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The New West from Cimarron, Kansas • 2

The New West from Cimarron, Kansas • 2

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The New Westi
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Cimarron, Kansas
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2
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1 The I'reserv ion of I'oi'estv I i an i--! wn tie- ooy- it io ir A in Felix (js iii reviewing disast rous IT -ct-i i to I o.v-'d the Wholesale struct! iore-os in various ries i if hf) p-iM-irks ha' since th of tie- Western year 1H3 the 1 cinisphero ha- it the average yearly ra'e of or about 11, .100 sq mro miP Stated alone this rate ha iroiu st)Uiire miles in 1 in lM.r)5, itntl 8-100 in 1870, lie T-itl and 18 -5 the total ot b'le in South and Central America i iaby and J. isw-rn, Southern and I oar republic, may be estitnate'l ut TIIK NKVV WKST. i ma 11 on, 'ii, IHV! TO OIK Wo present, tho Initial number of TnF. Nkw Wkst to tho people of Footo and Mi -ado e.oiintios this week. The New Wkst in srriitl I sheet, hut like tho region l's name repros'-nts, will prow ra pid ly if i ts pat runs recognize the iTorfs that are rccessa ry to tho do vclopmc rit, of this region i iivs-paper.

Wo it Tin-: Nrcw West will live and room become a largo much sought, for shftt. This initial numhe-r is not a lair sample of what wo propose to rnako it locally, wh'-n wo got it, wo 1 1 into harness. Send us it.crns and su hsoribo. Tho law relating to the. settlement of tho estate of deceased persons passed llio Kansas Legislature so as to provide, tha.t widow, in addition to hor portion of her deceased hustia.i.d's ostato, shall he allowed to keep absolutely, for tho n-e of herself and children of tho deceased, ail personal property of the deceased which exempt to him from sale and execution at.

the time of his death. 45 000. 000 to 50, 00 at res. In other 'e li.iv'i t-eeii wasting the moisture i.i lie soil at the average r. sjVen cent, lor each quarter ot a rv -luring the iast one hundred and tv world and js worth a 'rip over that iiu- fie-ris tuntry the evidence thai r.r.v-s this assert ion.

I ISo-jford (In I. Gazette. What ever may bo said of the State, of Kansas and west, I am bound as an honest man to say, that in the mouth of June, to in eye, it is one the line--! countries I have seen, utter getting back one hundred miles from the Missouri river it has the tics! crops have over soeti anywhere. Wabash (Ind.) Gazette. Thousands drag vs through a miserable rkiuir hard all their iil'o, on what is here ternie.l a farm.

In Kansas there are over twenty million acres of land that, can mi had at from tvo to six dollars per acre. Tho soil is a much better than ours, as light is than dark ne.ss. Spring. el Rep i lie n. It has been demonstrated ovr anil over again, that the grasses of Kansas are as good as the world can produce for milk, The quality ol miik.and consequently the buffer and '-hoeso ar i superior to that of any ot her State, as tne cereals uv to that of other S'ao-s.

Ail of the iej'tcr made hits a rich, golden "olor, an is rior in fl ivor fo any butter ma-io east of Central New York, i'tn's is due, in great part, fo th- -Treat nutrition of our gras.es Western Homestead. The school of Kansas is verv oomph-to er'tioienf, and tne ample provisions for education in so newly a sealed country, justly excite the admiration and surprise of all who visit ho State for lie time. Fin--, large school houses. With all th- nio-iern improvements, are to be seen in ev-'ry town and village and throughout tin country good school houses and churches dot the landscape, anil indicate the intelligence, vaiity, thrift ami enterprise of the people, Highland News. OVElt THE STATE.

live years, and are now last appro t.i-- iima beyond which an further df wi I aii' -ct the cliniiitie. run-noinena -j "out inent. Ii we eonsitier how tic ugrionltur -t oi tiii; --as i continents b--iom- y-iir'o y-oir mor" to the ot n-'tr st ui-gi'owiug p'oiuiation, the time Wijell 'he of the 1 -pend upon the pro luctiv--n--s soil; por -pat pr. -luctiv i- )-iitis o'u 'in; A iiericun toi'ests, I thev ar- jr-j suail have on earth no newer world fur no tuture bjiummis can allovut -existence. To stay -uch fastr- pie the author suggests that in to-visuip, where the disappearance bur oil vegeta'lon ie-gins to ail'ect tb retiuial springs tm-l wa'--r courses oi lert'lity of the tleids, a space of fifty tie mr "towi grove," an oasis to be consecrated fo to shade trees, birds' n-'-ts, picnic ma ring enildr-n.

