White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1860-03-08

man.
ALSO, all the ehildren's school books,
which they may have, or think they shall
need to have here; Anstod's Gold Seek
ing Manual, (price IS cents, or some
other good, late hand book on practical
mining. Those libraries, if they are
good for anything, will be worth great
deal more here, If you even wanted to
sell them, than you may imagine. Books.
states, stationery and stationery hard
ware, DC, are scarce here, and will be
high. Lay in good supply of paper
and stationery, of all kinds, according to
your trade and taste. Also, q portable
writing desk. and a letter copying press,
and an office or double slate, if You are
business manOf any calling very exten,
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TINE TO START, ETC.
II you have no wife or family to take
along you should prepare to start as ear
ly as you read this, as the weather on the
plains will be no severer, but rather less
so, than it will be in March or April,
and by getting here early, if you are sim
gle-handed, and have three months pro-
visions ahead, and have some little mon
ey, you can realize great deal by spec
ulation of one kind and another in these
towns, or in good forfeited claims among
the valleys and ranches, as we'll as in the
rich mining districts until May, when
some mining viii! open up; but if you
have wife and family to take, would
not positively advise you to start with
them from the Missouri river, before the
Goth of April, at soonest, in case they
are not very hardy and cannot put mp
with rainy and cold weather and other
hardships of that season, and in case you
have not heavy supply of provisions to
lay by with after yen get here. and some
capital to trade around. The first here
in April or May, will have great advan-
tages for buying or pre-empting property
or mining claims, but still person
should not risk a wife or chillrsn's lives
to get here very early, unless you think
they can stand and weather it, and you
have the means to come along with plen-
ty Of provisions and warm clothing.
blankets and a good covered wagon, that
will not break down or burn up by the
stove pipe and with plenty of oxen, in
case some should die or stray away of
nights, or be stolen. There should be
taken plenty Of grain for your oxen or
other animals, to last the thiry-fve or
forty five days journey. in connection
with what slow small pickin, they can
get among the old grass, and the green
grass underneath, which more abundant
ly will be found in theearlier months on
the Arkansas or old Santa Fs route than
on the Fort Kearney or North Platte
road. You should, in these cases allow
your cattle an extra long time to Craze
and pick up all they could, and also feed
with grain. Have a small stove in the
wagon, and place to carry along wood
from camp to camp.
NOW TO ACT, AND WHAT TO LOOK OUT FOR.
When you get as far as st. Louis,
Chicago or st. Joseph. you had better
lay in all the outfit ofprovisions, cloth
ing, and every profitable thing else, which
you shall afterward need for the trip,
and for the balance of the year here
Don't be guiled or guided by this friend
or that sharper, be he protested prairie
guide or mountaineer,. or last years peak
er, but,tax your own judgment and hard
common sense as to everything you think
you should have. and also should take
along to sell and speculate on here: Don't
believe every report that states the lndI-
ans are on this road o. that road, camp
ed in yon creek or further on, but use
your own spy glasses and your senses,
and look through all sides ofthings- 10
|odr .y7s THE BEST RoUTES.9 aa' on 81
70 I know something Of both the old
Santa Fe road and also the Fort Kearney
Platte road. After the middle of April
would not care single straw which OF
these two roads I took, the advantages of
one and the disadvantages Of the other
are almost equal. In the latter months
the Fort Kearney Platte road, from Lsav-
enworth OF st. Joseph, will be little the
shorter and more lively. in consequence OF
the multitude that will be on it., and the
station posts at every fifty miles all along.
Yet, at the same time, and particularly
at the earlier months, the good old Santa
Fe road, from Kansas City, or Wyan
dotte, and also from Independence and
Leavenworth. coming down Immediately
to this road, will be the pleasantest and
best, the old and young grass better. and
wood and water whenever necessary, as
well as being little southwark and
warmer. The Fort Kesrney or Platte
route, from st. Joseph, or Omaha even,
viii be fine, expeditions road all next
summer, and at the,sa time the old San
Ia Fe road, a..little triAe longer, viii PROVE
itselfTas it has done last year and for the
last twenty years, as the best national
wagon road in the world, everything con-
sidered. rn-
The quickest and cheapest route for
single men is IN the Leayenworth express
coaches. ii He Ie3gboligi %
ie Ifyou could spare the money, the
very best and most profitable thing in
the cad which you should do, in case you
are single handed. Is to come on now i'm
msdiatsly from Leavenworth in sixteen
days, fare 800 (board includsd and
thereby you can make 800 per cent.
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