Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-07-09
LETTER FR6M 80.
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TOPEKA, Kansas, June 25, 1899.
Editors Gazette s-ThinlzlnB that e
might be Of some interest TO the read
ers of the GAZETTE to hear nom tla
State Of which there g. 90 much taLE
and from an original Buc.Esyas j have
been induced to write these few unel.
The climate in Kansas 81 6EceaoluBly
lovely. With clear dry atmosphere
and gentle health-glVtng bEeeEeg ik Qlu-
not be otherwise. The peculiar clear
ness Of the atmosphere cannot be in-
agined by one that has not been here
aud seen for himself. Tue winters are
usually very mild aud opens with little
snow. Spring opens much earlier than
&c does in Ohio or the Eastern 8letel.
No State in the Union has better Eya-
tenn Of railroads than Kansas. 4noae
already completed, with the lines now
in course Of construction, VIII r9ach
nearly three -fourths Of the counties I'm
the State, Tho State as being allied up
gerY rapidly with people from the East
and also IRON the Old Country. In II--
linois, Iowa and Missouri they tgll tray
elers thHt KansaB Is barren desert
without soil or rain, and that crops
won't grow, and III they should happen
to grow the grasshoppera eat them up.
During the last six years, according 70
the .. s, official reports the yield per
acre in Kansas has been greater than tn
Missouri, during the same period aa
bushels Barley, four and one-tnlFd
Corn and Rye each, i've and oue-halls
Oats, six Potatoesl seven, and Buck
wheat, eight; Hay, ave hundred ana
eiKhty-siX more pounds to She acre.
The crops are remarkably good this
spring. The corn Is from two 90 four
feet high, and has been pl0Wed sWu eud
three times. a great many lnlnE llat
Kansas Is a very dry state. tt la QEy
compared with what you have naQ IN
Ohio this spriug, as happen % Know
having had the pleasure u4 WA4tn8
through Ohfn mud this spring cul1gltler-
able. when the farmers should have been
blowing their corn. we don't pray for
any Of that kind of weather here,
while we nre blessed with Dkemty.
Wheat is now being harvested, and
from reports coming In from all parts
of the state there viii be an uncDm-
mon yield, have not heard OF amy
serious damages done by the graashop-
pers this season. In fact they are not
half as thick as / have 0ften seen them
IN Ohio. The crops look well generally.
Almost all kinds OF fruit grown in tenn
pGrate climntes succeed Gomimbiv in
Kansas. This IS the proper season of
the year 70 SO West 90 see the country.
A great many make 9 great mistake qy
going West late in the tail ur too lATlt
ia the spring, when everything louss
bare aud desolate, aud they forget tliaL
lt looks the same way az homo.
This is the proper season 20 come tuu
see the West, and there ls no person
disappointed, because they &c see one
of the grandesl countries ln lee Nullu'
Thousands seem To appreciate tne
Of this 1y pFocuring
80 1i.Ce OF land, either for them
seives or their children, Lands are
cheap here vet, but they are rising in
price very fasr. They viii double their
value Rt least every two years witt be
any Improvement Cn them. The larse
Tracts Of land UnOccUpied in uli parts
OF Kansas afford abundance of cheap
pasture for cattle, horses and aheop, anu
la some sections 1t will be MANY years
before settlers wai need fanca raatuF-
tor their stock, Stock raising % very
profitable in this State. as pastuEo costs
Hay costs only she cuttluW
and curG&nn. aud &c is seldom tba tar-
mora have 20 feed moro than three or
,uur weeks in the winter, Gne towns
q Kansas are growing with rHplutty
that exceeds the most aan8ulno eAR--
cations, nn1 Topeka, the Capital Mnefu
your correspondent IS locatea e aet
nind the rest. It is atuateA ~
.nufl, side al the Kansas rivers AlAsg-
five miles from abe aaatern ilna tAe
-st.re Frho Kansas and EaeIn rs @
-,31,e alrectiv through ~, and also ne
Atchison, Topeka auo eante ke 4satie
cnnd. we thiulg we are o. the center
hb United States. Ehis Ia abe po nl
United States to be l0eated 81 e ltg
years. Certaiuly they could not ono
4 more delightful place topeAF
q population OF ubuut eight tHe
"a has more than doubled tn
ton within the last eighteen
ana Is stu iaoi''7''' ". W. GAvrrE.