The Free West from Burlington, Kansas • 1

West. ree Gud miylit make a Utvliar country than Kansas, but A Free Advocate of Free Homes for Free Men in the Free Section of onr Free Oouutrjr, for Free Distribution. CHEAP LANDS! LANE, KENT Land Agents and Brokers, CIRCULATIOX, 5,0 0 0. PUBLISHED BI-MONTHliY BI LANE, KENT CO. VOL.

II. BURLINGTON, COFFEY COUNTY, KANSAS, NOVEMBER, 1870. NO. 3. Planting Trees on the Prairies.

bought for a nominal sum. Set out ready claimed. The climate is mild and healthy, and not subject to the extremes of heat and cold From the Rural Now Yorker. Twenty-five years ago my father oae acre or nve nunurea as your ability will allow plant the kinds we have named, and as many more elt in more northern latitudes. The rasps the edge of his thrift as wine heats his stomach or tobacco taints his breath.

IIe can put it into Governments, but these are so easily convertible that he is not beyond temptation to hasty trades. Land, even if wild and remote, gives weight had a serious inclination to remove their riches for tlje want of more people and money. Beds of plaster of vast extent are ready to enrich the capitalist, farmer and mechanic. Stone-coal abounds in many places, and almost every week we hear of new veins being discovered. The rapids in our rivers furnish winters are abort, and but -A- little and as you prefer set out the hardy fruits plant hedges and behold the West.

Having a large family of boys, seven in number, the youngest snow talis; in tact, stock can, been wintered through here grand reward which awaits you and very well without being fed at all. your children, and your children children, in a few years from now many and good sites for all manu As far as drouth is concerned, that is a "bug bear" of the past.as we will hey will grow while you sleep, iu facturing purpones, and ballasts character. A. man is not counted richer than if his acres were shares, but solid men count on him, and grave men respect him. There are such magnificent possi compare the last eight or ten years lh prairies are estimated to pro sunshine and in rain, and your climate will become less rigorous theie- duce grass suthcient to teed and of whom would have been old enough in ten years to have done good work on the farm, and "four of whom were at that time old enough to have made good hands at any kind of farm labor.

By a series of unfor-seen misfortues, he had been suddenly robbed of about fifteen thousand dollars, which left him about three thousand dollars, "all told." He knew no trade himself, nor did bilities in land. We know that by, and your pockets mere pleta- pasture all the stock in the United States. with almost any other state in the Union with regard to being seasonable. There never was a finer prospect for large and heavy crops than Southern Kansas can snow this sea orio. LANE, KENT CO.

Have 500,000 acres of Wild and Improved land for sale in the Neosho Valley, the garden Bpot of Kansas, Wild lands range from $2 to $8 per acre Improved lands are offered at $10 to $30 per acre. Now is the time to purchase the land, while it is cheap. The railroad will enhance their value from two hundred to three hundred per cent. There is no section ia Kansas offers better inducements to people seeking farming lands than the Neosho Valley. It is destined to be to Kansas, what the Genesee Valley is to New York and the Wabash Valley -to It the best timbered and the hesl watered section ia the State.

Its soil is adapted to growth of orn and all the cereals, and is equal to south western Missouri in producing fruit. Lands are cheaper there than in portion of the State farther north-owing to its comparatively sparsely conditon. But the railroad will revolutionize this state of affairs. Get ahead of the railroad. Now is the I have often thought that Room yet for hard-working farm work aqd skill can make it worth $100 an acre.

If the spires and smoke-stacks of great a city grow up ers room for hard-working mecha would be a grand idea for our gov son. All kinds ot truit grows here nics room tor enterprising manu within sight of our acres, they may fo lots, and what Iras fought without trouble, all that is required facturers room for thorough-going ernment to take the matter ot planting trees upon her public lands in her own hands, upon a grand bv the section mav sell bv the foot. is to plant, Jf or stock, southern business men room for laboring either of my brothers, and land being very high in that part of Kentucky he had not money enough to scale. Let her reserve every other Kansas is the paradise of the stock But, to be exact, I do not see how a man can miss it who buys land in preachers room for teachers room for several thousand marriageable girls and women -room for children room for capital room Central Kansas. It is a charming quarter section of land, and make it incumbent upon those who purchase the alternate sections, to plant trees and hedges, and wind buy a farm, in this condition he made a trip to the West, and found that the best of land could be had raiser.

