Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-07-29
KENTUCKY CORRESPONDENCE
NICHoLAsvILLE, KY, July rs.

NICHoLAsvILLE, KY, July rs.
To the Editor Of the Daily Eagle:
For some days past the EAGLE mas
winged her way to this portion OF the
famous blue grass region, and though
the old bird is just two and one-nali
DAYS in her flight from her roost TO TINS
point, she is eagerly read when her
familiar wings frcighted with tidlngs
from the now, famous Arkansas
Valley, are opened out before our
ewes. For who. when he has once
made his home in that valley, has felt
her gentle zephyrs fan and cool his
hot check when the mercury climbs
up among the nneties, has mingled
with her thrifty, enierprising and hos
pitable people, has witnessed the al
most unparalleled production of her
soil and wonderful growth of tn"
country, and still more wonderful
growth of the queen city of the SOUTH
west, when he returns east Ia hrs cid
hauntS, familiar scenes, snd famliilar
faces. old half-asleep towns, and idle
listIess WAYS of their people. could not
he otherwise than anxious to hear
from the land of his adoption
with her scenes of thrift and enter
prise, contrasting unfavorabiy with
those of the land of his nativity.
Nowhere on the route to this point
did we see, among all the numerous
towns and cities, one that would COM
pare with Wichita III point of busi-
ness, taking age and size into consid-
Grafton, and nowhere did we see As
equally productive soil. not even in the
Bluegrass regions, with its exception
ally heavy corn crop, for here there Is
total failure of wheat.
To saw that times were dull here.
would not. to our western man. con-
yev the idea of the hard times. Bush
IS is at a complete standstlll, the
bat,om having dropped entirely out
and left everyone discouraged and at
n loss what to do next. But there
seems To be no remedy, and in their
diiemms people do nothing but growl
and seek to lay the blame on some
thing or somebody, but on what or
whom they have not yet discovered.
This county. though old, is still
highly productive, and nature has been
lryi.h i'm besto wing her benefits on
those fortunate enough 10 gain foot
holt in this exceedingly beautiful re-
giop, adorned everywhere as it is
with a carpet If beautiful green of
spontaneous growth Of blue grass:
with lovely woodland through which
rippling streams of the puresi spark
ling waters flow, slopin2 fields OF wav-
ing corn, OATS, hemp and tobacco;
beautiful scenery on every hand,
through which wind like a white rib
bon the macadamized roads far away
out of sight till lost to view in some
cool. secluded glen.
The rugged scenery along the Ken
rucky river is unsurpassed anywhere
and is especially grand where the
"Queen and Crescent" route spans the
deep chasm with trussle bridge 2S7
feet high, which bows over from per-
pcndicular cliffs of solid stone from be-
tween two i'm mense towers on either
side. built by Gen. Combs in 1856, who
was born in 1898 and lived IN
Lexington till short time ago. Look
ing from the river upward, a large
man on the bridge appears to be OF
the size of an eight-year-old boy.
Near this bridge a monster camp
meeting is i'll progress, where The
voices of Tainagr, Sam Jones ami
other notables have sounded through
the groves. a few miles south is the
Old town of Hirrod-burg, f'nn led
by companion of Daniel Boom" James
Harrod over one hundred wears ago.
A short distance eastward up the river
is Boone's Knob, where the old hun
ter was wont TO view the surrounding
country, on the lookout for lncians
Beneath this knob is Boone's cave,
where he probably passed much OF
his lime resting from weary tramps
from fort TO fort. East of us is Boons-
borough. founded b, Boone himself
wears ago. The town from which
write was founded ninety years ago,
and here in this county Gen. W.
o Butler, who commanded the
forces in Mexico when the
city fell, was born in 1894
So when we see how long it has taken
{, develop this country, the years that
have flown since the founding of her
small &c WINS and cities, we are lead Ia
wonder still more at the very Won
derful growth of county that few
wears ago was considered desert and
u"ihhahi;able, and are not surprised
ut the incredulity of the people of
those older states when a Western
man attempts to give description Of
the magical growth of the far and
wonderful West, her unbouuIcn re-
sources. her prosperity and promises
of still grander and greater future.
DIR. e. NJ. HENDREN.
KiNCMAN.