Connecticut western news., 1880-02-11

building; will keep ten usually. Has 21 mules, 16 horses and breeding mares 50 hogs and pigs, and 25 cows and calves. He is building dam on Big Creek, where he pro- poses to erect mill to do his own grinding, and afford facilities for boating getting ice, etc. Mir. Smithes returned to England in the fall of '7s, and came back last spring with
 "bonny bride' to preside over his beautiful home. Twelve miles further on, in a south east direction we come to the possessions of T. R. Clarke, New York capitalist. He has, about 5000 acres, $40 under fence. Has so in wheat, 24O in millet. He keeps 700 head of-,stock, mostly Texas cows and calves ;3 braeds m with sdort horns, and turns of his two and three year old steers Continuing our pony ride about three miles, twenty. from
 Hays, we arrive at the stock and grain farm of Eldridge- Beach Co. They have about
 1000 acres, located on both side of the Smoky
 river, and 10 miles from the railroad at Vic
 toria. The land along the river is broken,
 caused sometime-in the course of ages, by the
 action of the water, as it rushed from the higher land back from the river, to the rivers
 bed, causing draws or deep ravines, which af- | ford shelter for stock in winter. Their up-
 lands, on the divide between the Smoky and
 Big Creek rivers, are very fine, and are beau
 tifully located, from which good view of the
 surrounding country can be had, also the
 trains and stations of Victoria and Walker on
 the R..R.
 Here on Sec II they. do most of their
 plonghing, having 470 acres under cultivation.
 2s0 is sown to wheat, and is looking we'll, 40
 to rye; will break about 100 acres the, .oom-
 ing spring, will put in 200acres to millet, and
 corn. Inasmuch as the land about them has
 been taken up by settlers, they find from ex-
 perience that it is better to have their feeding
 geeuads- nndat fence, 'than to herd their cat-
 tie. They have enclosed with barbed wirs
 fence, one lot of HOO acres, and one; of 22OO,
 making 16 miles of fence, and are now setting
 posts to enclose 2leQ acres in another lot. E They have built a good farm house, have a tstone stable and $50 feet of shedding, with
 two capacious yards for stock. They have al.
 so put up recently wind mill, which delivers
 the water from the depth of 25 feet to large
 tank in: the yard, from which they can draw at
 will. The main herd. being in pasture, drink
 from the river and spring: They Have al
 present 37O, mostly Texas COWS, l5O two
 years old in spring, l65 large nice calves, are
 breeding in with short horn, and grade bulls are feeding 50 cows and young stock once day on millet; which they relish very much
 the balance of herd doing well on Buffalo
 grass, with no loss so far to speak of Or five timber claims they are to set this month 67 thousand, mainly cottonwood trees. Hay ing now nearly got their range into goot shape for the care of stock, and with their ex peffenee (and that is necessary in this as wei }. as many busmess) we can see no reason wh,
 they shonld not anticipates reasonable sue cess. in their undertaking. Six miles north o : their place, we were hespitably entertaine, . by Mi. Bowman good specimen of the fin ) old English gentleman" who left comfort ) able situation in old England, to find hom
 on these western plains. He has two sec tions, ,Sl280F Acres; keeps 200 head of stock >25 head of registered short,hosns. We wer shown fine imported ball weighing owe j. 2OOO lbs also a COW whose weight was owe
 1900 lbs
 t Near victoria.Mr White has $40 acre s fenced, 600 in wheat, and keeps l75 head ( t native COWS. One mile west of Victoria, NJ s Thatcher,.a young gentleman from New Hs t ven has built good stone house on land bs :; longing to Hon. Robbins Battell; is impro, ing section, and seems to display goo deal of energy in his business
 d A ride of ten miles brings us back to Hay '' and this reminds us that in giving you an a, 'f eount~of the business of this place in ia forme s communication, we failed to notice two entel e prsing newspapers, the Star and Sentinel, tn Q editors of which ill spite of the old adag o about glass houses, will thrnw stones at eac s other. Whether newspapers and churche e hold close communion or not, we will nez a mention that Presbyterian and a Luthera 't church building have been recently comple
 ed. MT. Steer of the Presbyterian churcl 0 IS gentleman of education and reinemen T very much engaged in his work: Mir Harps T ter of the Lutheran church, is social, we 9 informed gentleman, strong and origin. D preacher. ...s
 r Lastly, Mr. Editor, we failed to notice bt s fore the number oflawyers, of which>there ar ' some ten or twelve, and you yourself. pein T. one, will know how to appreciate the 'blessin g bestowed on this community H. J. H. 1 Hays City, Kansas, Feb. 2d, 1880. '~.