The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-01-17

pride in rendering every assistance il
their power toward making a stranger al
home among them. Those with whom
your correspondent had business, with
perhaps one exception, were the most
0bliging and affable men it has been my
lot to meet. They are principally East.
ern men, and their reputation for relia.
bility is unquestioned.
lola does not present quite as attract.
i've an appearance to strangers upon
first sight" as many other Kansas
towns, but what it loses by not having
more fine business houses, and keeping
its public square clear of hogs and loose
animals, is made up by being located in
the midst of one of the finest agricultural
districts in Kansas, which fact not only
sounds we'll on paper, but can be sub.
stantiated by a shovel and pick at any
time. People who are looking westward
for homes are beginning to find this out,
and we venture the assertion that in less
than three years lola will have double
her present population and business.
This portion Of Allen county can truth
fully be called the garden spot on the
line of the L. L. & G. r. r between
Kansas City on the North and the Ind.
ian Territory on the South, and to-day is
attracting MOTE attention from well-to- do
eastern men than any other section of
country on the line of the above road.
The health of Southern Kansas, and
especially this part of Allen county, will
compare with that of any region almost
on the face of the globe. It would be
difficult to find elsewhere larger portion
of sound, hearty and healthy people, in
any section of the United States, than
may be seen in the public gatherings or
assemblages of the people of this city,
and this is noticeable fact, observed by
not only the citizens, but strangers Wis.
iting Kansas.
In order that I might write under
standingly, Mr.. Bostwick drove me out
into the the country four or five miles,
and am ready to bet my last cent that
the landscapes of this part of Allen
county have no superior in the State for
loveliness of view. ! became perfectly
infatuated as we rode over the swelling
surfaces, beautiied as they are by
stretches of farm, orchard and timber,
overhung by the clearest sky on the
continent. have always understood
that Bowlus & Richards were selling
more land than all the rest of the land
agents on the line put together, and now
it is no wonder to me that such is the
fact. The prairie lands are high and
rolling, and are composed of soil very
different from the land lying along the
creek bottoms, being partly of that |
class of soil known as calcareous loan,
from dark red to black in color, and from
one to three feet in depth 1t is consid-
cred the most productive soil in Kansas
and never wears out or requires artificial
fertilization. This soil is especially /
adapted to all kinds of small grain.
The productions of Allen county are
many and varied. They consist of ev-
that can be produced in this
and all grow in the greatest
perfection. The soil is loose, friable and
EASILY cultivated, and all kinds of grain
md vegetables can be produced with
much less labor and expense than in any
# the older States. Apples, pears and
mall fruits, such as currants and rasp-
berries, also thrive admirably.
There are other interests here which
ire worthy of note, but my space is near
y.gone. and ] must pass with remark
hat lola is steadily growing in business
md material prosperity, that the sur
country is rich as garden and
'ffers hundrends of farms and homes
within the reach of all thriving men.
The social order is fine, the schools are
xcellent. the market prime, and every
cement of enjoyable human living here
n good measure. 1