The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1871-04-20
OUR FUTURE.

OUR FUTURE.
We have great faith in the future OF
our city, our county, in the whole OF
Western Kansas-very great. In the
great advantages and resources of this
country there is a bri ght future tor Salina.
For Western Kansas present and
prospective activity and prosperity lie in
store for all the people. Ours is a soil un-
surpassed in richness and fertility, yield
ing and capable of yielding immense
crops, added to which is sufficient quaint
ity of timber for all practical purposes.
With the great thoroughfares Ofrailways
leading into Western Kansas, backed by q
thrifty population, she must become a
section second to none for agriculture
and stdck-raising and for the manufactur.
ing and other interests that go to make
apeOple affiuent and country renOwn-
ed. In Western Kansas there are nu-
merous and splendid water courses, fur
nishing many water powers of great size.
No portion of Western Kansas Is a halt
score years in age in her popping, and
most of her territory is barely more than
one year old. The Smoky Hill and Sa-
line vallies are names synonymous with
acknowledged resources of immense ca
liabilities. Comparatively Western Kan
sas is older for her age-older for the re-
cent period that her lands have common
ced to be tilled-than any other section
of the West, or of * ansas, for the matter.
She possesses no waste land-every acre
contains the nutritious powers that will
convert the soil, at the instigation Of the
handiwOrk man, into large yields ofwheat
corn, oats, and the products natural
to the West. She enjoys climate most
mild and an atmosphere most pure, the
broonos that are waited over tic plains
from the Rocky Mountains giving renew
ed health and life to every denizen. Num-
bers have come here weak with the pull
monary disease who in short time have
regained their accustomed vigor. Gras-
ses, wild fruits, ETC., grow in abundance
and almost spontaneously. The peach
and apple have prospered well SO far as
they have been tried, and from the trials
already made it is well to anger that
Western Kansas is destined to become
one ofthe best fruit regions of our coun-
try.
Saline county is duplicate of the
whole Western portion of our State, be-
ing blessed, however, with the many ad-
vantaaes resulting from longer state of
cultivation.
Properly the city of Salina is not more
than four years old, though her real exist
ence in name may be dated back to still
farther perod. Up to that time she labor
ed along through fluctuations, when from
> half dozen buildings or so she at pres
ent enjoys population of full fifteen
hundred. Her growth is of the substan- ,
tial and permanent kind. Her trade is
good at all seasons of the year. The peo- i.
pie from nearly all directions, for hun @
ired miles or more, make Salina their !.
dealing by bulk and parcel. She .
has just been made the seat of the United :,
States Land Office for this district which, !,
will add an impetus to the trade and !,
prosperity of the city. Situated in the
leart of magnificent region, well pop !,
lated and well improved, the town is
ather behind the country in growth than .
n advance of it. Salina is the largest :,
own in Western Kansas and the declar. !.
d metropolis of the section. =,
Then, indeed, bright future may be :,
aid to be in store for all our people. :.
'ith the energy Of the people apd the :,
atural resources of Salina, Saline county =,
nd the whole of Western Kansas they
An not but go on to prosperity.