The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-06-18
THE HAPPY VALLEY

! To the Editor Of the Eagle.
As DER the happy valley golden hues are
| seen;
In deepening shades there glows the
wheat,
And gales ambrosial the happy husband
man doth meet;
Nature had wrought most skillfully the
| seasons goal.
And health and plenty cheers the'laborer's
| soul.
What can be more picturesque and
| invigorating at this season than brief
respite from business cares and city life
amid country scenes, where the balmy
air is laden with the sweet breath Of
green May as she greets her richly robed
rival, June, with her choicest flowers and
crowns her majesty with the golden
sheaf of plenty!
| l had frequently heard of the bright
little town of Cheney, some twenty-five
miles west on the Wichita & Western
road, and took occasion early last week
to pay that part of our county a visit
| Arriving there early in the morning,
| in company with a friend, we drove
a number of miles into the country,
and as we passed through farm after
farm, showing the unnnistakable evi-
| dences of soil whose richness and fertll-
| ity could not be excelled, | was remind
ed of the pride of my native state, Penn
/ sylvania, Lancaster county, whose TEh
and productive farms have almost a
worldwide reputation. l say was re-
minded of this well known agricultural
county, but this hardly expresses the
pleasant and farreaching panorama
which presented itself before me. 1t
seems but yesterday that the Buffalo
roamed at will over this vast prairie
garden, and that now while but COM
paratively a small portion has been
touched by the husbandman's skill, its
full development will prove, indeed, the
farmers paradise. If the great
Sierras, encasing untold precious
metals, had been lifted from
their huge base such riches
would not be disclosed as were here
visible upon every hand. l was sur
prised at the cheapness of many of the
well improved farms we visited. One
gentleman informed me that from his
last years crop he had paid for his farm
and that he would repeat the same Won
lU1 IGSlIJ IlilS NCCtls LIZ llIuotleibNs
was offered a beautiful piece of land
comprising 100 acres Of rich, sandy loan,
water only six feet from the surface, and
every square yard a veritable garden, for
81, 800. Now let us estimate the value of
the products of this farm, the wheat be-
ing ready to cut, and basing the corn
now looking better than any field have
seem upon last years production:
so acres of corn, 60 bu. per acre, $500
bu., at pc observation-disclosures. SIlO4
- acres of oats, 80 bu. per acre, COO
bu.. at l5c.. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. w
so acres of wheat, % bu. per acre, 1880
Du., at sue. ......-..-......... IUOO
Is acres pasture. .....................
Total. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 1914
The reader must bear in mind that if
this corn at - cents is fed to stock 1t
would bring the farmer twice the above
amount. To the farmer in the east
whose SONS should be given start in
life, we say, send them west to this
beautiful valley, and in a few years by
close application and good management,
they will be among our wealthy and
prosperous citizens. AS to the climate |
need only mention that in the township
Garden Plaine) adjoining the little town
| mention and containing 500 to LOCO
population, not a single death is re-
corded from June /, 'S9, to June I, 80.
l met the loan agent upon my return TO
the village, and he mourned because his
occupation was gone, and as if still try
ing to cling to his once lucrative calling
he paused in the midst of our converse
ton to wait upon two supposed farmer
customers, and to their inquiry as to
what money was worth today, he asked
how much they would likely want, and
when they informed him that they
wished to place some money with him to
loan, the poor fellow gasped for breath,
and it was with difficulty that he was
brought TO realize that in Kansas the
harvest is now with the tiller of the soil,
and that we Will hear the voice of the
loan agent no more, forever. After my
pleasant soiourn, returned to our own
active and rapidly developing city, i'm
pressed as | never was before that our
future is bright with promise and that
here will be built a great commercial
center, already in the supremacy, and
the largest packing and stock market IN
the west, the rapid development of
which is at this moment attracting the
great pork and beef packers of the coun-
try, MAC.