With vast ranges or cattle and almost unbounded pasture, land which never will be entirely closed up and cramped up as it is in more Eastern States, and the very small amount of care and attention it region, picturesque in its lay-out and rich in soil, and the olimate Ss to growrich. Kansas Guide. for a song." For a year or two salubrious. But above all I have been impres breaks upon Her reserves, in payment for the land she sells. This notion may be a chimerical one, but he "halted'' in his opinion, and finally abandoned the idea of going Wow.

from the Kaaaas Adrartiaar.J sed with the importance to every requires to raise stock, this country will always stand first on the stock Now is the time to come to Kan young man who means to be a man, then it is not more so than many ist in Howard county. Water is out there altogether, ratal determination The result was, that we all grew up here to manhood, and to-day not one of us is a farmer other things she does; and, to my opportunity. sas and sow the seeds that will enable you at no distant day to reap and have a home of his own, and enjoy the dignity and peace of a streams winding all over the county, every few miles the mind, tar less so, it it be a chimera at all. arid-owner, to put his first earnings J. M.

Lane, Orson Kent, S. S. Prouty. 1 nave mused over this matter the fruits of enterprise. A year or two hence will be too late to seize the opportunities that now lie with water in them being good as they are all fed by springs.

Good water WoODMllf. Stanford, Kt. many times, and have seen what an oversight he made. Let us suppose into a purchase of acres. This country is to bo swarmed full of poor Ireland and Germany will send their thousands, and China in the grasp of any one possessing common energy and the natural that he had, twenty-five years ago, Soldier's Homesteads.

is obtained by digging from sixteen to twenty-five feet. The county is well supplied with timber, in fact, gone to any Western State say American snap. Come now can snip us millions, J-hey ask Illinois, Missouri, or Indiana and While yet our fertile prairies offer mainly for work most of them, especially the Chinese, not aspiring scttlec' upon land which he could as well as any county in southwestern Kansas, if not better, the Land Officb, Humboldt, Sept. 22d, 1870. We are flooded with letters of in their broad acres to the farmer at have obtained, at that tune, and to land.

If the young man "of prominent kinds being oak, walnut since, trorn the Uovernment. As quiry relative to the provisions of a figure within the reach of the poorest the cultivation of the soil while yet our growing towns offer and hackberry. Sandstone and we grew up and formed fanii imestone are found all over the the late law of Congress, giving a lies of our own, each could American blood, born without fortune, would distinguish himself permanently from these multitudinous toilers, let him get title to land. homestead of lot) acres to persons their lots to the mechanic and the merchant, the artisan and the manu have received his portion of country, as fine building sandstone as can be found anywhere, and as good sand for plastering purposes who served in the late waa, and as we have no time to answer all the the public domain, and each had a facturer on the easy terms of im Isow he can do it, for" the Western roads are pushed vigorously into home, embiacmg many acres which otters received, we adopt this provement. Where throughout all as cau be found on the Arkansas might have been had in one body, our great Union can you find such river, lhe county appears to be method of informing the public as to its provisions regions where lands are cheap.

The roads become large land-owners, almost on vast coal bed as far as choice to secure tor yourselves and thus formed quite a large co lony. 1st. lhe late law. does not ma prospected, and we can compete and families a competence before the snows and frosts of old age sap Carrying out the idea further, terially change tho old law except with any county in the state with How to Make a Fortune. Not a week passes that does not bring letters to this and other offices of this city, from young men who want to do something and scarcely know what that something 'should be.

addresses of the writers include every State and nearly every important postoffice in the Union. An able writer on this subject in the Chicago Tribune says that perhaps a thrid of the young men of this country are on the look-out for an open door, a favorable chance, an opportunity." From' the letter of thfs same correspondent we have collected and somewhat modified the following, making it applicable to the situation here: 1. Openings for those who have thin wallets and strong" hands. The west has no word of cheer to who have never laid up a cent. There is not much hope here or elsewhere for him who is utterly unthrifty, who spends all he earns, and lets all money slip through his fingers, and fall into deep waters.

