The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-02-21
POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY.
It's Climate, Soil, Timber, Water,
Stone, Coal, Price of Land,
Educational Facilities,
Churches, Etc.
WAMEco, Pottawatomie Co., Kan, !
February L. 1865.


WAMEGO, Pottawatoynie Co., Kan,
February Il, 1868. J
EDIToE EMPoRIA NEWS: Please allow
one who has come from Illinois lately,
for the purpose of looking at the coun-
try, the prospects for farming, stock
raising, and business pursuits i'll gen
eral. to say a few words in reference TO
this town and county, so that my
friends may know what think of this
part of Kansas, and thereby avoiding
the trouble of writing TO them person.
ally
Having travelled through the State,
from State line to Fort Hays, Cor Hays
City, as it is sometimes called,) dis
lance of over three hundred miles, and
from Louisville, Pottawatomie county,
through Waubansee and Lyon counties,
! in search of home or n point to go into
| business, can say without any hest
fancy, that Pottawatomie county pre-
scnts more inducements TO the immi-
grant than any county have seen III the
State. 1t has all the natural and scientific
advantages peculiar to new country,
land the immigrant from the eastern
States when beholding its fertile and
a.
admiration, eXclaiming with fulmess of
heart, Eureka 10! i have found it!
It's scenery, its nevcr-failing streams of
pure, running water; its fertile hills and
valleys, covered with cattle, horses, and
| sheep; its deep rich soil; its forest
Astounding in all kinds of game-deer,
elk, turkey, prairie chickens, mink, rae
coon-forming one of the most pleasant
and attractive spots i'll the great West
for those wishing to come to its genial
| cline and partake of its bountiful repast.
Stone, coal, salt, and various other
precious minerals, lie beneath its soil,
awaiting the future energies of the
sturdy immigrant to bring them into
their proper requisition.
Wamego, the depot for Louisville
as all the supplies to the latter pass
| through to the formcr-is one of the
most thrifty and enterprising towns III
the county, located in the Kaw Val
| lcy-one of the best in the State, for
stock raising, farming, and fruit grow
| ing purposes. 1t is on the line of the
! Union Pacific Railroad, thirty-thrce
miles west of Topeka, the State capital,
and two from the Pottawatomie Indian
Reservation. a little cast of Wamego
is ST. Mary's Mission, Catholic institu-
ton for the education of the Indians,
which seems to have made its mark, as
all the Pottawattomie tribe can read and
write, and are tOlerably well posted Ill
the current events of the country.
The town was laid out in the year OF
1866, and now numbers over four hun
dred inhabitants, of an energetic and IN
dustrious class of people. Several new
and magnificent stores, No. L hotel
kept in the best city style, have been
erected. \ school house and one OF
two churches is now fairly under head
way, and will soon be completed.
saw and grist mill will be built mex
summer, so that the citizens will sooI
be within the limits of all the necessar!
requirements of life.
Louisville, the county seat, is located
OH Rock Creek-a beautiful clear stream
- affording plentiful supply of water tn
wear round-three miles northwest o
WamegO, containing a population of be
tween nine and ten hundred wide
wake. energetic, and industrious people
Is Good bottom lands, unimprOvcd, on
It or two miles from either Louisville o
Wamego. can be purchased from 81 t
L. So per acre improved land ranging az
cording to improvements, from SO
= SIS per acre; bluff or hilly land, frol
- 81 so to 81 90 per acre; but there
very little of the latter quality. 1t
er mostly all valley land.
q, The county is well supplied with tin
Der, similar to that of Illinois, but IS n'
quite so good more scrubby. Water
found in inexhaustiblc quantities, al
rood wells can be had by digging fro
twenty-five to thirty feet deep. II
best quality of sand, for building pu
poses. / have seen, is to be found on Il
banks of the Kaw Cor kansas) rive
The sand is sharp, and as white as ON on
shirt, and / am told, makes beautli
- hard finished wall. Stone, of the We
best quality, is found in all the creel
, and is easily quarried; in many plac
they arc found already Quarrled, a
air a person has nothing to do but load the
me in his wagon and haul them OFF. !
my excellent article of bituminous coal
nus found eight miles north of Wamego, I
. price of which / have not learned.
Grain, of all kinds, are raised i'll abr
dance and pays the industrious farm
and ten-fold for his labor. AS others ha
OPP stated the number of bushels of whe
res oats, corn, etc. raised to the acre, / sh
,eat not attempt to state the average vie
nus but presume it will faYorably comps
c of with its sister counties.
10 No man, seeking a home in the We
; need 90 any farther than. PottawatoI
county, as land, timber, water, sto
- coal. is to be found in large quantltl
NJ besides, having all the advantages o
X, railroad TO transport their prod
either to the Rocky Mountains.
Ii Louis, Chicago, or New York. II
have every facility for soon becom
one of the most powerful and wealth
and ~ - 49, +ho oLoI-a romarl
and 10 suusIih'i"t'C eiio IL IS -
a the refer any one VINO may uouot y" Ia
also have stated, to r. S. Hick, Esq, Sc
and tarv of Immigrants Aid Society,
Al all Louisville. or to III. G. Challis, Esq
- Wamego. Pottawattomie county, Il
MAS. sas, who will furnish all the desired
formation.
Yours truly, L. b.
Lyon SCO@
ry OH SSOAAAND'