The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1886-12-23
PRAISE FoR JAY GOULD.
He Has Done Good to the State Of Kansai.
From the NeE Ynrl Sun

He Has Done Good to the State Of Kansa 9
From the New York sun.
Saliaa, Kansas, Dec. 6.-There is !
boom In Kansas. A new rain bel
has been created beyond the meridian
Five wealthy railroad corporations
eager to secure the territory and ia,
transportation Of the agricultural pro
duee, are building trunk lines through
the State, they are pushing feeding
lines into almost every county
Throughout Kansas all is hustle and
excitement. Two hundred and Gftv
thousand emigrants have entered the
State during the past year. The west
bound cars on every railroad In Kan
sas are crowded with hopeful men
and women who are eager 10 secure
homes In the land once properly de-
slgnsted as arid. On the smoky Hill.
the Arkansas, aud Republican over
land trails, the columns Of white.
capped wagons are 80 numerous as to
no longer attract attention. Nightly
hundreds OF camp fires blaze along
these old trails, and groups OF men
and women and tOW headed children
crowd around them to cook and eat
and talk Of the future. The larger
portion Of these WagOn-road emigrsnts
are frem tue cOrn-groWing States Of
Iowa. Illinois, Indiana, Missouri ami
Kentucky. Many OF them have been
tenant farmers. They are In search
Of homes. The emigrants who enter
the State on the various railways are
generally from the Eastern Mississ-
lppi Valley States, or from the Allan
tic seaboard.
As l said. 10000 emigranis have
settled In Kansas this year. il is safe
70 assert that they brought nj lesst
tlUO each into the State. Many men,
country merchants and bankers Feu-
orally, have told me the average sum
each emigrant represents Is about 500
But II they have brought SIS. 600 600
Into Kansas, that is being expended
Tor tools, lumber, iron, clOthiRe. grain
and provisions. Other millions Of
dollars are being paid out by the rail
road corporations, which are now
eOOWebbing the State with steel rails.
To-day money Is more plentiful I'm
Kansas than it has ever been before.
Inc facts concerning the change Ia
the climate 81 Kansas were gathered,
into the railroad offices. There they
were thoroughly digested BY the keen
Wiited promoters Of raiIrurd trans:l
portation. They hesltated. They
hung back. Then, after a third crOp
was fairly IN sight, and the accuracy /
Of the information which they had re- /
ceived fully proven, the railroad cor /
pOratiOns began 10 work. The Mis-
souri, Pacific began 10 build. The
Rock Island put their grading force 4
INTO the field. The san Fr1neis9o
pushed their feeders toward the
eWly-developed grain fields. New
railroad corporations were chartered.
entertainments on which steel rails
ne rose out % the ground as though 4
1y magic. To the north, south, east. 4
lnd west, u matters not the direction
you travel, You eOme on new railroads
being built, OF aiready built and In I
operation. The Union Pacific and
ne santa Pc, corporations which had
almost crushed the agricultural in II
eTests 81 Kansas by thtirrxt or;ionatei
'hRrges for service arrogantly render
d, aWoke. They saw that the. mon
poly which they had 60 long enjoy.
- was about 10 be dest roVesi. and
hey were called upon TO meet the
ompetition offered BY the most skill
al railroad managers Ia the United
States, who bad built new railroads.
OF over half the cost Of the old land
rant railrOads. No longer could /
hey charge what must compete or 20 4 ]
.nder. No longer could thelr Ral6r-
innate oiiiceFs treat merchants and /
aInlers as though they we're inferior
'einfai men Of low origin. and un-
f9fthy OF polite consideration.
hoE has the building Of the new !
allfoads affected the farmers Of Kan !
g 2 1 answer that question ~ In
laneing the benefits ooufered on the !
'eople By the building Of ths Nis- I
oufi Pacific railroad into che State. Z
ne hundred and eightg-nra miles 4
'est q Kansas City tie town 81 Btli.i /