Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-02-27
,:irKINs0N's DIES RiPTEON.

iarKINsON'S DESy RlPTION.
WLHr he Immigrat on Bureau VIII
s-v ct this City sud County in Its
Circulars
The following is the proposed descrip-
ton of Dickinson county which the
immigration society has prepared for
insertion in the state bureaus book on
Kansas. lOO,0 900 copies of which will be
sent through the east to advertise the
stale:
Dickinson County lies in the center
of the Golden Belt; consisting OF rolling
prairies and broad valleys, soil of upland,
deep rich clay loan dark color, depth
from 2 to 5 feet; second bottom lands,
black loan, very little sand, from to o
feet deep; lower bottoms black sandy
loan of unreasonable depth. These
lands are exhaustless-25 consecutive
wheat crops have been raised in some
lands without fertilizing, and last year
Welded from 80 to 40 bushels an acre,
while thousands of acres have been IN
corn for Is consecutive years producing
in 1889 from 80 to 50 bushels per acre,
no 10. bushels.) Population 1879,
10,42S; population 1889, $4,000. Value
of farms in 1879, $4,000, 900, in 1889,
$IS,OOOOOO.
Crops of 1889, wheat, 1900 acres,
1000, 900; corn, 10000 acres $500, 600;
oats, 10000 acres 100000; rye, 5000
acres 10000.
Hay Gu: 1889, 5000 tons.
Live stock in county, Dec. 1889, sheep
10000, hogs 10000, mules and horses,
1900, COWS, calves, feeders and fat
cattle, $1,000 head.
Abilene, the county seat, has 1000 in
habitants, two branches of the Santa Fe
r. R., the Rock Island r. r. and the
Union Pacific R. R. which afford the
best of railroad facilities in every d.
rection. The city is lighted by electricity,
protected by the Holley waterworks
system; civilized by fourteen churches;
educated by six public schools, two of
which are graded schools and the sisters
of st. Joseph's college; informed and
= enlightened by one daily, three weekly
and one monthly news paper; and con-
conveyed up and down her principal
avenues for distance of four miles is
,;Ype of the best equipped street railway
lines in Central Kansas.
Harrington lies in the southeast part
: Of the county, lighted by electricy, has
water works, an elegant opera house
and two railroads. Solomon City, a
town on the west has three railroads.
Hope and Carlton in the south and
: south-west have railroads. Enterprise
{ to the east has water power mills and
two railroads. Chapman is little far
ther east with the county high school
and railroad advantages. Manchester
to the northwest has two railroads.
Other smaller towns in the county af-
ford convenient markets for produce
and stock.
town lots, but to persuade the practical
farmers of the East to come and see
this beautiful farming country and if
they have money to invest, to locate
in Dickinson county. There are hun
-dreds of rare bargains to be had now,
both in town and country. Some ele-
CANT wheat and corn farms now in Gull
tivation, can be bought from SIP to
$40 per acre, while beautiful grass
land can be bought at from SIS to $40 an
acre.
The beauty and grandure of Abilene,
her location, the stir and hustle of her
citizens, the elegant streets and the re-
! fined and tasty homes, the beautiful
lawns, the cordial welcome always
rendered to any one who visits there. |
all added, is enough to enthuse a stole.
1t is not unreasonable to expect
property to enhance in Abilene as she
is not an overgrown town, and sur
rounded as she is by the best county in |
the state her prospects are bright; and
:. shonld the state capital ever be placed
near the center of population, Abilene
- and Dickinson county will make Wig
{ Iorous. = effort to secure the prize
!. Apropos to this we might quote from
:: one of the leading Missouri papers the
. following regarding Kansas:
The question of the removal of the
State Capital was agitated in the Kan
sas Legislature of three years ago and in
the near future will be pressed to an is
sue y the great central and western
portions Of the state and the result is
victory for them. No county can claim
itraRreasonably as Dickinson county,
and no city so nearly central can so
Worthily receive it as Abilene. kan.
sas City Journal.
For further information regarding
Dickinson county address,
, 6. G. STERL, director of the board
OF immigration, Abilene, Kansas.
:, ALMA is in luck. Her anthracite