The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-12-04
FLYING VISIT I'D COTTON.
WOOD FALLS.

able to be out, Colonel and l con-
timed up the Cottonwood valley
from Stafford, until we reached the
very quiet country village of Eli
nor, for q description of which 1
will refer you to friend Lon. Cole
man or Walter Swope. The form
CIR is p. NJ. and the latter owns a
fine farm well improved containing
90 acres, Oh Peyton creek, and an
other used as a stock ranch on the
South fork of Cottonwood river.
Bennett & Prather, of Springfield,
Illinois, are largely engaged in
stock raising. They have about 800
head of cattle at their ranch here,
and as many more in Illinois under
the care of Mr.. Prather, being grain
fed. Mr.. d. has control here, hand
les cattle, and plays croquet to a
charm. BY the way, this stock
ranch is no small affair. This firm
have over nine hundred acres under
fence of post and boards-three
boards in all-which they use as q
pasture. Besides this they haye
three quarter sections ofland which
they are going to fence next spring.
Mr.. Il. had over $50 acres in corn
this season, and raised some good
corn. These gentlemen know what
business is, and evidently believe
that "pluck makes luck"
Leroy Martin and A. ). Croker
have large well.imprOved farms,
and are engaged in stock raising,
though Mr.. Z. has about the finest
piece of wheat, sown on sod, that 1
have seen in my rambles over three
counties. These gentlemen, and
many others in this vicinity, have
very extensive stone walls rooted
over with long grass as shelter for
their stock, while others are build
ing or quarrying stone for fencing
or stables.
John Hammer and John Stone
have good farms we'll improved,
raised good wheat that averaged
% bushelf per acre, and have splen-
did prospects for next season.
VIM. Foreman has a good bottom
farm of lG0 acres 40 in cultivation.
Zeno Morgan has lG0 acres of
land with so acres in cultivation.
Wilson Stout has an so acre farm
90 acres under pillow.
Richard Cuthbert has l6O acres
mostly timber, with 40 acres in cul-
tivation. His wheat is very nice
while his hedges, orchards, and i'm
provements generally, prove him a
No. farmer.
w. T.. Albertson has lG0 acres Of
good bottom land; is farming so
acres. lie had 25 acres of wheat
that made % bushels per acre.
Mr.. Asa Taylor owns two farms,
one of lG0 acres on South fork and
so acres on Cottonwood. He makes
wheat growing and fine stock a
speciality.
John Scribner owns n fine bot
tom farm with 20 acres in wheat.
DIR. Carter has $50 acres in wheat
on the Sam Wood farm.
s. N. Wood raised 1900 bushels
of wheat last year.
EOtfnnwOn6 EolIo 90 Sn.n0nnlo1
by fine farms, we'll improved. If she
had agriculture alone as a basis, she
would prosper, but add to these her
natural position and resources, ]. 9.
her water power and magnificent
Quarries of building stone, said to
be fa- superior to any other in Kan
sas, excelling the famous Junction
City stone, in texture and polish,
and Astounding in such quantities as
to be inexhaustible.
n magnificent ledge of gray
limestone extends from PeVton
creek on the north side of the Cot
tonwood to the depot at Cotton
wood Falls, distance of over five
miles, cropping out in places, show
ing beautiful lodges four and five
feet thick, lying in seams, easily
worked. In others piled up in huge
boiders weighing fifty tons or more.
As they have layed for ages, more
durable than the eternal hills that
being annually battered and washed
are crumbling to pieces before the
elements. Yet these rocEs, as the
surface blocks exposed for centur-
les show, will last until the firma-
nent melts with fervent heat.
Fisk Il Euslie have leased nd
are working 9 foot ledge of stone,
near the depot, they have q
switch built right up to the quarry
and are shipping car loads per
day to Atchison bridge. These |
parties have contracted for the stone |
for the great bridge across the Mis-
souri, river at Atchison. They calcu-
late it will take 800 car loads for the |
pivot pier alone, and 200 car loads |
for each of the three additional |
piers, and 200 car lo:ds for the abut- |
ments. They have four large der
ricks for lifting rock; one OF these
is run by horse power for loading
ears, they work thirty.1ive hands as
luarrymen and IL stone cutters.
They have employment for q much
arser number for = year to come
II least. They have sent so car loads
II building stone to st. Joe; 20 car
Dads to the penitentiary at Leaven-
worth; 10 car loads to Topeka, &c.
We saw them load several stone -
eet long 4 feet wide and 20 Inches
hlck. Two such stone make q car
Dad of from $4,000 to $1,000 pounds
weight. Chase county may well be
'roud of her future prospects.
n ~ 1871