The Wichita city eagle., 1875-03-25
COME TO SOUTHWESTERN
KANSAS.


streams. fertile soil. healfhful climate,
and almost continual sunshine, South
western Kansas. properly speaking.
consists Of about fifteen counties, whose
TERRITORY j. watered and drained by the
Arkansas River and ifs tributaries,
the Little Arkansas. the twow alnuis,
Pawnee, Ninnescah, Medicine Lodge,
Cimarron and their hundreds Of .ri-
buiaries- u j. a country 100 miles north
and south by 80 east and west. Being
but recently opened to settlements to
the pre-emptor and homesteader. the
settlement Of a portion Of IL. especially
OF Sedgwick. Harvey. Reno. Barbour.
sumner. Cowley and Butler counties
has been wonderfully rapid To this
country thousands of longing eyes are
turned, not only from the older states,
but from some portions OF Europe
These people who contemplate coming
to the west. and to this. the choicest
portion of il. are ANXIOUS TO know
more Of the particulars, more Of the
striking characteristics Of the great
river, its tributaries, and valleys, that
have for decades past been set down
by the geographer and writer n unin-
habitable. To newspapers Of this val
lev, and to the letters of friends alone.
can these people. who desire TO come
among Us, look FOR information. To
this end is this article complied
II j. n fact well known TO the gov
ernment. as TO all observing western
men. that the really valuable lands be-
longing 10 the general government are
now limited and that the remaining
lands are rapidly being transferred To
private hands-the home-teader, pre-
empiOr and settler Of the west Out
side Of the Indian territory there re-
mains bat a limited supply Of really
good agricultural lands IN all the Sest.
the choicest Of which, for climate, soil,
and health. are to be found in the great
valley Of the Arkansas, in the counties
named above.
THE ARKANSAS RIVER
/. little less than 2.OoO mile. ia length,
being one of the longest and swiftest
running streams upon the continent.
Rising in Colorado territory, longitude
one hundred and six and one-half de-
grees west Of Greenwich, and latitude
ihirty-nine and one-half degrees north.
receiving its waters from riyulets and
springs that are fed by the melting Of
the eternal SHOWS Of the snowy range
VIII n rears its rugged. lofty and snow
crowned peaks $50 miles west Of and
5000 feet above the base Of the Rocky
mountains, IL flows completely around
the south peak, surges and sparkles at
the base Of Mount Lincoln and rushes
Uui through a canyon in Pixies Peak
range into the valley Of e-iern COlora-
do and ON eastward. II enters Kansas
seyenty-fiye miles north Of the south
line Of the state. runs due east 40 miles.
diyergea seveniy-fiye miles northeast.
then angles to the Southeast, forming
what j. known as the Great Bend,
thence a little south Of east through
Kansas, the Indian territory and the
state Of Arkansas, emptying into the
Mississippi midway between Memphis
and vicksburg. The Arkansas j. 4
broad and shallow stream. with many
islands. low but well defined banks.
varying from four Ia ten feet in height.
The most remarkab features are that
although draining 4 country, before
reaching Kansas. larger than all New
England, and although IL carries th.
melting SHOWS in june. July and Au-
gust Of many thousand square miles, IL
never OyerfiOws its banks. but its wa
tiers are euriously kept within the bed
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Guilty experienced in crossing with
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