The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-08-29
CORRESPONDENCE.
Kansas--Its SOil-- Climate Politics.
Religion.
Topeka, Aug. %, 1866


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vNp A man may read descriptions of
so place or country until he grows gray,
ri and be only imperfectly acquainted
with it after ALL while an peculiar in
-ba spection for few days may totally
revolutionize his ideas of the subject
-igpaI thought understood Kansas toll
-}ia erably well before coming here, but
ii / know more in months observa-.
9 ton than could ever have found out
9d otherwise a m siilGe 98 H
-gsj The habit so many people have of
OIL going off into ecstacies over new
o5 country, and exaggerating andaover7
cd coloring everything, is calculated to
noi5 do the country and everybody more or
b9dless harm, while it does nobody any
good; for, take it altogether, there is
not so much difference among these
tl3 Northwestern States as some would
make believe z the newer territories
~ affording better openings forGpeople
of small capital. ,f,.,, ,,,..
Kansas differs very widely from In
diana As to whether the difference is
ID in favor of the one or the other will
lid depend on the tastes and temperament
of the individual. Lila fusuim9
~. The great scarcity of timber strikes
a Hoosier as a serious objection to the
State, but this is compensated for by
the more sunlight and air, making it
more healthy; by the abundance of
coal for fuel, and of stone for.
building; and, by the fence laws,
three rails or boards making a
81 lawful fence, hogs not. being allowed
to run at large. The timber is con-
fined to the streams, is low and
scrubby, but as the streams are so
. 4g abundant, one never gets out Of sight
of timber. q.
There is no level land here and no
broken, but ever rolling, like a sea in
6 "a storm, so that every acre drains off
2arapidly down some a0adg into a creek.
- There are nc, lakes, ponds, swamps,
nor sloughs, and the surface drainage
is most perfect. 2-',i Api"'A'0V
El9is The soil is black loan, like that
11o of Illinois, with more sand in is, but
ym the su5-soa is totally different from
3no. that of illinois, being gravelly,
hoo sandy loan, allowing perfect sub-soil
drainage What with the surface and
~ sub-soil drainage, and the constant
~ breeze from the prairies, the country
o9a is free from all malarious diseases.
sis Fever and ague is very rare, liver
complaint is out of the question, and
dyspepsia is word for which there is
no use; while the extreme cryness of
the climate is vsingularly favorable to
Fl persons of pulmonary complaints
o5f catching cold is rare, and / have
heard no one cough since l have been
in the State But this very dryness
is an objection with some, affecting
as it does, all those crops requiring
rain through the summer, such as
Isl corn, cotton, tobacco, &c. a ,91ea 4
-s7 Fabulous quantities of wheat, rye
=; oats, barley, Hungarian hay, and
grass, can be raised every year, while
with good management a tolerable
~ crop OF corn may generally be pro
.ga duceda Stock and poultry of all
baa kinds are reared at very slight cost
og but man who wishes to confne him.
self to- corn and hogs, and isn't par.
ticularly given to the chills, had bet
ter stay in Indiana .9sasf
z Z The stone here is an interesting
,.st feature. Tits found everywhere, and
a isCno where in the way, cropping out or
the edges of the creek banks, lying il