The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-03-21
EMIGRATION TO KANSAS.

From the Kansas City journal.
The spring opens with very encour-
aging outlook for Kansas. An emigra-
ton has set in that way which bids
fair to increase the population by thou
sands before the summer opens. In
fact emigration into Kansas began ear
ly in the fall, and prospectors crowded
the state looking for locations, homes
in the many fast growing and active
towns in the state or on farm and range
lands.
The result of this thorough inspect
ion of the state and its agricultural and
stockraising advantages, is now made
manifest by the great influx of emil
grants who are coming into the state,
to stay. No better example or proof of
the popularity Kansas is now enjoying
can be afforded than is daily presented
at the Union depot in this city. Every
train Westward bound is crowded and
the destination of the great majority is
Kansas. 1t strikes one as perfectly
marvellous to witness this exodus from
across the Mississippi, as it aggregates
in Kansas City, seeking homes in Kan
sas. No particular part of the state
seems especially favored, but the tick
cts bear the names of towns i'm all parts
of the state. Kansas only is the Mecca
of these pilgrims. Notieeably, too, the
class of immigrants are such as will
immediately add to the wealth of the
state. They are mostly provided with
means to engage in business or under
take successful farming.
How successful farming can be made
in Kansas has been demonstrated to
the absolute certainty of a fact. The
returns show Kansas to be the second
corn state in the union, the crop for
1883 reaching the enormous figures of
liz, 500, 300 bushels. AS wheat state
Kansas stands sixth in the list, and
her crop is winter wheat bringing the
highest prices in the market. In all
other;cereals the state takes high rank;
in castor beans, grasses. sorghum,
broom corn and other farm and garden
products Kansas is without rival. AS
a fruit growing state, apples especially,
Kansas has no equal. In the West are
great ranges for cattle with abundant
good water and nutritious grasses,
while her fattened or corn fed stock
and hogs are quoted the highest in the
market, as well as being almost mex
haustible in number.
Coal abounds in the state, no part of
the great state being inaccessible to
the coal fields for supplies and domes-
tic purposes.
A fertile and prolific soil, an equita-
BILE climate, well watered country, and
already populated by over 100000 of
intelligent people, Kansas affords ev-
cry advantage to the industrious man,
or family wishing for home they can
call their own. The educational adj
vantages are as good as can be found
in any state of the union. while the
moral tone of the people has placed
Kansas i'm the front rank of the civiliz-
ed communities of the age.
This is no advertisement of our sis
ter state beyond what facts impel us
to say as an assurance TO the emigrants |
to Kansas that they are acting wisely,
and from the progress Kansas has
made, in the last decade, we can ex-
press the belief they will never regret
having cast their fortunes with the
Sunfiower state.
There is plenty of room, an abund-
ance of government and desirable
railroad lands i'm Kansas awaiting oc-
cupancy, and Astounding in the prom
Use of remunerative returns to industry,
with no possibility of destructive WISH
tations, no danger of floods like those
that have devastated the Ohio valley
and are deluging the Southern low
lands. A healthful elevated plateau
ia Kansas, inviting thousands to de-
lightful homes.