The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-12-27

qu9SLlOnS. our answer u LbeSe lnqulF
les is generally a copy of some number
of The News We happen to have on hand.
If thousand copies of THE News could
be regularly sent to as many places in the
Union, the result would be such an irflux
Of immigration as has seldom been wit
messed:
RICHMOND, Indir M,
18th Month, 10Th. 1857.
JACOB SToTLKR, ESQ: l am DESTROYS to learn
S II ethiDg more of Kansas in general,
and par teularly of Emporia and the region
adjacent; would very much like to get the re-
cent number of The News in which was pub
ished your situation and prospects; have on
~ card of said exposition and cannot de-
scribe it. What are your prospects rs to
schools, society, &c ? Any Railroad near or
likely ever to be2 Is tia good farming region,
and can the products be marketed near by2
How as to water. timber, building materials
DC, and rs to heal'h2
Would any one Of yeur citizens incur the
trouble to answer this hasty note? have sew
eral boys that 1 wish to take to the new coun-
try and make q man of each-iet Il EN- start
with the country and grow with its growth.
Should the answers prove satisfactory, and
fair chance TO invest present, will ait r fey
weeks examine the ground carefully Gould
labOrers or carpenters and others find en-
j. E. srRArrAS.
LIST. AS to schools and society: Kar sas
people have the reputation of radicalism;
on no suhj'ct are they more radical
than that of Education. In respect to the
amount of taxes for school purposes lev
led and paid, the number and excellence
of the school buildings. and the charac-
ter of schools taught. Kansas is without
a parallel in the history of new States.
In Emporia We have a handsome stone
edifice costing about $4,000, divided into
three large aparlments-besides cloak
rooms, &c-in which is taught as good
a district school as one will readily find
any where. And the same is true of a
majority of the districts of the couaty.
Of course there is room for improvement
AS where is there not?-but the facili-
ties for common school education are not
only good, but daily growing better.
There is also located at Emporia the State
Normal School, a very fine institution
which is not only of great benefit TO the
educational interests of the whole State,
but is an especial stimulus 10 the contig-
uous localities. The society compares
fayorably with that of the older States,
and while less of mere mannerism than in
old communities, there is no lack of true
refinement, with g. constantly increasing
culture. Social life is freer; men act out
their impulses with less restraint of Gus
tom and public opinion. The social and
moral elements at work promise a good
future. No new State ever had SO large
proportion Of educated settlers, or so
many men and women of staunch moral
and religious influence.
Cd. Railroad Prospects: near.
est point on a railroad, now operating, is
Topeka. City FIVE miles north, to which
place and Lawrence, little further off.
and northeast, all goods designed FOR
Central and Southern Kansas are at present
shipped. The Southern Branch of the
Union Pacific r. r., commencing at
Junction City on the .. P. R. R., and
running thence down the Neosho Valley
to Fort Gibson, and on which Emporia is
one of the points, is under contract for
the first 1875 miles, and will certainly be
built to Emporia within two years, and
perhaps sooner. The Atcbison, Topeka
& Santa Fe R. R. is under contract to
Burlingame 80 miles north, and It's be-
lieVsd that it's construction can be secured
as far as Emporia within two years. This
will make Emporia the junction of two
important railroads, which cannot fail 10
make it one the most Important interior
cities of the State.
Sd. Is IL a good farming region, and are
there good and near nszrEetsg-In our
opinion there are few better farming dis
tricts in the West than Lyon and ada
cent counties, both south and west. The
products are as varied as in any part of
the United States, and the yield of wheat
corn. oats, rye, barley, Hungarian. pota
toes. DC, cannot be exeelled. Every thing
raised finds ready sale at remunerativeI
prices. At the present writing. Fall
wheat is worth Sc per bushel; corn SO
ceuts; potatoes 81, DC, and q steady
market for all the surplus. Il Is mainly
sold at home, the constant influx Of emf
grafton being great enough to consuEs il
and keep prices comparatively high. j