New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-06-09
KAN sAs.

cOPiOUs EAINs-TuB CROP PROsPECT5-PUBLIC LANDS
GROWTH or TowSs-RAILwAYs-MGRA
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wYAsDOT, Kansas. MAY &C. lst6.
Kansas is aeain delighted with min as in 1865. This
srpebundance is not confined to this locality but is gen
eral all over the State.
The farming season il late IN Kansas this Spring and
he weather has boon uncommonly cool Tho breadth Of
ground put into crops however Is larger than ever before
and promises an abundant yield Owing 20 the wetnes
Of the season last year exceedingly difficult TO got
out wheat sufficient Tor use aud hence the breadth Of
ground sown less than usual bat stn the number Of
acrcs is respectable for new country like Kansas The
grain is now heading and should there be dry weather
hereafter so as t. prevent rust the yield per acre will be
large The County Of wyandot is OF tho very best
places for tho successful cultivation of this amporant
cereal and IL seems passing strange that the young men
# Western New-York acquainted with tho business o.
wheat growing do not como herr and enter upon This par
ucuar kld of agriculture extensively while lands
arc cheap and prices high. Such mny count on 80 Or 10
bust els to the nc-e, selling ~ = 30 per bushel
The ni~rnuon 20 Kanas this year is opening very
large every steamboat and railway train bringing large
numbers seeking lands ind homes IN the STATE. 1he
United states lands not open for sale but stun may be
sccurcl u tie amount Of loo 10 each settler by pre-
emp oa by tlc Homestead Act IL Is TO be hoped That
these lands viii never be for actual sale for IN such ease
ali the most valuable portions thereof VIII DE NJ once
goIbcd M BY spectators. Why Is ~, after all TIE
TRIBUNE has said M lie columns on this subject, and oil
that ms been said by others, that the hearty and enter
or sing Young men OF the Eastern States do not come m
sin larger numbes. soon the present golden opportunity
will be lost
The principal towns up he magnificent valley Of the
Kansns River along The line ~ the Union Pacific Roll"
way T. d. are ali gihening hsir status and enaTf-
ing their bodies very RAPIDLY. lhe railway was opened
- Topeka iu January last and tho changes which have
taken place since hn are truly Astonishing Az The time
OF the opening referred the station on the north side OF
the river opposite Topeka, IN the timber and hardly
building in existence. Now the gigantic oaks and syca
mnrc have been Frustrated the ground cleared and dur-
bic structures erected and being erected IN AL drec-
lions. So with the city proper on the south bank Of the
river where NJ the present time more than 100 buildings
Of stone, wood aud brick are being constructed.
The construction Of tho Union Pacific Railway Is now
rapidly nearing For Riley some 1871 miles west OF the
Missouri River and which point II will reach in july next
Now that confidence in the reality OF this great
enterprise other and connecting lines are being talked OF
in almost every county, but OF course these cannot DO
made al proseuL however locally desirable. Kansas Imam
cily is poor aud foreign capitalists will not invest their
money in property which must remain non-paymg Tor
wears Kansas gonous future, but time and indus
Try is necessary 70 bring It about.