The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-05-15
A TRIP UP THE couSrRY.


Under the above head, Rev. C. r.
Rice, Presiding Elder of the Emporia
District, furnished the last Burlington
Patriot with the following interesting
items. The statement that Emporia is
improving -'aimost as fast as Burling-
ton" is evidently intended as a COAX:
left Burlington for Council Grove,
April 23d,-passed up through Hart
ford, Emporia and Americas The
first named place is pleasantly situated,
and only needs a few enterprising
monied men to make a town of it,
Emporia Is driving along tinely-im-
proving almost az fast as Burlington.
Emporia has no loungers. Americas
Is waiting for the kaw lands and the
Neosho Valley Railroad. report
Council Grove ia st0tU quo, etc.
The country up the Valley i improv-
ing rapidly. New houses. new fences
and new men are to be seen OH every
hand. | see one thing worthy of es-
planting Usage orange. The country
will soon be hedged up.
From Council Grove | struck across
the country for Marion Center. From
Council Grove to Diamond creek, a dis
lance of eighteen miles, there are no
settlements at all, and will not be for a
long time. What u fine grazing coun-
try On Diamond. Middle. and Mud
dy creeks there are some settlers. Ma
ron Center Is ii small place, but has
few entcrprising men in it, 1t is the
county-Seat of Marion county.
| came down the Cottonwood to Cot
tonwood Falls. This place is looking
up. L saw several new buildings
going up. Mr.. Britton has just started
his new water Touring mill, next best
to Sodens, ut Emporia. just let me
say here that tho Cottonwood and Nco-
slIo rivers afford the best water powers
of any streams in Kansas. There is an
immensely of water, and plenty of fall
to put i'll dams every four or five miles
plenty Of stone to build the dams. All
we want now TO MAKE this one of the
best manufacturing districts in tho West
is men, money and energy. We have
the land TO raise the grain, aud pasture
TO feed the sheep, and water power to
manufacture the grain into flour and
the wool into cloth. Suppose, for in
stance, all the flue Valley land about
burlington was being cultivated. and all
the pasture lands We're covered with
sheep, and we had Al dam and mills in ut
the falls, here, don't you see we could
build up Il great manufacturing city
is true of every locality, almost, aIon"
the river. But. to come back, Thco.
Alvord has Il .tctjJ' printer to help him
wave the Chase COuaty Boancr. lie
needs such Il one, and do not UNDER
take to say what the end will be. | saw
some things would not tell on Theo.
~ Sam. Wood is selling dry goods,
groceries, &c.
l returned home ri0. Emporia. And
now let me say, have been all over
Kansas, and | have never seen such
valleys of land any " here as we have
along the Cottonwood and Neosbo
The kaw Valley Is good, but the Neo-
sho is better: I have PASSED up and
down the Valley several times, but |
never was so forcibly struck with It's
beauty and grandeur before. think
If some of those old farmers East could
be suddenly transported into our Val
ley ut this season of the year they
would think that Paradise was restored.
Crops look well everywhere. l saw
some of the finest looking fall wheat on
Diamond creek that l ever saw. The
farmers are through with their corn
planting, and i'll many instances the corn
il up, growing finely. The farmers
never had a better start with their crops,
and the season is propitious, very.
Look out for big harvest.