The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-09-03
ENIPORIA, KANSAS, SEPTEMBER 3, 1863 :

pleasant, fiourishing town The STATE
Normal School is located here aflt
business is quite brisk The inhabit
ants steady Industrious and intelligent
Two railroads will be completed tC
this place within a year. Emporia vii
! be one of the pleasant. places in Kansas
4 to live in Its school privileges will be
a great, aid to the place. In the same
county, down the river ten miles, is the
thriving little town of Neosho Rapids.
Here is a splendid water power, with
/ fine mills already upand room for more
with plenty of timber Land in the
vicinity is cheap and taking all things
4 into consideration, IT presents "a fine
chance for capitalists to make money.
| Along the whole line of the Neosho,
there are numerous fine water powers,
with saw and flour mills at most of the
towns and villages. Also, a large
! amount of heavy timber. - -
RAILROADS. J4 q
The rapid development of RAILROADS
in Kansas, for the last two years, is Civ
ing wonderful impulse to all other inn
proven ents,S aud especially to settle-
| ments,a and productions. Five years ago
the State hadn railroads, only imagin-
Congress, Tor lands, and Dohus,' ~ lip
build them. Now Kansas has more
than seven hundred miles in operation.
and manV mora 8, P-9~SS9 VI cohstFuc-
rIUn, and in less than five years more
two thousand miles of railroad will be
III active operation within the State.
This rapid development of railroads, is
having a wonderful effect in stimulating
all other improvements. The older
States have already realized the power
of railroads to enhance values, stimulate
growth, enterprise, production, emigra-
ton, commerce. trade, and every kind
of business and improvements. Such
is the effect they are now producing on
Kansas, and under their rapid growth,
the State is advancing with equal pace,
and has one great advantage over most
of the older States-nearly every road
is built out of the lands and capital from
abroad. Therefore Kansas will be well
supplied with railroads and mostly paid
for out of her lands and by the general
Government. The lines of road begin
to assume form and shape, so that one
can determine much in his locations, of
the future of the railroads in the State.
The main trunk line of the road is the
Kansas Pacific, starting from Leaven-
worth and Kansas City, uniting at Law
renee, running up the entire kaw valley,
extending for four hundred miles near
" through the center of the State. This
road, reaching in future from ocean to
ocean, on meridian, that no winters or
mountain storms will prevent its per-
petual use, is line destined to have a
most W wonderful influence, at no distant
day, upon the trade ofthe continent and
the commerce of the world. The great
lines of road from Philadelphia, Balti-
more, Washington and Norfolk, will all
concentrate at ST. Louis; there they will
take the Kansas Pacific, and circumstan-
ces will compel the early completion of
this road to the Pacific coast. 1t is
vain to talk of monopolies oflands, sub
sides in bonds, the magnitude and i'm
portance of the work, the absolute de-
mands of trade and travel to meet the
commercial wants of the world, will
compel Congress to see to the compile
ton of this great line. 1t matters not
who is helped or hurt, by companies or
| individuals, it is an enterprise demand
| ed bv the commerce of the nation and
of the world, and that voice will be
heard above all the wfangling of pot
house politicians or weak-kneed Con-
gressmen and i'll some form the great
work will be done. Several roads are
already in process of construction from
this central line south. The first, and
very important one, is q road from Kan
sas CITY, Fort Scott, BaXteE-Springs, and
onward to meet the Galveston route.
| This is what is called the Joy road, OPP
posed by the leagues in Crawford and
! Cherokee counties, the neutral lands.
! The late decision of the Secretary of the
| Interior has settled the whole matter,
and the aggrieved must look to a gener-
Gus government to repay them all dam
ages, and leave Joy to 60 ahead on his
| road. This. line will be of immense
advantage to all Southeastern Kansas,
as well as Northeastern, just as soon as
| Leavenwor th taps this road at Olathe,
giving them straight line to the south
I ePn part of the State, and opening up
| ineXhaustible beds of coal. Starting ut
Lawrence, another road called the Joy
and Sturgis line, runs south, down to
| Ottawa, and will soon be completed. via
! Garnett, to Humboldt, where it viii in
! tersect the. Neosho valley road if ever
made to this place This is an impor-
| tant road to the counties through which
it passes, and if continued from Hum
! boldt, southwest to the southern line OF
the State, it viii be Il great improve
ment to all that part of Kansas. An
other road is rapidly extending from
Topeka, south 10 Emporia, and some
dav will be extended. This is an i'm.
portant road, as it passes immense Goa
beds in Usage county. From junction
i City they have commenced the NeoshC
! valley road extending southeast, doWT
| the Neosho river. This road when com.
/ pleted will accommodate many towns
and cities along the entire valley.
INCARCERATION AND SPECULATION.
No new State has ever filed up faster
than Kansas, for the last two years. Tit
tide of emigration seems to set in tina
direction, not only from the entire ma
ton, but from all parts of Europe. The
opportunity to get fine, cheap land is a
great inducement for immigration and
also for speculation. Any man or woman
can get land cheap in Kansas. All tall
of monopoly by railroads, government
or individuals, is perfect hunbug
The world never presented such a ehanc'
for any man, rich or poor. The railroad
companies sell cheaper than the Gov
t eminent, and give five years to pay TO
= it. Besides this, any one who wiShe
/ can homestead his quarter section 0
the best land in the world and pay tn
J Government at his convenience. SO TN
field is open for all classes. No on
, need fear railroads or spectators. The.
: can get ali thew want and cheap enough
| In addition you have the railroads mad
g for you in many parts of the State, IN
r creasing the value of the land you hay
e bought so cheap. The world never pre-
= SenLeQ inner HeIu IOF men OI pollest Al
i. | dustry, with small means. They car
I not fail to make themselves goo
: home, and good living, with far les
/. labor than in most of the old and hin
f States. For the European emigration
) Kansas presents most wonderfI
G chance. They can become landholdeI
) at once, and instead of digging on bal
: rem soil, owned by some lord, they ca
d become independent farmers in shoi
4 time. Many colonies are coming frol
i different parts OF Europe, as well as
l. vast number ofindividuals, and settlin
k in Kansas. They Invariably do we