New-York tribune., 1867-10-16


ON wAR-THE KANSAS INDIANS FIGHTING
FOR A PARADISE.
From Special Correspondent
aFH M-%Fo Sgs.s' Ss 5as BssGn HsSs r1epe s x s'tT &
The North Fork of the Big Creek, an afluent
of the Smoky Ill., divides at this point the bed OF
the national road across the Continent and should
Lave been baptized by Congress- "The Atlantic and
Pacific Railway, with water channel 30 feet wide.
A Howe-truss bridge issues from the east bank and
grows over to the west abutment with movement
Tapid and grand for which find no comparison save
the arclng birth of iron rail from the Jaws OF the
rolls.
yTis an 1s-inch square black walnut beam that l
stand Oh, cut and sawed go miles away from here.
The ties that wait their irOn right up to the bank OF
the Fork are OF oak. pOcket-Tule applied 70 thelu
shows that the smallest nave ilce SI TL l,i lICroi
mainly they face from 10 to Ii inches. Inc conuaci
of the road with its builders rejects oil under ana
rejects too. that meanest timber on the comment
fbe cottonwood. Heavy, broad oak ties, lZ-IeeV
road he'd water channels both sides OF the track
o. feet American rails. So pounds 70 the yard nc
Cambria Companys beSt tWo slSfes TO G; G FIy !'rl
every tic 2i00 ties 10 me malGIesIl !Ills 80
branch of the Union Pacific Railway IS belng D1ll' 70
he kent owned. and operated by It's DGlders' Mduu-
festly il is not being constructed l9r It's IFanCiaos'
and Fl will never be flung upon the hands OF the Gov
prrmcnt rs 4 work too costly 10 ne ieDullJ ana IHi-
tarcd or too difficult TO be operated or too unTenu-
neratiye 10 be owned, or as speculation which mas
Tincned all of its expected fruits IN ltS last receipt or
the public aid. This oak tie cost within sight OF lhe
T.
notelv hauling 10 have brought 1t go miles Ight past
and tcmp.inoiy near TO the cOttOnWOOq, Whcn the
contractors axes do not respect but deSpSe As IL N
here this OAK STICK Is an eNpehsiNS hlaulcIVri IA ~
chain that to bind together the Atlantic ana racine
States. Yet the thousand OF ties Pled up an around
waiting passage over the Big CIeek 10 me - liIS o
track already graded beyond the bridge, are all OF
am i'm the buiialorange. This short, curly,
springy matted grass is butfhograSS, Inc horizon
borndcd pr9irie is wholly pitted with lndcutato1s
as IL il had the smallpox last Spring Myrlads OF
bnlalocs rolled here while shedding their hair, and
nawcd tle cooling dirt on their rTitated skins FOR
7Omiles have come through these buffalo walows,
and over buffalo uais-the broad and deep COW pains
0f old Eastern farms. Muskets and rifles lie on the
ground about me, convenient OF reach Dy men VINO
shovel and pick upon the line OF te Ioao. o5 ~ eygS %
break the SaoOthuess of the prarle DeYohd Ig roIK.
Five of the dead who sleep IN them were kllled Dy
Apache arrows. There Is IOt mouse, nor nut nor
tent for IS miles behind me NOIlh' NesS; uild
sonth is the sea Of grass that rolls TO the Rocky
Mountains Every ounce of food save butial0-ineat,
every stick OF wood TO raise steam OF cook pot OF
and mues is brought from far 10 the East Inc inc
of directcst route bore the track away rom l tne
river Therefore the water tor the work
men and the animals, and the locomotives,
had TO be dug for, and the wells had to be h1Ee.