It is only a question of time and accident how long he will be above one particular, which is that your energies, and chill your glow regard to extent, quantity and suppose several of our neighbors, in the same condition as ourselves, had ing ambitions Here VV here Kail under the ol law no person can take as a homestead of more than gone out with us, and made a set Roads are being built faster than knowing that locomotives are sure to bring settlers, and settlers are suro to bring freight and travel. Desirable situations command $5 an acre at least, and choice sections from $10 to $12. But lands can be entered on tht line of projected roads, and there is the true field for sagacity and thrift. If you are quality of our coal. With regard to streams, Elk river and Cana river being the two largest, rise near tlement erecting as we occame eighty acres within railroad limits, in any other place upon the globe, able, a school house, church, -stretching their- iron arras gree the west boundary of the county, what a thriving community we might dily fourth with daring hitherto un or ut lands at tne maximum value of $2,50 per acre, while under the new law, persons who served ninety days in the late war, and have an have become, long ago, and what Elk running a distance of thirty miles a little south of east through the county, receiving on the north, known, even to wilds yet unfamiliar wealth of lands we might now be to we settler.

content to earn $2 and spend $2, if eniovingl still carrying out the The idea that Rail Roads must honorable discharge, can homestead Kock, rapaw, and snake. you trust to youth and vigor, and building of this "air castle it such 00 acres, by paying the usual om- wait until they have a thrifty popu- Clear, Mound and Branch creeks ce fees. It gives to no one the on the south, have all more or less ation along their lines ere con it might be called suppose we had each planted fruit, shade and forest expect, in some vague way, that a fortune will come to you, and you will wake up some sunny morning to find yourself in competency, you structing them, has been buried timber. Cana, flowing south and east a distance of about forty miles trees at the time, on many acres of privilege of homesteading lands granted to Railroad Companies, but simply tho alternate sections, our land raising them from seed through the county, is hcavilv tim will find yourself sinking and sink such as chestnuts, maples, walnuts, upon which soldiers are allowed to bered, and receives with its three ing in the social scale wealthy men with other mouldy ideas of the past. A map is taken, a route marked out, tho road built before Old Fogy wakes from his nap.

Wise and fortunate is the man, who with courage and foresight anticipates the route, hickory, gum, oak, beech, etc, forks near the head the waters of homestead lbO acres, and civilians will seem to stand on shining hights which you cannot scale you will and set Osage hedges around our the dishonor of taking alms, or deaf only eighty acres. Little Cana, Otter and Cedar. respective boundaries; crossed and to the whispers of crime. But there LA. The privileges of thia law de Union Centre, three miles from find yourself shoveling side by side re-crossed our fields with wind-breaks are thousands who can take to the the centre of the county east and and settles upon it near a good town with an alien whose language is jar of cedar, pine, fir, hemlock, etc, not extend to the Cherokee neutral nor the Osage Lands.

The provisions of the treaties by which those site, he has made' a long step to west, is situated partly on a beauti gon. uespitp tne nne pnrases aoout what would have been our real wards fortune, "his children will ful bottom ot Elk river, and partly the dignity of labor, a hireling and wealth now Can you reasonably rise uo and call him blessed." This ands were secured, expressly pro on gradually sloping upland about figure up its net value 7 West $400 or $500, and this very large class are -vitally interested in knowing what to do with themselves and their money. Standing in this city and looking in any direction, he can hardly miss of getting rich land. The region is a vast prairie; the centre of the heaviest body of hibit homesteads thereon. We have nothing to do with the disposal of is no fancy sketch of a thing impos sible or improbable Rail Road: a landless man in America is little better off than in'the old world, for his condition is a proof that he has let a hundred opportunities gallop timber on upper Elk.

