The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1909-10-15
A LETTER FROM KANSAS.
Hoislngton, Kan, Oct, 4, 90.

After silence of several months
| will now remind the people of
Eastern Kentucky that | am still
alive and my real self.
Harvesting, blowing, threshing
and seeding are things of the past,
so everybody is now getting ready
to live easy during the winter.
see in reading your paper that
there are several persons either
gone or contemplating going to the
West and Southwest. see where
Mr.. Pigg has already gone to Texas
and B. ]. Chaffin making arrange
ments to go. Well, l verify believe
that any good, energetic man can
profit by the advice of Greeley, go
West" But l have always enter
tanned some fear Of the Gulf Coast
country, While l am ready to ad-
NIT that 1t is nice and level, with
good markets for all products. still
1t is too flat, and no drainage to
render II a healthy country
There are vast tracts of valuable
land in Texas, but would warn
those to beware of that flat, gulf
coast country. have land in Texas
and consider it splendid invest
ment, as we have all the necessary
elements that go to make up a
good, healthy, productive country.
But | would like to whisper to some
of the boys who contemplate coming
West, to just take a retrospective
view of Western, and especially
Southwestern Kansas.
have land there also, and richer
SOIL more invigorating climate and
greater facilities for easy, indepen-
dent living can nowhere be found
in all this country. With suffi-
cient rainfall and an elevation of
5000 feet insures good crops yearly
II care be taken in the cultivation
Of the land II you want to feel
full of life, go out into this short
grass country, live outdoors a
great deal, and drink deep OF that
rarefied atmosphere and 1t will be
a far better stimulus than any ky.
Bourbon" or even Webb's best.
Then | see in the NEWS where
there are premiums offered for the
biggest sunflower. Shucks, we raise
lots Of them as large as wagon
wheels, and one flower yields al
least one full bushel of seeds, and
that manufactured into bird food
would sell for $50.
Now, boys. let's put aside all Jest.
ing and get down to facts. To those
who think of coming West, now Ii
the best time in the history of your
life to procure some of the valuable
land in Kansas. 1t does not require
millionaire to buy land, but any
man with a few hundred dollars has
opportunities today that he will new
er see in year from now. would
advise any one to buy this land be
fore the Kansas and Gulf road II
completed, for as sure as we live
it will enhance the price of thi
land at least one hundred per cen
in two years after the road is built
The road is now in 80 miles of ouI
1county seat, Santa Fe, Kansas.
Come on, boys, Kansas needs yol
and am sure that you need som,
of Kansas, as all lands are beinl
rapidly taken and the price is dali!
advancing all over the country. Ii
few months you will be unable t
procure land like this that Kansa
offers you now. Large syndicate
in the East are buying this land II
large quantities; naturally tn,
choicest and most valuable land will
soon be gone.
l know Of no country that offer
so great facilities for productiv
tilling Of the soil, raising OF stock
and all the pursuits of health an,
happy living. Kansas offers all thi
today. but gives no assurance Of
In few months hence. Kansa
statistics in the last five year
would surprise the most skeptical
and this year, 1909, brings NOR
immigrants into Kansas than an
preceding year.
Now, IL you don't care to hav
the finest farm in the land, with al
that would make a farmers life
happy, easy one, in the creates
Commonwealth of States, then jus
stay on that little "hill side" farm
where you can toll and work your
self to death for a bare existence
Kansas is the greatest State in tn
Union, more than twice as large a
Kentucky, and increasing in wealt
at a magical rate.