Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1873-08-13

NC nave spoken OF. lmml-
graiisn has been immense. Most of the
western counties have doubled in popula.
tion since the census Of 1870, while many
oil Them have quadrupled, and a still, larr.
er lumber have an organization, a county.
town, and send member TO the tegi,la.
ture, where, the year after the census
there was not plOughed field. The in
crease in population in southwestern Kan
Sas' IN SIX given cousties which could be
aamAd - ~
the State has a population Of near 20O,-
600, who have como there within the same
length Of time.
And still these marvellous racts leave
out the greatest feature of Kansas as she
is to-day. During 1872, the greater por-
tion Of railwsy-line more than four hun
drcd miles long was built south-westward.
ly through the wilderness. 1t opened up
country not only new in point Of age,
but new in character, resources and in
trinsic value. II places iu immediate
railway communication with the East the
richest and longest valley ever opened up
at once for the purpose of immigration.
1t is as though the gate which had barred
always heretofore a large, green world CT
fertility. had been suddenly thrown open,
and men invited to enter. The valleys Of
the world have been peopled so rapidly
that there is scarce one now LETT but this.
Here are moro than three million acres,
every acre valuable for some Of the pur-
poses of the farmer or grazer In fertili-
ty, in ncarncss TO great line of road, in
choice of location, it is not too much 10
say that the Arkansas Valley, in Kansas,
il alone in its merits, and that Its opening
is the greatest event which has happened
to the iarm-seekirg emigrant in quarter
of century. Briefly, it is valley from,
four to twelve miles wide, and nearly 800
miles long, with rich, black soil, slight
ly saady, and having substratrm Of
coarse sand and gravel. For hundreds Of
miles on every hand country stretches
away which is covered with the meft lux
uriant grass, sufficient TO pasture the
herds of the whole stock-growing west
1t is strange fact that there is no eli.
mate which is precisely right, and this il
as nearly so az any yet heard from. 1t is
far enough south to avoid extreme cold
and far enough above the sea level TO il
sure coolness and health IN summer. The
first idea that enters the mind on seeing i
is becf-catte. fat; and the second il
co-fruit-weathcr. Allthi
is main feature Of the new Kansas al
ready mentioned.
But you do not light upon the Arkan
sas Valley first. There are streams which
, lead into it, as it we're, and these regions
, also, the Atchisou, Topeka & Santa e
, road has opened up. Prominent amoni
9 these is the Cottonwood, whose feature
place it among the oft-sung beauties o
, Eastern Kansas. There are numbers o
tributary streams, and between these. an
!, enclosing the timbered valleys, lie thos
| rolling stretches Of beauty Of which S
much has been said. Here timber is NOR
, plentiful, and the valleys, though rich ar
more narrow. There are more settlements
g and, in a word, the region is older, Her
! are found stone quarries, of which th
almost white product is not TO be cxcelle
in beauty and value by any. In truth
the cottonwood and the Arkansas Valley
illustrate the difference between the olde
Kansas, which is we'll known and the new
er Kansas, which is open now to the em
grant. To most eyes, the former is hand
soonest and most attractive TO look upon
the latter has most extent, more generet
resources, and, it will oe found, most MOI
: ey in its growth.
h To come now to particulars. every a
u ternate, or odd-numbered section Of thi
% region opened by this rood, is theirs, an
t. obtainable only of them at prices rangin
n from $3.50 to $500 per acre, with tim
II and terms of payment extending thrcug
r. eleaven. years. The even numbered se'
t. tions GAO acres) are owned by the CO.
|, ernment. and open to, and obtainable onl
IS by homestead and pre-emtiou. Of cours
1t sections lie alternately. There is nothin
,s to compel o man to buy lands Of a raj
,e road, and that corporation takesits chance
r. witk the Government. The terms
/. homestead and pre-emption are general
y we'll known, and below We offer in bri
the plan of selling adopted by the Atch
Of son, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Comp
10 ny, which is justly claimed to be. moi
:. fair toward the actual seller than that
!. other Companies, and as liberal as ar
j. commercial transaction which is safe f
In both parties.
nj There are svstems Of sale by the first