Year: 1859

Hlt1ln lew SHOEt Weeks al tuHen5S
tide of human emigration VIII be pouring
into Kansas from every portion of the Union.
mostly for the gold regions around Pixies
Peak. A great many. however. win stop
in Eastern Kansas, preferring to make homes
upon our fruitful soil rather than trust to
the uncertainties of gaining wealth in an
anexplored land, after risking the dangers
of long. tOilsome journey over the arid
plains to the west Of Us. We do not wish
to speak discouragingiy of the prospects
of gold in Western Kansas. because we know
bat little about It. But our object in this
Is to show forth the advantages of this
portion of Kansas to those Who may,
designedly or otherwise, come and settle
here the present season. It is evident that
not all will risk : trip to the mines who start
for there, and it is also quite certain that 3
large emigration will be directed thither
independent of that for the mines. Be this
as it may. We have golden offers to make to
those who win cast their lot among us in
this Eeosho Valley. No better sod can
anywhere else be found; ne hare timber in
abundance. clear running streams. luxuriant
meadows and fertile uphnds. Every varie
ty of soil with woodland can be found upon
the same quarter-section. where every spe
cies of cereal or vegetable product can be
raised simost without cultivation. Fruit
trees and the vine also flourish to their full
extent. Our stock fatten to tameness, and
winter without feeding. Land yet untaken
is abundant-thousands of acres laying in
waiting for the settler.


Breckenridge is the best county in the In
terror. This is an assertion which cannot
be successfully controverted. Its whole
length and breadth is traversed by some of
the best streams in the Territory. Begin
ming in the northern portion of the county,
and coming this way we have Elm Greek,
lac. Duck Greek. Neosho and Cottonwood.
In the western portion of the county is
Rock Greek, tributary of the Neosho, and
further down we have Dow and Allen creeks.
Some of these creeks dry up during the hot
season, but most of them are pure and living
streams the year round, and are skirted on
either side with bountifui supply of oak,
walnut, blackberry. cottonwood and other
kinds of timber. The timbered claims, how
ever. are for the most part, taken up; but
thousands of as good prairie claims as ever
the sun shone on, are awaiting to yield up
their wealth to the toll of the honest and
industrious husbandman. Experience teach
es that the prairie farms will, when the coun-
try once becomes settled, be more valuable
and more desirable as places of residence
than those that are timbered.


Up and down these streams, and scattered
over the broad prairies. will be found the
cabins of the hardy pioneers. and we can
not leave this subject without saying few
words in reference to them. From perso-
nal acquaintance with many of the settlers
from all portions of the county we can free
ly say that it has never been our good luck
to become acquainted with more honora-
BILE, moral and intelligent set of people any
where. Although pinched by the hard
StLICO, ou0 SS'CAOlS AiOI4 Ol gnu
ague during the past season, they have made
rapid strides in the opening up of their
farms, and in few years what happy
sight it will be to see


"smooth highways set with hedge-rows living
green,


With steepled towns through shaded vistas seen,
The sehOolhouse murpuring with its hive-like
swarm,


The brook bank whitening in the grist-miI' Storm
The painted farmhouse shining through the leaves
OF fruited orchards bending at its caves,
Where live again, around the Western hearth,


The homely old-tine virtues of the North
Then indeed will the hardy tiller of the soil
feel that his labor is repaid, and that he
has not suffered hardships and endured pri-
vations IN vain.


In conclusion, We would earnestly solic-
it those looking for desirable homes to come
to Breckenridge county and visit the locali-
ties alluded to above. and you cannot fail to
be suited.