The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-06-09

lnVlSlUlc, ana tnelr places are n.leQ Dy Ia
ci ties and waving cornfelds. Thus has the
snort ofthe steam-engine scared away the wild
man and his companions, and the plough-share
of civilization turned the desert into bloom
ing garden.
Here in Denver
BEAUTIFUL DENVER!
with her charming railroads, her unsurpassed
hotels, her wonderous atmosphere, her lovely
mountain views; in short, with nearly all that
nature and art can bestow upon Il city to rem
der life delightful-we sit down in our cosy
quarters of the "Grand Centra al" and bethink
US of what we have seen, We stepped on
board of the Kansas Pacific at Kansas City
But in our haste We must rot forget
KANSAS CITY.
the very type of Western town life With its
nine or ten different railroads daily depositing
their miscellaneous human freight, how could
it be otherwise than medley of roughness,
and wildness, and refinement, and enterprise,
and energy? Here the Kansas Pacific has one
of its eastern termini, the other being at
Leavenworth, twenty nine miles northwest
This railroad sends out daily through trains
for Denver, Pueblo, Santa Fe, Salt Lake and
San Francisco, under the direction of Robert
Z. Carr. Esq. General Manager, and T. F.
Oaks General Superintendent.
OF the
IMMENSE AGRICULTURAL WEALTH OF THE COUNTRY
on either side of our route we saw and heard
abundant evidence. For 200 or 800 miles
west of Kansas City we constantly passed
through tracts of land which had already
yielded heavy crops of whert, or were rpen
ing other cereals to the harvest In this re-
spect Saline and Dickinson counties are mar
velously rich. Here, of a surety, Ceres pours
forth her choicest gifts. Such, at least, is the
opinion of the people Of the many villages
scattered over these counties.
ABILENE,
the county seat of Dickinson, is also a rail
way station; and while waitig there we picked
up the fallowing items: Only few years ago
this was the leading town for the shipment of
Texas cattle, but the rapid settlement of the
country pushed that business further west,
leaving Dickinson county chiefly to tho agr-
culturist. That gentleman exertsd himself
A heard law was enforced. Now the tiller of
the soil finds himself overwhelm by his enor
NOUS crops. The wheat yield here is stated
to be immense, first returns from the prairie
often running from twenty to forty bushels
per acre. This summer the l, 700 acre wheat
field at Abilene has been the wonder and ad-
mlration OF all passers by. Other evidences
of agricultural success are frequently met
with, IN the shape of elevators at the various
depots, and reapers and threshing machines
lying at the stations along the line, until they
can be conveyed to their places of destination
in the adjacent country.
Here it may be well to mention the
SEVERAL COLONIES LOCATED By THE KANSAS
PACIFIC COMPANY.
At Salina, lively town lS5 miles west of
Kansas City, is located the Land Dep artment
of the Company, under the management of S.
j. Gilmore, Land Commissioner, from whom
full Information can be obtained. Here we
heard of the very first colony sale 1t consist
ed $4,000 acres lying in the bend of the
Smoky Hill River, fourteen miles south of Sa-
lima, purchased September, 1868, by the First
Swedish Agricultural Company, !, of Mcpherson
county, every acre long since paid for, and
another purchase contemplated. Then in No