The Kanzas news., 1858-02-13

Territory, and It is believed will be found
to exist in quantities sufficient for supplying
all the demand. Good brick clay is also
found in all parts, as also good sand for
plastering, etc.
WATER.
The Territory is traversed by streams in
all directions-most of them, however, with
the exception of the Kaw. Usage; Eeo-
sho and Cottonwood riVersi being eompara-
lively small. and frequently going dry dur
ing the hot summer months. Of springs,
there are some in every section of the coun-
try, but they do not exist in great numbers.
Good water is usually obtained BY digging
from twenty to fifty feet.
The general health of Kanzas is remark.
ably good. The absence of marshes and
low wet bottoms renders it comparatively
free from the diseases incident to new coUn-
tries, while the remarkable purity of the
atmosphere, and its braeing breezes, renders
lung diseases almost impossible. Ague
and bilious fever are experienced mostly by
those who settle in the timber, near the
streams while those living on the uplands,
exposed to the wind, escape comparatively
free. Much sickness was occasioned during
the last summer by the manner in which
many of the new settlers lived, with the
character of their food, etc. But a few
short months have wrought wonders saw
mills have been erected, houses built and
many of the appliances of civilization sur
round the settler who last year pushed out
miles away from neighbors in order to get
picked claim, and his family will suffer
little from disease another year.
GENERAL APPEARANCE OF THE COUNTRY.
The general appearance of the country is
beautifully rolling and highly picturesque.
The broad prairies, covered with luxuriant
growth of grass, dotted here and there with
the belts of timber which are found along
the various streams, form scene at once
striking and beautiful. For beauty of land
scape Kanzas cannot be excelled.
POSITION.
Kanzas occupies the geographical centre
of North America. It is two hundred miles
in breadth, north and south, and over seven
hundred in length, comprising an area of
about one hundred and fifty thousand square
miles. Nearly one-half of its eastern bor-
der is washed by the Missouri river, which
is navigable by steamboats, of the largest
size during eight months of the yesr. The
Santa Fe road, the greatest natural highway
in the world. passes through the Territory
from east to west. This road is traversed
by hundreds of trains each season, convey
ing grain and merchandise to New Mexico.
On the southern border of Kanzas lies the
Indian Territory, which will undoubtedly
be open for settlers in year or two. This
is represented as being a very desirable
country, and when once opened for settle
ment will undoubtedly be rapidly filed up.
A great portion of the northern emigration
for this Territory must necessarily pass
through Kanzas, and undoubtedly large
portion of the emigration to it will go from
Kanzas.
ADVANTAGES FOR SETTLERS.
One advantage which Kanzas possesses
for the actual settler over most of the west
ern States and Territories that have been
opened for settlement, is the fact that no
individual is allowed to purchase from the
Government over one hundred and sixty
acres of land, and not that unless he can
prove actual settlement and his bona tide
intention to make the land so bought his
home. This has the effect to>keep the land
out of the hands of spectators, and ad-
vance the well-being of the whole eommu-
nifty in variety of ways. 1t prevents the
rhonest, hard-working squatter from being
isolated from the advantages. of society by
the interposition of large tracts of unoecu-
pied lands in the hands of non-residents,
and also adds largely to the aggregate
wealth of the community. The price OF
Government land is one dollar and twenty
five cents per acre, which can be paid a!
any time before the land is offered at public
sale, which in Kanzas viii probably be two
years. Land warrants can be used in the
purchase of land.
THE MARKETS.
One fact which should not be overlooked
in this connection, is the certainty of a good
and constant market for all kinds of pro-
duce and stock. The immense emigration
to Utah, Oregon, Washington. New Mexi-
co. Arizona and the Indian Territory pass
es through Kanzas, in different directions
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