Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-03-06
The Boomer continueth to Boom,

Tho wonderful aCtlVlty Dooners,
real estate agents, capitalists and land
sharks display in advertising their
localities and in Inducements offered
to settlers is worthy of emulation by
the Kentucky press. Not mail
comes into the State but is freighted
with newspapers full of display ad-
vertisememts aud highly wrought
cuts setting forth in the most plausi-
BILE words the reasons why the par
ticular spot represented by them is a
yerilable land of Goshen, and rich in
precious minerals for him who pre-
fers to dig and not to plow.
Very little there is of politics to be
read in these papers-and less of the
particularly benefiting qualities OF
our gonial fellow. citizen Tor the office
to which he now aspires, but there is
a glut of descriptions Of fertility of
the soil, of the richness of the miner
ais, of the timber, of the fruits and
vegetables, which are in the markets
from New Years Day the year
round the number of houses which
have been built during the past
month, the number of contracted for,
the size OF the new depot, and the
proposed and certain connection at
Junction City with some other rail-
Dad, enabling the denizens OF the
happy valley to receive their goods
aud export their products at lower
rates aud quicker time than any 9th
er place IN the State; the assessed
valuation, the mode OF assessing and
the rate of taxation is given, tOgeth-
er with the numbers miles ofpAved
streets; the gas-works at one end of
the town aud the electric light plant
at the other, and so on for quantity,
AMI windup to the young aud Wig
orous and adventurous to come out
of the ellete civilization Of the East
aud cast their lot under the kindly
skies of the West, where Nature
made everything OH generous scale
aud of an infinite variety.
There is something OF truth in the
STTa%T S"t far more odrse,a,fSiptions ,Sap. undoubtedly,
alton. They have neither tornsdoss
nor lightning but they are blessed
with earthquakes; they havn't the
drizzly and raw November days, nor
the clustering of March, but they
have snow for eight months, and cold
weather for four, and billiards. with
out number; they may not have a
January thaw, with its concomitant'
of mud, and enervating warm wealth
er; but they have no kindly spring
showers, aud the dust is finer and
more plentiful than anything else
aud man eats his peck of dirt IN
each year. The soil is four and five
and six feet deep, and generous with,
out question but it has to be watercd
by drains and canals and ditchei
which catch the melting SHOWS, and
are in the hands of irrigating com
panies, who tax the farmer heavily
for relieving his parched fields.
Stay at home.
There are no mountains beyond
the Mississippi whose dark recesset
hold more of wealth than do thu
mountains of Kentucky; no timber
pushes its green antlers TO tho sky
which eau outrank Kentucky
growth there are water-courses no
where so-abundant as she possesses
there is no soil surprising hers, aud
the skies are kindly seed time and
harvest come regularly, and the re-
ward of the husbandmen is certain
Stay at home; and while The Ken
tucky press may mot be able TO gild
a poober till il shines aB Il precious
metal, it doee not need to. 1t can as
heartily and more sincerely, and II
all truth set out to the world tho
riches of Kentucky and her adyan
tages, compared with which tn,
Western plains, and Southern orange
groves, are as nothing.-Common
wealth.