Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-08-16

followed their example ami really found
the opportunities they oner so alluflng
that We ave not al all surprised thai so
many 20 West. This company owns over |
a million acres of land In Iowa and Ne |
braska. which they offer TO actual settlers |
on what appears 10 me very liberal terms. |
The price Of land In Iowa ranges from g. |
to eco, and 10 Nebraska at from "a " SO |
according to quality and location. At
these prices the company sells 10 imml-
grants, lands on ten years credit with
liberal deductions for cash payments Or
at the e. d Of the third year.
The country Is described MS having
pleasant aud hualthful climate aud a rich
.oi, while the wood Is said to he suili-
GENTLY abundant Tor present requirements
with a PROSPECT uf large Increase la
timber lands ~ civilization progrt-stsi
ana the prairie fires are stayed. All Kinds
OF wood grow rapidly when planted espe-
cially Ia Nebraska, while Iowa has "a 900
square miles OF coal fields from which
over six millions Of bushels were mined
in 1865.
The principal crops are corn, wheat,
rye, q IA, barley, Nc., but all kinds Of
root crops, aud lax, and the castor bean
have been very successfully cultivated.
Fruit culture promises fine yields aud the
grape naurlshus wonderful y In Iowa. In
RAISING along we saw some large vine-
yards. Honey Ia getting To be great
crop and Is one the raising of which re-
quires little trouble. Stock raising too,
is becoming great interest, but we did
not pass through the part Of the country
where II is carried on.
These material advantages are probably
sufficient to attract the average foreign
immigrant, but the farmer fom the
Eastern states who came here 10 better
his condition, would at once ASK
How about schools 2 To the answer wi
be that both Iowa and Nebraska have
large school funds arising from the sale
of public lands. and in tue former, tn re
were IN 1871, 7,S23 schools with 1900
teachers and an average attendance Of
3il ,g2s pupils, while in Nebraska au ex
cvllent school system, | am told, has
oecu organic d, while the school lands
embrace one eighteenth Of the entire do
main, l,2S0 acres, to each township.
But there is no need of my attempting to
go over the ground" lin a double
sensr) as fuller Information than 1t Is
possible TO give in the limits of letter
like this, can he obtained without cost by
addressing Geo. s. Harris, Land Commits
sioner of the Burlington and Missouri
River Railroad, Burlington, Iowa.
At Grestuu, about 100 miles east Of
Council Blulls, we took II branch road
running in a .oulhwesler'y direction lor
ST. Joseph, Mo, where We expected to
remain all night, expecting to come ON to
Kansas City next day, but when We ar
rived at Anazunla, the first station north
from ST. Joe, Gas everybody heroabOuts
calls St. J' seph) we found the train FROM
Omaha to Kansas city Just moving oil,
I (heing uu hour behind tme.) We sud
denly left our own train ANA scrambled
on the moving train, thereby reaching
Kansas City ahunt half past one O'Clock
after dusty, but, IA tue main, pleasant
ride for about ~ hours through Illinois
Iowa and Missouri, distance OF 57(
miles. We went to hotel called Tia,
Pacific, which, take it all in all, is th,
meauest hotel have ever had the mis-
fortune to stop at, except dirty littl,
country tavern ut Landenhcrg, which di,
not claim, like this one, 10 be "hrst class.
KANSAS cITY-A TYPICAL WESTERN tow
MEETING An OLD rKIEND-A NO
iLACr.
Kansas CITY, Aug. 10Th" You vii
lind ID H. hut as hcil m kansa- city,
-,id railroad contractor in Chicago Il
j. The expression struck us Ms beini
lr0ftuc a. well as exaggerated, hat br
tore we had been iu the place many hour
We irslu .o doubt whether ii was nue.
ct an cNaEIvmtuu, aud before we lei
wr began to doubt whether or not wha
we had taken Tor profanity wus more tina
a natural comparison. Hot il certainly
WI, and II all VIC heard FROM the dcuI
1oua " the place he true, it pOssrssc
other chaiacluristics besides heat In con
mon with the unsoyury place named b.
the CLicigoan.
Though the greater part of the plaC
is Of comparatively recent growth II ha
the characteristics Of a Southwcster
town of the old Border Rniliin day
Though il POSSESSES q population cstima
ed at but 80 900, il has We verify believe
as many drinking saloons Of variuu
kinds ps any Eastern city Of 9UO,OOO il
hAbilarts. and gambling hvlls aud utht
criminal establishments abound. nskc
o. huhrr vino was shaving me the morn
4 rg uf'rr my nr-'v wat, what were the chi,
inuusirlHs of the place aud he iniOrmp
ile that they Wrr, gambling aud prUstitl
d u9N' ] 'hi',N l"y sane informant wa
, en- 30 formed, hnt iu,ie wac a. shadow
. mum il what hc SAID, as the to II seen
{ To i'r AN elaborate net ARRANGED for I'll
trapping ul me numerous druNcrs fro
htn-"s Hnd ltAa-' VINO 'uhsiernie Their
+ VI "a great Railway r'tire a'l las
large IRAN .lc"i Population.
sun lay is scarce y ob.riNri' or at len
B D. observed only so iu a~ snils the lad
- Vidul convenience ui business me