Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-12-20
NORTHERN KANSAS.
,rom lac Atehison Champi


heading, and yet it is a theme on which |
an article might be written once a
week, at least, with pleasure to the
writer and profit to the reader.
There is nobody at present booming
Northern Kansas. The Arkansas Val /
ley gets hundred columns of tele-
graphic advertising where Northern
Kansas, meaning the two northern tiers
of Kansas counties, gets one. No ex
cursion trains are run over the rail-
roads in Northern Kansas snd it IS
years since anybody has written an
immigration document" concerning
it. No editorial conventions are held
in Northern Kansas; no State fairs are
located lor It's benefit. 1t is left entire
j. 10 the enterprise OF its local press to
tell It's story to the World.
And yet nowhere IN The United States
Is The. finer country, or one more
solidly and quietly prosperous. To US
each county in the Two long lines has
peculiar, we may say, individual inter-
est. There is Atchison, with its capt.
tai city at one of the greatest crossings
of the Missouri, the natural depot and
distributing point of the region. There
is Doniphan, a county of low hills and
gentle wales, and great orchards, and
vlney ards; finished county, such as
one may see III Ohio. There is Brown,
u county which looks as if it had been
made To order, with every section in it
under fence, and tor its seat of justice
and center of business, the town of Hia-
watha, town always looking new and
bright, a model town in everything.
There Is Nemah&, d county still filling
up with people, and with two parallel
lines of railroad almost within sight of
each other, and obtained without cost
to the body of the house holders
Next is Marshall, traversed by the Blue,
| the bri ghtest of Kansas streams, and
blessed with such water power as we do
not believe can be found within the linn
OF another county in Kansas: Then
e IN. - Washington, fine county,
slltr.=e5. .>ad ,er-classpd with the
mites which need settlers aud invite
nm grafton. Then there are the two
counties of Republic and Jewell, the
great cora counties of the State, and
favored as the counties east and west
are not, with abundance of coal. Then
come Smith and Phillips, where the
grazing interest holds equal sway with
agrIcu ,ture, and then this cattle and
sheep counties, Norton Decatur, Raw
Inns, and last, Cheyenne, the highest
land in Kansas, where the cowboy is
yet predominant. Beginning with the
western frontier of the State, and here
are the comparatively unknown coun-
ties of Sherman, Thomas, and Sheri-
dan, then Graham, known to the world
through the persistent and successful
efforts of its first brave, black settlers
then Rocks, fine stock county, with
long streams and fine valleys; then Os-
borne, the sheep county; then Mitchell,
with its handsome towns, and its fine
geographical position at the head of the
main valley of the Solomon; then Cloud
which has attracted not merely settlers
from the older States, but hundreds OF
black haired and biack-eyed French
who worship on Sunday at the Church
es of St. Joseph and Notre Dame de
Bon Secours. Then we have Clay and
Riley. which reach far to the southwark
into the valley of the Kaw; and Potta-
wotomie, which belongs TO the same
system, and the good county of Jack.
son, which is more northern in its sym
pathies and geographical location.
All this country is accessible; every
county as far west as Mitchell has vir
tually two lines of railroad, counting
the B, q NJ, IN Nebraska, which, for {
long distance, keeps close to the Kan
sas line. Atchison, Brown, Marshall
Republic, Jewell, Mitchell, Cloud and
Clay, have north and south roads a
well, and other counties are soon tt
have them. There is not a spot il
Northern Kansas till the western bord
CT of Norton county is reached, that i
beyond the sound of the railroad whist
le-
And who desires to see better count
towns than Atchison, Troy, Hlawatha
Holton, Coneordia, BelOit, Marysville
Washington, Seneca, Osborne, Cha,
Centre, Manhattan, and Mankato, an,
in the western counties there are town
ike Stockton, Smith Centre, Phillips
burg, BelleviIle and Norton, which
without railroads, yet show pleasan
and thriving communities. There i
no neater little town anywhere thai
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