Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-02-20
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have some stock ranches for sale.
am well acquainted with the lay of
the land in this county and adjoining
counties. I am a pioneer of the west,
having made my home : twenty-three
years in western Kansas. I have been
in nearly every county in the state of
Kansas. I was the first person to draw
the attention of the people to Wallace
county, Kansas, on card and circular
WALLACE COUNTY
has eight good running creeks that new
er fail. There is plenty of water the
year round. The creeks are fed by
springs, and the water is of the best.
The most of the lam. agents claim
that the county in which they live is the
best county; but do not say that. Wal
lace county is not as level as Lane county
or Greeley, but it will beat them on
water.
There is lots of just as good land in
Wallace county as in any of them. Wal
lace county has good railroad running
through her center, which is big advan-
tage to person wanting to make
home here. If man lives thirty or
forty miles from railroad, every thing
will cost him double. If man wants to
live here, his land will cost him no more
than land outside the railroad limits
would cost. If man wants Just to come
out here, and stay only long enough to
prove up on presumption, his land will
cost him more in Wallace county than it
will in Greeley county; but if he intends
to live on it, and make it his future home
he would better pay three times more,
and get near railroad. Perhaps the
land agents of those counties without a
railroad will say: 1--WE are going to
have railroad;'' but it is like the second
coming of Christ "a long time material
izing.
I will give description Of
THE TOWN OF WALLACE
There are 800 inhabitants in Wallace.
It is division station of the q. P. rail
way. The repair shops and the round
house of the railroad company at this
point employ 149 men. The railroad
company has quite number of good
buildings in Wallace Wallace is the
central shipping point for Greeley county
on the south, Wichita county on the
southeast, the most of St. John county
on the the east, and Sherman county on
the the north. The people of these four
counties have to come to Wallace to get
their supplies. There are three different
stage lines running from Wallace. You
can go across the country to any of the
new towns in the adjoining counties by
stage. Wallace has good accommoda-
tons in the way of hotels and livery
stables; good teams furnished reasonably
to land seekers, and plenty of land agents
to show vacant lands. There are ten or
fifteen land agents in the town of Wal
lace. Land seekers can find good con-
veniences.
The finest lands in this county are
along Goose and - creeks. The
best uplands in Wallace county lie be-
tween the Smoky river and Beaver creek.
The land is level. You can travel from
one creek to the other and not see
break in the land. The soil is good. It
is black loan. The creeks have some
nice groves of young timber all along.
These make nice shade for cattle in
warm weather, and break the force of
winters storms. Cattle can live here the
year round on buffalo grass. It is the
best grass that grows. Cattle keep fat
on it all winter, where there is not too
much snow. The winters are generally
mild I have seen winters when the ice
did not freeze hard enough to bear up a
man. This winter is the hardest one
which have ever seen IN Kansas. I
came to Kansas in the year 1863. There
was but little farming done then. The
seasons were uncertain then, but now
Kansas can show up with any of the
states on corn, fruits, wheat, oats and
vegetables of all kinds. Western Kansas
has had plenty of rain to raise good
crops, if they are properly cultivated.
Eastern Kansas has had too much rain
for the last two years, where saw it
just as dry as I ever saw any part OF
western Kansas. The rainfall has kept
working westward, and has averaged
better in western Kansas for the last
three years than it averaged in eastern
Kansas from 1879 back as far az 1860.
It never did rain before that in Kansas
that anybody knew Of. The climate in
western Kansas cannot be beaten for
health. People never die out here, ex-
cept occasionly man who has lived sew
eral hundred years. They kill him in
order to start grave yard.
JOHN T. ALLEN,
Real Estate AGENT,