The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-06-11
From the Usage Chronicle. ~ :
THE WELSH SETTLEMENT in OSAGE
COUNTY, AND ARYONIA.t a'iH -

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We are glad to be able to report well
for this colony. Our Welsh friends are
pushing ahead with remarkable vigor
the great work of colonizing the thous-
andss of acres. of land whiGh are now
unoecupied between Burlingame and
the north line of Coffey county. With
almost every stage settlers arrive, most
of whom buy land and lots IN the town
of Arvonia. Our hotels are kept CON
stantly crowded, with CEmry on their
way to the Welsh settlement, and crowd
ed wagons pass through here daily to
the Sfarais des Cygnes Valley-the
most beautiful and rich valley in all
Kansas, we believe. The Arvonia land
Office over Schuyler's mill is a busy
place, and still we are told that Messrs.
Jones q Whitaker are preparing to do
much larger business with a view of
disposing to actual settlers the large
tract of land which J. A1ather Jones
has the exclusive right to sell, and
which are known as the lands of II. S.
Stevens, and Northup & Chick. Be-
sides the above lands Messrs. Jones s.
Whitaker have purchased since in this
county about eight thousand acres of
choice lands from Messrs. Seyfert, Nc
Manus & Co., of Reading Pennsyl-
vania, which secures to them the ex-
SaooA'O HCdA8a
for nine miles north, nine miles east,
five miles south and five miles west of
the point selected for their town, which
is located at the junction of the Marais
des Cygnes river and Coal creek. al
most twenty-five miles south of Bur-
lingame. j. rMather Jones, James, a.
Whitaker and their colaborers are act
i've, wide-awake men, having the best
interest of BurliIfganle and Usage eoulI-
ty at heart. In this connection we shall
quote the following from the New
Y DIRK Tribune of May IL. 1869:
cit is an undoubted truth that the
miners, who are never prepared for q
strike. arc now less prepared than ever.
With the exception of the Welsh, who
are chiefly at Hyde Park, the miners
are an unthrifty race, and live literally
from hand to mouth. Many of them
owe debts for subsistence contracted
during the great strike of three wears
ago, and many more are from thirty to
sixty days behind hand on current ex-
penses.. Not a third of them can live
for a week without credit at the COM
pany stores, and far less proportion
have any ready money to meet an
emergency. They have spent as they
received, and after years of eyhansting
labor do not own foot of the soil, nor
the house over their heads, and have
surrounded themselves and their. fam
lilies with but few of the necessities and
hardly any of the conveniences of civ
ilized life. The Welsh miners in and
about Scranton are notable exceptions
to the rule, for they generally own a
house and lot each, and have $1,000 in
the funds of their Benevolent Society
to meet any exigency, general or indi-
vidual. Naturally provident and in
dustriOus the Welsh have generally OPP
posed strikes, and are now the only
miners practically resisting it by con :
tinuing at work, despite the pressure
brought upon them."
The above shows in bold relief the
class of men that are coming to our
midst. Industry. provident and quiet
ly disposed are prominent traits of the
true Welshman. A life of several years
in their midst. in Ironton, Ohio, long
since convinced us that Usage county
could not possibly receive better class
of citizens than the Welsh, and we wish
Messrs. Jones and Whitaker God speed
in their great work.