The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-03-05

does Ohio. The following table insti-
tutes a similar comparison between Ohio
and Kansas, the population given for
Ohio being that of 1870, and that of
Kansas being for 1875. The figures in
clude only the organized counties. At
the same time it must be remembered
that field culture has been undertaken
to but very slight extent in many of
the counties included in the area given.
The crop in each state is for the year
1875.
Ohio. Kansas.
Area--square mes...... 39,964 55,4iI
Crop Of iS75-6usheis " 1885 900 ll66iO,9Si
Population per SO. mile. 666S 1853
crop per So. mlle-DuS.,,. 370O 2,l03
Crop per inhabitant-bus so go
Figures do not lie, but they often as
tonish. They certainly make surpris-
ing exhibit in the above table.
Among other objects Of personal in
quiry have interested myself to collect
certain data in regard to
SALINE COUNTY.
Salina, its county seat, is one hundred
and eighty-fve miles west from Kansas
City, on the line of the Kansas Pacific
railroad. The General Land Office of
said Company located here. Settlement
and agriculture in Saline and Mcpherson
counties practically commenced with
the entrance of the Swedish colonies in
1868. They purchased from the land
grant of the Kansas Pacific railway
twenty-five thousand acres ofthe landon
the liberal terms of credit offered by that
company. They have paid in full for
their lands and have become rich
settlement. Their general appearances,
as l have seen them in Salina, is that of
farmers of snug means. They are well
clothed, their horses, wagons, and
harness of the best and best kept. In
personal appearance they are like the
members of the wealthy Amana society
near Iowa City, in Iowa. From these
original settlements Saline county, like
its neighbor, Dickinson county, has
when its population is considered, be-
come with astonishing rapidity one of
the richest and most productive counties
in the State. At Salina are three eleva-
tors and three fiouringmills. From the
railroad depot there were shipped during
the year 1875, as exhibited by the books
in the auditors office of the Kansas
Pacific Railway company, 34,19l, $50
pounds of the following named agri-
tural products; OF wheat there was
shipped 900, ,766 bushels; of corn $4,000
bushels; of flour, meal, and bran, 1000
tons; of broom corn, 2,457 tons, the
latter very valuable product, worth
800 per ton. There were also considerable
shipments of live stock and other pro-
ducts. OF the products thus shipped,
the two most valuable, that of wheat
and broom corn, aggregate a value of
S500,000. Saline county has a present
population of about 1900.
ELLSWORTH, ELLIS, AND RUSSELL
counties west of here offer, should saw.
inducements to settle on cheap farms
scarcely equaled elsewhere in the State
In them the lands are fully as favorable
for wheat production as those of Saline
county. In each of them limestone ana
gypsum abound, the latter very valua-
BILE plaster for wheat fields, and efficient
ly retaining moisture.
A considerable portion of intrinsically
the most valuable unoccupied lands in
this State and of those most desirable as
being continuous to market are included
in the
LAND GRANT OF THE KANSAS PACIFIC
RAILWAY.
The competition in the sale of railroad
lands belonging to the grants lying west
of the Missouri river is remarkably ac-
tive, and the companies are exercising
great liberality TO purchasers. The
present year will doubtless witness a
largely increased activity in the sale of
Kansas lands. Her magnificent Cen
tennial exhibit is reawakening inquiry
and stimulating personal visits to the
young and lusty state which so success
fully challenged comparison with her
other sisters at Philadelphia. Accepting
no mans judgement for my own, and
speaking from observation. l have no
doubt that the lands owned by the Kansas
Pacific company surpass in general ex-
cellence and value those of any other
United States land grant in the west for
an equal distance.
The operations of the Kansas Pacific
land department are not confined solely
to the sale of the eompany's lands, but
promote and facilitate settlement on the
lands of Kansas under the homestead
and pre- emption acts.