The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-04-29
EMPORIA NEWS.
Friday. April %. 1870.
NOTES By THE WAY.

MEssRs. EDITORS 1 have commenced
my quarterly rounds, and will
your permission propose to give Tn
NEWS some @notes" occasionally.
My first trip to Burlingame was 1
pleasant one. There is some fine coun
try on the Marais de Cygne and it
tributaries. And for some reason Of
other much of it is unoccupied. 1t cal
not remain vacant much longer.
Usage City is a new town on the raj
road about ten miles from Burlingame
I counted forty-two houses, all new.
They have hotel, several stores, and
shops of several kinds. 1 saw quite 6
number of new houses in course ofcon
struction. There is a good country
around it.
Two miles from Burlingame is tbs
old town of Superior. 1t is dead. The
old hotel stands in a farm. The people
of the country around it have built 8
neat little brick schoolhouse near by
The belfry is as pretty as a spotted
puppy.
Burlingame is not city set on hill,
but nestles down beside the hill along
the banks of SwitZer creek. The town
is growing and will get up on the hill
some day. There are some large stores
in the city, and very large steam -four.
ing mill. The Congregationalists
Presbyterians, Baptists and -Methodists
all have good stone churches. The PEG.
pie ought to be religious. A fine con-
gregation worships at the M. E. Church
They have a model Sunday School
Burlingame can boast of one of the
finest schoolhouses in the State. 1t is
built of brick, and occupies a command.
ing position on the hill west of town
1t is well finished, and the arrangement
is admirable. There are not many col
lege buildings in Kansas equal to this
schoOlhOuse. And there are not many
towns no larger than Burlingame that
have so many splendid residences. The
Chronicle still lives and sparkles with
its three ems every week. There are
some fine farms around the town in q
nigh SIdLC Vi CuII1FdJlOus
Lyndon, ON Salt creek, twelve miles
from Burlingame, is candidate for the
county seat. Icounted thirteen houses.
1t has store or two, harness shop and
hotel.
Quenemo beautiful place. is the Sac
and Fox Agency converted into town.
There are dry goods, grocery, drug and
hardware stores in town. They expect
to have a railroad. The Methodists are
preparing to build a church. The coun-
try around the town is par excellent,
and timber abounds.
Williamsburg is located on Tequas
CTuckwau) creek, in the southeast cor
ner of Franklin county. 1t is a small
place, but has some good stone houses.
Mr. Dane, of Chicago, is having a farm
of twenty-six hundred acres put in cul-
tivatiOn adjoining town. They have
three hundred acres of winter wheat,
and about the same quantity of oats
sown. They are having a mammoth
orchard. Think of three thousand pear
trees, and other varieties in like quanti-
ty! Take it all together, it is farm on
a big scale.
Near this there is French COLONY
engaged in the manufacture of silk.
They are preparing to raise silk worms.
AS we travel over the country and
see the many branches of industry, and
the thrift and growth of everything we
that KanSas will no indoDand
ent of the ''world and the rest of man
kind" i'll few years. $50 mote it be. /"
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