The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-09-08
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To those Who are DESTROYS. or have the
most remote intention of investing in Wes-
tern lands and town lots We would say,
nov is the time. A better time than the
present to buy valuable property cheap,
property which is certain 10 double or quad
ripple in value during the next two years.
was never before offered in the history ofthe
West, aud probably will not be again for
another generation. The depreciation of
real estate incident upon the failure of the
crops, has been such az to place it within
the reach of the humblest emigranI, who
comes West with the design of getting him
self peice Of land or few lots, upon which
to rear their future home. This deprecia-
ton, however, has not been caused by any
doubt or misgiving of the ultimate porsper-
ity of the country or of its true value, but
from sheer necessity. There are hundreds
in the country who possess unincumberd
property sufficient to make themselves com
Portable under ordinary circumstances, but
who, from the drouth, the stagRation of
business and the utter depletion Of the mon
ey market, are unable to dispose of anything
in the shape of real estate. and are thereby,
in many instances placed in extreme Cir
cumstances. from which nothing can relieve
them but a sale, at Whatever sacrifice may
be necessary. of portion of their lands or
lots. For this reason, purchasers can OBJ
tain the lands at almost theirown figures, and
would be a relief to the holders to sell at
even that. soy
There never has been a more favorable
time, because property has never before
been so low, in proportion to the business
and population Of the country-and there
probably will never again be. because the des-
tiny of Kansas has now become fixed. Her
soil has been demonstrated to be unsurpass
ed by any location in the world. and the
mild pleasant and bracing climate, and long
season of summer weather, are not met with
in other ATTITUDES while, politically speak
ing, we may be considered to have passed
the confines of uncertainty. and entered
the broad field of State sovereignty. The
almost certainty of admissin during the com
ing winter, and the consequent prospects of
a speedy SETTLEMENT of our political affairs
upon a firm and satisfactory basis, is giving
stability to our reputation. and encourag-
ing the emigration Of capital and of capital
lists in every vocation, industrial and scien-
tifc. while the strong probability of the
prompt passage by Congress of that tardy
measure of justice to the Territory, the
Land Grant Bill, and also the Pacific Rail
road Bill, will open upon the Territory
measure of prosperity of which her people
have little dreamed. Those who contem-
plate emigrating to KANSAS should mol be
disheartened by the financial depression
which now prevails. That is caused solely
By temporary circumstance, which may
not occur again in the lifetime of any now
living. The came, and even worse has hap
pened in Ohio and other Eastern States. but
who would condemn them, or be discour-
aged from residence therein, on such account.
On the other hand we have everything TO
encourage US. Our soil has been thorough
" tested, and proven to be capable of pro-
ducing more food with less rain than any in
the world. Our position. geographically,
is one of great commercial as well as agri-
cultural influence. Situated upon, what
must inevitably, from the nature of the
country and the fowardness of its settlement,
be adopted as the Ioute of the railroad to the
Pacific, the great carrying trade of the world,
second only to that of the Ocean, must
make the transit of the entire extent of cur
territory, contributing UNNECESSARILY TO our
facilities for business, and stimulating to the
last degree, every branch of our industrial
resources, dotting the whole country with
machine shops and foundries, with factories
and mills, creating cities where now is arid
wsate, and filing them with institutions of
learning and science. and busy, prosper
Gus people and by increasing the demand
and consumption of the products of the soil,
converting the millions of now vacant and
virgin acres into rich and magnificent farms,
the homes of industry. of contentment and
of peace. This is by no means an over
drawn picture There are thousands now
living, who will witness the full fruition of
these anticipations sanguine though they
may appear to many. The next twenty
years is going 10 be, Zemphatically, Rail
road age. Those who survive that time
will see the Inauguration of Railroad sys-
tenn Of an extent not dreamed of by those
who introduced this splendid and colossal
power to the world. They in turn will car
~ with them and open the way for other
Improvements of a scientific. and physical
nature, as far surprising the present as we
are in advance of our fathers at correspond
ing period-al combining to produce that
degree of prosperity. commercial and phys
ical. which has been the highest aim of the
political economist and the hope of all who
love their race and their -couptry.- Topeka
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