The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-04-03

WELL wATERED
Jackson county ia well wa.ered. the
principal stream being Big Soldier creek,
which at times and places almost arrives
at the dignity OF 3 river, being fifty
yards wide at some places. Soldier flows
IN southerly direction or rather in |
southeas,erly direction through the county
Just ~est OF The center line, and through |
the Pottowattomie reserve, and would |
make good water power if developed. |
Among the other streams are the Muddy, |
Walnut, and Big Straight creeks, which |
run In southeasterly direction; Elk and
Bills creeks which run east; North and
South Cedar creeks, which run southeast
emPtying into the Grasshopper; beside sew
eral others. Good springs abound and
water is reached in wells at a depth aver
aging from ten to sixty feet.
GOOD CROPS.
Jackson county is a banner county for
large crops, and for fruits she cannot be
excelied In fact, as regards the latter. she
leads and ranks with the foremost counties
IN the State as to the quantity OF her
horticultural products. In 1878, the num-
Der OF acres Of land in winter whes, was
o9e; spring wheat, LIZ; rye, 1885; corn.
42O6i; oats, go; miliet and Hungarian,
2S'2 The yield per acre in the county,
averaged as large az any county 10 the
State, and the yield in special cases. for
last year, were simply wonderful. The
IL no wet or marshy land in the county: the
soil Is deep and rich, and its bearing cspac
ity cannot be over estimated.
STOCK RAISING.
The county affords every REQUISITE
for successful stock raising, az on
both the bottom lands and uplands the
grasses grow in the richest iuxuriance,
atiordlng an abundance of the best hay.
while cattle and sheep can Craze nearly the
whole year round on the rolling prsiries,
subsisting On the strong fine grass. which
retains, IN remarkable degree, all OF its
| nourishlrg qualities. In case the winters
should prove unusually cold or the storms
more than ordinarily severe, cattle can
| Ind warn and natural protection in the
| thickiy wooded bends of the streams. There
| Is no portion Of the Safe where stock
tnrIves better or increases more RAPIDLY
| than IN this county, whose rich rolling
rrslrles ofzr every inducement TO either
the breeder or the shipper. The number
| engaged IN stock raising is very large.
many Of them upon large scale 1t ia a
| tu-Iness which Is remuneratiye and safe
| two great Inducements. West of Holtop
| there are herds OF cattle numbering thou
! sands, and each year adds enormously tn
the already large capital invested in this
business. The expehse of raising cattle in
this county is merely nominal, where the
pasture range ia almost without limit.
where rich hsy grows wild and costs only
| the experse Of cutting, where through
| many OF the winters little or no hav il re-
quired to b, fed. There is no QUICKER or
snrer road 10 fortune than stock raising in
Western ksnses.
I comfy d e. rot suffer from want
oi farming IN mas, a. there are $500
hcrsel, go mules ard asses. SEQ mich
cows. ard of other cattle Is 900; sheep.
OcO; swine, 23 600, and other animals in
proportion,
Horticulrurally speaking, in stats ical
way, Jackson county ha4 81 ,0GG apple trees
IN bearing, 9jl pear trees, so 900 peach
trees, 800 plum trees and II 600 cherry
| tree, and Il glance at some of the fruit
| rsi-sd from some Of the above named will
be enough 10 make the mouth of an epicure
water for a month. jackson county brsgs
On her iruit, and she can Justly afford 10,
| tor II Ia superb in every sense of the word,
| and u never an applicant for any other
han the blue ribbon.
POPULATION AND IMMIGRATION.
The present population of the county i,
about Il 900, which il qrite an increase
| over the Census of 1850, which showed orlv
1886; in 1870 the census sheet showed
6,053; in 1875, 6,6Sl, and in 1873 1880
The increase during the past year has been
very great, and while nothing particularly
| wonderful, az compared with some of the
western or southwestern counties. il should
be remembered that Jackson hasn't had
| any railroads 10 rush the people in by the
| thousand per week; that Jackson county
| hasn't had her usme printed upon millions
Of posters and stuck upon every dead wall
| showed in the face of every man. woman
snd child in the Eastern S ates: what i'm
migration she has received has come in
simply upon the strength of her rich soil, her
| great resources, her superior school and
church advantages, etc not By any means
| to say that those counties into which the
immigration is now pouring 50 rapidly,
| don't possess them, but that il jackson
| could he advertised az she ought to b.
there wouldn't be a vacant section of land
| in the county inside a twelvemonth How
| ever the county is rapidly filling up never
| tneless, and the prairie schooners are CON-
ing IN every day heavily freirhted with
families ready 10 START anew in the world
| and To link their fortunes with those of the
| boss" State Of the Union. New farms ar.
| being opened cut every day. while scores
OF Others are being released from mortgage
by sale 10 Immigrants coming in with re- siy
| money. The number of real estate trans
| fers just now IL also very large, which il a
healthy indication, and all the more so
when the majority Of the rurchssers are
from the East.
THE PCrAwATOMIE RESERVE.
The P0tawatomie Reserve, situated al
most in the center Of Jackson county, il
magnificent body Of land. the faire-t IN the
county. eleven miles square, and contain
ing - sos acTel. The number OF Indians
living thereon at the present time il but
four hundred and twenty seven OF course
Hol'On ard the other towns IN the county
derive big trade from the red men, but
nothing as compared with what they would
get II the reservation WAS opened up to set |
tiement by the whites. \ proposition il |
now pending TO buy six miles of of the |
east side Of the reservation, TO be opened |
up for settlement, which would leave the |
Indians tract five miles in width b. |
eleven miles in length, amply sufficient |
room for them 10 which TO do all the farm |
log necessary for the maintainance Of |
themselves and families. The reservation
as set aside for the POttawatramie4 by the |
Council Bluffs treaty of lSi6 There is |
Il now standing to the credit Of the
tribe at TIE Interior Department 5000 coo,
upon which is granted per cent interest,
which fund was derived from various trea-
tios made with the tribe Dy the Govern.
ment from 1875 TO 1916. The tribes an
nuities amount to about S2l coo The
number Of acres on the reservation cul;iya-
led by the Indians ia 600, which is dIyi
ded into one hundred and one farms. aver
aging from four to sky acres each. Nine
hundred acres are planted in corn ard the
remainder in wheat, oats, rye and gardens
he Indians own 900 head Of horses. no
MES and mules, sixty shrep, 600 cattle ard
200 hogs AMI poultry. Each farmer
has span OF horses, a
wagon, and iolerable farming i'm
plements; the fsrma are enclosed with
eight rail worm-fercss, stock proof. There
ara one hEndr. d and ten houses upon the
reservation, exclusive Of those at the agen.
CT there il an orchard on nearly every
farm, aud the stock and produce sold by
the Indians ia considerable in the course Of
the year. There is school and boarding
house at the Agency, and school farm con
tanning sixty three acres, the latter cult
vstsd entirely by the school children. The
school building, laundry building, smoke
and milk buildings are the property Of the
taEatomie's and are valued at about
SD nlN The cnnncil housa II IL 81. |