The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1861-04-13
KANSAS MARKET PROSPECTS.

A writer in the last Lawrence Journal has
the following sensible remarks in regard to
the market prospects for Kansas farmers
The most reliable conditions governing
the best markets for the various products Of
the farm, is assured when large commu-
nifty, essentially engaged in manufacturing,
mechanical, or mining pursuits, is located
in proximity to it. Two hundred thousand
persons exclusively engaged in digging and
seeking for The precious and useful metals,
and in the various trades and occupations
carried on in the cities of a region rocky and
sterile, but rich in exhaustless mineral de-
posts, would consume in year almost the
| surplus productions of fair season, of a
first-class State. If the present indications
of the boundless wealth of those regions are
verified, but brief period. will elapse be-
fore the census statistics will entitle Color
ado to membership on terms of equality
with the sister States of the Union. The
plains comprised within her eastern bound
aries, if not absolutely barren, are anything
else conceivable but inviting to the farmer.
They never will or can be occupied for
farming purposes to any great extent. Where
those storm scathed and water-furrowed
wastes end, begin the magnificent confusion
complete the balance of her geography.
There, farms will be scarce and inconveni-
emily distant from each other, and they can
not be multiplied until the wreck of the
once mural foundations of the earth, heayed
in chaos of walls and crags, are leveled
and ground to permeable soil.
Kansas is The nearest district of country
adapted to the various branches of agricul
to the gold and silver-seekers of the Rocky
Mountains. Her natural advantages over
the grain and other produce-exporting States
east, is decisive, if we skip MissOuri--and
she has whole mountains of iron and exhaust
less beds of coal. She has, too, within her.
self, the latent elements of manufacturing
interest. which are destined to be developed,
making the pursuits attendant thereon the
paramount ones Of her people. Broad as are
her arabic acres, and bountiful as is her
soil, within herself she will supply the best
market for the haryests of her husbandmen.
For the markets in the Rocky Mountains,
Kansas will have no competitor but Nebras-
ka. There is no question of the inferiority
of the latter to the former, as farming re-
gion, in all those particulars affecting the
economy and profit Of the business. Then,
to still further increase the advantages of
Kansas, the Pacific railway. soon to be the
pathway for the commerce of the world,
will divide her in the center, giving her en-
couragements to development, facilities of
transport, and insuring her commercial
connections such as no other new State in
the Union will enjoy. These views realized,
will give an amazing impetus to all branches
of productive industry, which can be sue
cessfully pursued hereto none other, how
ever, more than to the dairy business. For,
stimulate its development as we will, it will
still be rather an exceptional than staple
interest, except in localities of limited ex-
tent. AS yet, the marvellous adaptability of
the cultivation of the various grains and to
the whole catalogue of vegetable produc-
tons, TO the rearing, shearing and fattening
OF focke and herds, and the equally mar
Velous fertility of its soil, are hardly realized
All tastes and inclinations will be suited, and
they will be followed with a success more
or less complete. Many, with the induce
ments indicated, will open dairy farms.
Some will succeed. others will not be salts
fed with results and as the transition to the
prosecution of other branches is easy, a
change to them will be made without sacrifice.
It was the discovery of gold in Califor-
MIA, and the conse quent wonderful concen-
tration Of emigrants there to seek it, that
raised the price of butter in New York city
from sixteen to eighteen cents up to twenty
five and thirty cents, where it has remained
ever since. varied only by temper airy causes.
Such mast be the effect upon the farming
interests of Kansas of The almost fabulous
growth of population and cities in the gold
bearing regions of the Rocky Mountains.