The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1872-06-27
FROM sHE REPUBLICAN, VALLEY.
L.wnESCrguRG. Cloud Co., Ks, June ID.

LawRENCrRuRG. Cloud Co., KS, June ID.
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The ouuder OF the toan ifoG which
w,iie. Frank Lawrence, Is an old ci;i1rn OF
Le,yer~or,h County, and a. the narrow
gauge is among the expectations heIeihe cal
cu!a,es some dag 10 visit the hcne OF his
boyhood by rail direct. But he does not in
tend to 60 to Lesvenworth for coal with
which 10 run his mills nov in operation. On
the contrary, there Is three foot vein OF
coal opened three Miles from here, from
which an e.cellen. articl. Of fuel is Proclr-
ed a, 81 per Ton. visited this coal mine
to day, entering il from an opening IN the
side Of a ra7iue and passing within some
forty yards, to rhere the chambers lad on.
There is no question about the value OF this
coal field. 1t extends over an area OF sever
al townships, and is being worked in several
places. The mine which visited is owned
by II. Nelson, and il On his homestead, the
northeast quarter Of section l, township D.
range 3 west. He works several hands, and
supplies coal 10 Clyde, Lswencebnrg, Con-
cordia, Lake Sibley and Leapo. Judging
from the demand las, winter, Mr.. Nelson
Think be will lie Obliged next winter to
work forty hands continually. One man
gets on. two tons per day, at 81 PEI ton. The
mining expenses besides are about g cents
per ton, SO that, selling the coal at - Per
ion, there il a net profit Of Sl.75 per ter,
or $3 80 on each man employed. II will
thus t.e se.n that Mr.. Nelson has valuable
homestead.
This is Ignite coal, 10, the best quality. 1t
has iron pyri,es and sulphur
and hence is Objectionable in
wo-kin' 'em. But i, ia excellent for fuel, as
| have had occasion to know, having had
the warmth of il at Concordia, through
bleak cold day of last March, in an open
hall Of house. 1t burns freely, without
oior or SCOT, and gives az much heat as Fort
Scott cnal.
The narrow gauge road will be jast the
thing TO distribute thi, coal over the home
lead country of northwestern Esnsas. az it
will he to gather up the grain raj ed here
and take II 10 market. To see the fields
now, teeming as they are with the almost
ripenins wheat, oats, rye and barley, one
Cdn sOilc eStluidte vi the Sast
which, few years hence, will have 10 be
marketed from this section. Every quarter
section here ia homestead with an actual
settler on it. From necessity the settler il a
grain rai>er, in most cases. The herd Law,
every where in operation here, prohibits his
nck from running al large, and As he is not
able to keep herd large enough to justify
the herding of ii, he only keeps such stock
~ he can confine in . small pasture, or with
the picket rope. He dero,es his energies
then 20 the widening of the breadth of his
plowed land for grain raising. The present
season 10 most promising one. All kinds
Of crops are doing we'll. There is no better |
soil than this, and the few settlers who have
been in the v1lQey ten years or SO, say that |
crrps are as certain IS in any other country. |
Three years ago the counties Of Repub- |
Tic ard Cloud were not tenth part occupied. |
Now every foot, almo-t, belongs 10 the
Mi chell and jewell have
some vacan, land yet. But the tide Of i'm
and il ia heavy, goes TO Osborne, !!
Phillips and the coCuties beyond. 4.