Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-01-17
KANSAS TODAY.

Ihe kansas Clfy journal ID irieno 10
Kansas, and We take from that paper the
following interesting article: 'Unlsfs all
signs fail, the present year will b msmora-
bic on account Of the emigration to this
country, especially the West. The dis,rss-
ing condition Of the people in many of the
agricultural districts Of Europe, and the sp-
parent hopelessnes Of any change for the
better. points to an unusually large influx Of
foreigners to our shores. Added 70 thess are
Thousands in the Eastern States Who, now
that the times are improving. have an op-
portuniiy to dispose Of their encumbered
property and put into execution . long cher
ished purpose to 90 into a new country and
begin life again, and for these Kansas stands
with open doors and . generous welcome.
Nearly one hundred and ffy thousaud i'm
migrants found homes within her borders
Last year, and We predict for 1880 IN increase
Of 80 per cent. upon this great number.
Kansas was never 20 we'll prepared for
thee people - now. Many ofths hardships
Of frontier life, and the deprivations un-
avoidable 70 other new countries arc un-
known in Kansas, her three thousand miles
Of railway penetrating all sections with the
comforts and many Of the luxuries Of old
settled Communities, and dispelling alto
gether the sense of isolation and lonesome
ness 90 much dreaded In new country.
Another fact in connec ion with the history
Of agriculture in Kansas makes the present
. favorable time to receive large addition
to her population. No new State ever pas-
ed through moro discouraging experiences
We have no reference now to political troub-
les-in its early settlement than Kansas;
and never perhaps In the history of this
country were the conditions Of soil and eli
mate 80 poorly understood, or the efforts OF
pioneers in agriculture 30 poorly rewarded.
The writer we'll remembers when Il was con-
sidered extremely problematical whether
any cereal could be probably grown in Kan
sas, except corn, and that only on the river
bottoms.
With dryer climate and moro capricious
seasons than the States east Of the Misisip-
pi, the immigrant had to learn BY repeated
experiment and experience that the rules
and systems in vogue five hundred miles
further east could not be pro6tably applied
in Kansas. This period of tutelags wore
many Of them out, and not few went away
diagus,sd, abandoning their settlements rath.
er than sacrifice their preconceived notions
Of the proper methods Of farming, and many
more Who remained met with indiderent
success for the same reason. The men who
declared in 1858 that wheat culture in Kan
sas was failure because grain Gown broad
cast and narrowed over specifically amoun-
ted to nothing, little thought that twenty
years later the same soil in the same despised
State, under intelligent methods Of cultiva-
ton, would advance Kansas to the first wheat
growing State in the Union. And for this
reason We say the present is favorable time
to immigrats to Kansas, the settler Of to-day
having the advantage Of the settler in terri
torial days BY twenty years Of experiment
and accumulated experience.
And this gives US the opportunity to say
what We have felt like saying for come time,
that the present envisble position Of Kansas
in an agricultural point Of view is aitriouts-
BILE 10 the thoroughnes OF her people and
the intelligent application Of their labor.