The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1867-04-11
NUMBER %
Communicated
Kansas Correspondence.


slnce PROMISED icttcr IRON tnle
place, or rather from this State ~
Ellsworth, at that time, was among
tho things to be.
ELswoRrH
is situated on the main line Of tho
Union Pacific Railway-Eastern Di-
vision, two hundred aud twenty-five
miles from the Missouri Rivor at Wy
andotte, aud two miles West Of Fort
Harker--formorly Fort Elsvorth.--
Tho Santa Fe trade will divcrgc ffom
the Railroad at this place, thereby
making il the most Important ship.
ping town in the Stale. II will also
be the terminus Of the 2d Division Of
tho Railroad, which will necessiate
tho building Of Repair Shops and
other improvements that will give
employment to large number ofmen,
and offers moro Inducements to set
tiers and capitalists than any pOintiu
the West.
THE Country
isahigh, rolling Prairie, with fnc, rich
bot,oms-fully equal 70 the Miami,
Of Ohio we'll watered by the Smoky
Hill Fork Of the Kansas River, and
numerous small streams emptying
into the same all of which have tim
Der enough for arewood. About fOuY
miles from the town, is large tract
Of timber land, containing a sufficient
quantity aud quality for fencing many
farms.
The adaptation Of this country for
Stock raising is surpassed by none, il
equalod by any in the world. IN
stead Of working hard from May un-
Ill December, to procure. provendeT
enough to winter Stock, as l bayc
many times seen the farmers OF Seno-
ca County do, the farmer can turn
his attention to grain raising, for
which no will always find market
superior to any in the East and when
winter comes on, his cattle win do
we'll on very little hay. In many in
stances farmers do not even give their
cattle this. Their Stock comes forth
in the spring, looking much better
than many a farmers herd in Seneca,
who has devoted no small amount Of
time, care aud attention at a large ex-
pensc.
The past winter, (my second in this
State has been the most severe Of
any for many years, though one of
my men has worked six yoke Of cat
tie all winter, hauling wood and stone
fed neither grain nor hay, and to-
day they are doing the same work
and standing up to it we'll. The far
mor can keep a herd Of two hundred
head with but little moro expense than
one of twenty. The range being al
most without limit, aboundiDg with
} grass of the finest quality both fcS
pasture and hay.
Here, unlike Illinois and Indiana,
our market is a Western one, every
thing in the shape of produce is sent
to the mining districts. The emigra-
ton to the mining regions the com
ing season viii be immonse. As the
population ofthese districts increases
so will the demand for farm produc-
tions. Kansas is better situated to
supply this demand than any other
State, and the further West one gets
: productive land, the more valuable il
. will be. The land issubjoct to settle
ment ~ pre-emption aud under the
'' Homestead Act.n Under the acts,
persons owning emall tracts Of land
{ in the Eastern States, but laboring
q under the disadvantage Of having all
their means invested in their iarms
are daily immigrating to this State
: where, for their small lots Of land
!, they get larger and better farms
: still having enough ready money left
to commence business on such a scale
, as to inlure success. No place in ths
!, country offers brighter prospects to
e mechanics - especially, carpenters
: and masons, than.this. Therapid pro-
: gress Of the Railroad and its early com
. pletion to this point, render it imper
v ative that many bulldogs be erected
o to transact the food Of business tha
: : will pour into it the moment the roa,
? reaches here, which win be early il
June.
A tier of new Counties has jus
been laid off; among them, Ellsworth
/. which with others viii soon be or
!. ganized. If Seneca has as many as
; pirants to Office as in former times
y here Is fine opening for them, pro
!. vidirg they are loyal, ] say to then
& as the boy wrote home to his father
y '. sCome out, Dad, and run for ones
~ they elect mighty mean men here"
y CoAI,
lg has been foand within fsN niles o
ss this place, and Company formed fol
ID the purpose Of developing the same
II, Should this vein prove to be ouo o.
10 suHicicnt lhicknesa to justify its work,