Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1883-08-31
on TnE WING.
MACON CRY. Aug 18th, 1888.

in this ancient town AID good comfor
bic dinner at house directly acros
: the track from the H. & St. Joe R. R
depot, kept by some former Kirksvill
= folks, the Deans.
n 1t seems impossible oget west from
e Kirksvllle without this three or fod
). hours delay on any of the Railroads.
Everybody travelling in these latte
S DAYS have their eyes and ears open as Il
the condition of the crops either har
vested or growing.
! About one year ago I>came dowr
the road, and by comparison think
see more hay and oats than then-bu
l fail to see the "more and better com
SO much talked about-and the apples
are CONSPICUOUS by their absence.
Everything looks fresh and green
fall feed promises well, but abundant
and cheap corn now depends upon
having a nice fall like the one a year
ago.
3P. M.-Going west on the "Old
Reliable" the Hannibal e. St. Joe, af.
ter few miles nde through the rough
lands and bottoms along the Charlton
and other streams, we come to the prai-
rie region where the outlook is one Of
unsurpassed agricultural beauty and
loveliness. Everything is so fresh and
green. The fields aie full of hay, oats,
corn and grazing herds, but the corn is
vastly behind what it was one year ago.
Now and then a field looks strong and
healthy, but the signs of too much wet
and bad seed are unmistakable and
plain.
Just at night we reach station in
the edge of the timber where We see
for the only time a few cribs of old
corn.
Down. the rough and rocky gorges
we roll along, dreaming OF the exploits
Of the James boys in these dark and
dreary woods until we cross the bridge
and bring up in that busy hive of rail-
road activity, the Union Depot Kan
sas City.
Breakfastlng with company of far
mers from Charlton Co., / learn that
the corn crop was very poor there, and
the same in all that region. One man
remarking that for forty-two days he
was unable to get into his fields at all.
KANSAS CRY, $40 A. NJ. Now we
are aboard car belonging to the fast
Express train on the A. T. & Santa Fe
R. R., bound for the springs and the
pure air of the mountains.
No mors magnificent piece of rail-
road property exists in the west than
this road and the round trip ticket from
Kansas City to Pueblo, Colorado
Springs and Denver is only $4,000
good to 60 and return until Nov. 1st.
Soon we are rolling up the valley of
the Kaw River and through fields of
corn that it does ones eyes good to see,
and so on all day-every mile brings
fresh surprise until at night, 234 miles
west we bring up for few days stop,
fully convinced that Kansas has the
most magnificent crops that ever stood
upon her broad and abundant acres.
Broad chested grangers aver that
they have hundreds OF acres of corn
that will yield from 50 to IS bushels to
the acre and l guess its so.
The boom in real estate is perfectly
and money is pouring In here
in streams like river. One land agent
told me here. Hutchinson. Reno Coz
that his firm had sold more than half a
million acres of land since the first of
last December, and that during the
past year there has not been time but
what any man could sell his farm for
cash if he wanted to sell, at a fair
orice.
1t is amusing to see with what cool
mountain road agent" serenity these
Kansas fellows can ask you from $50
o 500 an acre for very common farms.
Kansas, you know, is Prohibition
tate. Yesterday Sunday a man
DOLLY stabbed another to the heart in
'road daylight on the sidewalk in this
beautiful town. Last Friday, in King
nan Co., another man literally disem-
'oweled another, and only few weeks
go very substantial citizen in the
outh part of this Co. had his brains ,
nocked out with a club-and yet
ONE people are afraid to stop in our
ODDLY state of Missouri because of
anger to their lives. Enough now. !
L. B. MALTBY.
'eno Co. Aug. 18th, 1883.