The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-02-14
From WEIGH s. Giddings' Real Estate Bull
letin.
INFORMATION ABOUT KANSAS.

INFORMATION ABOUT KANSAS
Reader, do you know where to find
this new, but yet to be important State?
1t is ives. of the Missouri river aRd east
of the Rocky Mountains, and between
the thirty seventh and fortieth degrees OF
north latitude, and 10 larger in extent
than the combined States of Maine, New
Hampshire, Massachusetts,, Rhode Is
land, Connecticut, New Jersey, Della,
ware and Maryland; making 56,379 900
acres Of as good coil, on an average as
anv State in the Union; and by few hg-
ures you will see there is land enough to
make $50, 900 farms, Of 100 acres EACH
and At least zoe, 900 of these farms are
unoccupied, and can be had under the
homestead law for 81 cents pes acre, and
by purchase, from 81 per acre upwards
to $50, for fine. improved farms, within
q few miles of rapidly increasing towns
and good markets.
Millions of acres Of this, the very rlch'
est and most productive coil, which has
been strengthened by the heavy growth
of prairie grass for centuries, lays idle
waiting to enrich the industrious farmer.
PRODUCE.
Corn, wheat, (spring and winter barley.
oats, rye. potatoes, (sweet and lrish)
sorghum, Hungarian, prairie grass.
prairie hay, timothy, clover, blue grass
tobacco, hemp, fax, cotton. &c.
-. FRUITS.
Apples, peaches, pears, plume. cher.
ries, together with every variety Of
grapes, and other fruits usually grown in
the southwest; and we do not hesitate in
saving that we have seen as fine fruits
raised in this State as ever was our lot TO
view; and people who have had expert
snce in the culture of grapes, Inform US
that the dry and temperate climate OF
this State is peculiarly adapted to their
growth and flavor.
And amongst other things which
should induce people to settle IN TINS
State is the cheapness Of stock raising.
The almost boundless prairies
are thickly matted with sweet and nutri-
tive..prairie grass, " hich is at this time,
in many localities. free to FL for pas,ur-
age and hay, which, owing to the even
ness of the surface of the prairie, can be
cut and gathered. with modern machin
ery, at cost not to exceed two dollars pei
ton when in the stack; and the short ant
dry winters ofIbis latitude do away will
the necessity of feeding stock more thar
three or four m lnths in the most sever
winter, and q large portion Of the stock
not kept up for that length OF time.
WATER.
There is abundance in every portion
OF the State, it being watered by the Mis-
souri, on the east, Kansas, Republicans
Smoky Hill, Arkansas. Solomon, Osage
Big Blue. ViIdigris, Great Nemeha, Ne
osho, Cotton wood, Saline, Stranger
Grasshopper, Pottowattomie, Marmston
Little Arkansas, Wakarusa. and Cimsro
rivers, and their numerous tributaries
and il is the general remark Of prospect
ors and settlers, that this is the best wa
tered State in the West, without excep
ton. Along all these streams aud thei
tributaries is
Extending, in some places, three o
four miles on either side. This tim
Der consists of oak, walnut, hickory
ash, gum, elm, cottonwood, blackberry
sycamore, and every other variet
that is found in the Western States
which in almost every locality can b
found in quantities for firewood, lun
Der, and fencing. But we have a
abundant supply of
COAL,
Which has been found, of good qua
ity, in almost every neighborhood /
the settled portion of the State, an
the State Geologist reports that the1
are seven stratas underlying the whol
State, and in many places it crops OF
from two to four feet in thickness; bI
at this time but little has been dor
towards mining for this valuable a
ticle.
ROCK.
We have the very finest lime, saT
and marble, some of which are distl
buted in every part of the State, ju
where the farmer wants 1t, which
on the highest points of the prairi
and usually covered with from one
three feet of soil. This rock is a fiji
substitute for timber in building pc
manent stone fences, and by very L
tie extra labor very neat and substa
tial dwellings, barns, stables, &c., C;
be erected out of this ineXhaustit
cheap material. Besides, for fence
many farmers are planting
Usage ORANGE HEDGE.
For Which the state Is pay ing d pou
ty of four cents per rod for each of t
first eight years. After it is suffice
to turn stock, and the actual eXpen
of the hedge is but little if any mo
than said bounty; and certainly
fence can be more permanent a
beautiful than a nicely built sto
wall, or q finely trimmed hedge. L
MINERAL
Resources of the State, when fully {
veloped, will add materially to l
wealth.
All we want to demonstrate this
energetic capitalists to work our co
iron and lead mines, stone and mari
and gypsum quarries, any Of viii
furnish large field of opcration-a
are becoming more accessible as
RAILROADS
Progress, the present condition
which is as follows: The Union /
cifc, Eastern Division, which eXter
westward from the Missouri river
the valleys of the Kansas and Smo
Hill Rivers, three hundred and thir
five miles.
The Central Pacific, (Atchison q
Pixies Peak is now completed abe
one hundred miles west from Ate
son.
The Leavenworth, Lawrence q
Galveston road is now completed
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