New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-12-28
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OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE UNITED STATES
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF NEW ORLEANS
KANSAS CITY DESCRIBED.

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OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF NEW ORLEANS
KANSAS CITY DESCRIBED.
Site Of the Cfty-Growth and Population
A Railroad Centre.
The editor of the Telegraph, newspaper
published in St. John, New Brunswick, was
IN Kansas City. some months ago and pur-
chased property there. Upon his return to
81. John, he wrote three columns in his pa
per concerning Missouri and Kansas City,
from which we make the following extracts
The man who first thought OF building
CITY on the spot on which Kansas lily mas
risen, must, presume, have Deen an engie
Merc;neerinp difficulties" He must have
believed that grading was good exercise
for a Young CITY, and could accomplish any
thing The site chosen consists OF ser1es
If Ioftv bluffs, with corresponding ravlnes
or valleys. The excayator, treet-bui!der
and housebuilder have, however, to deal
with clay for the most part, and not. with
rocks. Such digging and filllng nave e never
CITY for physical inequalities Of surface.
You will see houses perched up hundreds
and hundreds of feet above the roads lead
inc to them, and above other houses not far
The finest private residences in the city
are being built on the toughest and lOftlest
bluffs in the town, overlooking the river,
the railway depots and the business streets
far beneath. They are generally built OF
brick manufactured in the city. should
suDpose that some Of the houses, not far
from the river and the Union depot, look
down upon the latter from height OF five
hundred and six hundred feet, or perhaps
more.
and, perhaps, the most prosperous OF the
cities of the Missouri valley. Its rate OF
progress is something surprising, and it's
reoSraphical and industrial advantages,
which shall presently describe, OF the very
Tie site Of town was surveyed in 1886,
a few cabins erected, and the enterprise
tagged until 1856, when q new survey was
made. The growth of the city dates from
that year. In 1913 it had population OF
700. In 1854 it managed to start q news,
to 300 In 1853 it was incorporated with o
population Of 400 or 500. In 1860 it had over
3D6O and in 1864 under 6O00, and deehneddur-
inc the war. as with Missouri, the State to
which it belonged, it was identified with
the rebellion. During that period Leaven-
worth. q centre Of Federal supplies and a
base Of operations, piled up immense for
tunes. Now look at Kansas City.
In 1860 the population was precisely All;
E in June. 1870, it was 81, 286. 1t enjoys the
benefit Of two or three prosperous suburban
towns, such as Westp0rt, State Line and
Wyandotte. The two latter are on Kansas
soil, but all cluster together, and with
Kansas City, form one commercial. if not
one social, community. Wyandotte alone
: claims population Of between three and
four thousand.
ming into it from east and west, north and
south, while three more lines are in pro-
qress. The new lines include one to Mem
Dhis. Louisiana line, and Q line from Rock
Island, on the Mississippi. The roads built
are the North Missouri and the Missouri
Pacific, between St. Louis and Kansas, the
Kansas Pacific, which starts at Kansas City,
runs on to Denver, through very rich bot
tom and prairie lands, and is continued to
Cheyenne, where it, of course, connects
with the Union Pacific road.
This road gives short line to the Pacific
through q fine territory, and, Of course,
Kansas City gets the benefit Of it. 1t has
+ another terminus in LeavenwOrth, and on
it's way to Topeka, the capital Of Kansas !;
it traverses the thriving town Of Lawrence,
(which has about twelve thousand inhabit-
.
j Kansas City, st. Joe and Council Bluffs,
and the,Kansas City and Santa Fe, are its
other railway lines, the last mentioned be-
!, ing road traversing Kansas and going on
westward and southwark through Kansas
to the valley Of the Arkansas, where it will
afford an artery for the cattle trade OF
Texas, which overflOws into Kansas at the
period permitted by law, which, | believe,
Is from December to March. When the
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head Of Texas cattle will be seen swimming
the Arkansas, coming to Kansas to Craze,
thence to be driven, when sufficiently fat,
to one of the stations on the. Kansas Pacific
Railroad for slaughter in Kansas City, or
other Eastern depots, or shipped further
East, alive, say to Chicago, for the supply
of the Eastern markets, or butchered, bar
relied and shipped to Europe.
Kansas City already gets nice little
share of this trade, but is bound to get
more. 1t has cheaper beef in consequence.
Steak that in New York would be worth
from thirty-fve to forty cents pound. may
be had in Kansas City for fifteen cents. A
butcher in Kansas City who was cutting up
q side Of beet, told me it cost him two and
o quarter cents a pound. 1t was native
Miesourian, but he said he chiefly bought
Kansas City, among the truly motley
crowd that mingles there, and where dead
buffaloes and Rocky Mountain elks, with
magnificent horns, brought in by the
Western trains, are seen etrewn around, a
man pointing to some cars of cattle going
East, said to me: '.Are these cattle
yours ~ / said. "No; why do you ask 2
'.Those are Texans" he said, "and big af
they are, they only cost the purchasers
payW "Pays / guess it does. The
Texans sell them from one to three dollars
in lots, according to their age, and the
drOvers in year or two double and treble
their money on them. Grass and land are
plenty down there"
My interrogation finally informed me that
Montgomery county, Kansas, lin the region
Indian Territory, cross Over), that he was
partly farmer and partly a grazier; that
he had worked on the Union Pacific Railroad
and was going to Omaha to bring away
some funds he had left there, and that he
was, originally, from the county of Fer
managh, in the neighbOrhOOd of Enniskillen
TO show that there was no reason why
should be mistaken for drover or butcher
another of the motley group asked me il
/ did not belong to the army" and if l had
mot been out in Wyoming on visit tt
Governor Campbells' He said the Governor
was man Of fine family, and that his
family and the Governors were connected
and that he thought he had seen me out
there! But l was treating Of Kansas City
railroads, and have got switched off the
track.
The Bird Trade.
A correspondent Of the Chicago Jonma
says:
asked dealer in birds, the other day
where all the canaries came from. He sait
that o single firm in New York city has
cop<ron< <s,, tho IaI;vorx, f,fxxy <bo,,s,u.