The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1884-07-09
For Tun RECORD .


Bull Cry, KANSAS, June Ia, 1884.
have been in Kansas over five years
and The RECORD has only failed reach
ing me but one week during all that time.
Aud now, if you will bear with me, l
vii, give you my experience since | came
to Kansas. | left New Jersey March Sd,
$50 and arrived at Russell, Kansas,
March 7th, 1879. l remained in Russell
about Is mouths and did very well there.
| was then pu suaded to come to Bulls
Cit. The first two years | was here,
lest all / had gained the first 10 months,
and in debt besides.
The first two years was in this sta.e
{ ere was drought, 1t was re, ,mmcnded
!, } me that he farmers in this part of the
s.ate were able to stand mis-crop, but
| found oat TO my sorrow that there was
not one farmer out of fifty that had any
thing ahead, and that about one. half
of them never would have anything.
There has been many changes here in
the last four years of going and coming.
The good fJr-nothing leave and better
class of people come in and take their
place. AS general rule, those that come
now come to stay, aud generally know
something about farming or have little
means to help themselves with. The first
Two years that was in this section there
WIS the greatest scrJping and scratching
of farming ever done in this world.
Where eves there was a good farmer, how
~ver, he raised part of crop, notwith-
standing that from about the 18th or 10th
OF April 1870, to about the 10th or 10Th
June, 1880, there was no rain fall here
at any one time sufficient to settle the
dust, and during the Winter Of '79 and
80 there was not at any one time two
inches of snow. What would the farmers
iaise in New Jersey If there was no rain
for that length of timer think their
soil ould not stand it; everything would
bum up. Here It is different the sub
soil keeps ne moisture, IL does not dry
out deep, and is very hard to drown out.
From about the first of March, 1884,
we have had rains here, that in your state,
in many place., 1t would be 80 wet that
the farmers could not farm their land.
Here it is different. It makes no differ
enco how heavy rain comes, in few
hours afterward the farmers can work
their land. 1t did seem 30 strange to me
a. first TO see big soaking rain and in
few hours after it would be all dried Off
and no mud. In the Spring of tho year
when the frost goes out, It is very sticky
FOR two or three days until the top gets
dried off, and then there is no mud after
that.
We have good solid roads here. You
can travel for miles and not see stone or
rock, although there are plenty of them at
places. We have ON the south side of the
Solomon river from this place ledge Of
rocks, enough to build city as large as
New York, and q nice view IL is DO, from
this city. The ledge is about 200 feet
high. The stone lies in seams at from 8
inches up to 2 feet in thickness and in
some places you can ges them as long and
wide as they can be carted. They are
splendid for sidewalks. They all have a
nice smooth face.
The government land is all taken up in
this part of the state; still If you know of
any gor d man in yonr neighborllood that
have not got the means to buy q farm in
New jersey and would like to get himself
q good farm here, IL he has few hun
bred of dollars he can buy 100 acres here
that will make him nice home and will
advance in value very fast. You can buy
splendid farms Of 100 acres for from So 10
$40 per acre, of those that are yet here
that don't know how to farm, and just as
z God arms as those owned by men that
would not sell them for $50 per acre. 1t
will not be long that there will be land for
sale here at that price. 1t is veiy healthy
here. At this very moment, my thoughts
recall the hot highs at this time Of
year in some parts of New Jersey. Here it
is SO different. Through, the day 1t may be
very warm, but in the evening we have a
nice cool breeze, and no trouble 10 sleep.
We can lie down to take our nights rest
and be famed by natures fan--the night
breeze, which hero isvery pure. You need
not be afraid Of getting the consumption,
for it is not known hero unless 1t has been