The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-30
COME TO KANSAS.

COME TO KANSAS.
The country is coming to its agricul-
tural appetite once more, after de-
pressing season Of unusual duration.
There is profit again in products
money in meat and cash in wheat, and
where profit, in the guise of money and
cash, is to be acquired mankind is wont
70 rally. Kansas offers a greater num-
Der Of advantages, in the way Of cheap
er lands, richer soils, finer climate,
reader markets than any state hav-
ing room for immigration. There is
more health and wealth and all around
contentment TO the square mile in
Kansas than can be found in any sec
ton Of the globe. Especially is this
true Of sunny South Kansas, where no
farmer lives beyond the sound Of
railway whistle or his children ever
get out Of sight Of a school house.
There is a circumscribed section of
South Kansas, consisting of a half
dozen counties, Of which Wichita is
the center, that raises one-fifth of the
entire wheat product of the state, of a
state famed for its immense wheat
yield; that contains one-eighth Of the
states population, and one-ninth Of its
voters. 1t is a section without hills or
hollows, where the pIow meets no OBJ
structions, where the self-binder moves
as steadily as a ship under sail, and
the whirr of the steam thresher ceases
only with the shadows Of nightfall
This magnificent but half occupied do
main Of blue-ribbon hogs, monster
steers and ecord-breaking horses is
criss-crossed by railway lines reaching
from county-seat to county-seat, con-
Meeting all the bright towns between,
and is watered by wood-fringed
streams innumerable. The discomfort
ed farmer is the exception, the unhap-
by townsman hard to find. There is
prosperity for the business man and
accumulation for the husbandman.
Every season Of the year is perfection
In its way. The mild winters are
bright with open sunshine, the sum-
mers ever famed with ozone-ladened |
breezes that do not go down when the |
stars come out, Iull during the night |
nor fail at midday. In her springtime |
there is love making in her tree-tops |
and birth of new life in the litter and |
straw everywhere. The gladness of the |
green and the bursting boom of bud |
and bloom is heralded more by the |
chorus of concerts of pen and coop, of |
shed and of barn than by the MARBLE |
of birds. The cats kitten, the COWS |
calve, the sows pig, the ewes lamb and |
the mares drop their colts with an en- !
Couraging fecundity in a Kansas spring |
time, in the which the increase Of ma
tive population is also a matter of no |
secondary consideration, as may be /
seen by referring to the annual enum- /
GRAFTON OF ubiquitous assessor. But |
the autumns Of Kansas are the wonder |
of the world. It is both a seeding and /
harvest season. the time for sowing .
wheat and husking corn, of gathering
fruits, Of feeding pigs and stufing kline, |
OF carving roasts, measuring yields !
and estimating incomes. Winter does
not come till after Christmas, if it
ZONES at all: generally not at all.
What is true Of South Kansas is,
generally speaking, true Of Oklahoma.
South Kansas and Oklahoma are one
!n climate and in soil, in products and
IN prosperity. Klondike nor California.
the unending winters Of the Dakotas
and Of the northwest, nor the countries
of continuous heat Of the far south. for
permanent homes. health and happi-
ness, are 10 be thought Of on the same
day with South Kansas and Oklahoma
Al that these sections lack Of being
the wealthiest and most desirable home
domains. of being constituent empires
Of material, industrial and commercial
power. is the addition OF a sufficient
number Of inhabitants to occupy and
fully utilize their numerous natural
advantages. For every farmer and live
stock raiser that we have now there is
room and opportunity for another No
lands Of equal producuveuess and Of
n, antageous environment. in the
world, are as cheap. What is true Of
the lack Of men to occupy. to cultivate
and TO prosper in the country is true
OF the want Of men in the towns. Dou-
bic the number Of each and the import
ance and value Of the whole is quadru-
pied The one mistake of the railway
arrangements in Kansas, as the Eagle
has again and again, in years gone by
pointed out, has been in not placing
before the eyes OF the world the ad-
vantages Of this country traversed and
served by their lines. In struggling
after and competing IN ruinous efforts
for the overdone business at their ter
minal stations. they have overlooked
the sources Of that business; in stand