The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-04-13

The proportion of illiterate people in
Kansas is said to be less than in any
other State.-Er.
The st. John Sun says:
1t will be but q few years before Kan
sas will be known as the "Orchard Of
America" All kinds of fruit thrlves
80 well here that the packing industry
is certain to become . prominent one
in the next ten years.
Is there any of the old States that
can equal Kansas? There are States
that have as good soil, there are States
that have as much mineral wealth,
there are those that are as we'll wat.
cred and there are those that are AZ
we'll supplied with railroads but there
is no one State that combines all these
things in equal degree with the empire
State of the west.-Er.
One thing about Kansas should not
be forgotten. She has good markets
both to the east and to the west Of her.
To say nothing at present of Kansas
City and Chicago, she has the whole
great non-agricultura State Of C0lora.
do on the west, and Colorado must be
fed. If California undertakes to do the
feeding she has to ship q thousand and
more miles farther than we do. If Col
Orado herself undertakes to do it, she
finds her mountains are untilable and
her valleys must be irrigated, her eli.
mate too cold and her rain too scarce.
But this does not trouble her SO long
as she has her present output of coal
and precious metals, and 'Kansas is a
cornucopia" with all her good things
grown out of the ground to exchange
for COlOrado's wealth from under the
ground. Yes, Kansas has good mar
kets to both east and west of her terri
tOry.-Er.
Kansas smiles as che never did be-
fore. No such bright prospects for
bOuntiful and fruitful season were ever
promised at the opening of any former
year. From every county In the State
come cheering words. Great stretches
of country are carpeted with green
wheat-fields, thousands of acres are
being turned bv the farmers pillow pre-
paratOry for corn planting, new farms
are being opened, homes built upon
the prairies, schools established and
churches organized up to and beyond
Coupled with all this activity, enter
prise and true Kansas energy 1t Is the
opinion of all scientific observers that
an abundance of rain will fall to war
rant bountiful harvest. Think of a
splendid yield of all the crops in Kan
sas this year! With all our network
of railroads they will not be sufficient
to transport our crops to market.-Cdp-
itdi.
The most prosperous, independent
and happiest class of people in the
world to-day arc western farmers, es-
pecially Kansas farmers. Many Of
them, it is true, are in debt and are
compelled to carry mortgages upon
which there Is q semi-annual interest
to be kept up, but, in considering the
mortgage and other Indebtedness of
Kansas farmers, it should be borne in
mind that ninety per cent of their to-
tai Indebtedness has been incurred for
the purposes of improvements to secure
the very means, or appliances-such
as fences, houses, barns, agricultural
machinery, stock and other adjuncts
of their business-by means of which
their productive and debt-paying abil-
ity is increased at least seventy-five
per cent above what it would be in the
absence of these appliances. So that
the Indebtedness, which on the surface
appears to be q burden, is really the
very thing which puts them in con-
dition not only to pay their debts, prin-
cipal and interest, more rapidly than
any other class Of operators in the
country, but at the same time it pro-
yides the very means whereby they
are enabled to make it faster than they
would without these facilities.-Ne0-
deshG Register.