Towanda daily review. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1879-1921, 1880-01-14
Kansas.


MESSRS, EDITORS-In late issue OF
your worthy paper, taken from the Chica'
go Times, (Which is fair exhibit of ives.
tern enterprise,) | notice some important
statistics of the business of the A. T. &
S. +. RR. Co which traverses the richest
and most fertile sections of Kansas. The
business of that railrond is immense and
the settlement of Kansas is beyond a par
alel in the history of the settlement o1
this country. The vast settlement OF
Kansas is largely in consequence of the
energy of that company pushing their
line of railroad to the remote West,
opening it up to settlement All along
their line of road large cities and towns
have sprung up, supported by vast ag-
ricultural population of the most progress
sive, industrious and intelligent people OF
our country. | have spent s months in
Central Kansas, have travelled hundreds,
and even thousands, of miles by rail,
stage hack, horseback and on foot, visit
ing the homes of the farmer and of the
business men in towns and cities, and |
can say that the most intelligent, pro-
gressive people of our country have taken
Horace Greeley's advice and gone West.
Twenty years hence men will point with
pride to their homes in Central Kansas.
The agricultural outlook for Kansas is
grand, having rich soil a genial climate
and markets for farm products superior
to any State in the Union. The western
demand for the products of the farm are
all times from the fact of the continued
draught in Colorado, compelling all
farmers to irrigate their lands, an expen-
sive and Improbable business at this day
and age of this country. Colorado has Il
vast mining population that must be fed
from Kansas the nearest point and most
direct route via of the Santa Fe RR
The last year that Company has shipped
1,336,073 bushels of wheat, corn and oats
ami 5000 tons of hay to Colorado. The
Company now has about l 400 miles OF
railroad including their branches from
the main line and they are still pushing
their road :" further and further into New
Mexico and it's rich mining district and as
it progresses nearer AraZOna and it's great
mineral belts the demand for farm pro-
aucts of southwestern Kansas must be-
come greater and greater" have spent
my life in agricultural pursuits and can
say to my fellow farmers who expect to
make their future home in the west that
no better section than central Kansas can
be selected. 1t has the climate of Nor
falk, and Richmond, Va, and San Fran
cisco, CAL, and deep rich soil Lssderly v
ed with gypsum and lime the elemesits OF
soil necessary to IA vigorous and strelag
growth of the different graiA4. ne water
generally good and the country free lrein
malarial fever. 1 Nh - 81
During my stay of 8 nlAntps In Iiaafsas
| scrutinized closely the seismats aHa soil
the productions the rain fail and tire
health of the Arkansas Valley. or sas4stl
Kansas and my convictions &c nsats no
better portion of the state caiI b6 ssla0ted
for Il home. The A. t. S. +. AR kss has
over 1000, 900, acres of the most grgSfhct-
i've lands in the state for sale at prices
within the reach of any who desire !
home in that section. The terms aale
2, 8, and IL years at per cent. hArFest
with large discounts for cash. III shEs
should desire Maps, Agricultural AHnArts
and statistics showing the progress sssFd
Improvement of that section will cIAsat
fully furnish them Addrage &kn4 NJ lt-ze