New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-03
RACK FROM THE PACIFIC.

PERITi OF kANSAS-CHlCANO AM 49,
CIFIC RAILwAY--A DRY GOODS PALACE
lPRoM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
CHICAGO. July S.-The first bridge across the Mis-
souri, has Just been completed, opposite Kansas Oly
1t cost over 81 100000 and was built under the SUPER
vision of o. Chanute chief engineer. Seven INES
already ccpter at Kansas City, making it the most
important railway point west OF chicago lnoS
converge ON the low bottom lands above the to"h'
and property in that neghborhood already COM
apds e. OOO per acre. In the city the best business
lots 10 feet deep ring from 500 to SGUO pei Hu'
foot A fevy months AGO census was taken Dy oiuol
of tho municiual authorities. Updcr inc 0'a'o ave,
if the town bad more than 5000 people, II 'OViu
make fresh issue of bonds to aid huch cO'et'u
railroad Bvaremarkabe coincidence, the population
moved TO be 81 600 and tie bonds were lSsHeu' l
suppose the inhabitants actually number ~o,VVV'
The great hills still need vast amount oil giaHIhg'
and strong lets of water from hose are now cutting
them away just as the bills OF CallIolhla are oSeH
boweled in hydraulic mining
What shall be the metropolis of the Missouri val
levi Leayenworth, 30 miles above Kansas City, by
no means gives up the old contest Its site Is much
hotter than that of its rival and its population nearly
A. l,roe Within the next twelve months too IT VIII
,aye n bridge across the Missouri at cost OF
t1O0OO0 under a contract just made with Boomer OF
Chicago By the time this work is finished, Leaven-
worth with six Tadiating railways VIII nave us
Ions pred anew for the Kansas can boast OF the
hest retail trade and the most wealth. but IS retard-
ed NV the old, slow Missouri element. Leavenworth
does the largest wholesale business and its people
ara Yankees At present Kansas takes the lead, but
the final result remains doubtful
Invent 80 miles south 20 Spring Hill in johnson
County Where, 10 years ago, ono saw only claim
cabins eight or 10 miles apart he now finds pleasant
houses farms which command from $50 TO $2O PEI
acre in cash. and thriving villages which echo the
brakeman's cry of Twenty minutes for breakfast"
If isope of the richest regions in the Union. Last
Fall new oats in the field sold at 40 cents bushel'
and corn at So Now oats bring from 5O to ~ cents
and corn ST. l saw cottonwood trees only 10 years
old so feet high with trunks II inches in diameter,
and blacl, walnuts and naples of the same age half
as large. Farms of thousand acres are not uncom-
mon. Indeed corn or wheat field of hundred acres
does not excite the least attention anywhere in Kan
sas Between Wyandotte and Lawrence the other
day think our train ran for five miles through one
unbTOken corn tract
"Joy's Railroad"-ambitOusly named the q Mis-
souri, Valley, Fort Scott and Gulf of MexlcOp-
passes through johnson County 1t is completed
for 40 miles south of Kansas City, and within
the next year it will be far down toward the Indian
Territory. The people on the Neutral Lands"
led by demagogues, present the unprecedented spec
taCle oil q new community uButlHB - A@iAAN''N
which is coming toward it, They receive no
sympathy in Central Kansas. They had no shadow
of legal right to settle there and the policy of the
Governments in permitting them to retain their
lands at from 81 90 to s. per acre was very liberal
James f. Joy of Detroit, President of the Michi-
gan Central is a largo owner in the Boston and AL
bany, New-York Central Great Western of Canada,
Michigan Central, Chicago Burlington and Quincy,
and Hannibal and St. Joseph, as well as this new
~ Vrral,ro ban lima
of uniform gauge from Boston to Galveston, Texas
work second only to the Pacific Railway IN magnl-
tude and Importance.
The Kansas Pacific Company is building its line to
Denver and laying the foundation for heavier Local
traffic than any of our Pacific roads. Already
between Kansas City and Junction City, 1S9 miles
four north and south lines are building across u
Joys Road" already completed 40 miles to Paola
9 The Leavenworth Lawrence and Galveston, nov
running from Lawrence p miles south TO 0ttawa
III s. The Atchson, Topeka, and Santa F6, fnishe
from Topeka southwark IS miles to Carbondae wher
il reaches the richest coal beds in Kansas 4. TIL
South Branch of the Union Pacific, starting from
junction City southeast toward EmpOria and Fort
Scott. All open exceedingly rich regions, and will
prove invaluable feeders.
These are only a few Of the new Kansas lines.
Everywhere throughout the State railroads are be-
ginning and all the counties are issuing bonds to
from the Middle States New-EDgland, Canada, Ger
many. and Sweden. AS the settlers are well
supplied with money times are tush Kansas
already contains 100000 people. No other State IN
the Union is glowing so fast, and none has fairer
future The old attempts to fasten Slavery upon her
through violence will tell upon her political chaTac-
ter for all coming time. Not Massachuset is
more intense its Republicanism AT the last Pres
dental election many townships, and one entire
populous southern county cast their every vote for
Grant and COlfax.
spent night among old friends at the beautiful
City of Topeka, which now has a population of 5000.
One wing of the new State-House-Of Junction City
sandstOne-will be ready for the Legislature next
Winter. 1t costs only 100000 and the rest Of the
building is not to be completed until the State grows
richer.
good deal of Kansas land is still held in large
tracts. Among other heavy proprietors, Thaddeus
ii. Walker of New-YOrk owns 10000 acres; - King
of Cleveland 10000; Col. 6. w. Vealo of Topeka
1900 and J. G.. Aver d Co. Of Lowell, Mass,
some 10000. million of acres, belonging to
the Kansas Pacific Railway, also in market.
They are sold through the National Land Company,
an organization subsidiary to the railroad corpora
tiOn and under the general management of William
L. Webb of Topeka In his Office huge shaggy
buifalo-head on the wall frowns down upon the
visitor. Along this road, ID Summer one may ride
for a hundred miles, hardly losing sight of the
buffaloes and trains are often compelled to
stop for them The buffalo who tries to butt loco
motive of the track may not be prudent brute, but
the locomotive that don't halt for him is equally
RASH For my own part am new and therefore a
jealous convert to tho doctrine of fencing railroads
against bufaOes in Kansas, against elephants in In
dia, and against cattle everywhere. Since our exper-
fence at Laramie never hear the whistle for "cat-