The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-11-23
Letter from Kansas.

FoRr SCOTT, KANSAS, Nov. y, 1871.
EDrroG ENTERPRISE: Now that we ar,
located Tor the winter, | shall make gooc
my promise. We started from Mouse
Creek, Tenuo on Friday morning al
about Z o'clock the 9th Of October. We
mado CONNECTION ut Chattanooga, ano
immediately started ont or the Mcmphi.
and Charleston rail road for Corinth
The lirst thing worthy Il attention was
the snowy looking fields OF cotton, wLicl
We were informed wasa iair average +
Tor the country through winch We pass.
ed. Huntsville, Ala, was the frst city
worthy oi note, which we passed mt u
o'clock. 1t is II pretty, level place, built
Of good material and presents quite Il
neat appearance. Tuscumbia is the
next place of much size, and was crowd.
ed Win people, from I'LL parts of tic
country, attending the Fair. Passing
rapidly on We reached Corinth at six
o'clock, p. M, where We met with some
inconvenience, which was accustomed bv
our Ticket Agent starting us out ON the
Tennesscc road at night, instead of the
mail train. After about twenty hours
delay at this point, we started out ON
the Mobile and Ohio rail road for Col
umbua, Ky, where We arrived ut about
ten o'clock ut night. This line of rood
Is through the heaviest timbcred portion
OF country | ever saw, and II large pro-
portion OF 1t is cypress. Jackson, Hum
bolt and Union City are the only places
that demand our notice mt this time.
Another Fair was in progress Mt Hum
bolt, and hence it WAS IL living, moving
city. The other two pluccs presented Il
neat and beautiful appearance. At Col
umbus our train of ears were switched
backwards into II huge old steamer and
III loss than ten minutes we were safely
west OF the father of all rivers. From
this place to st. Louis | can say but lit
tie, ~ 1t was an entire night route over
the Iron Mountain Railroad. However,
from what ] could learn, the crops were
heavy and the country very fine.
We arrived at st. Louis Sunday morn
ing Mt 81 O'Clock, ut which time we
STATED out on the Missouri and Kansas
Pacific Road for Kansas City, which
place we reached ut 7 o'clock, Il. IN. Not
being well pleased with the surroundings
ut the Bluff City, and not being well
clad for the cold storm that had been
beating upon us for the past six hours,
we ut once started ont on the Missouri
River and Fort Scott Railroad for II
warmer climate. We arrived ut Fort
Scott on Monday at 3 o'clock, p. H., and
bunked up for the time in some little
houses on the East end of Wall Street,
much wearied, dirty and worn out.
st. Louis is the great metropolis of all
this Western country, is well laid ont
and built af the best material. Kansas
City is built Of poor material, poorly laid
off aud is scattered over and around Il
considerable bluff on the South bank of
the Mississippi river. Fort Scott is two
thirds the size Of the city OF Knoxville,
well laid ont, and built of good material.
Business is said to be quite dull; but to
us Iennesseeans everything appears brisk
ind Lively. The people are kind and
hospltable, in short we have been kind
l,y treated by all rail road officials and
citizens from the time we left home un-
I'll we reached Fort Scott. From every
appearance this country is as good as
we expected to find it. Everything is
plentiful and quite cheap. The lands
are better, for the most part, than the
best Sweetwater bottoms, and yields
from 80 to Is bushels of corn per acre.
of the Pararies, however, are very
md not 50 good as lower lands.
The prices OF land in this county range
from three to twenty dollars per acre.
Fort Scott is the great Railroad cen
ter OF Southern Kansas, and will o
a great city,-already her gass
light Eliminates the whole city, and may
be seen for miles around. Her streets
are broad and are being well curbcd and
neatly paved.
Permit Inc to say to all your readers,
that, Ill persons leaving Tennessee for
this country should start out Oh the mail
and not the cypress train, as they will
avoid much delay and save money by
the operation. They should likewise
keep all baggage checked, and start on
first of the week so MS to avoid lay
ing over on Sunday. Both these incon-
veniences we have experienced, and re-
commend Others to act differently, and
save their money. We reflect somewhat
On our Ticket Agent for moi advising us
Of these Inconvenience.
To our friends we desire to say that
far, we are all, with one exception,
pretty well satisfied. John Dean and
speak of returning to Tennessee,
but perhaps the family may become sat
SIZED, and not return. We expect to go
some distance out West next season and
OF purchase lands OF the Railroad
South Of Fort Scott. Homesteads have
pretty much been taken up unless you
20 sonie $50 or 200 miles West of this
and this is not the proper season
move out OH the frontier settlements.
Al opportunity afEords I will continue
ny letters, giving such information as
Sll likely most interest your readers