The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-08-20
OUR NRIGHBORTNG COUNTIES.

OUR NEIGHBORING COUNTIES.
We have often spoken a good word
in our paper for the counties south,
southwest and west of us. On our re-
cent trip east we took occasion to rec
Ommend them to good many inquir-
ers for cheap and desirable homes. OF
course we recommend our own county
first, but will say to all seekers for good
lands, if you cannot be suited in Lyon
try Greenwood, Wilson, Montgomery,
Butler, Sedgwick, Chase, Marion or
Morris counties, and If You cannot be
suited in any of these, you win hardly
find anything in Kansas that will please
you. Next to the development and set
Element of our own county we feel an
interest in the growth of the counties
above named. They comprise a vast
area of rich, well timbered and well
watered country, which needs only to
be ''tickled with the hoe" to yield album
dant harvests to the farmer. In these
counties are some of the finest streams
in the State, abounding in good natural
mill sites, while the hills TEEN with ex-
cellent stone for all purposes. Coal has
been discovered in some portions of the
country, and it is believed, by good
judges, to be abundant. The stock
range is immense, and no portion of the
State offers better inducements for en-
terprise in the business of cattle, sheep,
horse ana mule raising. We have in
our mind several persons in Greenwood,
Butler and Chase counties who com
menced the business of raising and deal
ing in stock some eight or ten years ago,
who have made themselves comfortable,
in worldly point of view, in that time.
When we contemplate, for moment,
how vast the demand on Kansas must
become, in a few years, for all kinds of
| animals, we must come to the conclusion
| that the business of stock raising is yet
| in its infancy. The immense range, the
mild climate, together with the other
natural advantages of the counties nam
ed in the fore part of this article. make
them more desirable for the business
than any region we know within the
bounds of the State. We believe the
rich valleys of this portion of Kansas
will also become famous for their agri-
cultural products. All that is wanted is
the labor and capital necessary to Gull
tivate thier rich soil. The valleys ofthe
Cottonwood, the two Walnuts, the
Verdigris, Fall River, and their
numerous tributaries will bear a
1 dauoo oNDulof;0O rI,apa e Moon, 60,
hundreds of thousands of industrious
people. Those who settle III these regions
within the next year or two, while land
is Gas cheap as dirt, and stay there, will
reap q rich reward, because it will not be
many years before railroads will ira.
verse in them different directions. Theil
railroad prospects are better than ours
were six years ago, and now we have
two roads at our doors, with good pros
poets for others. Some people think
they are almost getting out ofthe world
when they go to some of these new
counties. The fact is, they are get
ting just where they will be in the
world in a few years, and will
reap the-benefit of the rise in property
which is sure to follow them before the
expiration of many years.
Emigrants will find in these valleys
an excellent class ofpeople. They have
all the enterprise that characterizes the
people of Kansas. School houses are
being erected in all quarters where the
population is sufficient to maintain {
school, and in most neighborhoods the
newcomer Will find as good shoots a.
he has been accustomed to in his east
/ ern home. The people are also pushing
! ahead in the matter of churches, and il
many places there are excellent church
facilities. Owing to the inactivity anC
lack of interest on the part of our Con
gressional delegation this region il
poorly supplied with mail accommoda
tons, but the people are waiting pa
tiently until the new Congressional ap
/ pertionment, when they hope to have
new district made in such shape tina
? their wants will not be disregarded b!
our Congressman. 1t will not be a grea
while until the stage coach will travers
every region of the southwestern coun
! ties, which all hope will be superseded
3 at an early day by the steam car.
: Emigration is setting toward thes,
, new counties this year in strong tide
!, Thousands, through q desire for cheaI
and desirable homes, have gone thither
We rejoice, with the older inhabitants
, at the influx of new people, and the con
sequent increased development anC
growth. Werepeat that there is no sec
ton of the West which we can mor1
,, highly recommend to the immigran
than the counties spoken of above.