South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1879-09-19
Kansas Don't go There.

We commend the reader 10 careful
perusal of the following letter which. no
doubt contains more truth than poetry.
II is written from Wichita. K,rksr iile
Dsn,0crut.
In the FIRST place, there is ring that
has advertised Kansas ami pulled IL mp
on paper in order 20 deceive and swim
die al the farmers they can. This
State Is q fraud On gsaad scale. IL is
n failure in every particular in farming.
The farmers have troush. lot winds,
heavy hail, grasshopross and chinch
bugs. There is no certainty Of a crop
until you have it gathered. 1t is iDpos-
sib,e 10 grow tame grass here for stock.
We have just gone through one drouth
OF about eight months without rain. II
has rained for the past two or three weeks
but too late. The grass will burn to-day.
Wheat is . failure here. In many pla-
ces there is not enough 10 live on. The
people are destitute and there Is no
money. The women are half clothed
and the men are bsresooted on the
streets. There has no, teen year that
large portion of tho wheat and corn
know il to be true You can zee the
advertisements are as false as h-.i.
There is not more than 10 per cent Of
the land worth anything. will admit
we have some good crops. hut they arc
few. You are made to believe that Kan
sas is the FL Dorado ottho world. The
production is grea: in rascality. Pros
tuition is legal horc. and the business
men tip their has 70 Tie soied doves on
tue street. Our hotels are open TO lnom
AMI they take their places a, the table
as IL suits their fancy. There is class
OF roughs snd unprinc;pled men tina,
rule this country, get mp scheme and
vote bonds. get them csalizcd. sell them
and skip out. If this country were TO
he sold to-dsy, and everything that is
in it, IL would not pay their debts.
| claim to he one of the best IA rmers
in Illinois. and have lived aud far mel
on the prairie for thirty years and be
lieve know what it is. have taken
three years to test this country. and
advise all mon who think OF coming
here, To stay whore they are, and il they
come, let them come and travel with
farmers an'l see FOR them selves, cooking
their meals with grass. corp-staks and
straw, If they can get II. You have
seen farms advertised for sale "a being
finely improved, with orchards and barns.
This is false. There IL not one farm IN
the State as we'll improved az arc the o.
binary farms you hsvo..
When man coipes hero and secs lie
has been bitten he falls in and tries TO
sell out end beat some one from The
East. There is another point wish to
notice. The people vote bonds for ov-
crything and try to encourage immigra
tion West to pay The taxes. Tie ave, !
rage of wheat the S;ste over will not be !!
more than five bushels 10 tho acre, and |
corn the same. Fruit is but trial and !
IL may he supposed 10 fail. Peachcs !
arc sunburnt and not III for use and |
some fruit trees will not produce any |
thing. All the fine fruit we get here |
comes from The Fast. The premiums
awarded 20 Kansas on apples. we're on |
apples grown in Elstern S,atas, and |
we're selected By fruit iran frcm c.
iumbus, Kansas, " hose name can Give. |
All just such fl auds have gone 10 tho |.
press and scattered all over the country |
to induce men to go West where no man |
can ever live comfc.tsbiy. There is no |
state in be Union that as so much |
poor land "a Kansas. Men come here. !
look over tho country, AMI 10 then II
seems to he rich. wien it is very poor.
] have lived here over three years ami
wish 20 deceive no man, a. mn farm |
or and feel it my duty T. state shat
believe to be the facts for tho benefit OF
the PEOPLE. A. W. GRISMAN.