People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-08-29

full blast next month. This rice land
will soon be very valuable, and the
new road ocens up transportation and
an outlet to the rice mills as well as
the general markets. On account u !
and no way to get to or from
this land it was in a manner worth
less. This is a wonderful fruit cOun-
try pears, grapes, peaches, plums.
figs do remarkably well. In fact l
never saw anything to compare
with it,
The principle business Of this coun-
Try is the lumber business. Three
mills located 10 this town have d ca
pacity of one-half million feet daily,
one of which cut 100000 feet in one
day. 1t is pleasure to gaze upon the
long, slim, straight pine trees from
sixty to a hundred feet in heighth,
standing thick upon the ground.
Tram railroads are built all through
the pineries for the purpose of hauling
logs to the mills. One mill had on
hands fourteen million feet. Lumber
sells from s. to SO per thousand. Our
Kansas lumber dealers buy the very
poorest and cheapest.
There are some grand sights down
here. For instance the live oak from
the branches of which the beautiful
moss hangs ten to fifty feet i'll length,
having an appearance Of the weeping
Jesamipe. On the other hand is the
most beautiful tree ever saw. 1t is
called the umbrella chinaberry." 1t
is the shape of an umbrella and the
branches are so dense, the leaves over
tapping each other like shingles on the
roof, makes dark and dense shade
and turns hard rain. To the right
may be seen the majestic magnolia
tree, the bloom of which is scarcely
excelled for fragrance or beauty. On
the left is the towering pines, yieing
with each other which shall pierce the
heavens first. In front of you is the
vigorous banana tree with its huge
leaves twelve to sixteen inches broad
and six to eight feet in length, stand
ing from twelve to sixteen feet high
and from six to ten inches in diameter
at the root. The bananas grow upon
pod which bends over like the head
of kaffir corn and tine fruit grows with
point up the stem and the stem OF
fruit the reverse from the way they
hang in the markets. The orange
! trees were killed last winter, but are
sprOuting out again.
The sun here is very hot; the rags
being more direct its heat is much
more intense. The gulf breeze raises
about s o'clock in the morning and is
always cool and refreshing because it
comes off the water. The shining
upon the ground in the morning soon
heats the air and it being the lighter
raises and the cool air of the gulf
rushes in and produces what is known
as the gulf breeze.
The tides come in generally in the
morning and raise the water from
two to four feet and gradually re-
coded. The wind governs the tide of
the gulf to a certain extent, while the
moon governs the tide of the ocean.
The water of the gulf is saline, and
drinking water is caught in barrels
and tanks when it rains. 1t is drawn
from a faucet near the bottom, there
fore, the wiglers and mosquitoes &c,
remain at the top. They have no
wells or cySterns.
This is town of 1000 inhabitants
nearly half cOlored. l believe the
volume of business done here in one
week will equal the business of Wei
lington one year There are four rail
roads center here and it is bound to
make city. There are a great many
northern men coming in to contest
the rights of the mosquito and the
alligator. Land is selling from $3.50
to $500 per acre along the Line of the
new road, which is or will be 70 miles