New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-11-13

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| KANSAS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
| MINERAL AND AGRICULTURAL RESOURCES
CATTLE TRADE-AN AGIiICI LTuRAL FAIR
| PKICES-A NEW-YORK AND CHICAGO PATTY
on PRAIRIE JAUNT IN PALACE-CARs-
| AsToNIsHMENT OF THE NATIVES (BUFfA-
LORs)-sHOOTING BUFFALoES FROM THE
CARS
SHERIDAN, Ellis Co, Oct. 1J.-After leaving
Manhattan. stopped Junction city, whence a rail
road process Of construction to esonthat Is. It
10 nersect the Galveston road IN the Southern part OF
the state will here give list Of the railroads 10 this
State st. Josephs aud Denver completed TO Troy, 20
miles Atchison branch OF Pacific completed. 100 miles
Leavenworh and Lawrence, 40 miles long; Kansas City
TO Atchison up the Missouri. GO miles long, Kansas
Pacific completed TO Sheridan Is, TO within few
miles OF the western state lineiO7 miles Missouri River,
Fort Scott aud Galveston, completed TO Pleasanton' rs
miles; Lawrence and Galveston, completed so miles
Topeka and Santa Ff completed, 40 miles; and
the one from Junction city, above mentioned,
completed IS miles. TO Council Grove, The whole
make total OF SIS miles. on most OF these roads the
track is extending every day, while roads pro-
jected from many points Meanwhile, men from the West
aronstauty coming to search for land while
others arriving with their families 40 that the emf
grafton immense The population Of the State is com
puted at 10000 and from present indications It is sup
posed that 100000 will be added during the next twelve
months IN many colonies come IN familee, and
/ found one Of 200 families from England
on The saline: the advance guard has
already arrived In places the swedes have large
settlements; while Illinois, Indiana aud ONO contribute
no small number. Some OF these new corners sick
with The disease prevailing low ground. and there
many instances Of suffering, particularly II the people
are poor and even those who comfortably situated
wholly escape since IT is impossible III compar-
atiyely country avoid Inconvenience and dscOm.
forts II be- well doubted, however whether any OF
the States settled with fewer universities OF
kind II is 10 be noted that foreigners suffered most
while on board SHIP ahd tey relate many INSTANCES OF
neglect and even OF cruelty, calling for Investigation or
rast for increased vigilance on the part OF the Board
OF Emigration In New1Wk.
JUNCTloN CnY-rmE COUNTRY BEYOND.
Junction City scarcely more than two years old. and
though many OF the houses are butt OF cottonwood un-
ber which makes poor bulldogs. business ~ 81 brisk.
and people from distant quarters 10 trade
that II is like Atlanta or Chicago In miniature Here the
rough Of the border first appear TO the traveller and
the business men have short ready way, ana the
pTovncallsms and peculiar use OF words are noted
saw two friends meet each said 10 the other How e.
and each answered tho same as II the inquiry had been
ton City three miles beyond Fort Riley, where the
Smoky I'LL the right aud the Republican on the left
unite 10 form the Kansas RIVER twenty years ago the
Great American Desert begun at Fort Riley. for IL was
supposed 50 incapable Of producing gram or human food
that Government forbade any attempt at farming to be
made. All beyond the buffalo range, and the
face was covered with the short curly grass
which grows only where this animal frequents.
But since the buffalo has receded westward. the
buffalo grass has Disappeared the prairie grass has
taken It's place, and the country has been found well
htted for human abode 10 Is particularly to be noted
that since the buffalo has left rains have become
frequent aud the region has ceased " DC AFFLICTED With
df0lths The explanation OF this change In the state
ment or theory that the buffalo by constant trampng
and In vast herds makes the ground exceedingly hard
that when rain falls 10 Immediately runs off, leaving
the ground dry as before when as consequence
only buffalo grass grow, and there can be no dew.
hence evaporation, and therefore, raiD at least
local showers and IL IA the general prevalence OF these
which make Summer crops grow. This condition in
cludes cause and sequence making circuit complete
In itse When the prairie grass comes IN there dews
and evaporation and the planted fields retain aud give of
MOISTURE and hence rains descend
All the way from Kansas City the road passes through
the bottom OF the Kansas RIVER which ~ the most mag
nihcen aud fertile valley IN the world lt Is full as fer
tile the Mississippi Valley. and rs II is not subjected TO
annual overflow the rewards OF the hnsbandmen are
much certain. This valley usually about four
miles wide, sometimes Il Is twice that width, and then
the country rises In gentle swels called bun though In
reality hardly deserving the name. In these stone suita
BILE for building almost invariably found In the greatest
abundance. and II can be quared at trhng cost Nor
quarries confined TO the vicinity OF the rivers
for they found high ground over large part OF
the State. At Junction city the stone assumes more
solid character IL Is quarred In great masses and when
IL first comes into the air II Is soft that IL may be
readily sawed into blocks The StateouSe Topeka
built Of TINS stone.
Twenty i've miles further is the noted town Abilene
whence Texas cattle are shipped to NewHork The dis
lance Texas IL about miles and everywhere we
the Texas herdsnon riding swift ponies adorned
with immense gearing OF straps, buckles and apparatus
while the rider long spurs which touch the ground
when he walks The town Itself il insignificant but there
large hotel for drovers and they have that institution
OF the greatest possible Importance 10 drOvers bank
Vast Invested In the business, and the
the ground together with the crowds OF small buyers
threeyear obi Texas steer sells for about $780, but the
meat will not be irstclass until the animal is cornfed,
and generally ms has been taken TO IlinOis This year.
however, much corn Is grown In Kansas that the
finishing touch will be given here, and necessarily this
must be- done this year at least 80 far taking cattle
Northern Illinois where the crop is smaller than has
been for many years
Nine miles beyond Abilene is Solomon CITY scarcely
more than village, aud close To the town comes down
Solomon River to enter the Smoky lil, which il near by.
Solomon River, which ON the maps In Is years ago
seemed 80 Tar remote that the pupils did not dream that
they would ever see IT, 49, AS u always must have BEEN
pastoral and most gentle stream. Less than 100 feet
Wde frnged with few scattered trees edged by banks
like those OF canal runs down througha vast meadow
OF prairie grass more Ike familiar stream In we'll
settled and thrifty valley than unknown river ia the