The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1878-02-28
DonIDhan Connsy fer Memes.

DoniHhan County fer Holmes.
The emigration to Kansas, the coming season,
will he fully as large as ever before, and the
tide has already set in. We wish to call atten-
tion to Doniphan County, with its many sdvan-
tages, a desirable place for homes of emf
grants. To be sure, there is not an acre Of Gov
ernment land in the County, aud TO the thou
sands who are huuting land to take under the
Homestead act, or to purchase in easy payments
running through series of years, there 10 no in
ducement TO settle here. But there is another
class, who have begun to come in considerable
numbers, and who will coltinue TO come heresf-
ter, to whom Douiphan County is ono of the
most inviting fields in Kansas. We refer to
Eastern farmers of some means, who arc not
seeking homstesds in unsettled regions, but who
are able to buy farms containing improve
ments, in well settled district-where they
can obtain larger farms than they could afford
N their old home, at low price, and still enjoy
all the advantages of settled community.
There are hundreds Of such persons looking
over Eastern Kansas, and right hero is the place
where they can do better than anywhere else.
There are hundreds of improved farms in Don
iphan County, and many of them well improved,
of az good land as the sun shines upon, that
can be Lought at astonishingly low figures, if
the purchaser has the cash TO pay down. Very
many persons, q number of whom are farmers,
are going to Western Kansas Two or three
grasshopper years, and crop failures, with hard
times following them, have discouraged many.
We think they are mistaken in going, and will
get out Just in time to miss the return of pros
perity; but they think differently, and are
bound to 60. Very many are in debt, and
would sell for means to square up with their
creditors, and little to commence on in new
country. Others have mortgaged their farms,
which are worth two or three times the amount
Of the mortgage but they would sell to whoever
would assume the mortgage, with little some
thing extra. Finally, there is another large
class who always become dissatisfied when
country is settled up, and want to be of where
there il more room. In addition to these, there
are . number who are not in debt, but who
would sell and emigrate If they had good offer.
All these classes aggregate large number, who
would dispose Of improved farms. Eastern peo-
pie, who have means that would be meagre in
purchasing homes there, could come here and
get good farms with the money-could easily
pay off debts and mortgages, and have cheap
FARMS with money over Men with from 81 600
to q, 500, and upwards, could get just what they
want, from 60 acres upward, according to their
means.
There Is no better land in the world than in
this corner OF Kansas. In many places, there 10
no bottom to the soil Water is abundant. wood
within easy reach, and it is the premium fruit
growing region. The grasshopper visitation is
perhahs over for years, if not forever. There is
never drouth to destroy crops, il attended to.
Lying in the bend of the river, with heavy bod
les of timber, there is moisture here when drouth
prevails in other sections. The difficulty with
our people has been, that the soil is 30 rich IL
has made them negligent and shiftless. Let an
Eastern farmer come here, with his system, and
put one-fourth the work on his crops that he has
been doing there, he would never suffsr from .
crop failure. As rule, 1t will be found that
Eastern men, who have come here within the
last ten or twelve years, are our best and most
successful farmers, and but very few of them
want to sell out. The reason is, that they work
in the way they were in the habit of doing be-
fore they came here, and find their profit in 1t.
Doniphan County now has good public build
ings, schools, churches, &C., and these sourc-
60 of expense are closed. The Court House and
jail are paid for; nearly every school district
has . good school-house, which are generally all
or for the most part paid for. Some Of them
may have an Indebtedness to run for few years
longer, but the the bulk of the debts are paid.
Tho days of high taxes are drawing to close,
and those who come herafter win enjoy all the
advantages, with but a trfling part of the ex-
pense. In the new Counties, the heavy taxes
are yet to come. The people have got to pay
for all that the old Counties have got through
with; and those who leave here just when We
arc almost done paying, will 60 where they have
not yet begun, but where they must run the |
gauntlet again.
four advice could reach one or two thousand |
small farmers in the East who have chance to |
sell out, and want to get something better for |
their money, we would have them cluster right |
down here in Doniphan County. Fully that |
number could get good places, and each one |
would be all the better off for the others coming
The pioneers of o country rarely make the per- |
manent settlers The transition period of Doni- |
phan County has set in, and those men will be |
lucky who hasten to take advantage of the |
swarming.
that the silver bill is sure to become law, we /
have been asked in what manner it will bo plac- /
ed in circulation. We thought everybody knew /