The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-11-06
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Harlow WIser's four-In-hand with
streaming days, GIlchEist's Eour-horse
bus with . number OF the "Cherubs"
ana their lady friends. the KNIGHTS
Pythias band wagon drawn BY pure
whites, and the private conveyances Of a
number Of leading business men. The
drive was = most pleasant one. A better
day ard more beautiful country and
more jolly series Of PROFESSIONS are not
imaginable.
Having lefI twenty-five good miles
behind add having arrived at the place
OF the sporting, Teasing and merrIment
OF the day and night, We made . hasty
partial survey Of the ranch barn,
ccrrals and herds before giving swsy TO
an almost irreslstIble impulse to mingle
at once with the thro1g of fair women
and strong men assembled from all the
region round about.
The location Of the lands is charm
ing one in the north Of Lyon and reach
ing Into Wabaunsee. There are eleven
sections-over seven thousand acres-of
as beautifully undulating grazing lands
as ever man beheld, ali splendidly adapt
ed 20 stock raising. which always has
been and will be one Of the principal
sources Of prosperity Of our city and
country. This magnificent ranch lie sur
rounded with fifteen miles OF solid stone
fence, and divided into four main pas
lures by about nine miles of barbed
wire fence. Here are the head waters
of One Hundred and FortY-two creek.
Besides this are several streams, the
waters of which aSe retained in ponds
by means Of dams, four of which have
been completed, and are utilized for
watering the herds. Mr.. Wiser pur-
chased the first of these lands four years
ago through Fl. E. Norton's agency, and
added ct various times, making the final
purchase within the last summer Du-
ring the fall he has here furnished for
market over q thousand cattle and about
thousand hogs. Our next view WIS.,
Of psrt Of the stock now on the ranch
for the ensuing year, consisting mainly
Of two thousand cattle, eighteen hun
bred hogs and some mules and very fine
horses from Hon. j. P. Wiser's ''Rysdvk
stock FARMS" Prescott, Ontario. Among
the latter we observed particularly, Bell
wood, dark bay inbred Hambleto-
MAN, with four-yesr-old record Of 81 /;
Minnie Day, q Hambletonian; Miss
Canada and Victoria. of the Membrlno
stock the coal-black Magyar, and other
ClYdesdales. There are also good
number OF thoroughbred cattle and hogs
on the ranch.
The ranch house has four rooms and
kitchen, and there is another now
building. North of these bull dings is
the large corral with high, heavy stone
fence. and supplied with sheds, troughs,
scales and all appurtenances for feeding,
branding and weighing stock of all kinds
and Is easily connected with the four
main pastures of the ranch.
We next took q view Of the barn, the
completion of which is marked
by the days event. All
haYe seen barns, but those
who haYe only seen the typical small
frame barn, look with surprise and awe
upon such q mammoth wood, stone and
iron structure as Is this. It Is 81 feet
from north to south and 1876 from east to
west. The footings of the main walls
are three feet In thickness, and the main
walls upon these surrounding the base.
ment are two feet in thickness by clever
feet high, with extensions on the foul
fronts, each forty feet long and reaching
height Of twenty-five feet. The base
ment is divided by two main walls, one
from north to south aud the other from
east to west, entered on every side BY
double sliding doors. This divides
the basement into four main part
which are in turn sub-divided
making eight distinct stabling de-
partments-bY two passage and feed
ways running from east to west through.
out. These stables are all provided
with racks and troughs, for feeding and
watering, the water to be supplied BY
pipes from tanks In the third story
About 200 head of stock can be stabbed
altogether. In the center of the base
ment Is a we'll. 80 feet deep, 10 feet IL
diameter. and containing 10 feet o.
water. Above this derrick for wind
engine extends upwards,the top of which
is 80 feet from the ground, and forms
the highest part of barn. A hip roo
meets the tour higher extensions of thu
main walls, forming a second story
and that In turn runs TO
ventilating turret, extending the full
length of the barn, anC
and forming third story. The seconC
i. story has floor the same dimensions a
the basement, the east and west parts o
which will be used for storing hay and
: the center for the milling machinery. II
the broader parts of the third story, ad
joining the derrick, are to be two tanks
STAYED and hooped, with a capacity o
300 barrels each, into which water vii
he pumped and conveyed to any part q
the barn at will.
There are four stairways running from
the passages of the basement to the sec
ond floor. The building is rooted will
iron. G. w. Squares. of EmporiS, fur
nished plans and specifications for thi
cOmmodious and handsome building
The contractor for the stone work wa
I. q. McNyre, of Eskridge, and for tn
wood work, ProIhero, SWayne 8 John
son. The milling machinery-the cor
Tractor for which, Mr.. Dion Geraldine
was present yesserday-Will be run by
wind engine, with wheel tweDty-four fee
In diameter, and is guaranteed to che
and grind seventy five bushels of cor
per hour, or cut two tons of hay in th
same time, besides, and the engine b
u utilized at the same time to pump watt
for Ave thousand head of cattle. It wi
= cost 5000. making the entire cost {
barn and machinery $4,000. Til
makes about $4,000 expended by NJ
2 Wiser on the ranch and improvements
During our hasty survey of the rancl
stock and barn, the thrOng from Emps
u ria, Council Grove, Usage City, Burlil
= game, Reading, Americas, Topeka, An
Is other points abroad and from all the su
rounding country kept increasing unit
II reached fully i've hundred. The r
/ ception committee, w. Fl. Patton, for
II man Of the ranch, j. H. Hibben a.
. Sherman E. johnson had their hant
a full. but handled the guests admirably
Il Dinner was served at O'Clock. TW
a. tables Of over one hundred covers eaS
3 were set in the barn. These were mo-
e than filled twice. Every one preset
2 partook of the varied and bountiful 4
. past, an important part Of which was Il