Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-02-14

1910 per Ton. Luihoof NJ rum oo w
20 dollars per thousand. Stone can be
delivered at s24 per car load, and brick
at 50 to $40 a thousand. Water is plen-
ty. Our we'll is an Artesian well driven
down z feet below the surface and water
is plenty and good not so soft as yours at
Bellows Falls, but good enough for all
domestic purposes. We got out claims
about four miles from town north and
half way between this town and county
seat, Atlanta, right on the direct road. 1t
is about Al miles from my farm to the
r. r. depot, we have 100 acres of as good
land as could be asked for our son-in-
law has 100 acres adjoining mine, giving
us farm of 800 acres in strip one
mile long and half a mile wide. | can
stand at any given point and overlook
the whole. 1t lies little rising, facing
the south, not stone on it big as your
fist, and not an inch of poor or untilla-
BILE soil in the whole it is now covered
with blue joint grass similar to the ia
nous blue stem regions of Kentucky.
Horses and cattle eat it as readily as our
eastern cattle eat good timothy and red
top. These are soldiers claims, any
American citizen can take up so acres
here, or if discharged soldier or sailor,
100. There is plenty OF Railroad land
for sale at from 2 to dollars per acre
on II years time or for cash, allowing
discount of 224 per cent is made on cash
payments and further discount is made
for certain Improvements within certain
time.
The Atchson, Topeka d Sante Fe
Railroad is now completed two hundred
miles west of this point and regular
trains are running each way once daily.
The road will be extended still farther
west this Spring. The coolest weather
we have had this winter was 120 below
zero, the general average for the last two
months has been about freezing or 800
above zero. We have good deal of
high wind here, but this we hope to
overcome in a measure as the country is
| built up and orchards, forest trees are
started. Groceries, -four and dry goods
are about the same as in Vermont,sugar
little higher. Corn selling here at 40
cents, beef cents, by the quarter, hogs
6 and Z cents, buffalo beef from ] to
cents per pound; we like it nearly as
we'll as domestic beet, some like it better
Game is plenty, prairie chickens, rabbits
antelope, buffalo, wolves, badgers, bea-
yer, skunks, and rattlesnakes the latter
are all frozen in now. We have had
about foot of snow since New Years
but it is all gone now. Farming imple'
ments are some higher than in the East,
SO it would pay any one coming here tc
fill a car full of tools, groceries and
household goods and to bring along the
freight from the Falls through to this
point would be not over $3.50, perhaps
less it would pay we'll at that price in
the value of goods and time saved IN
coming; small lot of goods will be on
the road five or six weeks while car
load would come through without re
shipping at all, and in good shape in
about weeks. Passengers can come
through from Vermont in FIVE days
Our citizens held town meeting few
days since and appointed Committees t.
open correspondence with millers in re
gard to putting up a frst-class 3 rur
grist mill. They propose to pay one-hal
the expense of building mill of thi
kind. If any of our Vermont miller
want to come West, this is their chance
They are to raise this money by tow
bond and contract ! as regular tolls
Any of your readers can get all the in
formation they want in regard to thi
subject by addressing A. j. Locke o.
Thomas H. Watt, members of the com
mittee. The mill is to be steam mill
think the climate here equal to any il
the U. S.
We have an elevation of 5000 fee
above the sea, and the atmosphere il
very dry and pure. There is some agut
caused by the new breaking and the de
caying sod and vegetable matter, but il
, yields readily to treatment, and will
probably disappear as the country be
comts settled and is brought under cul
tivation. | am we'll satisfied with the
country, its climate and people, and think
that any man who wants to come West
can suit himself here if he can anywhere
The soil is from one to FIVE feet deep and
apparently very fertile.
Yours, &C.,
AMOS F. GRAIN.
P. 81 omitted to tell you that We
had also purchased lot containing
acres in town, where we have built this
; Fall and are now living. The lot cost
500. The town after being surveyed
into small lots, has strip of 8, 10 and
. acre lotS round - O,,,r 1890 = 4 4