The Western Homestead du lieu suivant : Onaga, Kansas • 2

THE WESTERN HOMESEEKER POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY Pottawatomie county lies in the The Onaga Courier's A Monthly Journal, devoted to the Real Estate int erests of Kansas and the West. C. A. MEARA, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER northeastern part of the state, being in the second tier south from the Nebraska line. It has an area of 848 square miles, and a population of ranking as the thirty-first county in the state in the number of inhabitants.

The total assessed yllWcicWl frubscription Price. 25 Cents per Year. Advertising Kates, quoted upon Application. DEAL ESTATE MEN and owners will find it to their advantage to use the I II IPS eaX I I 1 columns of The JIomeseekeu. the paper is wot published in the interest of any particular firm or business, but its purpose is to keep its readers fully informed as to what is on in real estate circles throughout the West, and at the same time provide advertisers and property owners a reliable medium through which they may reach all classes of people interested in wiiat they have to sell.

amounts to ivorgenerany diversified farming and stock raising it is a recognized fact that Pottawatomie is one of the banner counties of the entire state, and the eleventh biennial report of the State Board of Agriculture contains some interesting figures on this The total value of all animals slaughtered and sold for slaughter in the county during the year 1898 was $1,680,011, making it the first rn the state. In the number of milch cows it stood fourth, other cattle, fifth, and swine, third. In farm products it was also well up toward the head of the list, ranking ninth in the production of corn, first in hay, OF POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY, KANSAS, There is more gold to be mined in the. corn and wheat fields of Kansas than in the gold fields of the Klondike. Mail Breeze.

Will-soon be issued in book form by Townships, on the scale of one and one-half inches to the mile. Every property owner who owns twenty acres or more of land will find his name and location of land as shown in the following township map. The book will contain the twenty-three townships of the county, a complete county map and a plat of each town of the county. All county roads will be shown, together with school houses, school districts, creeks, etc. The following plate of Mill Creek Township is one-fourth the size of the plate which will appear in the book If you desire to sell your farm advertise it in TriE JIomeseekeu, and we can put you in- communication with the man who wants to buy.

MILL CREEK TOWNSHIP. Township 6, Range n. Now is the time to invest in a Kansas farm. Land is steadily advancing in value, and with few exceptions can never be bought again at the prices asked this fall. sixth in millett, and tenth in potatoes.

Few counties in Kansas contain a larger area of grazing land, and the enormous production of corn, hay and winter feed makes it essentially a stock raising ccunty. The general surface is rolling, with bluffs on the Kansas and Blue rivers. Soil ranges from two to four feet in depth, and is generally a rich, black loam, unsurpassed by any in the state. Fine limestone quarries, from which an excellent quality of building material is obtained, are found in nearly every portion of the county away from the valleys, and the better class of buildings in the cities and towns are constructed from this material. Many The IIomeseekeh offers land owners an opportunity to place their land before prospective purchasers at a minimum cast, and it will repay any-cne anywhere to write us for our rates and methods of advertising.

bolts timbcrt Kansas exercises trie same fascination over me that she does over all who have ever yielded to her spell. There are some women whom to have c-nce loved renders it impossible ever to love again. As the ''gray and melancholy main" to the sailor, the desert tathe Bedouin, the Alps to the mountaineer, so is Kansas to her children. John J. Ingalls.

tni 7 tfll Jf; 1 1J CiVUl. W.ftiytt iMmfrf' UUSV fUUL illW "iHtI 7i i U-4 W.U. 1 ilAWa -r fWAWnJu 'Ty'Wi riTi wiw ilw 1 li Jh C. i-Tr ft k- HhVotAm 3 I 32 33 r- iL4-LtJ is 11 .3 I JitiVi 1 W1! ttmBtrjM -3--- J' MV 3 UU, 3 31' UtfM- Ui.SiJ, ranging from 25 to 80 rods wide, traverse the county, affording besides excellent protection for live stock an unlimited supply of The largest towns are Wamego. and St.

Marys on the Kansas river, while Onaga, Havensviile, Wheat on, Blaine, Olsburg and Garrison in the northern part are substantially built, thrifty towns, drawing trade from a large territory. Westmoreland, the county seat, is located near the central part of the county, and contains about 500 inhabitants. It is surrounded by some of the finest farming and grazing lands in Kansas, and as soon as the new railroad now in contemplation is constructed, will undoubtedly become a city of considerable importance. It will repay every person who receives a copy of this paper to carefully read every word printed herein. The list of lands published this mouth contains some exceptionally fine bargains, and some that will not last long.

If you arc tired of renting, look over the list, and make up your mind to own a home of your own. We will cheerfully furnish any information that wc possess relative to lands To the individual looking for a new location where he may possess all the comforts of life, enjoy the privileges of irood schools, trood churches, and the society of good neighbors, we he lieve that Pottawatomie offers attrac tions that can be found in very few section of the country. Here land is I cheap, the soil productive, the atmosphere bracing, the water pure, and the. people happy, contented and prosperous. The sunflower isn't the only Kansas One-fourth the size to be used in the lxok.

The complete map of the county is worth $2.00 per copy, but we have put the price in reach of every business man, farmer or laborer of the county. We have concluded to give it as a PREMIUM product which attains a remarkably rank and rapid growth. In the office of the Caney Chronicle there is a castor bean stalk fourteen feet in height, and the editor soberly declares that in crder to. gather the beans a seven-foot ladder would be necessary. By the way, Kansas is about the luckiest place on the world this year.

This state has abundant moisture to produce great crops, but last week's national crop report states that there is a marked deficiency in rainfall, over the gulf states, in New England, over the northern portion of the middle Atlantic states; 'portions of the lake region, central Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys. The map shows that the wettest and driest points are on the Mississippi river, and that Eastern Kansas-has been most greatly blessed with rainfall. Some growlers have been complaining because their rainwater barrels have been overflowing, but while their barrels were overflowing all Kansas was receiving the moisture neees-ary for the production cf great crops and all the energetic farmers of the state will have the great crops. to every citizen who sends us One Dollar for one year's subscription to The O.v.voA Coi-rter. The Coi rtep.

is a neat paper, full of interesting news, and within the next few weeks many changes will be made in our printing machin- 4 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 rr 1 4 ery, ana a corps 01 corresponuenrs win do. nau wnicn ai iuaKPinh 4 one of the lest local papers in the county. The map will be issued about July 1S99, and those desiring same should send in their order at once. i In another column will be found an advertisement of the new sectional township map of Pottawatomie county, soon to be issued by the Onaga Courier. The map will show all school district boundaries, roads, streams and railroad lines, in addition to the name of the owner of every farm in the county.

It will be a valuable work and should be in the hands of every property owner. The Onaga Courier, ONAGA, KANSAS. L. F. ROHRBECK, Publisher..