New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-08-23
LAND SPECULATIOHS IN KANSAS.
From Out Own CorrespcnS~B.

Prom Out Own CorespeDd-D:.
LECoMPToN, X. T., Aug. IL, 1859.
The land sales and Lecompt0n are both over.
This eoody city Of magnificent euliies is only kept
from being totally deserted By the Executive
Offices. TIE presence of the Lsnd Office has given
il some tu,bess for the past year or tso, but that
is DOW done, or very neary so. The amount Of
lspd sold at the recent sales was astouishiDgly
small Two years ago there would haze been
eli morer, for every scre of it. do not suppose
that TIE sum total sold during the whole sale would
more than p'y expenses. On the first day after
the sale 1900 acres were located in lard
warrants On the second day, ditto For the
remaining few days since, the location Of land
wsrr.nis has fallen of TO about one. third
Of that, and yesterday it was even ess. The dis
tric. Of country thus sold amounts 10 bat small
part of Kansas. Sales have been had, or will be
lad curing the next two months at the other offices
Before the LIST Of October all the Government
land IN Eastern KaDsas up 10 spoiDt 100 miles west
of the eastern borders viii have been preemPsed,
sold, or be open for priy,te entry. ln this, how
ever omit the Indian reserves, which include
large portion Of the BEST and valuable lands OF
Eastern KaDsas. These rich reserves are nov
perfectly useless. The small amount of land cult
voted them is not worth meDtl Blhg, while every
vesuge Of game bias disappeared. They are of no
use To- the INDIANS, and a nuisance to Kansas. The
exuI CUISINE of that Indian title is a difficult
task entailed, by previous buOghng, on those now
deeply interested.
so far as learn, very few squ,tters have h,d
their claims bid over them. A host of accom-
moe tiug Shy lochs have infested tols and every
other town where squatters might want to borrow
land warrant for the moderate consideration of
= on
which these warrants we're obaued l hive
learned, sere TO loan then fer one year the re-
ceiver paying 1925 at the eud of that time for q
warrant worth from : 40 to $50 cash. lois was
secured by cor dltional sale Of the premises. The
plumber Of farmers thus in debt, not To mention
those who have made worse terms, is frighttul.
That OIL ethird of the sauaiters had means of their
own to lay their land without borrowing is a large
estimate. To be snre, S225 is not large sum to
raise off 100 acres of laUd with prices of every
thing high they are here; but the0, before the
farm cen produce, il must be broken fenced, and
cultivated all Of which require much more moOey.
After sl 80 per cent is rather severe interest to
pay. Before two years are out We shall be in
much better cor oiton to appreciate the system.
The sales being over, the laad.sharss aud agents
i, this town az on. OF business. All around tue
Land Office on both ,ides of the street os hundred
yards there a cluster of little shanties, generally
Of the most shabby order, covered over with signs
aud placard,-" Lsnd Agent" Land Warrants
Sold, or on Tine" "Proof Papers" &C., &c.
For these little shapties the moot astonishing rent
has been paid for the past two years. little board
sbsD'y eight or ten by fifteen feet would bring Slo
or so, or even S25 per mouth. And that, too,
with the brush within few yards all round. Every
tbirg has an end, however. The "Agents" sit on
chairs on the front of their little dormitores, aud
are meditatlpg a relocation. "Othello's Occupa-
tons gone" Every one complains Of dgllneS. Ia
fact, the business for which they were designed in
the great land specializing economy has been accom-
pbshed. The place has no business except the
liquor business, and nov even that must suffer.