The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1870-10-29
For the Palladium. .
FROM KANSAS.


0REENwooD County, KANSAS.
October II, 1870.
BRo. DAVIS -
l am here on the Verdigris River, and |
IS it is rainy day, and 1 have to stay !!
in the house. give you line from
Bleeding Kansas The land here is all |
entered that is subject to private entry.
There is considerable quantity between !
this and Neosho, that is subject to pre-
emption and Homestead, being the even
numbered Sections in the rail road grant
to the Missouri, Kansas g. Texas Rail-
road, that runs from Junction City down
the Neosho to the Indian Territory.
There are tie odd Sections. in the same
district, for sale by the railroad at from
three to five dollars per acre, ten years
time. A great portion of this land is of
. very fine quality all is better than
the upland in our county, most Of it is
as good Is the bottom lands there Lum.
Der is scarce, but can be had at the rail-
road IS cheap as at your town, and as
they are only required to put three
boards on the fence (many put only two)
it costs but little to fence. Fine quar-
ries of limestone rock can be had on
nearly every Section, SO that fence can
be made of it, and at about a dollar per
rod. Water is ct times q little scarce,
but as all the stock runs on the range it
is never any trouble for it to get water.
The best Of water can be had by digging
from Is to 80 feet. Hay is plenty-most
Of the farmers put up from ten to hun
dred tons Of hay on the prairie, where
tho cattle Craze all summer. They gem
orally put up about ton to each head Of
stock, they expect to winter, and they
can have as much A. they wish put up
for So so per ton. They winter stock
here by contract for $500 per head.
Corn, oats, wheat, and vegetables. are
plenty and cheap as they are with you,
and would be much cheaper but fer the
settlers that are so rapidly coming in,
and have to buy for the first year. Most
Of tho bottoms, which is first choice land,
is OF an inexhaustible quality-raises the
finest wheat, corn, ETC., but the wheat on
this land is subject to fall, growing too
ranR. Good bottom land can be had
along the Verdigris River, and it's tribu>
taries, for from five to ten dollars per
,.kh
ment on it. Such as q log or bog
house with 5 to 20 acres fenced, and
brake timber land sells from ten to fif
teen dollars per acre, according to quali~
ty, (Which to us is very poor). The
land where the timber grows. il not fis
for much, it being mostly subject to over
flow. We had . little frost here last
Tuesday night but did not seem to ef
feet much, IS the grass is yet green and
the leaves on the oak trees are as green
as they are in May. They are very busy
here in making hay. and every day you
can see the reapers cutting, and the peo-
pie stacking hay. Lumber is cheap here
Il bought oak lumber, as good as you
can get any place, for $3.50 per hundred
pay $500 for making, and S 4 per hun
dred for hauling them On to the ground
and placing them along the land where
want to use them. Wheat il seventy
five cents here, fifty cents at railroad
Corn IS cents, oats 40 cents, potatoes rs
cents, but these prices are higher than
can be had at the railroad, which is &c
miles from here. Cattle are much lower
here than with you. Texas stock is
much cheaper than native, and there are
many thousands of the latter now below
here, in this State. waiting for the LIST o.
December. when the law allows them to
be driven into the settlements for sale.
And now for the sports Deer seems
to be plenty, have seen four since havs
been here. Large gangs OF wild turkeys
any number of prairie chickens, quails
squirrels, 'coons, oppossums. and thu
finest fish. They have three fish tap
in the west branch Of the Verdigris in thu
space of q mile, and last Wednesda,
night. thoy caught about 200 pounds Q
the finest fish-one weighed Is pounds
and it was fine eating. This count!
has over 5000 inhabitants. This Pleas
ant Grove) Township has about sec
Fruit is scarce here, but will soon b
plenty, a. they are planting out frui
trees and some orchards are beginning t
bear. Most Of the wild fruits are plent
especially wild grapes in abundauc,
clearly showing that this is great coun
try for the cultivation Of the tame crap
Ihavs much moro to say, but for fear
may tire you, will close.
Yours, truly,
M. WILSON.
Senator Schnrz is stumpir