The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1874-05-29
lfor the Jasper Weekly Courier
From Kansas.
OTTowA, FRANKLIN Co. KANSAS, !
Nav 10th 1874.


there, vii! request you to please find
room IN your columns Tor a short note !:
I often see piece headed How to 90
West. ! don't know how other men go
West. but the way come West, | sold
my farm in Columbia TIP. for s2,2OO,
aud bought farm six miles northeast
loi Ottawa; paid Sl5OO tor lO6 acres =
good house, tolerublc barn good or
chard Il nice farm - fiity-iive acres in cul-
.ivation. ANY of il level enough for a
garden; tw elvc acres timber. good for
fire. but not much for fence, but all
the land is under good fence for this
country. There ain't gravel on IL as
big as "a marble. The soil is rich, black
and deep, and think it must be fertile.
We'left the Shoals ten minutes past
IL ina the night on fhe cars, landed at st.
Louis at 8 :iO took the North Missouri
. a. an. got 10 Kansas City, 10 40; then
ito tletp. Franklin County, Kansas,
IL :2O. and rot home (that j. our new
homc. at 8 y. ~ paid out for my fani-
ly and Vim X. Davis Sill on the train.
Nv advice 20 nv Dubois county friends
is, il YOU have good healthy home aud
plenty io eat and wear stay with il. il
better have biz pocket-book and II
well lined with green backs, n green
backs are a mans i,e>l friend ia Kansas.
| am better satisfied than expected.
have travelled good deal in lite, and ]
never saw 20 much nice farming land,
aud in such large bodies: have not
seen five acres anywhere since ! landed
in llse State, but what could plow with
perfect easc- YOU don't sec scarcely any
I elbow clay here, all black soil.
lntvcr | s;lw any place " here there was
\ 80 much interest taken in raising fruit
every body has an orchard, peach and
Iayl lc. apyic trees sell at TWO cents cici .
AppIc trees that are large enough are full
irnd lots of peaches. only on the very
lowest land Ihcy are mostly killed. W,
iLayc had a late wet Spring. Those that
nave been here a long time are better
satisfied than my nelghbors were back
There. Sabbath school within two miles
4 preaching every TWO weeks. Polite.
lninI doing much - lave not heard but
zone Iuan express aiir~elt on the subject.
aud lfr saId DomDcmiic 10 the teeth.
Grangcr, are plcniy. but ! don't know
l,ow much good the, are doing. There
are pienil 81 Aa>on>, and they are
iIiicndiy- lots OF Odd feliows. My fam.
'Ily j. >toulcr than they have been ior
three years, don't see amy local eau se
why ;liis should not be a healthy coun.
itIv: there amt any low boggy land
4 Hey say new comcr> are apt to have
chill, tne hrst Fam. ii They don't kcel
iout uf the water apd dew.
i landed here Aprli l,I. and have been
Il 10 i iIcu City anu OllUwa five times.
'and haven't seen any one drunk there
j, plenty OF liquor. but no drunkards
tins Is civil pace and rs good society
as any one need 10 live IN. ltany body
come, here that can't do without apple
brandy. he had better bring supply.
lIor ii II ~ 90 a pint. There are som,
iorchards here with tour thousand tree.
ljm them. aud " hcn they get big, brand,
" ia drop think. Corn l. : per bu,n-
lcl POTATOES = Mich cows, from S25
Ito 80. There was y 81 much corn RAISED
last year, and il generally ranges from
10 10 80 cruls per buShcl, ow ing To crop-
4 Isaac Dove is working for me at Sl4
lper month him and Nathan Dame cwood
drove my team, through, and they stood
lac well my premium illey, two years
lold past. stood the tIip better than any
lof ihem people may say what the,
lDlcasc about crowding colts, it dom
lnurt them bii. for she never knew wha
3 II was To be hungry. and Iherc were liv'
lhorses ON the "Trip. and she came through
as good a. she s.arted, aud WAS all tn,
p lone that did.
There amt much doing in the way o
lraising wheat; they -ay tacy raise from
10 to - bushels per acre not man,
l-heep hot much tIght fences hog,
ave to be kept in-idc. lac most @
Farmers make their money by raising
land eiling ca i!c, or buying. selling an,
TRADING cas- er oil beans. This is a great
,,a. better country than Dubois. bu
There i some bitter with the sweet
, l. mber is high, dressed pine s4.00 pc
. hundred, native oak and walnut. rough
: SAB, aud sycamore or elm, Sl.1o.
: ldon't like that part, and not raising an.
; lpork to sell. and no wool for clotl
lthese are the main objections; every
lthing else Is Just n reasonable, and eve
T. more 80 than il is in Dubois county
The hedge fence is success: i've dol
lars will buy enough lants to fence
: lhalf mile. then cultivate three years
:, land YOU have fence Tor your grea
great great grand children ; the ston
fence l. nice, but not enough stone I
lnake much.
s. | and Dove have broke forty acres {
l.ruund. aud haven't stuck fast under
rock or a root that looks bully. Thcr
i, is a little hard pan or Buffalo tiaml
,r lbut II " in hold manure. You that war
TO come aud look for yourselves, writ