Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1883-08-31

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1s.s%alley. : much as they please
sill 10 conception of their extent
will be dyarfed and belittled by the
pict!ks 81 the narrow valley which has
grednS their eyes ever since they first
saw flight ; and hence it is that peo-
pie - the east who have for the past
three years been hearing of the move
ment Of immigrants into the James
River Valley, have come to suppose
that all the land 10 that famous valley
must be occupied by this time.
The valley We write about, from
Huron to Ordway, distance of 80
miles, is 40 20 80 miles wide, and the
whole vast erea is unvexed by a single
blemish. Nature seems here to have
exhausted all her powers in spreading
out a landscape whose marvellous beau
ty human language is powerless to de-
scribe. Here a ploughman could
mount sulky pillow and turn furrow
50 miles in length without meeting
with a single obstruction. The soil of
this valley is the same rich, black loan
met with everywhere on our rolling
prairies, except that it averages deeper
and has trace of sand in it that makes
it warmer and quicker The valley
also lies about 900 feet lower than the
prairie on either side, 40 to 60 miles
away, which may also help to account
for the fact that corn and some other
crops will be found in the middle of
June a week or ten days ahead of the
same crops on the rolling prairie. But
if It were not superior TO the prairie tor
agricultural purposes of any kind, the
fact would still remain that it is and
ever must be "a thing Of beauty" to
charm every beholder. Settlers here
are proud of 1t and resent any reflec-
ton upon it as quickly as they would
upon their personal honor.
No, this valley from Huron to Ord
way, occupied principally by the coun-
ties of Brown. SPHINX and Beadle, is far
from being all occupied, 1t is settled
out from the river on either side from
four to twelve miles. The first settle.
ment was made along the river be-
cause water was convenient without
digging for 1t, and because along its
banks we're frequent groves of timber
useful to the settler
The river courses well toward the
western side of the valley and now two
lines of railway traverse the valley
most of the way from Ordwav to Hur-
on and both on the west side of the
river, and but few miles. say two to
six apart. The James River Branch is
completed from Huron TO Ordway.
The other, the Hastings g. Dakota,
less than half the distance.
Between Huron and Ordway there is
still an average belt of at least "a
miles in width, say 50 townships,
1900 sections and 1900 quarter Sec
tons of land-7,2oo farms of 100
acres each,-as good for agricultural
purposes, and just as handsome as any
that has been taken by settlers. And
an these farms are now unoccupied
and waiting the tide of immigration
that will sweep on from the east with
the first blush offspring, to take pos.
session of them. Thousands of child
rem yet unborn will bless the day their
enterprising sires broke away from
the ties of home, kindred and friends.
and secured a landed interest in the
magnificent valley of the Jim.
For all points in this valley, re adj
wise the reader to take the Chicago
& Northwestern Railroad. 1t is the
only road that reaches all points in this
valley, from Huron, in Beadle county.
to Ordway in Brown county. Fare to
Immigrants and on immigrant nova
bles are lower than BY any other route.
The trial of Frank James, now in |
progress at Gallatin, in this state, is an
event which creates very deep interest,
and will afford a curious and attrac-
tive chapter in the annals of the GRIM
inals proceedings in this country. The
defendant led lawless, and as has
been universally believed, a bloody |
career for nearly twenty years. His
name has been a household word and
a terror to travellers and cititizens dur.
ing the most of that time. That he
should ever deliver himself up to the
authorities and become the subject Of