National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1869-11-26

puUi1catlOn, Dy uHe paIty 70 wnona
it was addressed:
Burlingame, Kansas, Nor. s, 1869.
Mr.. JAMES CHANDLER
have assumed the RESPONSE
bil;ty of answering your letter to
my brother, instituting inquiries in
relation to Kansas lands, &C., as |
think he will never get time to
do so.
You must be content with such |
information as l have been able
to CLEAN from observation and in
quiry, since | came here.
First, 1t is the richest and best
farming country | have ever seen
and | have been in most of the
States of the Union.
We have no waste land in Kansas.
The country is very rolling, so that
in riding through it, you observe
long ranges of mountains, to appear
ance, i'll the distance, but as you APP,
proach them they gradually disap-
pear, and new formations present
themselves in every direction, and
YOU seem to be travelling on com
paratively level ground. The coun-
try is we'll supplied with streams or
creeks, Gas they are called here, y
with rich bottoms or meadows, not
not unlike your fathers meadow at
piermont bridge, and the banks re-
j., sembling the banks there at low wa
, ter. A..D &c bottoms are seldom over
- flowed, and are covered with very
q heavy timber, such as oak, black
walnut, sycamore, cottonwood anC
T. soft maple.
Again, these streams are yer,
winding, so that you may offer
travel miles along their banks, al
irving at a point half mile or les
from where you started. From TIN
ed fact stranger would think til
Of country to be a better wooded coul
AK try than il really is. Indeed, tn
he country is more diversified than
ar expected to find it. Coal is abund
~ ant and cheap, and obtained With
st three miles of our town. Thl
Dosage County,) is acknowledged t
l.. be the best coal county in the Stat,
OF We have a railroad to this tow
=; from Topeka, go miles,) and eXpe'
nf another here from Lawrence soon. S
nj that coal will be great source {
he revenue to this county. Sweet pc
raj tatoes are raised in abundance, an
-; all kinds of fruits grow bountitnll,
IN. Kansas took the premium this yet
of at the United States Convention
Fruit Growers at Philadelphia, al
gu it is yet in its infancy.
20 But where Kansas eXcels most,
as stock raising and agricultur
ri Country. THIS County is 81 by
ne miles, and the settlements scattcre
-; IA large proportion of the land ow
nm ed by eastern men who are nc
freely offering the same for sale TIN
ri local agencies at prices ranging fro
Oh SO to $40 per acre, according
quality and location.
600 The land is smooth and cover
9TH with q very rank growth of gra'
fur and cattle are branded and left fl
.on' to roam at will, except by large RI
otn ers, who keep IA herdsman, who, VI
of his pony, keeps with them by d;
and brings them up at night; a
y 10 while the country remains sparse
WI settled, this branch of business "
afford greater profits than any oil
au. branch tifat can be pursued, a.
eX. cultnrally. Hay costs nothing
en- the cutting and stacking, say 81
w ton; yet the winters are so open &
free short that cattle can get their iiV
Ilted out but an economical and thrl
rom policy says, feed them.
last Land can be broken and the {
bout crop of corn can be cultivated
lacc, five dollars per acre, exclusive
hgan harvesting, which costs about
deck much more. The corn is hus
and from the stock and the stock
tow standing. The average yield of '
+ the cultivated fields is claimed to b,
'Sch- bushels per acre.
at he Men who raise cattle also !
nm corn. and feed generally, those &