Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-08-03

tiers, high-priccd land, diseases and
dogs, there is no margins at these |
prices, as il costs there twenty
cents to produce a pound Of wool.
Money matters are very close. Any
parties having good bank account
can get big discounts and make ready |
loans al good rates. This is all will
say OF Ohio, and will speak Of Indiana.
the .'Hoosier State
This state don't strike me as being
the best state have seen. While por-
tons Of Indiana are very wet, other
sections through which ! passed are
very dry, and crops are only passable.
saw one flock of sheep in roaming
through that statc-regular hazel
splitters-t tails cut three and a half 10
four inches long, and stuck straight up
like goats tail. We, in Ohio,
wouldn't make soap grease of such
looking things. This was the only flock
saw in the whole state, and they were
the meanest looking sheep ever saw.
arrived at Bloomington, Illinois, at
2 p. IN. Thursday. | have heard a
great deal about that country, and
strained my eyes in every direction TO
see all could
lust AS we entered The depot il COM
menced raining,, and it rained as
though il was contracted for and mad
10 be delivered in a certain time. This
looked good TO me. as il was the first
drop had seen since the Fourth OF
July. But il didn't look as well TO the
farmers, who were worrying about
the wet weather, as they could not run
their reapers in cat fields already ripe.
| thought Illinois was corn state, but
| am mistaken, Ii is an oat and TIM
othy state. There are some fair fields
of corn, but many fields, like those in
Ohio. will have none. The fiat prair-
les of Illinoic on the railroads. have
been so wet that many fields have new
er had cultivator in them, and are
total failures, while higher lands
viii yield fair crop. There are
more fields of oats in Illinois,
and good oats, than ] imagined.
Some of the fields showed good
wheat shocks, and others poor ones.
While we were waiting for our train
] to Kansas City | went 10 see the coal
shaft. only about 100 yards from the
Union depot, where they were hoist
ng coal at rapid rate. The shaft is
600 feet deep, and the coal is beng
mined back for miles under the depot
buildings and machine shops. While
cars, heavy laden, teams, and people
were movin. in every direction on top
of ;erra-firma. l75 men were under
them 600 feet deep toiling with lit
tie lamp on their cap for the meaere
sustainance of life.
At $40 we took The train for Kan
sas City. Nothing of importance
greeted my eye until we reached the
Mississippi river, which we crossed at
midnight at Louisiana. ] stood Oh
the platform and by The aid of the
many lamps had fine view of the
great bridge, which is wonderful
piece of mechanism. The train runs
very slow over this bri dye, which is
nearly mile long at this place. An
engine is at the west end of the
bridge TO swing the draw bridge, that
boats may run, as the bridge i, not
more than % or thirty feet from the
water. We crossed the twin sister o!
the Mississippi, the Missouri, at Glas-
gov, about 4 O'Clock in the morning
but was asleep and did not n"ticc ii
AT s a. IN. we were in the Union de-
pot at Hans City, a very fine one, the
finest since we left Columbus: i'll fact
it is Il much better one than that, and
few eastern cities can boast of rs fine q
one.
From Kansas City 10 Wichita We
followed along the banks of the Kan
sas river for many miles occasionally
we would he out of sight of the river
for little while, then right Oh it,
banks again. This Atchison Topeka
& Santa Fc road is nice, smooth
one. and loaded with pa-sen-
gers of all nationalties going the
the Lord only knows where. One
family consisting of man and wife and
little angelic kids all about the same
size and style were going 10 Kansas
they said.
have gwen brief description o
all the states through which ! passed
except Missouri. and as our run
through that state was mostly in tho
night cannot say much Of it. Person,
who had been west told me | wanted
TO go through Missouri after night. So
! couldn't see it. | saw nothing
that struck me SO very favorably in
that state Missouri has terror toi
eastern men since the Jesse James bus
mess. and | was only too glad TO get
through her boundaries with my few
nickles, my old watch and my scalp
had heard big stories of Kansas
of her big corn, other acres of COLDER
grain. the richness of her soil, and on
the other hand had heard of he winds
her drouths and her grasshoppers. and
had heard that the people had Il
Fl grease themselves with bacon rind &c
keep the chigres away from them, and
all such awful stories as these but
when | come to see for myself my ex-
pectations arc more than filled. | mad
pictured to myself how this valley wa:
but it far surpasses my most sang uinC
expectations. Here fluid trees loaded
with peaches, thousands of acres OF
corn giant in size and promising All
enormous yield, while wheat and oai
ricks and fields vet in the shock are to