The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-27
HALF-PRICED KANSAS.

Kansas, all in all, is the bright
test spot, defined by state metes
and bounds. on the American side
of the world. Her seasons are in
comparable, upon the whole, her
crops unrivaled, on an average,
and the ambition Of her intelligent
people is only equaled by the
lichuess of her soils. She has
more sunshine and less mud, more
morality and cheaper acres than
any ether land on the globe can
truthfullv complain of or boast
Still people are continually rushing
Pacific slopes to pay three times
the price for plots not half SO
valuable as those which make up
the agricultural area Of the Sun
flower Realm, while others from
the north are flying across the
green native pastures of this EN-
erald commonwealth to put up
fancy prices for yellow fever
graves and pauper lots on the
outskirts of the Gulf.
To elucidate the why's of these
unreasonable juxtapositions might
take up more columns than any
body would peruse, but the fact
remains patent that with all the
putting and blowing by the Pa
cifc coast and with all Of the
pulling and hauling by the south
and north, there is no state in
the union where lands are so
cheap. where markets are 50 re-
plete and where the inducements
for investments are so complete as
are offered by Kansas today. Her
corn-ladened valleys sweep from
horizon unto horizon, her orchard
embellished and field-checkered pra-
ries roll on and on, and away
and still on, all dotted with
homes and streaked with flying
trains, yet here and there, between,
interstitial and everywhere, lots and
plots, farms and ranches 20
begging at prices all out of pro-
portion to what like soft snaps
command in other states. Taxes
are no higher, the politicians and
other civilized curses no thicker;
the summers are longer, the win
ters milder, and her springs are
all blossoms, while her autumns
are one eternal delight that only
end with Christmas and in
good time generally; and, yet, peo-
pie have to be Coaxed to invest
i'll these advantages at Job lot
prices. The railroads pay one-sixth
Of the entire taxes of the state,
the farmers run the legislature,
we have prohibition enough for
all those who prefer it, and
a sufficiency of the other
thing for those who like it;
yet rain-soaked hop-patch on
the Pacific, or a gravel-scratched
desert in Southern California or
a drouth-blistered ranch in Texas
commands more money, per acre,
than the rich, inexhaustible, allu- |
vial soils of Kansas.
Some day there is going to be
an awakening to these indisputable |
data, when all that Kansas is,
and all that Kansas has, and all /
that is expected of, or for, Kan
sas, will double in price. The /
thing is as inevitable as a logical |
deduction and as certain as that |
the real is more staple than the
abnormal. The mortgage of a
bursted boom has cooling qualities,
but not consuming ones, and be-
tween the mortgage and the
there is but the diff
ference of a promise written on
paper.
There is more money in the
way Of increased values, profits
and interest. in investments made
N Kansas lands, the state over,
1t present prices, dollar for dol
ar, than in any stocks, bonds, /
II mortgages TO be found in any
market, realization of which .
TACT, by the world, is only nee
essary 10 send Kansas forward to
he front rank of the states.
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