The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-04-02
KANsIs uTEns.

several years as military store keeper
for the Government, and who, growing
weary Of that life of routine, is DESTROYS
of making or purchasing farm in q
new country, thus being Stree and in
With this laudable desire,
he took counsel of his friend, Hon. Jos.
s. Wilson, Commissioner of the Land
Office, as to the very best region for him
to settle in, and he was promptly adj
vised by that photographer of public
lands to go to the Humboldt land Office,
and there select from the public lands,
or purchase within the district of lands
within the bailiwick of that office. "Sir,"
said he, ''the premium agricultural,
fruit-growing and stock-breeding dis
trict of the United States lies within fif-
ty miles of Humboldt" No higher tes-
timouy is possible than that of this off,
Ger, who has ha6 practical charge of our
public domain, either as Commissioner
or as chief clerk, for thirty-five years
past, and from being entirely disinter-
eeted, his testimony has all the greater
weight.
Then again, It is well known that
Hon. Ben. Wade designs to settle two
of his sons on the Usage lands as soon as
they come into market so that he can
obtain title thereto. Also, that this
venerable and venerated statesman
made trip as far as Ottawa, en- routs
to these lands, last fall, to select q site,
when illness compelled him to turn
back for the time then being.
So. likewise, two of the most promi-
nent members of the upper House of
Parliament in Canada, have on hand 9
large colony which they are DESTROYS TO
plant somewhere in Southern Kansas
whenever they can get land in a suf-
ficiently large area for that purpose.
The size of this colony demands about
100000 acres.
Then all of the above is more than
corroborated by the vast tide of immi.
grafton which is daily pouring into that
region, such immigration being ccmpos-
ed of practical men, possessed of g full
understanding of what good land is.-
Laurence Tribune.
FROM MARION CoUNTY.-Hon A. E.
Case, Representative from Marion coun-
ty, Kansas, writes to the Topeka Record
as follows:
Will you please say to your numer-
Gus readers that Marion county wants q
shoemaker; there is not one in the coun-
ty-and at Marion Center, the county
seat, fourishing little town surround
ed by an excellent agricultural and
stock raising country, he would find the
people ready and willing to assist him
in other ways than by giving him their
custom. At Marion Center are three
stores, saw mill and broom factory.
Three years ago there was not build
ing on the present town site. The coun-
ty is rapidly filling up with industrious
and thorough-going business men, and
the coming season will see the pOpula-
ton of the county again doubled. as it
has done nearly every year since its or
ganization. There is perhaps no coun-
ty in the State with as much good va
cant land as Marion county. Any per-
son desiring further information of the
county are respectfully requested to
address me, and 1 will give them all
| the information l can.
ALEX. E. CASE.
WHY KANSAS FARMERS SHOULD BE-
COME RICH.-ln a season of plenty over
the States, the crops of farmers may
sometimes, as in few years of the past,
| be hardly worth transportation. An
immense distance from their market on
the seaboard, with a thousand or more
miles of costly transportation, the pro.
Queer gets but small fraction of what
grain finally sells for.
From this draw back Kansas IL free.
We do not send our products eastward.
| West of US lay the immense non-produc-
ing mining regions, and the large Gov
eminent posts. The demand is and
will be greater for twenty years than the
supply. Hitherto these consumers havs
gone east of US to purchase, as the pres
ent crops are rapidly exhausted by such
hungry customers as our mountain
IIeighbors. Kansas farmers should, in
seasons of great plenty, obtain at their
farms from one-third to one-half more
per bushel for grain than their brethren
in Illinois. Added to this is the fact OF
orr immense yields per acre, and the
sum total promises well filed purses
for our people. In exchange for our
tributes of golden grain the miners will
give golden bars. Kansas offers a fine
climate, rich soil, and good markets at
her doors.
INVEST IN LYON CoUNTY-WHY p
Because of thirty counties in the eastern
portion of the State, there is but one
where taxes are so low. Because we
have more school houses built and paid
for, than any county Of its age. Be-
cause we have more water power than
any county in the State. Because we
have less poor land than any other coun-
ty. Because we have more timber, and
it is more evenly distributed. Because
land is now low, and is sure to double
in value. Because the people are moral,
| industrious and enterprising. Because
| here you will find all the different re-
| ligious denominations represented. Be-
cause it is the center of the inhabitable
| portion of the State, and is sure
| to be q great railroad center. If these
reasons are not sufficient, come and ex-
anime for yourselves.-Bancr0fts Real
Estate Register.
INoUIR1Es.-we receive about a peck
of letters day from all parts of the con-
| tinent, asking questions about our lands.
These are all answered in the Star, and
any one wishing the paper mailed to
| them, can have it by sending their
names. We have had several PROPOSE
tions from the Eastern States to trade
for our land variety of patent articles
Milking machines, washing machines,
| potato diggers, hair restoratiyes, rheum.
atism balms, &C., are ell offered in ex-
change for @ few acres of our rich prai.
| ries.
Sorry, but we cannot trade. Farmers
out this way prefer female milking and
washing machines, and have a Partially
for raising their own potato diggers. In
this climate, work is healthy, and not
considered degrading.-Stdr.
| And we might add that the proper
ton Of those useful members Of society
who board at fashionable hotels and
take female pills, is very small in Kan.
sas.
PoeR. DRY KAxsAs.-we have received
| the Monthly Report Of the Department q
Agriculture, for January. Among Other
| interesting items concerning Kansas. w
notice that the fall Of rain IL put, for 1858,
| at 37.48 inchesl What dry country! ONLY
about 81 inches Of rain each month"; on tiis
average, or nearly an inch each weeki Too
/ bad, too bad! The report also shows tia
/ the mean temperature for 1868 was So. 36 .
and there was no frost from April 10 TO Sep.
/ tember Ia. The frost Of September IL. wa,
very light. not sufficient TO injure vegetation
and after that a frost eayns Herforat..V. q