The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1875-10-18

Rich New orkcrs Making their Children
Absolutely independent.
Mr.. ]. g. Gunther, Of the great Broad

Mr.. J. G.. Gunther. Of the great Broad
way fur importing nrn, recently said:
Each Of nv younger sons, Frederick W. and
John j. Gunther, is the owner Of = square mile
OF land Ia Victoria colony, Ellis county. kansas.
The Victoria river howa near my sons farms, aud
Increases their natural fertility. The vrrin soil
upon which bunaoes have herded for many
years, Is in the most productive quarter OF the
colony, sixteen feet thirk, aud IN the least fer
tile, three feet, and black as ink. Owing to its
heayiness. due to Its richness, the earth bs. to
he titled with plou-hs drawn by mules. Fer
My ooyS raise 500 corp, alfalfa, coarse grass
for the stock, and milet, principally, Last
year grasshoppers devOured their crops, but
THIS wear my boys have secured Tar more corn,
alfalfa. aud millet than even the old settlers the
acre anu the aifalf, being NOW ed three Zines.
NV sons have twelve hundred sheep. recently
purchase at a stock sale in Puebla. Great cor
rails enclose these sheep ana herder. aided oy
two Scotch shocp-docs that imported. takes
care OF Them. we've rams, OF the merino va
rety, blend the chafacterislics OF the Scoich
and the Kansas sheep, and the result OF the ain
ance is superiur animal. lhe short horned
cattle of Engl lnl flourish IN Victoria.
Mir. George Grant, owner Of almost the entire
county. lately bought FlOden, The half-brOtner
OF Thornhy, who won the Dc.hy two years ago,
and $4,000 IN one year, Tor Sl6OOl. and the gen
try aoout MIR. ttrant are buying all the retired
racing mares that they can nnd, hoping to Oh
tain a line class Of horses through f.oden. NV
boys neighhUrs, for the most part, are the
younger sons OF English noblemen. Being una
bic to put their sons into the army, the nAvy or
the church, these nobemen have established
them IN Kansas. ut an expense OF about $l5'VO
/ per man, choosing 10 see tnem EroNlnE oiu aS
tiers Of the soil rather than rs fixture, In banks
| OF insurance houses, or tradesmen's shops.
! MIR. Grant sells land 10 deserving young men
! for ePht OF ten dollars an acre. permitting them
| to pay for II when they can, charging them IN
terest at the rate OF hix per cent per annum.
| My bows are unmarried. and have only two ser
! wants, a man and his WIFE The man attends to
the horses ana does the heavy work about the
| house, ard his wife Is cook, chambermaid and
dame Of the poultry yard Frederick and John
| work IN the field when they have reason to, and
| when they have not they don the pink, mount
their horses, collect their dogs, aud JON their
| neigh bors in a Jack-raoblt hunt
ST. Louis being only DAYS ride from them,
| my boys have a large and accessible market for
| ali their wares In ten years tney will be inde-
pendent. My outlay in establishing them was
well spent money. II my boys hld staid here
they would have been IN some bank or insur-
HnCe ofice, liked for life, with some t1,AO
81 800 or g., COO unable to support q family, and
exposed to the danger OF forming bad habt r.
They are happy and would not return to New
! York.
Young men without means had hetter not go 10
Kansas. IL their fathers, uncles or brothers can
give them money enough to Ouy n ( rm and stock
1t, then let them leave tor kansas at once. Three
or four young men call every dhy To ask my dd-
vice about going to Kansas, and tell them Just
what nave told you. Each Of the members OF
the copartnershlp Of Fisk, Clark Flagg, the
Broadway dry goods dealers, has purchased
square mile of land nclr my boys for mis- son
boy, aged thirteen, and they Will take posses
sion Of their property In few years. IL Is al
ready stocked with she p. Victoria COLONY Il
about to have an Episcopal church. and beinl
only eight or ten miles from Fort Hays, is no
subject 20 the attacks OF Indians