Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-07-15
The Gold Fields in Ellis County
WHERE THEY ARE WHAT THEY ARE.
FEW FACTS TO STUDY OVER.
Stranger things have happened.
NOTICE THE HAND POINTS TO HAYS CITY
AND ON TO THE GOLD FIELDS ON THE SMOKEY.
It MAY be OUR TURN NOW.

Years ago we doomed North
6 South Railroad. We still be
lieve ''it might have been", but it
got into bad hands; 1t fzzled and
the 'Free-Press" was censured for
booming it.
This time we have kept quiet,
watching events.
Again the sun shines, the clouds
have a silver lining, a beautiful
rainbow circles our county, one
end in the golden wheat fields. the
other IN the golden shale beds on
the west Smokey hill valley, but
we have kept quiet and watched,
but the last 80 days has brought so
manv inquiries from our non resi-
dant subscribers; letters directed to
Some Newspaper, containing sub
scr1ptions so they can learn the
news, which the P. NJ kindly puts
in our box as the Official Co paper
and IN the Push [so many that last
week VIC contracted for quIre,
100 papers, more for a year, and
we give herewith a map and few
facts and all can draw their own
conclusions.
The GOLD Fields are located in
the Bad Lands in the southwest
part of this county along the Snao
key hill river valley and extend in
to Trego county So rough 1T
has not been homesteaded or set
tied on-so rough 1t couldn't be
farnned, only fit to Craze on-high
shale bluffs. Now every claim is
taken and fought for; every rongh
piece bought up--the rougher the
better
Stranger things have happened-
Cripple creek was a wild cattle
rancho, Klondyke barren waste;
Who would of thought OF the salt.
oil, ZINC, natural gas Cr gypsum
discoveries in Kansas-this may
be another wonder of Kansas.
We had the privilege of exam
ming the papers Of these gold pros
pectors and take the liberty of tell
ing a few facts we found.
Look at a map of Kansas; note.
the great Salt deposits at Hutehin
son on the Arkansqw, and north
so miles to Lyons and Kanopolis
on the SmokeY-none found north
OF that river, none to the south Of
MISUNDERSTANDING this strip WAS
the deep bottom of former Ocea n,
all drained that way Netice ano
ther thing--tho Arkansaw starts in
Colorado near PuebnIo, runs down
thro' Kansas to Hutohlson, then to
the south and Mississippi, not a
river running from the north into
it. Republican river rising north
of Denver, running east catching
the Solomon, the Saline & Smokey
rivers thence to Missouri; the Sa
line starting In northern Kansas &
the Smokey hill starting near Kit
Carson. Note that this Smokey
river valley starts in the Rocky
mountains at Pixies Perk and not a
north & sonth river crossed that
valley until you reach the Missls
sippi river. a perfect drainage val
ley FROM the mountains of Gold,
thro' Ellis county to the great Mis-
sissippi. Did YOU ever notice
this wonderful fact2- these men
did. Again. she'll formations
are found in our rock. little sea
shells found. and IN the lasts 10
years the finest fossils known have
been found 10 this valley west of
u everything demonstrating our
sec'lon WIS once a sea, then the
Great American Dessert. nov the
PardIse of Kansas; and the Smoky
tae main drainage canal between
tha!A big rivers. THE Universal
8 large vol. Geography Of 1547 Ia