The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1916-12-01
A BIG sANpIAN in KANSAS.

Satanic, Kansas, November 22. 1916
Dear Editor OF Big Sandy News:-
AS IL has been more than year since
l attempted to write line for your
paper, if you will allow me little
space. will give you few items from
South West Kansas. About the first
of last March moved from Barton CO..
Kansas. where | had made by home
since coming to Kansas eleven years
ago. / moved to Grant co., within SO
miles of Colorado and about 40 miles
OF Oklahoma, where have l-2 section
of land or in other words 800 acres. In
moving from Barton-co. made the
| trip over land with team and wagon
requiring l-2 days to make the trip
We had no improvements whatever
settled down on the Buffalo Grass. i
now have small barn built. good
small house and out buildings and
shallow WELL with windmill and pump,
we'll only PAS feet deep. ] have a large
cement water tank and a large reser-
voir have out an orchard OF young
| fruit trees of different varities. | had
about As acres in crop this last sum
mer, but the dry weather set in and /
raised but very little roughness. rails
ing no grain at all. now have this
l8pd all in wheat which looks fairly
weN, considering the moisture we had
herA> this summer and fall. | have 80
acres Ia. pasture and the balance will
be put into spring crops. ! have at
present, 6 head OF horses, one COW and
hogs, all to buy feed for this winter
and feed is sky high out here. Corn
is s1.0S bushel: maize kaffier tcorn)
is $500 cents hundred lbs; hay 1880
prairie alfalfa hay s140O to $4,000 a
ton: oil cake $47.50 a ton; flour s2.55
a sack OF 40 lbs; potatoes are $500
bushel, both Irish and sweet, Well
must tell you something about this
country out here.
Laying all jokes aside, | believe this
is the finest country in the world. We
live 10 miles from town and railroad
and on a nice clear morning we can
see the little town plainly. II is true we
can see our neighbors houses, and 6
miles away We have a fine climate
here the elevation being 1880 feet
above sea level. One mile north OF my
home rumor says we are to have a new
railroad built by the Santa Fe just mis-
sing my farm one mile south, after the |
first of the year Also land is selling |
fast here. from 100000 to 100000 a |
quarter, and II wont be many years |
until this land will be worth 800 per
acre. We have had two billiards this |
fall, one on October 10, 1916. the 9TH |
er on November II. IL and 10. 3 DAYS |
and nights.
Now l must tell you about our little /
town S years old on the new branch |
line OF the Santa Fe r. r. We have
about 400 population, two grocery
stores, one hardware, one general mer-
chandise, one lumber yard, two grain
elevators. and coal yards. one drug
store, two blacksmith shops, one gar
age, one hotel, two restaurants, one
auto livery and feed barn, one produce
house, one bank, four real estate offic-
es. The poultry man has been Offering
&c apiece for jack rabbits for Thanks
giving. He wanted car load and ]
tell you jack rabbits have been dying
by the hundreds for the last 5 days. |
was hunting with two men for five
hours today and we killed "a jack and
one cotton tail.
Now, II any OF my old friends or rel
ltives wish to write to me ! will glad
y answer them. / would like to know
where all my brothers and sisters live
Is have not heard from some OF them
'or the past or years. Will close
With best wishes for the Big Sandy
News and all my old Kentucky friends 9
NJ. F. ROSE.