The bottoms Gathering up lands, from time to time, here and there planting seeds and trees for timber, fire wood, the Cherokee Neutral Lands, and must and will be built to every por in the vicinity will admit of two tier only have authority to dispose of of improvements. The town has tion of the state, and ordinary sa past him without having the dash it was all made by similar action of the Usage Lands (not granted Kail- but recently been laid off but now gacity will guess nearly the route and courage to bridlo one of them the elements one-quarter section contains one furniture store, gro lhis has been done, and is now be every year on all newly acquired territory, we could at this day have had hundreds of acres covered with noble forests of trees living fences So, instead of riding to honor and road Companies) to actual settlers for $1.25 per acre in cash. is like a thousand quarter sections ing done, but how long will these opportunities last Not long! For competence, be must plod on wearily to a poor man's unmarked lhe various papers in the district around it. He must study a rail road map, and see the relation of and screens, fruits of all kinds and, will place us under obligations, and settlers are now coming into the cery, bootstore, blacksmith, butcher, two carpenter firms and several other branches preparing to build as fast as they can obtain material. There will be a new stationery grave.

R. E. Register. in a world, each would now have relieve us of much trouble by giv State by carloads, and wagon loads, region to great lines of travel and arrowing cities. He.

need have no all comfort, happiness and plenty Howard County. ing this publicity through their every day, to sieze them, knowing that wealth ot lands could bestow. From the UdIod Ctntr Qaietto. fear that a country will not be set columns. the marvelous facility wherewith homesteads may here be created.

steam saw mill on the town site by the first of August, after that, build Howard county, immediately tied, that his choice may be remote and fail to draw neighbors. If he I ask you, sir, to say whether or not the picture here drawn is a "cas Watson Stewart, Register. D. B. Emmert, Receiver.

south of Greenwood, is about thirty ing 'will go on rapidly. At present of this the seen, wagon tle in the air a cloud painting, can give good cogent reasons why miles in extent east and west, by lumber has to be drawn from Eure some ntty north and south, there All letters of inquiry addressed with enter Daily upon the streets Capitol City can be after wagon loaded prising emigrants families, seeking to ka, just twenty-four miles north of which has been drawn from the wells of an idle, imaginary brain or he goes to a certain place, there will be a hundred others who can give the same reasons. Go where being about ten miles of what is to us should contain a stamp to pay return postage to insure prompt with their better tlcir us. The town company offer every inducement to persons coming in to whether or not the plan spoken of known as the second mile strip the soil is strong and the face of would have been, in every sense, prospects, and doing so. Well does which was reserved from the Osage tribe of Indians some two or three locate, and will undoubtedly build up a large town, for there Is settle wholly practicable and which could the country not wholly flat.

If you Horace (jreely say that "Kansas is answer. We readily spend the time necessary to answer questions asked but do not feel like paying the postage as it makes a heavy tax on us. have been carried out to the letter years ago, and the thirty mile strip ment and community to support it. going ahead magninciently and and spirit? True, disease and death now treated lor trotn the sarne tribe predict the child is born who will Elk Falls, near the east side of the county on Elk river, is another see a place that has beauty, where a meandering stream sparkles between grassy swells, where a hill gives you a cheerful panorama for many miles of oaks, and prairies, A word to the wise, etc. see her fifth if not fourth in popula might have, and probably would have, decimated our numbers but included within the limits of the county.

On account of the way tion and production among the town containing a couple of Btores, then is it not equally true that those this land has been, and will be, dis Houses and lots in all parts of States of our Union." And this is Greenfield, near the three forks of couses have, any way, thinned our frequent stacks, and farm houses Cana river, has lately been laid out posed of, the couuty will be closely and rapidly settled. On the twenty beginning to nestle on the lea of ranks, even here, and spread mourn the town for sale at prices ranging from $400 to $3000 Many of them are good bargains. We do not ad in a pleasant location and in a good" no idle prediction, but founded on facts patent to all who have eyes to see, and ears to hear. The time mg and desolation amidst our van county, and will undoubtedly make a poiut. Cedar Yale, near the mile strip the actual settler obtained his land by living upon it six months and making necessary improve has gone by, for Kansas to stand ous households lhe plan was practical, and is still so more so vertise each separately as sales are made frequently before the descrip timber belts, and young orchards rising thriftily from the rich prairie mold, if the land has not already taken very high figures, buy, break the sod, put up the cabin, get seed, pleading for settlers.

