The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-09-05
LETTER FROM KANSAS.

SALrSA. Kas., Aug. IS. 1879
EDIToB FREENfAN-Dc Sir: We all read your
valuable and interesting paper with pleasure and
pront; and even by strangers Il is pronounced a
model Journal.
Surely the person. if such there be- who said that
Sallna was dead, would have found il all dream
had he witnessed tho busy scenes upon our streets
( on Saturday last. Such was the jam that occa-
sion that wagons could scarcely pass each other on
the principal thoroughiarcs of the town, and each
one seemed to be trying TO reach given point in
! advance of all competitors.
Wheat is once more in the market, but is coming
in slowly owing to the fact that it only commands
from Sky 70 slNtynye cents-a price so low that
no farmer able 70 hold his wheat can be tempted to
There has not been so much broom-corn raised
TINS year as during the two preceding years. In
ls1! this commodity sold for rs much 500 per ton,
Nhlle last year the highest price realized was 500
per ton though in not a few instances sales were
made as low As S25 per ton. As a consequence OF
this remarkable decline in price. very little broom
corn has been cultivated this year and the general
impression is that owing TO ts scarcity those who
mad the courage TO grow IL viii make a nice thing
out of their venture
Information reaches us from the rural districts
that the chinch bug IL destroying the corn but II
il To be hoped they won't get away with very much
of it. Meantime we pious folks have been praying
opened to a slight extent and the welcome rain de
scends in grateful though not great full. showers,
with every indication, il VIC may judge from the
threatening clouds brilliant lightning and reyer-
beratin thunder. that enough OF that much needed
element to thoroughly soak the ground and at the
same time completely circumyent the chinch bug
is about to he vOuchsafcd
water melons are IN market by the thousands,
and are being rctaied at the frut-Stands as low
five cents each Some Of them very large and
luscious There are also plenty Of apples and peach
eS for sale here but as these fruits have not panned
out well in Kansas, owing TO the severe weather Of
last winter. and have to he brought here from the
south, the prices demanded for them are pretty
steep. Sweet potatoes are likewise abundant and
in prime condition for the table while Irish pOta
toes a fair crop and prices correspondingly
cheap. Tho yield Of grapes VIII be exceedingly
large. and especially true is this of wild grapes
which are more than the usual size and more than
the usual quantity.
1t may seem strange hut it is n fact none the less
that we pay much here for flour you have to
pay in the east for the same quality, and perhaps
even more. For the best brand Of -four The Gold
while at the same time farmers receive only 65 cts
per bushcl for their wheat. which they cannot get
ground. and hence are compelled 10 exchange FOR
flour the above figures Another fact TO be noted
is that mills sell flour in Chicago. st. Louis.
/ Denver and elsewhere at the same prices own
merchants have TO pay for it here at home.
The wheat land is in Il far better condition lust
now for receiving the seed than it has been for
eral years. and hence great deal more viii be
sown this season than last. Consequently every
body is feeling good over the present prospects.
The managers of the NJ X. * 7. Il. r. have en-
gagged to be in Salina tomorrow next day for tho
the people of Saline and adjoining counties to in
duce them 70 extend their road to Salna. Our cit
iZcns are quite sanguinc that the railroad mag
mates in question will respond with ferycnt amen
hopcd-i0r extension viii be accomplished fact
before another UyclycmOnth goes by. ANY person
. acquainted with the resources OF our country and
the cXorbtant rates charged by the X. T. X. X. Co.
cannot iail TO see at glance the many benefits
that viii be to accrue TO Saline and adjoining
counties by the securing 0l competing line TO the
Chicago and st. Louis markets. Hence the hope
that the project now in hand VIII not end in idle
successful operation before this time next year
More anon. TIN.