The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-04-26
letter from Kansas.
CHEROKEE, Crawford Co. Kansas,
Aprif If Ip-C

CHEROKEE. Crawford Co. Kansas
April Is, ISIS.
ED1ToR CAMBRIA FRrEMAx-Dear sir: In
accordance with promise whom last we met,
this afternoon have concluded to give You and
your readers few items by the way regards
Kansas anc her advantages and disadvantage
I cannot give you n fuii statement of either.
tradict some statements that haze hecn made
to the detriment of this State In the first place
the high winds have been q great bughear. or,
might say, scare-crow, Ihis assertion can
contradict fair and square. The wind positive
~ i no higher here than found it when lived
OF this fact I VIII just state here that Mr.. T. T.
Percy. the gentlemanly Agent of the ". r.
Fort Scott and Gulf r. X. Co, at Girard, IN this
county took HIS team and drove Us Cfhat is my
son and seli) Tor two days not less than fifty or
sixty miles over the most beautiful country I
have ever seen, and in the entire trip of Two
days did not feel the force Of the wind halt
much as would feel II almost any day in going
from my house to town We have been now
five days in the State, aad so far have met
win no more inconNenience IN that direction
-hHu on the Allegheny mountains, and scarcely
mnch. Now, before go further, let me re
marx that ~ any or your reacers think of max
ing Kansas their home, 1 would say to them 10
visit this part OF the State before locating them
serves. ana II lney no' De sure 10 stop at Girard
and call upon Mr.. Percy, whom they Will find
q geut!crcaU in every sense or the word and a
home with. Besides this, ne IS a man who has
honor at stake, his business being such that he
feels shat all he does he wants 70 90 right. in
der to satisfy those that Ccal with him, and I
think 30 far this has been the experience OF all
who have bought lands from him. IL has real
~ some OF as fine lands rs ever seen IN any
country for sale. Again. il has been said the
people had 10 live exclusively on corn. Not
correct. AsI said before. sc have been here
. five days and have not seen corn bread only
once on the table, ana then there was wheat
bread UlsO; and along the road from Kansas
City 10 this place, which is one hundred and
thirty five miles, there is proportiouately Just
as many wheat Relds as in any or the eleven
hundred miles We Travelled in reaching here.
The only difference can soc is thar here II f. a.
good agHiu as IN Penusy lvsnia, though / sup
pose further west this is not the case. Another
great cause of complaint is the water. True he
Ii te lies
tu PcnUsy lvHniH. but il Is better than in great
many places, while the greater part OF the peo-
pie here have good wells at their doors. So this
The worst fI.affcr cjfr-f!,ea aotfe ~ efI Iesn1lt
! say much about thar, have not been here long
! enough 20 get il, hut IL do You will hear from
/ ne very soon. StiiI have seen men and women
/ who hnve been here from five 20 eight Years
and have the first one 10 see who has had il
( yet, ana more healthy and cheerful looking
/ may bc that on the low lands along the streams.
and where people dig little hole and drink he
J if they do tney should have IL. a. they are evil
IDENTIFY too lazy 20 dig wells. Fruit here is very
| plentiful. and do not see Why one cQplf not
! IEe heTe 1u-t as wei S anywhere else II he is
I willing 10 wG-E. To men who come here and
! expect to set down until Dame Fortune comes
: aiouE' W9ull say, stay east ana exc out an eK-
( istence ss best you can. All I am sorry about
! should have done. hat the old saving that Ill
/ ia Eeyer TOO late To Go good will, trust prove
Before / close, ! wish to say 70 all who intend
/ coming west, come TO this part OF Kansas, and
/ one pHrIlculnr reason TOT say ing THIS is on &C
/ count OF fuel Here coal Is abundant and
I cheap, while wood is plenty. Here also uoob
F. at this one iteml we get coal NJ - 65 per ton
I On the western roads, or ont where the most OF
/ people are going, they will have to pay more
than double that price and perhaps haul il fOi
miles. IN many places too they have no WOOD
! OF any kind and no market for their produce
| while here there Is market for all that car
be raised- And so might 20 on, If / had time
to show you how much better II would be r0i
men TO cone here than to go out west turtle r
whore the country is new, but I will stop 10
this time. and If the ague does not atch me o
the winds blow me away, you may expect Z,
hear from re soon again. Persons confni
here Ould call on Mr.. Clark OF Fort Scott, 10
+ Information. Yours, respectfully,
z. M. WOLEsLACLE