The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1901-04-19
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draft horse in Edwards equity we
purchased, regardless of cost, the
Percheron stallion Oliver, of Francis
Oliver, Danville, Kansas This horse
, is one of the most perfect you will
find. He has tiue style and good ac
tion, weighs about 1900, with good
bone and foot. and is one of the most
beautiful horses to be seen. We will
be at Lewis. Kansas, the entire seas
on. Be sure and see this horse. He
will please you. Call and see pedi-
gree. u. p. and Porter Ray.
I5I7 j. p. RAY, Manager.
Indiana Letter.
April 5th, 1901.
Editor Graphic - Thinking few
i lines concerning my trip east, might
interest the readers of your paper 1
will give an account of my trip:
Starting from Belpre March 9TH, 1
went by the Santa Fe TO Wichita,
thence by the Frisco to ST. Louis, then
over the Vandalia line to Franklin.
Johnson Co., Ind, my former home
and the place my birth.
The trip was tedious as the Santa
Fee was off time and had SO many lay
overs, but had none after leaving the
Santa Fee.
1 found things very much changed
after seventeen years absence; many
/ of the old landmarks were gone and
=, the people had changed much in APP
| pearance, those who were mere chill
dren having grown to man and wOm-
anhood and now having families. The
general appearance of the country is
very much changed. Where once were
large tracts, of timber, fields and farm
] houses now dot almost every forty
acres. Timber is getting to be an OBJ
ject: many farms not having enough
for fuel and buying coal for heating
purposes. Sawmill timber is almost
all gone. While here 1 visited saw
mill and there saw logs brought in
that would not square more than SIX
/ inches to be sawed into lumber, and
the toughest logs l ever saw ala mill.
| Not much but beech and sugar maple
| left and but little of that.
| | found the wind blowing hard, al
| most as bad as in Kansas, not so
close to the ground, and the roads SO
| muddy-n Othing but mud wherever
you went. Gravel roads in plenty but
cut through hub deep and dirt roads
almost impossible.
Fencing rotted to the ground and
all stock has to be kept inside fence.
Some wire fence, costing more than
| in Kansas. Posts are higher also. We
| can fence cheaper than they can.
| The fields look much smaller than
when 1 lived here. Roads are mar
row, most are twenty-five feet, few
thirty. Streets are very narrow, only
about forty feet, and eight feet on
either side for walks leaves them very
narrow.
l noticed the greatest difference in
people. SO much wealth and so,much
| pOverty-the greatest difference I ever
saw anywhere, where the poor are the
servants of the rich. Men with fami-
lies work for 80 cents a day, house
furnished scarcely anyone. No one
hires single man. all with families.
| Land ranges from $40 to 800 per
provements. While there l notice they
have to SOW fertilizers with all the
i small grain, about l5O pounds to the
acre 1t costs from Sl.25 to 81 80 per
cwt. They can't get much returns
| without something. Last year the
wheat crop failed, none being threshed
| in this county. Farmers had to buy
their seed wheat at ninety cents to
81. 10 per bushel. Wheat looks fairly
we'll but has sprinkling of fly in it.
| / notice there are very few good cat
! tie here, the milk stock having taken
the place of the beJter grades Of beef
cattle. The supply of beef cattle comes
largely from the west. They raise lots
OF hogs. and good ones. Not many
| sheep, most all of the larger breeds.
Hol ses are larger here than there but
| the prices are not much better. The
driving stock is not as good as here,
too heavy.
l notice they are beginning. to use
the same farming tools that are used
| in Kansas, the disc harrow and the
disc drill, and some few have tried the
| lister with some success. L don't be-
| lieve the lister will come into general
| use, the ground is clayey aud too
| tight for it,.
1 visited the state capital, Indianap-
oils, and there Saw the soldiers and
sailors monument erected Lo the mem
DRY of Indiana $ victors. There is an
| insert ption to the soldiers of the Mex
! lean war, one to those of the Civil war
aud one'tO those of the Spanish Amer
| lean war. The monument Is the finest
VI ever saw and is claimed to be the
grandest thing of it's kind in the
world. The monument is located near
| the center Of the city on plot of
ground known as Governors Circle
Diameter of piazza surrounding
J monument 342.5 feet.
Diameter of terrace ITO feet.
Height of terrace IL feet.
Foundation 50 by 53 feet
I)opth f,f fO, N a tien IN foot