Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1884-10-25
WHOLE NO. 681.

She will market ten millions more
bushels of wheat than anyone of them.
She has produced more than two hun
dred million bushels of good, hard,
smerchantable corn. All other crops
are in proportion. The yield of nat,
ural grass for hay and pasturage is
valued at fifty millions. Apples,
peaches, pears and grapes, the lux
uries and comforts of life, have become
so plentiful that they demand but lit
tie attention. Oats, potatoes, barley,
flax, broom corn, sorghum, castor
beans, cotton and tobacco are all
standard crops according to locality.
This lone spot on the borders of civ
ilization, this bowling wilderness, this
wind-swept wilderness, ranks as the
third State in wealth of products, the
most striking picture of modern pro-
gress.
1t is remarkable fact that the great
crop results of the past four or five
years have been largely contributed to
by the southwestern counties that were
never included in the old Kansas of
the homeseeker. There was absolute
ly nobody there when the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe laid its lonesome
line up the great Arkansas Valley.
About five hundred thousand people
have their homes there since the rail-
road, in the last dozen years. Yet so
vast is this country that the greater
portion of it still lies ''out DOORS" Be-
sides its richness for cereal crops, it is
the great cattle country of the world,
and there is no pursuit that has proved
so attractive and so lucrative as the
cattle business in Kansas. Land is
still cheap much of it remarkably so.
For one acre in Ohio, six acres of i'm
proved may be bought in southern
Kansas, and from twelve to twenty
unimproved, while the change made
nine men out Of ten prefer the Kansas
acre. f..'
Climate is prime consideration.
While the snow is still flying in the
latitude of northern Illinois, the
spring grass is five inches high in the
Arkansas Valley. 1t pays to save
from three to eight weeks of winter,
and from ten to twenty degrees of cold
and this is about the difference be
tween Nebraska and northern Kansas,
and southern and southwestern Kan
SaS.
The time has passed when state
ments like the foregoing are described
as romantic by practical men. Too
many hava believed, seen, tried, and
been successful. There are no more
Independent and contented commun-
tiles than those of Kansas. They
have no desire to change, and when
they rarely do, it is il remarkable fact
that they necer 90 north.
The facilities for seeing this country
are remarkable. Almost all ticket Of
fees east of the Missouri river have
for sale "Florence Round Trip Land
Explorers Tickets" All agents Of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad
have them, wherever stationed. They
cost but a fraction more than half fare.
Upon arrival at Kansas City, they are
arranged by the agent of the "A. T. &
S. F. across the street from the Union
Depot, SO that the tourist can go where
he likes, stop off where he pleases, and
stay in the country about forty days.
Anyone who desires to change his res
idence for health or wealth, to acquire
more land, to provide homes for his
boys, to follow the pursuits of stock
raising under easier conditions, or to
invest his capital in property which
must rapidly grow in value should ad-
dress for further information, books
and facts, W. j. c. Kenyon, 1873 W.
Baltimore ST., Baltimore, Maryland.