The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1876-04-06
ROCKFORD TOWNSHIP.

EDITOR EAGLE: In writing of the
farmers and farms of Rockford town.
ship it is not necessary TO write of our
beautiful prairics, and describe our
beautiful streams, creeks and brooks,
nor is it in place to tell how Spring
creek mcanders along through her
beautiful and fertile valley, and to tell
of tie beautiful groves of forest trees
the merry songs of birds, and that are
beginning to pnt on their robes of
green. Fear of being considered un-
truthful is sufficient to prevent de-
scription of Dog creek. If | were to
exactly describe the clear, crystal wa
tiers, boiling from the earth and rolling
away toward the river; here frothlng
over pebbly bottom, and there widen
ing out, forming miniature lake, the
bottom of which is covered with
spring moss among which the silver
sides of the little fish glisten like pol
ished diamonds, and clusters Of box
elders, the tall cottonwoods and old
elms: whose tops have nodded to
southern zephyrs for nearly century,
people would discrcdit who would
have believed the story half told.
About two miles north of Dog
creek is the farm of Trickcy Bros,
containing eight hundred and eighty
acres. This farm has two dwelling
houses, an orchard of eleven hundred
peach trees, three hundred acres under
cultivation, two hundred and thirty
acres of which is now sown to wheat.
The Trickey Bros. are from the east
nd oil
When their farm is all brought under
cultivation some enterprising painter
will be seen ascending the front of one
of the leading grocery houses in Wich-
ita and brush out the name of "Trickey
Bros"
In order that your eastern readers
may be done in suffering Kansas" let
us 60 to the farm of Benjamin Green,
situated on Spring creek one mile
southeast of Ell Paso, and three miles
north of Trickey Bros farm. Mr..
Green and his industrious boys, Grant
and George, came to Kansas three
years ago. They had two teams and
no money. They bought the farm
thoy now occupy. consisting of eighty
acres, for seven hundred dollars, on
time. The land is now all, except
about six acres, under cultivation.
They have a house which cost about
six hundred dollars, two thousand
bushels of corn in the crib, good
prospect for crop of wheat, out of
debt aud want to buy more land.
LIN speaking of the farms of Rock
ford one caunot forget the farm of |
John Hufibancr, one of our oldest set
tiers. He has lost no time in making |
his farm one of the best in our county.
He has well-finished house, two
story, eighty acres under cultivation,
and his entire farm surrounded by
hedge and division fences the greater
part of which will now turn stock.
Mr.. Hufbaucr has an orchard OF one
thousand apple trees, three years old,
which looks very promising, and a
peach orchard of four hundred trees
growing OIL two acres of ground. The
trees have been grown from the seed
N five years, have been once trans
planted and are now sixteen feet high.
The branches meet although they are
twelve by sixteen feet apart.
They have borne two crops of three
hundred bushels each year, aud sold
or $l4 900, after reserving enough for
lis own use. Pretty good for two
lcres of cheap Kansas land. Mr.. ii.
lad in, last year, sixty-three acres of
wheat which harvested fifteen hun
lred and twenty-eight bushels, and
old one dollar and ten cents per BUSH