The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-04-02
CHEAP HOMES FOR THE MILLIONS.

CHEAP HOMES FOR THE MILLIONS.
The West for years to come will offer
great inducements to settlers. In this
beautiful and productive Western
country will center the hopes, the as
pirations and ambitions of untold mill
ions. Here labor meets with remuner-
alive rewards; capital is enliveHed and
quickened. and receives speedy returns
for its Investments. 1t is the Mecca of
the young mans hopes, the place of all
others where the poor man can achieve
competence and independence, and
rise to usefulness and hOnored citizen
ship. Here capital finds a broader
field and scope for development, and
wealth accumulates more. rapidly than
anywhere else. On all sides are evil
dences of vigorous growth and gener-
Gus manhood, on these Western plains
and prairies is destined to spring up
the healthiest, purest and best forms of
civilization. The balance of political
power, the commerce and wealth of the
nation is soon to be transferred to the
Mississippi valley. which properly in
cludes the rising young States west of
the Rocky Mountains. The political
power, the agricultural wealth and ul-
the nation are to be found here. The
coin to pay the national debt, the beef,
bacon, flour, and corn to feed the mill
ions that will immigrate to this
country, and finally the cloth to clothe
them will be grown and produced
principally in the States West of the
Mississippi river. And when the cor
ruptions of an effete, purse-proud,
Eastern aristocracy shall fasten upon
the very vitals of the national govern
ment, the capital itself will be removed
to the Mississippi valley, and all that
dignifies manhood, ennobles human
nature, and develops the highest order
of patriotism and citizenship will here
be found to save, protect and preserve
the nation.
Ill fares the land,
To Fastening ills 4 prey,
Where wealth accumulates,
And men decay.
But men here will not decay. AL
most i'll sight of the grand old noun
tains, with the inspiration of an electric
atmosphere, and surrounded by such a
scenery as these plains and these noun
tains afford, the highest forms of patri-
otism will be evoked, and the best
order of citizenship developed.
The West calls nightly for help to
aid in the fulfillment of this mission.
1t offers the greatest possible induce
ments to settlers. Here arc millions of
acres of the richest lands in the world,
awaiting the hand of productive indus
try and toll, calling for men TO build
up happy and prosperous homes, and
pcndence. Here labor can emancipate
| itself from vassalage to capital, and
can secure swift returns and multiply
wealth with certainty and security.
Of all the Western States Kansas
offers equal if not greater inducements
to settlers, to laboring men and capital
lists men of muscle and men of brains
1t is the most western agricultural
State, and in many respects the peer OF
/ them all, and nearest the mineral States
of the Rocky Mountain range. The
miners of that vast region must be fed
( by Kansas; but if the demand of that
region should not be equal to the sup
| ply, we can, with our excellent facilities
| for marketing by river and railroad,
compete, through our cheap and moro
productive lands, with the Eastern
markets, so that good markets are al
ways assured to the Kansas farmer.
Kansas has 80 100000 acres. with 49,
000, 600 acres susceptible of high order
of culture and tillage, and scarcely g.
100000 acres yet under cultivation.
!
With 600 miles of railroad completed
and in actual operation in the State,
and one of the best railroad systems
contemplated and projected that new
! State ever conceived, the immigrant is
sure of having constant access to rail-
roads in whatever portion of the State
he may settle. The Kansas Pacific
road has about 400 miles of completed
railway through the center of the State
from east to west and has saved to the
Government during the last year near
! ly $I,000,000 in transportation of
| Government freight. The road will be
completed to the Mountains and Den
yer City next season, and ultimately
build its main trunk line through New
Mexico and Arizona to San Francisco,
and will then become, in consequence
of its shorter line and freedom from
snow blOckades, the great national
| thoroughfare, with its connections,
between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
No other Pacific road can compete with
it for the business of the country, pass
/ ing as it does over better route than
any other, and through the great GEN.
| trail belt of the States.
Kansas wants laboring men, perma-
nent settlers, farmers to develop the
| inexhaustible richness of her prairies,
and make this distinctively agricultural
! State the Empire State of the West.
! This young State also wants men OF
capital to engage in railroad building,
and other public improvements, which
will hasten the era of universal, mater
| ial prosperity. To such, laboring men
and capitalists Kansas offers cheap
lands aud unbouuded facilities for the
prosecution of legitimate, paying enter
! prises.-Stdte Journal.
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