The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-05-12
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W PARK CRY, Kan, May 5, 1871.
EMPoRIA News MANY things, since
I last wrote you, have transpired here
that are worthy of mention, reminding
me fOrcibly that every moment gives
birth to strange and momentous
changes, and in the language of Pope
THAT the air. the ocean and the earth
Are filed with mysteries bursting into BIRTH
But time will not permit full details
We have had a number of good busi.
ness houses erected quite recently, and
they are now filled with large stocks OF
all kinds of merchandise, and several
large business houses arc under contract
and in process of erection. The pro-
prietors of these houses are using all
due haste in order to secure their share
of the trade of the Texan droVers, who
are ali passing their cattle over the new
trail established through PARK City by
the K. p. r. r.
The advance column of the grand
army of Texas cattle, passed through
Park City yesterday, $500 strong,
enroute for Brookville, on the K. P. r.
II. Several large herds were close be-
hind those that passed through here
yesterday. and will be here by the sixth
or seventh.
Major II. Shankling, of Lawrence,
who is the special agent of the X. P. r.
II. was in Park City to-day. The Major
was here some two months ago. He
was then on his way to Texas for the
purpose of Strengthening and shorten
ing the cattle trail. He stated that his
work was now about completed and
that all the Texas cattle would haEe to
pass through Park City; that he would
have established the trail further west
and above Park City, if he could have
done so, in order to miss towns and set
elements, but that the crossing here was
by far the best of the big Arkansas
.river-for thirty miles below or above
this point; that the Park City route
was the most convenient for the drovers,
and that it made the trail almost an air
line. Ho also says that there will be
more cattle pass over this trail the pres
ent year than at any other previous
year over the old and now abandoned
trail /; and that they will, to an unquali-
fed certainty, pass over this new trail
and through Park City. To go over the
old trail through Wichita is to add
three more days to their drive, and two
very Doggy crossings, and to run great
risk of swapping and injuring many
of their cattle. The K. p. r. r. is fully
determined to secure the entire bulk of
Texas cattle andsto keep them west of
the sixth principal meridian, while the
cid and abandoned trail running through
Wichita is eight miles east of the above
said meridian. The Major thinks that
ever two hundred thousand Texas cat
&c will pass through Park city the pres
ent year, while their owners will leave
thousands Of dollars-glitteripg gold,
and silver, too, with the business men
of the town. Large sums of gold and
silver-were left in this locality last year
by Texan drovers.
The o. S. Land Office. am informed
by n communication from Washington,
will not be, in all probability, removed
from Augusta, but If it should be, it
will be located at Park City, and for the
simple reason that the convenience of
the settlers is the only thing to be con-
sidered in connection with a removal
and that the money It would pnt into
the pocket of this or that individual is
not a matter for consideration.
We have been having q superabund-
lnce af rain, and crops are looking fine
y, while many kinds of vegetables are
arge enough to eat.
Park City has i've stores, black
smith shop, wagon shop, carpenter
shops, feed stables, restaurants, land |
offices and law Offices; but is greatly in |
reed of tin shop, saddles shop, a bak-
ny and tonsor shop.
Il almost forgot to state that we will |
DON haye 9 large brewery, the pro-