White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1858-03-11

this should prove true, it viii add great
ly to the importance of that already rap
idly increasing and thriving city. No
better or more suitable location could
have been selected.-ROekP0t Banner.
Extraordinary luck. indeed About
such luck as merchant would have. If
he gave sway his goods. and paid people
for taking them. in order to get custom.
In consideration of having their town
made starting point. the proprietOrs Of
Nebraska City have stipulated to do all
the ferrying of Majors d Russell free gra-
tbs. to build warehouses and give the use
of them free gratis. and to bridge all the
streams between Nebraska City and Fort
Kearney! In return, Nebraska City Sc
cures the custom Of q number of team
sters. 1t will be glorious harvest for
the liquor shops of Nebraska City. and
the proprietors Of the town pay for it.
1t will also be benefit, about election
times, as the teamsters can be driven up
to the polls. at any point along the route,
to vote just as their employers desire.
But their being employed in Nebraska,
will be a good radiance to Kansas. as
these 1000 teamsters have usually here
tofore managed to be in Kansas, about
election times, to run up a heavy Pro-
Slavery vote at various points. from Ma
rysville to Atehison. Kickapoo and Lea
venworth
Majors, Russell & Co. have set out
with the determination Of making a spe-
culation, and they are sharp enough to
do it. They get from the Government
one million seren hundred thousand dol
lars for their contract, and are now ma
noenvering to fulfill it at little or no cost
to themselves, except where they desire
to give some favorite a lift. Nebraska
City has bitten at one bait, and saved
them huge item Of expense, in the way
of ferriage, warehouses. and bridging.
Another spec they make off of their
teamsters, whom they pay all the way to
S25 per month, for incurring the drudg-
cry and dangers incident to q trip to
Utah.
The people of Western Missouri, also,
were facilitating themselves upon the
prospect of reaping fine harvest, during
the coming season. by furnishing supplies
to Majors d Russell This harvest will
be about on par with the balance of the
business. In the crst place, they have
contracted with some favorite in St. Lou
is, for -four, at 81 per sack more than
it could be bought for in this country.
But they propose to make it up in ano-
Their way. They need over one thousand
yoke of oxen, and propose to purchase
them Of the people of Western Missouri.
The oxen must be good, large, stout,
young ones, and Majors & Russell offer
S75 per yoke for them, which, consider
ing the tightness of the times, is a toler-
ably fair price But they must be deliv-
cred at Nebraska City. Very well. you
think, when you deliver them at Nebras-
ka City, you will pocket your money,
any how. Not so fast. Majors & Rus
sell coolly give you notice. that you will
have to give them from two TO four
months time to pay it Thus the peo-
pie of Western Missouri have chance
to sell their best oxen at sufficiently low
prices, to go to at least ten dollars ex-
pense, with loss Of time, etc., in taking
them to Nebraska City, and when there,
get the promise of s75 per yoke for them,
four months after date Here is another
snug spec. Money is worth per cent.
month, out here One thousand yoke
of oxen, at S75 per yoke, will amount to
SIS, 900. The interest on this, for four
months, at 5 per cent. month. will be
$500, which is clear gain for Majors d
Russell. Yet we have noticed that 8
number of papers. particularly in Mis-
souri,, are blowing and putting the Won
derful liberality of Majors q Russell at q
tremendous rate. Out upon such sadly
ism!
EE The act of the Legislature, in re-
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