Lu ml new settlen where a remnant or the pnni-vnl ft surviveil, let the woods on the ridg'-s i)i- on th summi's of isolated be spared by mutual agr-e-neiit ot th rietors. In the oe-s r-'g'ons -a' NY --t only 'h mun'i-nr soc-bur i-V'-rv gr uigo iintl Tanners union er county, should device rheinsel' woriv ot tree cuif-tre; and --v-rv 1 ni- prietor shoniii see it hat tin? b'l iif't's oi hi es'a'i-s oe -et witn -hatle and that the wooden feuci be snppl hedges. L-t tl'llit tr4- I'Uie-l wherever there i a pice- In the Kansas Legislature a constitutional amendment prohibiting the sale and manufacture of spirituous liquors in the State, was submitted to a vote of tho people, at the general election to he held in November, lS-j). All other liquor legislation failed. Patches of blue firass are appearing in many places on the prairies and beside, the roads, and it is the opinion ot several with whom wo have con versed that the blue grass will eventually kill olT and take the place of the native grasses.

What Thoy Say A bou K.ms.n Kansas is tne place for work and industry to ho rewarded. Dn't cry hard times "back ist," but come out at ouch un 1 locate in Kansas. Wo have expressed our opionion so freely about ins, is that wo desire to give a few from others to substantiate our views: Kansas greater a Wantages than any other Western State. N. V.

Tribune. Fur vegetables, cereals ami grasses. I believe there is no better soil in the world. Horace Greeley. As a whole the most equable and desirable of any portion of.

the Western lleujU-phero. Frank Leslie's Illustrated Taper. The natural grasses ot Kansas are more nutritious and better relished by the stock than the cultivated grasses of the Fast, ttural New Yorker. Our observation has lea 1 us to believe that the soil of Kansas is of the most productive in tho war Id producing crops of almost every description iu prolille abundance. Elkhart (Ind.) Observer.

What was once laid down on our goo. graphy as tho "Groat American Desert." will product enough wheat to feed the r.e tji-i- oi li-rwi-c oocupicd nor id-o i' be sure that their indue! file atmosphere in summer and their tu will ra ore than he adjoitiing ti-i'i for the modu--u ilighf they mav intercept, Any Wheat in Uodgeraan county is looking well. Junction City is inf-etcd with a ging of thieves. Wabaunsee county is agitating rhe railroad question. Work has bean a on the railroad park at To pel: a.

Claim imping a as commenced in the western counties, Ellis county produced 0,000 pounds of tobacco List ar, F'Tty-oiie n-'W nil dings can be counted from one point Larnod. The acreage of spring wheat in Brown county 'n larger this year than ever betore. Six hundred and sixty-four lan-1 entries were madi? in Sumner county last summer. The prospects of an immense immigration info Kansas were never before so promising. Immigrants complain of the rough handling of their trunks, and goner al oagguge by railroad hands.

A disastrous lire swept over the west end of Sedgwick county last week, roving a grout deal of valuable property. Tho acreage of 0ars that will be sown in Sedgwick, county this year w'll be three tuu-s gre rer than that ever -own in the Co Utitv before. T-iere these precautions should be gl a iv adopted would soon be so unmisf ai ii -ringuished by the unfailing hunl aad ireshness of its tleids and the oi its cr ps, runt the sneer nee -c competition would induce bac' r. rs to try tin- expierim-uit, and I- ng the maxim would not only be geiil r-cognizeil, but genernlly acteil busbandrv and tree culttir are insi i'ie. Sci-'ntiilc American, ''he breeders of hue cattle of Brj county had their stock on exhibition.

Scott last week. Great improvemei nofed. and a large number of bull a be beaten anywhere were oi 'll. Great interest was mannef ha citizens and visitors..

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