The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-06-25


EnEs.
LYON ONE OF THE BEST COUNTIES
IN THE INTERIOR OF KAN
SAs.
rhe EnIPOrIn NeVVA' Greeting
40 its Editorial Brethren.
To our editorial friends who Wis
it us to-day we bid n hearty well
come in the name OF the people of
Emporia and Lyon county. We
trust your visit to our city and
county will be one of pleasure and
profit.
Emporia was located in Februa-
ry, 1857, and in June of that year
this paper was first issued.
Our location is within eight miles
of the center of the state north and |
south, and near the center of popu-
lation east and west. 1t is In the
heart of one of the finest agricultur-
al and stock-raising regions in the
West. Its population is about p
500. Its growth has mostly been
made since the advent of its two
railroads.&c. Atchison, Topeka g.
Santa Fe, and the Missouri, Kansas
Il Texas, which cross here. Its
trade is large and permanent and
extends from fifty to one hundred
miles:in all directions. The job
bling trade of our merchants is
very considerable item. In regard
to the amount of business now
transacted, and prospects for its
growth, no town in the state is
more favorably situated. There are
business houses here now which
make from S75, 200 to $4,000 sales
per annum, while there are not a
few whose sales run from $4,000 to
100000. We point 10 Commercial
sIreet-our business thoroughfare-
with a proper degree of pride, and
claim that 1t Is one of the best built
business streets to be found in any
town either east or west, of the size
of Emporia. Either side of this
street is lined with first class estab-
lishments, whose proprietors have
the necessary enterprise to keep up
the business interests of our city.
SCHOOLS.
Here is located the State Normal
School, supported by the State. 1t
has one of the finest and most con-
veniently arranged buildings in the
West. This contains twenty-five
rooms, and will accommodate about
500 students. The highest attend
ance last year was in the neighbour
hood of three hundred. The corps
of teachers are able educators Sc
lected from the best institutions of
the east, and the school, though
new, and struggling with all the
hindering circumstances of new
country, has taken high rank among
the educational institutions of the
West.
The excellent system OF graded
schools adopted by our state is IN
complete and successful operation
in the city. We employ n corps of
eight teachers, several of whom are
graduates of our State Normal
school. Tho number of scholars
in the city is IA.
Throughout the county our eX-
cellent common school system is in
successful working order. There
are some sevcnty-1ive good brick,
stone and frame school houses, in
each of which school is taught from
six to nine months per year.
WATER AND TIMBER.
Lyon county is one of the best
watered and timbcred in the interi-
or of Kansas. 1t is traversed by
the Neosho river from northwest to
southeast, and by the Cottonwood
from west to east, the two forming
n junction six miles east of Empo-
ria. Both these streams have album
dant water and are skirted on either
bank by the beat walnut, oak, hack
berry, cottonwood and other varie-
ties of timber. Besides these are q
large number of tributaries, afford.
ing abundant water aud timber
The Usage river rises in the north
part of this county. The streams
and timber are well distributed
throughout tho county.
CROPS AND FRUITS.
Along the streams may De fcun(
some of the finest and best improv
eel farms in the west. We will lie
the farmers who have been here
twelve to fifteen years,-those who
have been Industrious and enter
prising--speak for the oounty's farm
ing capabilities. The successe
which arc seen on every hand il
going into the country, stamp thi
rs good farming and stock raisin:
county. The extensive fields an,
improvements, and the number o
farmers who commenced here oil
little or nothing, who haV
grown ihlO easy CIRCUMSTANCES -
the products OF their labor, are tn
best recommendations OF the pro
ductiveness of our soil. The crop
mostly raised are wheat, oats, corr
rye and potatoes. The doerGg
yield OF these is very satisfactory
mostly more abundant than in an
other western state. The farmer
think fall wheat a poor crop if
turns of less than fifteen bushel
per acre. 1t frequently goes I
thirty. The average yield of cor
is fifty bushels. Some seasons
goes as high as eighty. Oats almol
always yield an abundant crol
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