People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-04-23

what kind Of weather.
Our country is still booming, a real
estate agent at Sulphur Springs told
me few days ago that he sold farm
almost every day, and one day he sold
three. There were four men took din
with us yesterday who were here to
Guy land. They were well pleased
with our country. They were from
northern Iowa, northern Illinois and
Wisconsin. The majority OF purchas.
ers are from Nebraska, Iowa and Hi
nois, and occasionally one from the
hills in the eastern states who think
our country not rough, but il looks 50
to a Kansas prairie man.
The men that were here Yesterday
say they never saw such fruit trees as
We have here. | showed them some
(which we are proud are on cur place. 8"
that we measured and found to be
from 40 to 80 feet in height and one
seven feet in circumference. and the
limbs spread out in proportion. We
don't have to have any papers for this,
come out and will show the trees We
measured peach tree lone seasons
growth, which had been cut off near
the ground last spring. 1t has four
limbs measuring in length (averaglng)
eight and one half #. Circumference,
one foot from body, 81 inches. Can
you beat that in Kansas?
We have d good vegetable country.
All kinds seem to do well. Potatoes
are worth form 20 to 80 cents
now; cora 2jc, apples SOC. We have a
great many things here you dou't
have in Kansas. We have rocky and
hlIly roads while you have nice roads.
YOU have the wind and dust in your
eyes, we don't. You get grass burs
in your feet, we don't. We get ticks
on US and you don't. We have plenty
Of good, free wood, while YOU buy coal.
We have many kinds of nuts, such
as hickory, halle, walnut, chinquapiu.
&c, and we have plumbs, hawS, per-
simmons. pawpaws, huckleberries,
faSpberrieS, blackberrieS, all wild in
the woods, and grapes as large and as
good as any tame ones. This hardly
looks reasonable but we have the
grapes to show for themselves: Some
years we have heavy mast and don't
need TO feed our hogs; this is one of
the years. Hogs are still keeping fat
in the woods. This is a great tame
grass country. Timothy and Clover.
baiIed, is worth $3.50 to $3.50 per ton.
We have not got farming country,
too much rough land, but it is all good
for apples and berries. | know one
who has acres of strawberries and 3
r
Ut raspberries, who hired them picked
last season and cleared $25,OOper acre,
and they are a poor stand. Another
neighbOr claims to have made $4,000
on less than one acre of strawberries
We have good mills which grind our
feed for the Sth. We are in need of
another saw mill in this nelghbOrbOOd.
Some Sumner county man could do
well with threSher engine here. All
mills that are saving have ready sale
for their lumber, which is mostly
used in the country. We expect an
other railroad this summer which is
surveyed from our county seat, Ben
tonville, west and northwest via Gra-
vette. They claim they will run to
Arkansas City, Kansas. Work has al
ready begun on this road near Benton.
vile. If it is completed it will be a
benefit to this country and Kansas, as
it will be through the wood and fruit
belt, unless the company take all the
profit and charge the people up with
the freight,
They are beginning to think about
politics down here in Arkansas. They
have heard somebody talk about free
silver, and even the Republicans think
il would be good thing. We don't
mean at headquarters. They know too
well what Wall street needs.
Come out and see us.
G. W. SEARCY.
Sui blur Springs, Ark. March Il. 1895.