The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-02-14
LYON COUNTY.
It's Central Location, Populations
Streams, Railroad Prospects,
Inducements to Settlers,
Stock Growing,
Etc, Etc.

sources. They tell what Lyon county
is in these respects better than VIC could.
Lyon county is located III the centre
of the State, north and south, and about
the centre of what will be the habitable
portion of it, for many years to come,
east and west. We have only to refer
to any correct map of the State, to prove
this.
For timber, and never-failing streams,
Lyon is not surpassed by any interior
county in the State. Commencing at the
north end of the county and coming
this way, we have Elm Creek, One
Hundred and Forty-two, Duck, these
three forming the head waters of the
Mairas DIES Cygnes) and Neosho. AS
tributaries of the Neosho, we have
Allen, Dow, Taylor, Badger, and other
streams, On the south we have the
Cottonwood, the largest stream in the
county, Dry, Cole, and Eagle Greeks,
with various small tributaries. In many
places these streams are skirted by
heavy timber, making altogether one of
the best watered and timbered counties
in the interior of Kansas.
The land is rolling and there is but lit
tie of it that will not some day be cul-
tivated.
The population of the county is in the
neighborhood of seven thousand.
The first rush of immigration came
in 1857, and those who have stuck to it
through thick and thin, and have
had no bad luck, have generally done
well. We have plenty of men worth
from $4,000 to $4,000, who have made
it here in the last ten years. Many have
surrounded themselves with comfort
able homes, and desirable property, the
nice stone or frame residences taking the
place of the old log cabins. The county
is getting well Off in its flocks of sheep.
herds of cattle and droves of horses, and
there are not wanting plenty of instan-
ces where men have made money every
year by farming, except in 1850, the
year of the drouth.
Coal of good quality has been discov-
cred at several points in the county, and
there is no doubt but that it exists in
large quantities.
Stone exists i'll great abundance eve
rywhere. Fine, white lime stone, which
is pronounced by some good judges, as
equal to the junction City stone, is
found i'll abundance. 1t is taken out in
| blocks ofany desirable length or shape,
and is being used by our business men
for fronts to their business houses. 1t
was used for corners in the erection OF
our new court house.
Fruit grows well. Grapes, apples,
peaches, and all the small fruits have
been successfully raised. This is des-
tined to be a good fruit country. The
matter has been tested sufficiently to
put the fruit question beyond a doubt.
Stock raising is carried on successful
ly and profitably. Our fiocks of sheep
number thousands, and the "Wool clip
of Lyon county is no trifling item.
Hundreds of cattle are annually sold to
eastern drovers, and our annual contri-
buttons to eastern cattle pens bring to
us many thousands of dollars. Mules
and horses are also raised to consider
able extent.
In the matter of schools, Lyon county
| is in the front rank. There are 46 school
districts in the county, and % of them
have good school houses, most of which
are as good as will be found in many OF
the old States. The people cheerfully
vote upon themselves heavy taxes to
build school houses and maintain
schools. Thirty-four districts had
schools last year. New comers cal
hardly go amiss for good schools in this
county.
The Ncosho Valley Railroad, will
rich franchises and now under contract
to be built at an early day, enters the
county near the northeast corner, and
runs down the Neosho Valley lin south
eastern direction through the entire
county. The Atchison, Topeka & San.
tn Fe road runs through the county as
far as Emporia from the north, and ther
will 90 up the Cottonwood Valley, thu:
bringing all parts of the county in close
proximity to depots. This road has
good franchises, and every prospect Of
; being built.
The immense trade Of the plains, a
little to the west of this, together with
the almost constant influx of immi-
grants, has always afforded good mar:
ket at fair prices for all the surplus the
country raises. Corn, wheat, -four, po-
tatoes, butter, and everything the far.
mer has to sell, bring good prices al
most seasons of the year. We are closer
to the Colorado mining regions than
any other agricultural country, and
hence will have good market for eve
rything we raise when the railroad gets
through. Cheese from the extensive
factory of p. b. Campbell, of Amcricus,
in this county, has found its way to Col
orado and New Mexican markets, and
brought big prices.
In Railroad prospects, in mail facili-
ties, in schools, in richness and produc-
tiveness of soil, in excellence of eli
mate, i'll all that goes to make desirable
home. in chances to gain competence
on small capital, no county offers better
inducements to those seeking homes,
than Lyon.
| HEALTH.-The following from the
Lawrence Tribune is true as preaching
DIR. b. w. WOODWARD saws that in the
drug business in this State only One-balt