The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-04-09

he simply lies-thst's all. The truth OF
our assertion is found in the fact thai
you can buy wood all through the
counties mentioned at from So toss pei
cord.
''well, you say, 4 can burn eoal.' What
will you do for Q fence. Make it Of stone
And % you can. for there Is more stone in
Kansas than ever saw anywhere, for you
can ind prairIes there 80 big that your eyea
can not see across, with a good proportion
covered with limestone; but how VIII you
pillow itr' g.
To . man who has been raised among
the frog ponds, and has never been out
of the sound of those beautiful song
sters, the sights of stone that greet him
In this State is Touchdown argument
against the country. Intelligent men
consider 1t a great advantage to Kan
sas. Good stone is abundant, and
those who want farms would rather
have it than to spend twenty five
years clearing the timber from q farm
in the dense woods of Ohio and Indi-
ana, as the first settlers Of those States
did. There is not fifty acres in all the
country we have seen in Kansas,
amounting to millions of acres, where
the stone would be the least iInpedi-
ment to the plow, and but little of the
land underlaid with limestone, but has
good soil on it, from which good
crops are raised. When j. NJ. G. tells
the farmers of Indiana that the stone in
Kansas is an impeachment to farming
operations he is either a great ignorant
us or a publisher of falsehoods.
j. NJ. c. admits that their is some
good land in Kansas, but somebody has
a good title to it. That's what's the
mater. If somebody had given him a
good quarter section, he would have
staid and thought it pretty clever
country. What pity that other men
were enterprising enough to get ahead
Of him. He admits that we have plenty
of coal, but says it is intermixed with
sulphur. Our opinion is that the fur
Their he gets from sulphur the better he
will be OFF. Wesuppose his examination
of our coal fields was about as thorough
as that he made of our soil or our EEsin-
gular substance" The coal of that Sec
ton of the State is good.
81 don't say this to stop the immigration;
but will say to every Hoosier that is in good
circumstances to stay at home; or, if he is not
doing good business at what he Is in, try
something else; for II you can't make money
in Indiana you can't in Kansas. am conf
dent can do better there than in Kansas.
think L will try 1t anyhow; but, il you are
bound to go, be sure and take greenbaeks
enough te build you a house, for houses are
scarce and rent very high"
The country is filling up and unoccu-
pied houses are scarce. This is one OF
the best signs of our prosperity and
growth, notwithstanding the efforts OF
an occasional j. NJ. C.. to the contrary.
Poor people can do better here than III
Indiana if they try. 1t takes work
riding about the country, taking super
fetal views of il a la J. NJ. Z. will not
do it. We never advise those who are
in good circumstances and who are
getting well along in life, to break up
and come to Kansas. Those who are
young and healthy and industrious and
who want to better their condition are
the ones who should come to this new
country. Such can better themselves
The proportion of poor men who get a
start in life in Kansas are five times al
great as those of Indiana or any other
old State.
.'Mr. Apple spoke OF Kansas being such &
good fruit country. have no room to dispute
with him, but, upon my honor never saw
an apple that was grown in the State, but saw
! several trees that were large enough to bear
know men that went TO Missouri and bought
apples at fifty cents bushel, and sold then
| In lola very readily at two dollars and nifty
cents bushel. But have reason Co belicy'
the contrary; for while there is So many in
sects, they will surely visit your fruit trees
| There Is almost all kinds al the bug and d.
| family there. The chinch bug is more numer
| Gus than any other l believe; for one mas
told me that he honestly believe that he haI
| in seven acres Of corn wagon bed full. y
course he had 10 corn. but 50 II ISL
We suppose J. NJ. c. looked about a
much for apples grown in Kansas Us hi
did for other advantages. The impres.
sion he intends TO convey is that frui
will not grow here. This is false. NJ
Que now doubts but that Kansas viii
be fine fruit growing country. Gu
last Legislature made an appropriation
of $500 to have n collection of Kansa
fruits exhibited at the National Pomo
logical Congress to be held in Philadel
phia next autumn. 1t is too late in tn,
day for ''carpet bag" writers to try T.
cram such stuff down the Threats o
intelligent people. 1t would do whel
the fruit question was unsettled. w
can say to Mr.. j. NJ. g. that VIC hav'
seen many bushels of as fine tasted ant
as fine looking apples as ever grew
anywhere, that were raised in Kansas
It is true that many bushels of winte
apples are brought from Missouri, be
cause our orchards are generally to-
] young 10 bear. We have insects, bu
not near so bad as Indiana and Illinois
The wagon bed full alluded to is lon
stretch of the Imagination. TIL
chinch bug has been bad in spots fey
seasons, but their ravages here will nc
compare with what the people of IlliI
ois have suffered from the same sOurc'
: the State where this refreshing bate
|, of falsehoods originates.
But this article is already much long
err than we intended to make it. Tt
: day is about at hand when Kansas wi
, need no defense from snch patches
stuff-like the one which we have IA
ticed-as boobies are occasional
= writing to the Eastern press. And y
hope the day will be soon at haE
= when eastern papers will refuse to &
their columns with such false and I
diculous yarns.
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