The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-01-12
A TRIP TO KANSAS.
Comment. q . Delaware Man on

Comments OF Delaware Man on His
visit TO EmpOHia.
The following from the pen of v. G.
Flynn, who with his family recently
visited DR.. ArInor, of this city, shows /
what agreeable impressions of Kansas
and Emporia Delaware man carried
away with him:
"Afier three days and nights of travel |
over as many railroad lines We found |
ourselves at EmpOria, Lyon county,
Kansas, and the guest of our old friends, |
DR.. Thos. Armor and wife We found
them still hale and hearty though TWEEN
ty,five years have elapsed since they left
our little state for the then far West, and
the Doctor is still quite active in bust
ness, being now engaged in building a
new merchant mill in town TO supply
his store with flour and feed. He
also takes a hand in the political
affairs of the county having
built the county buildings some
years ago, and in an election for county
commissioner, few weeks ago, was de-
feated by a dozen votes. This much for
the information of his Delaware friends
EmpoIia, the capital town of Lyon coun-
ty, is now a city of eight or ten thous-
and, situated between two streams, the
Neosho and the Cottonwood, and is
stirring active place. Noted less for
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES than for mercan-
| tile pursuits, il is a market for the coun-
| try for miles around.
The school buildings are good and the
| educational interests are Of q high order.
There are seventeen churches which fact
might argue either for or against the
/ morals Of the place; for the citizens
either are so reiigiOusly inclined as to re-
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commodate them or are SO averse to re-
ligion as to need the efforts of so many
TO keep the morals of the place
up to q good standard. am in
clined to the former view, however, for
a person under the influence of liquor
or any other evil influence so as to be
disorderly is something rarely seen in
the streets of Emporia. The city is
is strong for prohibition; the citizens be-
ing determined to keep q good record
for order and good conduct. The lead
ing hotels never did keep bar but left
the sale OF rum TO the saloons. Now,
ton of physician, and the consequence
is a great reduction of crime and conse-
Quent court expense. So notorious is
this, that it is said not q single case is
now in the county Jail awaiting indict-
ment fer any criminal offense.
The state of Kansas seems much to
be preferred to much of the land between
here and there. It is good state, and
rich in its own resources. Almost every
article of utility found anywhere is to
be found there, and the state pro-
building and improving purposes,
Astounding in stone, lime, brick and
lumber, sand alone being scarce and
high. Bituminous coal is plentiful
along the line of the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe r. R., west of Topeka
and found but few feet below the sur.
face. This is great benefit to the PEG.
pie for fire wood is almost unknown
over thousands and thousands of acres
and this soft coal is burned in every
village and almost every house.
The processes of agriculture there are
quite different from what they are here
} The farmer depends principally upon
his corn, cattle and hogs, and goes to
the prairie for his pasture and for the
hay for winter use; scarcely any cult
vated grass is being used. The herding
and fatting of cattle and sheep has be
come great interest there. The abun
dance of pasturage and small expense
, of herding making it profitable and
the cattle men are making money fast
Many of them now however are buying
i up large tracts of land, especially such
as are convenient to water, so as to have
their own pasture free from treaspass
and embodiment from others. It is
prominently cattle country; the mild
climate aud natural grasses promote
their growth and improvement. 9 year
Odds there are as large as the 8 year olds
here.
They say the state is fast filling up
and people from everywhere are con
stantly coming in and making theiI
homes on her fertile soil, and pacific
climate; but it looks as if it would take
at least another century to populate heI
numberless acres to the same extent as
. the east, and to fully develope her vast
) agricultural and mineral resources.
There is much to attract one to Kan
sas, who has large desires; who grasps
after big things, and wants large farms
large fields, large stock and plenty Of
room. 1t is certainly to be preferred tC
southern Illinois and parts of Missouri
over which we travelled. V. G. F.