufficiently
highly colored to humbug the most wide
awake but it is sure to spoil the effect
of them, by invariably winding up with
the announcement, that Kansas City is
the nearest point ON the river to the Peak,
and the hest place to procure outfits ! So
in everything else. The object of the
Journal seems not to be to furnish truth
ful information, but to induce people to
visit Kansas City, even if they are rob-
bed before they leave it. We verify be-
lieve, that If the road to He'll lay through
Kansas City, land if any person should
assert such to be the case. we should feel
a delicacy in contradictiDg it, and the
road to Heaven lay through some other
place, Whichwe have no reason to doubt,
the columns of the Journal would be con.
stantly filed with statements, maps and
diagrams, endeavoring to show that He'll
was the most desirable place for persons
to emigrate TO