The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-06-14
FROM HUTCHINSON.
HUTCHINSON, Reno Co., KANT
June 4th. 1872.

HUTcHINsoN, Reno Co., Kant
June 4th, 1872.
EDITOR NEWS: AS seat myself to
write you short note, the news came
in that the track-laying on the main
line of the A. T. & S. F. railroad is al
ready completed to point within the
boundaries Of Reno county. With all
this good news for our citizens hard
ly think we shall be able to work up
that degree of interest that is usually
shown on such occasions. The fact is,
we have not had to pay two or three
hundred thousand dollars for the road,
and We are regarding it more as some
thing tor which we have only to say
''thank you.'' Our town is keeping
pace with the country around. AL
most every day strangers are seen
walking the streets, cycling certain To-
cations, and pointing in various direc-
tions as though they had an interest
with us.
A gentleman from Franklin county
has brickyard in course of construc-
ton. A building for court house, jail,
and county offices will be constructed
here this summer. A bank will be in
operation soon. On Cow creek, a beau
tifnl stream of forty feet In width,
running through the town, we have a
splendid water-power, which will be
utilized this summer. A mill will be
running in time to grind the crops of
corn now growing.
Crops are looking finely, and those
farmers who were here last year to
raise crop are confident of success
and feeling well. Those who come in
remark the great difference in size OF
the corn in the valley and in other
parts of the State. Some gentlemen
just arrived from Wyandotte county,
who came by the way of Southern
Kansas. They report tile crops that
they have seen very much inferior to
those in this valley. Many fields of
corn near town are standing knee high.
Farmers are still planting. 1 have
never seen such breadth of ground
broken the first year as is being done
in this vicinity. This is owing to the
fact that men do not have to spend
half of their first season to build a
poor fence, and perhaps more than
half of their msney to buy timber that
will be rotten at the end of the 1irst
two years. Farmers say that in five
years we shall have better country,
more fences, more trees, and more i'm
proved land than if we had the amount
of timber that any county in the State
has.
The herd law works to perfection,
as all are alike without timber, and in
in enforcing it. A rich man
cannot turn out his cattle on his more
unfor tunate neighbors, while the poor
feel perfectly safe, Every farmer
here is making calculations to prepare
his hedge rows, and next year to plant
his hedges.
Immigration is pouring in, but the
cOming fall it is evident that q flood
will pour in upon us that will eclipse
in magnitude anything ever seen in
any part of the State before. When
men can go into a country by
rail and, getting off the cars, take
quarter section of No. land for SIS,
they will take such chances. Good
hOmesteads can be now had within
seven miles of town.
In ninety days from the present
time the first free bridge will be COM
pleted across the Askansas river. This
will open to the town the command of
q country of such extent as no other
town in the valley can boast of. All
wanting claims in Kingman county or
the western part of Harper, or Bar
bour, Pratt, &C., and, coming by rail
into the valley, will, as a matter of
course, come to Hutchinson, as at this
point they will be nearer to those To-
calities than at any other on the road.
Amy questions in relation to the coun-
try will be cheerfully answered if adj
dressed to Emigration Society, Hutch
inson, Reno county, Kansas.
SPECTATOR.