Now the of south line of the county on Cana, ments, and before it will be brought tion would be in print. fers the unrivalled advantages of this day than at that distant time To-day, thousands ot acres of land is another new town situated in as good a part of the county as can into public market it will be so rich in exhaustless soil, lie all over grain and some cows. Others will nearly entered and settled upon that Our paper is sent to any part of be found, both as regards land, set her climate and soil, of her living streams and the timber skirting them and not least, the coal which those Western States, as far as the see what you have seen, and do as speculators cannot obtain but tlement and timber; and will make a the country post paid upon application to us. Still we Rhould not feel ocean coast railroads span the you have done, ani presently quarter here and there, none in fine town. underlies a large proportion of her area and the limestone which crops large bodies.

The entering up of Continent, and cross and re-cross seminary will be shining on the hill-too, church spires will show white The county is rapidly filling up with emigrants "from the northern all the states: cities have arisen large tracts of land by non-rosi- insulted if persons in applying for copies of the paper should send us twenty-five cents to assist us in paying postage. since then, and thousands people and eastern states, school houses above the trees, there will be bank, "hotels and stores. Then wil the prairies, thus opening up splen being built, and educational are donts always has been a curse to a new country, but under the circumstances we will certainly avoid that difficulty. The thirty mile strip did markets for all that farmer has follow active talk of a railroad, a matters attended to. Society is to sell.

Interests of non-residents looked lively canvass of what farms it wil good rough characters are almost cut, and where the stations are to To-day the Government is ready will come under the same provision unknown and will not be tolerated. be, squads of men with three-legged The soil of Howard county equals to apply the benefits ot her Home after at a trifling expense. Will pay taxes and post you on increase in valuation and all other matters which influence the value of your stead Law to each of her citizens brass and painted poles, and out at almost every bluff, in nearly every ravine and she says "Here you can find a Home." Reader, we ask you to choose for your own benefit, and make one more among us. Now yon can secure rich homesteads and lay the foundations for a happy and useful life with case and plenty beckoning in the near distance. It may require hard work at first but labor, well applied now in Kansas, is worth ten-fold the same amount which will necessarily be required a few years later.

any in the State both for richness and depth; the valley land along the streams being not so low as to who will go out there and subdue waving flags, then squads with shov Wants of Kansas. Kansas wants 400,000 more moti and women els and mule carts, then the distant tho prairies with the plow and axe property. roar followed by the sharp scream strong-minded, lug-hearted, en be wet, swampy and unhealthy, but comparatively dry and rolling, and trees and hedges planted now will grow and flourish, and in a few years be sources of untold wealth and civilization, tullgrown and terprising, persevering and mus armed, with banners aloft, and con The best selection of both business and residence lots ever offered in this town are now offered for salo at cular people, afraid of nbthing but wrong to develop and build up all to those who plant them. The upland will compete with any in the State, and in fact with any other Slate, being not broken, but gradually sloping back from the the interests and institutions of this Let the masses of the poor land our office. Be suro and call before quering tramp is upon you.

Land that you get for $5 you wont soil for $50, and you can make it worth growing State. less farmers of our countiy try the experiment; stud the prairios wit $100. Your fortune is assured. "MlN not I ho occMinn, lijr tli forelock Ink That iuIiiIo power the u.ror balling Tims, Lmi a mere momenta turning ufl may make Mlacbauc elmoel ea liMTjr aa a crime. streams, and in fact, not far behind valleys for producing a crop.

There trees let them be obtained from 2. Those who can invest. It is purchasing. Tho Burlington Patriot, a weekly paper published at Burlington, Kansas. Terms, two dollars per annum.

A. D. Brews, Kditer and Proprietor, never wise for a young man to keep Millions of acres of rich farming lands invite the farmer's toil. The hills and bluffs abound in rich building stone of the best kinds. Salt spring asi arab.M are wasting the many nurserymen all over the "West, already propagated and are upland claims near the timber on the streams yet to be taken, even better thai tea tettoa laid al- his wallet fat with spending money For bargains in land or town lots call eu Use, Kelt 4e Ce.

The eoniciouineM that it there ready te plant eut. They tan be.