The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-20
A GLORIOUS COUNTRY.

Mr. and Mrs. Amos Smith, of Lansing
Mich, made visit to Wichita and
Southern Kansas with the April excur-
sion party from that state in the interest
of colony of their neighbors, who con-
template changing locations and to seek
homes in the southwest. After their re-
turn from the prospecting trip Mr.. and
Mrs. Smith gave the Republican their
impressions Of this country in the sub
joined communication:
WICHITA, Kan, May 10, 1895.
Editor of the State Republican.
As citizens of Lansing and readers OF
your esteemed paper, and by request OF
many friends, we give you an outline OF
few of the many new things which are
so different from what we expected to
find here in Kansas. The first thing
that impressed us is that Kansas looks
like an old state instead of a new one.
Kansas has made such wonderful strides
in the past few years that it has grown
from a state Of uncertainties into con-
ditiOn Of beautiful realities. hard to real
iZe without being seen. The Kansas of
five or ten years ago Is a different thing
from the Kansas of today. She Is
indeed giant of agriculture. Her
broad acres are prolific and lovely with
the gifts of her Maker. Her fields are
garland5 of grandeur loaded with the
fruits of the soil, ripe indeed almost unto
harvest. Her pastures are filed with
cattle, her pens with hogs, her store
rooms, barns and cribs with grain, her
trees with fruit. all of which have an
abundant and profitable market. Their
great packing houses are a wonder, their
immense fields of grain more wonder
full.
Her people are good natured, friendly
and ho>pitable. They have fine farms,
carriages and the finest teams we ever
saw. If there are any people in the
world who enjoy themselves and live
easy and well. l should say they are in
Kansas: at the same time they are in
dustrious and progressive. They have
as fine buildings as l have ever seen
and plenty of them Fruit is plenty.
water pure and easy to get and trees on
every hand.
We noticed hundreds of thousands of
bushels of grain piled up on the ground.
The climate Is such that it Is not very
important to shelter Il. also saw cribs
with - high as forty thousand bushels
of corn in one crib; this does not seem 30
but we see it every day and know it
must be so. In the towns can
he seen long lines Of farmers wagons
filed with grain awaiting their turn 10
get to the elevators and cars 10 unload.
They do farming here with much less
work than in the east. nearly everything
Is done by machinery The climate :
mild. summers long. soil rich and land
cheap. the people are wlde-awake and
full of business. the whole state Is a rev
elation 10 Us, and IL they ever had hard
times It Is 80 long ago that they have
forgotten IL While there are almost
endless herds Of cattle and heaps Of grain
and all kinds Of products, there are vast
amounts of fine land awaiting for some
one to come and make new farms II u
a new country. but growing rapidly.
The development has been - rapid that
1t looks many times oder than II Is.
Wichita l. magic. magnificent city,
having grown from } .00o 10 10000 IN six
years, and the state seems 70 Be growing
Just as fast
To say we ara pleased with our visit,
and the state. would not convey the
right idea Such grand country must
b seen 10 be appreciated.
Nh AND Mrs. AMOS SIXTH.