The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-06
Scott County.

! LocatiOn-Scott county lies in the center
/ Of the state north and south, and about
/ seventy miles east of the Colorado line
| The climate is superb-air pure aud ia-
/ vieorating. Summer nights are cool and
refreshing aud winters are short and
mild
is evidence of the general good health
in Scott county il Is only necessary to
state that the county affords but one doc
tor
The society here Is equal 20 that Of the
eastern states The Cumberland Preshy-
terian, Methodist Episcopal and Christian
churches hold regular services in all parts
of the county, and Sunday schools flourish
in the various neighhorhoOds. The citizens
here are mostly from refined, cultured
eastern homes, and are congenial as a
class
School facilities are excellent. and a
good corps of teachers is employed.
The soil is dark loan, containing just
enough sand TO make plough scar. and is
very easily subdued. An ordinary team
can break from two 10 two and half acres
per day. The price of breaking is s. 10
- - per acre.
Pure and soft is the water, showing no
alkali under chemical test, something that
can not be said Of every locality in the
west. Water is obtained at an average
depth of about forty-tiye feet
Scott county is well supplied with water
for stock by the White river in the west
and south and Beaver creek, never fail
ing stream. i'm the north, with various
other small streams fed by large springs.
such as Lion creek, Hell creek, Slate creek
and several Others.
There still remains i'm this county gov.
erument hand that may be taken under the
homestead and pre-emption laws.
\ REIMBURSEMENT may be obtained from
persons having filed ON government land
at from - 10 Sl25 per quarter section,
purchaser then being entitled To enter the
land in their stead. send stamp for copy
OF land laws.
Roads always I'm excellent condition. and
horses here being more hardy and tough
than those of eastern raising, a drive Of
eighty miles is sometimes made in a
single day. and sixty miles is considered an
ordinary days drive
Chief among the occupations Of the cit+
zen- here are farming and stock raising
both OF which pursuits are followed with
profit Wheat. oats, rye. barley, broom
corn sorghum, millet etc, yield abund
autly Each year is grown a bouutifuI
crop Of sorghum. one Of the best plants for
proveuder vastly superior - timothy or
clover one farmer can easily raise suf-
fcient Of this plant 60 feed 90 cattle Tor
the season. as we usually have 90 fce,i
about five weeks stock viii leave ail
other feed 10 get this Pofatoe- and other
vegetables are very successfully grown.
and the mild winters. followed by early
spring. furnishes early vegetable i0f.
table use
Many farmers now have young orchards
and groves iu thrifty growing condition.
small fruits thrive exceptionally well in
this climate
scott City j. the county seaf and che
principal town of the county This prom
i-iug pkce i~ located 90 = slight elevation
in the exact geographical center of The
county. ~ the junction ~ the Missouri
Pacific main line from ~ Tsouis t1 Denver
and tbe Denver cutoff ~ the santa r..
giving she county competing lines of ra.I
Hay--a very important item The various
brsuche- # bu-iHe-- have become pre-
seutei here, aGd societies Of ell kinds or
Zau.1ed 4 baud-Ome brick g. = church
and c0nimodi0uz frame -. J. edIare ad1ru
The town and f5ur secret s,.ciet.ee are or.
kauized and iu - f0TrishinE condition.
Two newspaper are published r t1e t0-Fn.
,anple copies of which usy he obtained
tres By -ddrr-.ag the sentinel Herald