The Leavenworth weekly times., 1875-08-12
HAPPY KANSAS.
She is Not In SO Bad z Condition
as the CrOakers Would
Have Her.
Tho Prospects are Bright and
Frightening Every Day.

The glorious weather Of the week thus
far has operated like magic upon not only
commercial but all circles, there coming
with the return of the sun, brighter and
more confident feeling. Trade generally
shows marked improvement, and among
all classes there exists settled conviction
that the coming fall and winter will restore
things in the New West to the good old
standing Of three or four years ago, when
money was easy, business brisk and every
body confident Of the steadily growing i'm
portsnce OF the city, both as trade contre
and distributing point Up to some weeks
ago, and just prior to the opening OF the re-
markable season OF rain, the state of feeling
was such as the drouth and grasshoppers
of two or three years before made
impossible the cheering outlook fol
crops OF immense proportion. That
the damage done by either the grass
hopders or the late rains has been general,
is one Of the falsest of impressions, for the
simple fact that the wet weather has not
been general, Western and Southwestern
Kansas having no more than enough to
keep crops in healthy condition. Some
portions Of Northern Kansas have suffered
some, but by no means to such an extent as
TO make matters serious. The Southern
portion of the State-that laying nearest
the Missouri Ene-has been more seriously
afflicted than elsewhere, especially 30 in
the vicinity OF Spring river-Cherokee and
Crawford counties. Neosho has also come
in for more or less damage, but Montgon-
cry, Labette, Wilson and other counties
south have little or no cause 70 complain.
Still, with all this, matters look bright even
in the
OVERLOOKED DISTRICTS
and Southern Kansas, as q whole, is to-day
in better shape than ever before known.
This holds good with the western, south
western and northern counties of the State.
Duly weighing all estimates of the damage
done the wheat in the much damped dis
tric;s, as we'll as the localities here and
there suffering somewhat from the same
causes, and it is the biggest kind of an esti-
mate-it has put the actual number of
bushels lost by the protracted rain, at one
hundred thousand bushels. One of the
most experienced grain men in the West
has estimated it at Just half these figures,
while another put it at sixty or seventy
and still another at thirty to
forty thousand. Counting at a hundred
thousand, it makes but a mere bucketful,
as it were, compared to the
EIGHT TO TEN MILLION BUSHELS
there will he for export.
From along the line of the different roads |
comes most cheering news OF the great ac-
livity prevailing among the farmers since |
the lair weather set in. At the great wheat |
farm of Mr.. Henry on the Kansas Pacific, |
near Abilene, Dickinson county, no less |
han three Nichols-Shepard vibrator steam |
Ihreshers are at work from daylight to |
and as rapidly as the grain can
De got into shape it is shipped direct to
he East.
AVERAGING NO. .
III through, standard rarely gained in |
his section Of the country. That Mr.. |
Henry has made very neat thing on wheat |
his season is demonstrated by the fact |
hat he had it all planted and cultivated at |
he contract price of SO per acre, and as
le will average very close upon S1.15 per
,ushel, his clear profit will be fully S25.-
700. While the Henry farm is perhaps
he largest exclusively devoted to wheat in
he State, there are very many two-thirds,
lalf and one-third its size, not few OF
hem in Western Kansas, where the like of |
his years crops was never before hardly |
ireamed OF. The same is true of almost |
very other portion OF the State, and re-