What country 10 build railroad in And yet What
connfry ON earth is there in which road ShQnld be
built rather than in this Look at TINS SOI at TINS
p79th mile-post Eighteen inches OF black ioaIl
overlying n deep subsOil of lOamy clay do surely
guarantee heavy crops of wheat and corn 10 even
careless farming The grass that has sprung up m
the denudcd buffalo walOWs Is not the SNORT ana
curly buffalo grass, but is OF the long and vigorous
growth of the prarics east OF the Mississippi. Inc
buffalo gone and the annual fires klndled by the IN
dams discontinued and domestic stock oven sparse
ly introduced the verdure of this vast region VIII ne
Immediately and permanently changed ahu nay 10; LoI
the nation can be cut here. The trampng, rolIlng,
and browsing buffalo gone and the hrIng OF the dead
grass to start early growth OF leed
from the soil, and in Is years the fablod Great
American Desert viii be a tmbered country as IL
5S" 5or 1s Grazing. ''"1 with the timber win come
increasing moisture and more freqleht
rains for cultivated crops. The Great American
Desert Supreme lie of our old biographies ana at
lases exceeding the Muncbausensns OF the aelstrOn
of Norway and the more ancient humbug OF the at
trding dangers of Scylla and Chary bdis Why' TINS
region the center of that picture which in every map
OF the United States 80 years ago, ana down 10
0nite recent period was stripPed and painted fiery
yellow or left blank white and made to represent
utter harrenness and suggest thirst and death TO man
and anmaltls region Is nOw III large part the very
garden of America andwi, altogether constitute un-
der the name of Kansas, the richest healtnlest manu-
somest and most pOpuous agricultural State IN the
Union within 20 years from this day. NotMng Is
wanting 10 assure this destiny .
Running parallel to the railroad, and on both sides
of it, strfed limestone crops out from the SIDES Oh
the gentlyswelhng loam-GoYered pluIls Wnicn IIih III
the wide river bOtt0mS-whte, cTe9m.cOiOTed, PINK,
yellow and red buidingStOne, wholly lneXhaustlble
living horizontal, requiring no other quarrylng IIan
fine use of a crow-bar to lift il in blocks out of posi-
tiOn--stone rs wonderful in its adaptation Tor lnnle
diate architectural use as it is admirable for its
Ieauv In the quarry il is soft in the that il
is easily worked. have seen II hewn to shape with
the common wOOd-ax-haye seen it morticed win
mOTticed-hayo seen 10 planed with jack pane,
sawed with a scTOll-saw into brackets ana 0rna-
mental door and windOw-caps, and cut with buzl'
saw into yard-squaTe blocks for street sidewalks
and into bricks of required size. This material, 50
easily worked hardens on exposure to the ar ana
becomes as impenetTable as Tennessee marble. ~ Is
tdenhcdllV ihe CGeR stone Of france Travellers VINO
have tine beautiful effect Whlch tal h'lleIlal
Gives to NapoleOns new architecture IN Paris can APP
preciate the qualities of this rOtk chch uHderheS me
IrkOe Of the kigh prairie land Of Kansas. ana Whlch
will make Kansas a State OF stone houses cheaper
than can be built anywhere else IN the world, ana
painted while yet III the quarry with the four most
popular cOlors: ~ ,r III, i.L g..
Border Rufianism, and then the hostile ln9iahs lI5
have for twelve years covered Kansas and hidden
from view her marvellous endowment OF beauty anu
wealth, reveals 20 now that part OF heI laNlsh
heritage is BituunOus Coal Kansas can aiiOrd 10
wait for timber 10 succeed the buffalo. and the annual
erass-bnrning of the Cheyennes and the Arrapahoes
There is abundant coal near Fort Wallace, and sur
yeyOrs and the scouts and train masters, famlIaf
with every mile square of the Plains report IT IN
workable veins near Harker and Hayes. Inc Coal
Question" the vital in tTanscontnental railroad
engineering has been solved for this line OF racine
Railway. West of Kansas the company 5 surveyed
route strikes sixteen feet OF bltumnOus 1uei OF the
best quality The Engineers report the deposit 10 DC
sufficient not only for the OF the Road forever
but for Colorado and Arizona as well as Tor all Kan
sas. But independent OF tins supply, Kansas can
from her own resources furnish heIScH win coal on
her praries for domestic and manufacturing purposes
And it is timely here 10 say that domestic hle III
Kansas and manufacturing and farming industry,
maintain in an atmosphere where consumption as
an indigenous disease is unknown, and III whch the
delicate or diseased lungs of settlers IRON the East
are braced 90 health and leases OF life are taken,
on the cheap condition of mere respiration.
What superb country, and what truly national
enterprise is this That traye5eS IT! Ana YET see now
IL has 10 fight every mile of ls progress to the Ia
cific, aud how it cTaws across the continent when
the guardian hand Of tho nation should push 1t