The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-06-11

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i AMERICAS, June 8 1860.
The q. P. Presbytery Of Kansas viii Gold !
meeting in this place, commanding on Wednes-
tday next 18th inst.
RFefsstimgoR'g senoert, last Thursday even
/ ing, 49, = eaeeessgs-z WIT
The beautiful and superior stone mentioned
| in my last as having been discovered neEr this
place, proves to be soft magnetism limestone.
| All who examine it pronounce it the most VAL
liable they have-eyers seen. - e7fsss311
| Letters recently received inform US that 3
company nfEpw ards Of dnzen persons are on
Ifheir way to Americas from Allegheny City,
| Pennsylvania. ts2 z
| We took a short trip up Allen creek last
Saturday, the objective point being the fine
farm Of II. d. Curtis, near the head of the
creek. Mr.. &. has a high stone fence-one of
the best in the county--around large por-
| ton of his farm of 100 acres, and expects DUR
ing the present season 80 have It all enclosed
with stone and hedge fences. His wheat field
presents splendid appearance, and will
doubtless sustain the long established reputa-
ton the farm has borne an excellent wheat
farm. The thrifty young bearing orchard ard
comfortable buildings Immediately west of a
fine grove of timber on the creek, correspond
with all the other features of this attractive
and valuable farm.
On the next farm below, belonging to 3ir.
Moys, a large stone house, two stories high.
was being built the walls up ready for the
rafters. This is another of the oldest and best
farms on the creek, aud the crops were look
ing first rate.
Across the creek we could see new house.
built since our last visit to this section and
long lines of new fence indicating the opening
up of anew farm on that side.
Nv
joining Mr.. Moys' on the south, and ex-
hibiting the usual promising fields of wheat
/ and oats. In fact. no better prospect for bOun-
tiful harvests was witnessed in this Sec
ton at this season of the year, than is general
throughout the country ut this time.
+ Rev. Henry Moys is opening up farm
on the bottom next below the last described
place. Four yoke of oxen were turning over
22-inch burrows of sod in his field east OF the
road, and quantity of shingles and other ma
teriaI indicated where his house was to he. His
family at present occupy the school building
on the adjoining quarter.
Nels. Segar's neat and pleasant premises
next come under otIr obsery alton. Here the
writer hereof RETIRED eight years ago, from
the Americas Sentinel printing office. to taste
the Irresistible sweets of rural life" But
, alas! those days were trying times to the Kan
sas farmer. The drouth of 100" had impov-
erished the heretofore most successful, and
with pickering hopes and scant means the
farmers set out in 1851 to repair their broken
| fortunes. The years OF gradual improvement
in the seasons, and consequently in the result
of their labors, that followed, barely kept the
farmers from yielding to despair. But what
change in the minds of those we meet day.
With usual good liarvests during the past four
years, and the tiatterfng prospects that now
greet us on every hand, confidence is fully re-
stored, and people have gone to work with
Will to imp owe and develop what they are all
convinced is destined to be one ofthe best farm
ing countries in the world.
Henry Adams has a snug little farm adJoin-
ing Mr. SeSar's the south, which he
built neat house last season, and has this
spring added forty acres to his enclosure.
Mr.. Soto on the next farm has taken in an
additional field, and made other improve
ments. -%>
At Mr.. VIM. B. Looks place. next south,
picnic party We're enjoying themselves, but
we had not time to stop. We drove back to
town, believing that upper Allen creek is real
ly one of the finest countries in the county,
aud when so much first quality of land can
now be bought right alongside the farms we
have described, at low figure, it is indeed
wonder people do not come and settle them up.