The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-05-03
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ing interest OF the people OF this portion
of Kansas in the raising and fattening of
cattle. At a distance of about thrriy
miles west of this point, outside of the
limit of thickly settled and improved
farms, the curly mesGult ard buffalo
grasses aftord the finest kind of pastur-
age for both sheep and cattle, while
Smoots, Sand, Slate spring, and other
spring streams afford very plentiful
supply of water; and in this connection
we should make mention of the never
failing Ninnescah river, termed by the
Indians "Good river" because its chan
mel never becomes dry. The rapidly
developing farms in western Sedg-
wick and eastern Kingman countios
have driven the cattle men westward,
aud Wichita, at one time the headouar-
tiers of the Texas cattle trade, is to-day
one of the best shipping points in the
state for first class beef cattle MANY
large herds of cattle from Missouri, Ar
kansas and Iowa have been unloaded
here this spring. From this point they
are driven westward to the extensive
ranges of Kingman, Barbour, Harper,
Pratt and Comanche counties in south
western Kansas. In trip by team from
this point west to Kingman, few DAYS
since, your correspondent noted the fact
that the range in western SedgWick
county has about disappeared. The
range IN Kingman county is already
overcrowded with sheep and cattle.
Capitalists are picking up all the va
cant quarter sections for range purposes,
and especially those which are watered.
Land bordering on the Minnesota val
ley and Smoots creek is considered very
choice, as these streams never fail. Any
section of country which can produce
corn rapidly becomes wealthy, and from
the mere raising of grain develops into
cattle, hog and stock country, so IN
western Sedgwick, where the Arkansas,
CowskIn and Spring creek and MINES
cab bottoms never fail in a good crop,
farmers each year are developing their
stock interests and selling their grain
only on the hoof.
The selling and shipping of corn to
eastern markets will soon be thing of
the past in this valley. Corn will only
be shipped after it has been profitably
packed on the inside and outside of the
ribs of cattle and hogs, in which shape
ten bushels can be shipped for the cost
of the shipment of one bushel on the
cob or in a sack shelled. Corn is corn,
therefore, and will be as long as hogs
are hogs. Horace Carpenter. one of our
hog buyers, says upwards of $500, 900
have been paid the farmers of Sedgwick
county for hogs alone within a year.
He says his bank check book shows
that he has paid out upwards of $240, 900
or an average of $4,000 per month.
And corn will be corn in another re-
spect, and that in scarcity and price, be-
fore the next crop can be matured.
And in Kingman county, joining
Sedgwick county on the west, the former
wheat raisers have learned that "corn is
king" and is the great staple crop of the
valley, hence they are getting II stock,
each fall feeding number.of steers for
the spring market In Kingman county,
along the river and streams, eastern men
and stockraisers are rapidly picking up
the vacant quarter sections, and stocking
them with hogs, sheep and cattle.
MIR. Henry G. Wilson, of st. Louis,
who has made a large number of
loans to pre-emptors and settlers upon
lands in eastern Kingman county, in
the Smoots creek valley. Here is fine
spring stream which never fails, has an
| abundance of pure water, and the banks
of which are covered with nutritious
blue-stem, mesGuit and buffalo grasses
at Kingman, on the trip, we found the
same jolly set of boys. Billy Nicholson
still does the honors of the Laclede
hota. Charlie Hickman is as genial
as of yore, while George Filley, sleek
and fat, still edits the Citizen with en-
terprise and ability. The Citizen is nc
longer patent inside, but by judi
cious use OF paste-pot and scissors, COM
bined with natural talent for the bust
ness, has become first-class country
newspaper. Bob Kinsey, our old Ohio
friend, is being appreciated by the good
people of Kingman county, and last fall
was elected county attorney of King
man county. Linn Wingert no longer
measures tape, but has invested in g
herd of fine cattle, and has "gone tc
grass" Charley Raymond is still the
personification of legal wisdom, while
Frank Gillette, one of the brightest law
| yers of the great southwest, does the
rustliug for the law firm of Gillette, s
Raymond. Kingman is growing RAPIDLY
and substantially, and we confidently
predict that the end of the next five
years will sec KiBgman q city of 2,OOC
inhabitants.
A Terrific Cyclone In Louisiana-Great
| Destruction to Property.
New ORLEANS, April 30-A Times
Democrat Meriden, Louisiana, special
says: A terrible cyclone visited thil
parish seven or eight miles above here
Saturday morning from the northeast Il
southwest. The length of the track was
fifteen miles. The winds were of sucl
terrific force that not a house, tree or any
obstruction was left. DR.. S. F. Johnson's
| gin house and other buildings were
blown away. VIM. Tsylor's place wa
badiv wrecked. s. r. Harrelis place wa
torn to pieces. Cabins and barns were
utterly demolished, while the rails from
the fences were blown for miles
B. +. Cares Clubhouse and cabins
were destroyed and some of tn,
stock killed. Irby Whites dwelling
was demolished. Only one roof wa
left in the place out of "a One negro
man and several children were injured
John B. Newsom's place was almos
as badly served. Every hous'
was wrecked. Quarters of S. j. HarreI':
place were utterly demolished. Of for
ty acres of heavy timbered land, not F.;
tree was left standing. The fences or
the place were blown awaJ
and not yestige of corn or fodde
was left William Gable
place was badly damaged. Mrs. Young
blood was seriously, and several chIldreI
1 slightly hurt Several negroes were
blown across field and lit uninjured
No one was killed or :Ilortally wounded
but few of the dwellings being direct.
" IN the track of the tornado.
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