The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-07-19
From the LAND BUYER Of july
No Plaza like Kansas,

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Col. John A. Martin concludes his
interesting account in the Atchison
Champion of the editorial excursion to |
Putin Bay and Niagara Falls, as fol-
lows:
We never made visit to any sec
ton, since our residence in this state,
that we did not return home more full
Iy convinced than ever before that
Kansas has no superior and few equals
among all the states of the Union.
And never was this conviction so
strengthened, never were we more
confident of the great future of Kansas,
than afer making this journey from
the Missouri to Toronto and return.
We passed through, during our trip, the
center of three of the great states of the
Uaion, through portions of two others,
and for q distance of three hundred
miles through Canada. We saw larger
and richer towns than any we have in
our state, and an older, better settled
and more carefully improved country
than ours, nearly everywhere we trav-
eled. We saw regions that the labor
and capital of from fifty to hundred
years have been Identifying and i'm
proving. We saw thousands of farms
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to generation of thrifty farmers, for a
century past. We saw beautiful lakes
and rivers, charming island resorts,
fine meadows and cultivated fields,
and great forests. And we saw all
these at a season when nature is cloth
ed In her richest robes, when her skies
are bluest. her sunshine brightest, and
her atmosphere cleArest and most in
VIgorating. But we came back salts
fled that Kansas Is the most beautiful
state, the richest and most fruitful
state of them all.
Untilwe crossed the Mississippi, COM
coming home throug Missouri, we new
er saw a stack of wheat. When we
told people we met, during our journ
ey, that the wheat harvest in Kansas
had been In full progress for two weeks
before we left home, and would be al
most over by the time we returned,
they looked incredulous. Through ILL
nois, Indiana and Ohio, we saw no
wheat that would be ready to cut in
less than three weeks, and the best
corn we noticed, east of the Mississippi,
was not over six inches high. In
Kansas, before we left home, we saw
corn nearly six feet high, and in al
most every field in the state IL averag-
ed from three to four feet in hight.
This difference In the appearance of
the crops was a surprise, and it i'm
pressed all of our party with marked
establishment and satisfaction.
If any citizen of Kansas is troubled
with apprehensions concerning the
future of the state, or believes that
there Is better country to be found in
some other section, let him travel. He
will return with such a confident pride
in Kansas, such q sublime satisfaction
with his home and all of his surround
ings, as he never had before. Give
Kansas half the age of Illinois, Indiana
or Ohio, and she will far surpass them,
in wealth; in improvement, and in ali
that makes lite pleasureable and con-
tented. Time, capital and careful Gull
ture have been at work there for many
all their efforts, as rich or as beautiful
land as is in Kansas to-day. Fairer
and bluer skies nowhere bend over
landscape so lovely as our Kansas
prairies; a richer and more prodigally
generous soil than that of Kansas can
be found nowhere on this wide CONT
nent; q clearer and purer atmosphere
nowhere envelopes such charming
succession of gentle hillsides and peace
full valleys as those of Kansas; and the
bright sun as he travels from continent
to continent, nowhere shines upon a
country richer, in all the elements that
go to make a people prosperous and
state great, than Is Kansas. If any
citizen of our state doubts any of these
assertions, let him travel and see for
himself.