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

CdudsllZeu DuSiHcSS StFcSt, lIit DceI
improvement ofthe kind in Kansas
we have a good substantial court
house and jail, four school buildings
in The city and about seventy-five
in the county; nine church build
ings; eight or ten first-class iron
bridges in the county and about
sixty miles of railroad. The court
house and Jail, the bridges, and
most of the school houses are paid
for. Our taxes average in the coun-
ty about three mills, on q taxable
basis which reaches, in round num-
bers S4,000,000, and property is tax
ed at about one-third its real value.
The taxes for these improvements
were voted by the people, and while
they may seem high, it must be
borne in mind that we have made
improvements in the last dozen of
years, which it took many of the
older states fifty years to make.
The enterprising spirit of our peo-
pie could not bear the idea of wait
ing half century for the improve
ments and conveniences which they
had left behind them before coming
here. They therefore pay these
taxes cheerfnlly. The most ridged
economy is being used in the man
agement of our public affairs, and
the taxes are decreasing rapidly.
There was q decrease IN 1874 over
the former year of nearly 10 per
cent. They will be still farther re-
duced as rapidly as possible.
PRICES OF LAND.
Having gone through the "specu-
lative" and "inflated" periods and
settled down to the "bed rock" city
property and land can be had at
very reasonable prices. Land as
follows: Upland $3.50 to So per
acre second bottom, SD TO Sc; first
bottom, So to So; improved land,
$40 to $50, owing TO the improve
ments. City property at the same
ratio. There never was better
time than now TO invest in Kansas
lands, owing to the low prices ask
ed for them. The same may be
said of property in all our cities.
INDUCEMENTS TO NEW CoMERs.
No county offers better induce
ments to-day TO home seekers of
moderate means than Lyon county,
because, first, land and ali property
is cheap second, because the immi.
grant will find here schools, society,
improvements and conveniences al
most if not quite as good as those
in MANY sections of the cast. If he
goes to a new section OF the State
he must wait years for these and help
pay for them, which we assure him
will be no light burden. Consider
ing everything, property is really
cheaper than in the homestead and
prescription regions Of the country.
BUSINESS.
To give our visitors an idea oil
the business of our town we present
a few of the fignres Of last years
work: Cattle shipped, 20,32S; rail.
road tickets sold by one road, $4O,.
5lS.25; freights forwarded and re.
ccived by one road 1866, l55 lbs.
dry goods sold, $2S0.474; groceries
$4,000; lumber, 1892 400; hides
and furs handled by Emporia firms.
S155, 600; capital of our two Nation
al banks, SlS5,00O; circulation
Sl35, 600; aggregate amount of de-
posts, S3,9S5, 600; exchange soldS2,'
G24,000. These arc the leading
items, and are gathered from relia'
bic sources.
MANUFACTURING.
Much attention is given to tht
: subject of manufacturing, but al
, yet, owing to the want of capita
principally, these enterprises ar,
. but in their infancy. The NeoshC
: and Cottonwood rivers furnish
abundant water power. just soutl
r of the city is one of the best wateI
: mills in Kansas, and a waler-powe
: furniture factory. In the vicinit,
1 arc three other first class waite
= mills. In the city is a number on
!. foundry and machine shop, a soal
b and broom factory, which Target
s supply Central and South wester
4 Kansas, q carriage and wagon fac
tory. At Americas, nine miles dis
tant, is a large cheese factory
\ which ships its products to all part
of Kansas, and to Colorado an
:, New Mexico. Hartford, fourtee
= miles distant, also has cheese fac
. tory.
VILLAGES.
In different parts of the count
are the villages OF Americas, Ply
mouth, NeoshO Rapids, and Har
!" ford. These have stores, shop
. good school and church facilitie
: etc, and are each surrounded by a
I" enterprising community of farmer
and stock raisers.
MARKETS.
=, The hest of market facilities hay
- always been afforded for our SUI
plus products by the incoming in
10 migration, and from the demands
!, tho western forts and new settl
20 ments. We have also, for
year or two, shipped potatoes, cor
- hay, etc, to Texas. We have new,
70 lacked for markets from variol
!, sources, aud good prices have gel
10 orally been obtained.
~ A terrific rain storm ''came orr
n and in the neighborhood of Ham