The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1859-06-24
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AA"AtANN NANNAA VIZ hNAN'N+'s
In his last letter TO the Tribune, Nh, |
Greeley thus sums up his opinion Of tho
natural resources Of Kansas
like Ransas-that Is neutral Kansas
better than | had expected TO. The
soil is richer and deeper; Tie timber is
moro generally dlfbsed; the country more
rolling--than had supposed them.--
Thoro arc of course heavy drawbacks in
romotcness lfom the seObo0rd, heavy
charges for bulky goods, low prices Of pro-
duee, Indian reserves, and the high price
Of good lumber
Nn%
| consider Kansas well watcred-no
Prairie State better. do not confnc
this remark TO the present, when every.
thing ia flooded, and likely to be moro 20.
I moan that springs, streams, creeks, riv-
crs, are quite universal For my own
private drinking, | should like q supply /
not 80 much imprognatod with lime; but,
for limestone water this is generally quite
good. rw 10 tta Z a
And tho limestone itself is among tho
chief blessings Of Kansas, presume Il |
undcrles every foot Of her soil have yet /
trovCBed, with nearly every square mile |
that will be comprised within the State oil
kansus You see Il cropping out from ~
most every bluff Il lies thickly strown in
bowlders over the surface Of every head
land or promontory that makes out into
the bottoms, low pralrics, or favines; 40
that Il you want to use Il, Il Is always TO
be drawn Cor rblled) down hill. Though
not here needed as a fertilizer, Il can evo-
] H.s. 4 A.
building-stono, OF burned FOR use In putt
Ing mp chimneys and piasteriug walls.
But an unpleasant truth must be stated:
| There are too many idle, shillloss people
in Kansas. speak not here Of lawyers,
gentlemen spectators and other uon-pro-
ducera, who are In excess here US else
whorei ! nllude directly 10 those who call
themselves settlers, and who would be far
mors II they were anything. To see
man squatted on quarter-section in a
cabin which would make fair hog pen
but l. unfit for human habitation, and
there living from hand to mouth by a lit
tlc of this aud little Of that, with hardly
an acre Of prairie broken, (sometimos
without a fence up) with no garden, no
, fruit troes, "no nothing foy
some one TO come along and buy out his
= "claim," and let him move on TO repeat
the operation somewhere elSe---this /,
, enough 10 give a cheerful man the horrors
Ask the squatter what he means, and hC
can givo you hundred good excuses fol
his miserable condition. He has nc
I. breaking team; he has little or no goo,
rail timber; he has had "the shakcs;" hi
= family have been sick; he lost two year
a and some stock by tho Border Rullians
= &C., &c. But all this don't overbear tn
/. facts that, If he has no good timber som
n Of his neighbors have II In abundance, an
4 would be very glad to have him work par
II Of Il into rails, on, shares, at a fair rate
d and il he has no breaking team, he ca
3 hire out in haying and harvest, and 20
n nearly or quite two ncrcs broken mex
n month for every faithful weeks work b
l. chooses to give at that busy season. Tn
II poorest man ought thus 10 be able TO "a
: ten acres broken, fenced and into crOJ
.v each year. For poor gradually hew farm
I; out of heavy timber, where every fence
y, aud cultivated aero has cost twice or thric
i, the work il does hero.
- KS TO the internal spirit Of Land Spec
~ ulation and Monopoly, ! think no Stat
~ avnr snfferod from il more severely tha
10 this. The speculRtors In broadcloth ar
II not one whit more rap0cious or pcrniciou
A. than the speculators in rags, while tn
\ latter are forty times the more numerous
n Land speculation here is about the onl
business in which man can embark viii
m no other capital than an easy conscience
/. For examples: rode up the bluffs back 0
"a Atchison, und out three or four miles ol
y the high rolling prairie, 80 as TO have SOM
,fl fifteen TO twenty square miles in view a
one glance. On al this inviting are
here were perhaps half q dozen poor o
middling habitatons, while not one ncrl
IN each hundred was fenced or broken
i My friend Informed nc that every rood
= saw was "pre-empted," aud held at thirt,
q up TO a hundred dollars OF more per acre
"Pre-empted !" exclaimed, show pre-
: empted by liyingr lyingI" "Well" h,
! responded, "they live a little and lie III
: tie" | could see abundant evidence o
i the lying, not at all Of the living To oh
s tain pre-emption, the squatter must swoa
e that he actually resides on the quarter sec
: ton applies for, has built a hahltatlon an(
d made other improvements there, anC
Q wants the land for his own use aud that o.
g his family. The squatters who took pos
! session Of these lands must every on,
Q have committed gross perjury IN obtaining
u pTe-emption--and so II il all over thI
Q Territory, wherever a lot is supposed like
s ly to sell for more than the minimum
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