The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1873-07-31
Correspondence OF the EAGLE.
NORTHWEST SEDGWICK.
UNION TOWNSHIP, July 20

UNION TOWNSHIP, July 70.
EDITOR EAGLE: BY reading your
paper see that from almost all parts
of the county people are writing and
giving a description of the country,
and Of the large crops raised. l have
not seen anything from our part of the
county, SO thought l would give you
a true statement of how we arc getting
along in the northwestern part of the
county. Two years ago in about five
congressional townships there was not
old ground enough for good sized
garden. Now within six miles of me
there is certainly 500 acres of wheat,
1000 acres of oats, 5000 acres of corn.
and potatoes enough to supply Sedg-
wick county aud some of the finest
gardens in America. Almost every
man has set some hedge this spring,
and very good number of fruit trees.
Everything looks fine. Wheat and
oats are all harvested and are of the
best quality. never saw a finer crop
raised in any state. Corn bids fair to
large crop. think can safely say
that Union and Greeley townships
have hedge plants enough growing to
fence all the government land into
eighty acre lots, and all looks fine.
Some have peach, walnut, box alder
and other trees, all from the seed.
enough TO set out ten acres eight feet
apart. All are trying the experiment
Oh raising timber. In five years we
can all have plenty of wood from peach
and box alder, and from walnut we
can have plenty of fence posts. have
some 1000 peach, 1900 box alder, 1000
walnut POO plum and 500 currant,
nearly two feet high, mostly from the
seed. and all of them have not cost me
twenty dollars, planted this spring:
one and one-half miles OF hedge, not
one rod missing in all
think that | can safely say that this
is the most fertile spot of ground | ev-
er was in, and have been in nearly
every state in the Union. We have
some timber, good water and good
stone not far to haul. And. bv the
way, we have one of the niccs groves
for pic MICS in the county. We had a
celebration Oh the fourth, and Il basket
meeting, with several prominent
preachers from Wichita and the coun-
try. In all | think that wearc a little
ahead Of any other part of the county.
Every few days we have good look
ING man around clcctioneering for Of |
ice, all good men suppose. We have
no candidate of our own so we shall |
nave to 90 for some of them.
Now | wish to say little about our
axes in this part of the county. We |
nave our land assessed as high as any
other part of the county, where they !
nave more improvements and claim to
nave a much better soil of sand and a
better location, and then we have not |
lad dollar appropriated by the coun-
y TO build bridges. The toll bridge
lcross the Arkansas river at Wichita
hat only costs the little sum of sew
.nty-fiye cents to get to town and back,
bout three to four cents bushel on
,ur grain, which we have to sell as
heap as those who do not have to pay
oil, yet with all the disadvantages our
property is assessed as high as any
'ther part of the county. Would it be
LONG more than justice to give us
rec bridge or cut down the assessment
N our land! We have plenty of farm
rs who have already paved out more
or crossing the bridge than their
whole tax would have been to build
ne, and still we are no nearer the
nd. Cow SKIN.