Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-12-09
ANOTHER LETTER FROM DOUG.
OLIVER.
with Good Deal About Geese and Golden
Riggs.
Walker, Ellis Co. Kansa,, Dec. 8, /

with Good Deal About Geese and Golden
Riggs.
Walker, Ellis Co., Ksnrss, Dec. 8, 1880.
TO the editor and many readers of
the old reliable Grant County Herald
in the State of Ouiskoncin II am one
of Grant oounty's first settlers. and
you followed close after me. Many
of our old acquaintance are left in
Wisconsin, many have gone to the
happy hunting grounds and many
have left old Grant county to seek
the goose that laid the golden egg. |
am one who has given the old goose
a close chase but never have caught
her yet; but if had caught her |
don't know whether / could have had
the patience for nature to take its
natural time. and waited for her to
lay the egg, / fear / should have
killed the goose and had post-mor-
tenn examination Sc, as time and
experience pass along, ! can reflect
on days of yore past and gone never
to return. Our hair begins to grow
gray, our limbs are growing stiff and
cold, but our minds are lively and
wandering, and as we bring to mind
our youthful days and early travels
through lite, we see our early, our
hasty and wild speculations Some
times we won, sometimes we lost,
and so have thousands done. have
made up my mind that those who sit
down to any legitimate business and
stick to it and wait until the old
goose comes along to lay the golden
egg. are the men who let the goose
live and who secure the golden egg.
Among those latter are old honest
Abe Lincoln, U S Grant and J. A
Garfield, who have been raised to
the highest Donors in the gift of their
nation. Let us come nearer home,
and see who have gained the wealth,
and the goods and the chattels and
the comforts of life? As most of the
readers of the HERALD are in Grant
county, l hope to offend no one by
calling to mind few names. Among
the first to name is Jared Warner,
now gone to the happy huuting
grounds, or somewhere else. His
early days he spent in the sawmill
business, and made By hard work, a
small fortune Then he retired and
i'm proved handsome and neat farm,
put his surplus money into govern
ment bonds, waited tor the golden
egg, and got it. Where are J. Allen
Barber and Nelson Dewey? The
most of your readers are acquainted
with these old settlers. Which of
them got the golden egg? Where
are Hons. Frank Barr, q. Sargent,
Elijah Maiden, James Thomas, l. G.
Try, VIM. Humphrey, Ruel Morrell,
Samuel Druen and many others who
sat quietly down and waited for the
old goose, and behold she came aud
laid the golden egg?
Now | will mention a few names
of those who were always chasing
the old goose and never gave her
time to lay the golden egg. ! will
name myself, Henry Fox and d. II.
Budd, all the way 20 Kansas, and we
have set ourselves down to wait for
the old goose. She did not come
the last year, you bet; hut every
other insect, with continual drouth,
hot winds which always follow drouth
in Kansas and Nebraska, and we
don't even hear the old goose quack
but we have concluded to SIT still and
wait for her, for this is the climate
Rock and coal beds were lately DIS
covered on and near the railroad
running from Kansas City, which is
coming to be large city, to Denver
and Colora los golden mountains
We are settled near half way be-
tween those two noted markets, at
which we can sell ali our products at
Chicago and New York prices. We
never were SO far from market as we
are at the present time, for the reason
we have nothing to sell but as Kan
sas is q true Republican state and
has voted prohibition law to be
constitutional amendment, / know
she is on the right track for that old
goose to come some day if we only
wait for her. There have been thou
sands who came into Kansas to hunt
up that old goose and as geese must
have water, and it Icing dry season
but little rain fall, they travelled back
where daddy and mamma,my mother
in law or a rich uncle or aunt who is
about to leave for the happy hunting
grounds lived. Many who could not
find the goose in Kansas have taken
a back track expecting to find the old
goose and the golden egg. We the
aforesaid already named will remain
in Kansas until we have q II regular
rainy seasons The old goose must
go where there is good water, good
wheat crops, sorghum, rice, corn,
sweet potatoes, peanuts, pleasant eli
mate and no miasmal complaints,
plenty of good pure strong winds
iioiu oil points Va tue CouiP7oFf OFtu
hot and cold. The therm omater never
below zero except when the wind
comes sweeping from Wisconsin,
Iowa and Minnesota, when We fire.
quently get the tail end Of an awful
and snow fall which block
AIDES the railroads and highw sys and
freezes horses, cattle and human be-
ings if caught out. We in Kansas
have only what you send US and by
The time it gets to sunny Ksnsa its
force is quite weak. Kansas is set
tied by true Republican OF the tirst
grade; are willing t. extend their
welcome aid to those who are in hot
pursuit of the goldel goose She
won't let any state nor the United
States aid her needy settlers The
east end of the State sends all we |
need, if We need it. The great x. Z.
r. r. Co. with j. Gould al the head |
brought to onr depots seed wheat in
seamless cotton bags at s cents ZACH |
and good clean see wheat at o. cts. |
per busbel and let the farmers have