The Kansas Pacific Homestead from Lawrence, Kansas • 3

Stations. Distances, on the Reach Them. The Shaded Belt indicates the Lands for Sale Six Million Acres. omaha oq Council Blvfs FLDodae IC Tfl If VSi'iZi vi J1i otTROirA) LAKE i ritr iitii i rr 'Xebrnsta Cy. TV r-iii I I I I II O.Kl.

'a 1 LEAn-, I Samia Vindxof lmV'-. -v. oS' I IV jN A 1 li A Oi i 1 AOISO CCSTRAI. CwfttKI.INO Richmond 3, PETEBSSrSG- EMPORIA nee I t.XJ NORFOLK Tafker A' si. 3 0 ID 4 I (D rH 1 32 CQ 2 i 3 3 5 2 i -I 1 4 Ji 5 3D KANSAS PACIFIC MAIN LINE.

STATIONS. Kaon City State Lire Leavenworth 1 ArmMrong 8 Money Sidir 9 Secondine 13 Edwardnrflle Ft. Parker 14 443 El -worth ...1,440 r0 Ulark Wolf 419 Rowland lSs 253 Banker Hill 1.7 4fi4 RaFM-n 1.731 474 Walk-r 47H Vctoria 1.KJ7 4H9 llay ljm 30i D1U 4.019 314 Ogallah 315 Keim 344 Treeo 1.347 34B Coyote t.4'H 354 RntTal'o 4.mS 304 Grinnell t.nK 37C Carlyle 4.S4S Monnmetit 3.t 643 nt) GT.T en Til Tiblow Si Lenape 47 Stranger 31 Fall Leaf 36 L. L. Junction.

38 Lawrence 43 Buck Crerk 44 WniiamcvUle 51 PerrrviUe. 5t Medina 55 Newman 715 TW TT.I T33 T03 CO Gratitville f.7 Topeka Silver Lake i 81 HowiHe 90 St. Mary 97 Belme 104 110 St. George 1W Manhattan 1 Osden 135 Fort Riley 138 Janction CltT S7 tpher 3.44t 0 Shrtidan 3.014 440 Wallace 3.4(13 449 Eagle Tail 437 Monotony 454 Araboe 4C4 Cbeyenne 474 Firrt Mew 4.479 4 Kit Carxon 4.19! Wild Hot 4.340 511 Aioya 4.550 543 Viraae 4.743 531 Huco 517 Lake 5.403 555 Hirer Rend 5fi4 Cedar 5.14 7 PIT 835 837 W4 wa 9M "54 971 114 Kna Fall 150 Chapman 1.01S 157 Detroit 1.07 IfiS Abilene 1.057 174 Solomon 1.1C7 ITS DonmeyY l.owi IS. Slina 1.147 Havana 1.173 400 nmnkville 1.43M Rock Spring 1543 410 FJm Creek 1.470 S16 Somrait Una Godfrey 5.10 574 Apate 5.3Xi 5KJ IlTrul 5.i7 595 Rijon 5.705 fir Kiowa 5.37i K17 Elder.

5-l 629 Schayler 5.43 6. r. P. 639 Denver 5.10j 3P The Short-rt and only Direct Ronte from Ksi-City to Denver. Good hotel- and eating hour at convenient point on thl route.

Evrrj- attention riwcu to comfort and wifely of all pawnerti. S. LYTORD. Vf Kana( Cm. Mo.

Tt will pay to be out early in the morning, and the plough at work, the horses fed, and all lands up to the mark. It will pay to attend promptly and energetically seed time and harvest. It will pay to proterlv corral your cattle and sheep, and see that all their several wants are attended to. It will pay to bank the products of your harvests, abstain as much as ossible from writing checks. Always remember, that an honest man is the noblest work of God." He who, in Kansas, attends to these maxims-.

never leave the State on account of grasshoj- pers or drouth; and the sooner those iersons leave who don attend to them, it will be so much the better, for in leaving, 4 they leave their countrv their country's good." SHEEP HUSBANDRY. This branch of farming, well looked after and properly managed, is one of the most profitable pursuits that can Iks engaged in. One of the great inducements it holds out to the farmer is the quick and ever increasing return it gives him for his outlay. The short, succulent buffalo grass affords excellent nourishment through spring, summer and autumn, while the blue joint, made into hay, will feet! well through the winter. The following extracts from letters received by the Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, are from large sheep raisers in Kansas J.

D.Smith, manager to George Grant, and Vice-President for the Wool Growers' and Sheep Breeders' Association of Kansas, writes Any intelligent and practical farmer exieriencd in this industry, can only pronounce one verdict Western Kansas as a sheep raising territory, and that a most favorable one. The flock of sheep under my care is owned by George Grant, of Victoria, Ellis County, Kansas, and consists of two thousand head of Missouri ewes, purchased this summer in various lots, including, as is generally the case in founding a flock of that size, a considerable number of broken-mouthed ones, a flock of pure-bred Cotswold ewes, and two small lots of Lincoln and Leicester ewes. The rams, consisting of over fifty head of Cotswold, Lincoln, Oxford Downs and Leicesters, were all imjorted, and were purchased out of flocks assessing the purest strain of blood in their resjective breeds that England can produce. As a guarantee that there is no falsity in this assertion, I may mention that the Cotswold rams the breed of sheep that has hitherto received the greatest share of patronage of all long-wools, were purchased of Messrs. Kussell Swanwick, of the lloyal Agricultural College of England farm Barton, of Tyfield Gil-lett, of Kilkenny; Lane, of Broadfield; and other breeders whose names are all to the ramocracv" of the world.

It may be interesting to know how the imported rams have lecome acclimated on the plains, and the mode of treatment they have received. I left Cardiff with them on the 4th of April, and only reached Victoria on the 26th of May. They were immediately turned loose on the range, and subsisted entirely on buffalo grass all summer. Six of them were exhibited at the Kansas City Exposition and the Kansas State Fair, without having received any artificial food, and carried off the premiums against all comers, loth fine and long wools, and were in a condition justifying the assertion that buffalo grass is rich, natural food, and well adapted for sheep. I am convinced from this short esperienct that the whole western region lying alongside the Kansas Pacific Railway, is one vast sheep range, and admirably suited for this industry in every respect, always providing that sufficient protection is erected to shelter the flock in severe weather and the day is rapidly nearing when thousands of flocks will dot the surfac of what has hitherto been the Great American Desert.

Vast herds of Texas cattle have hitherto monopolized those rich grazing regions; but it only requires to prove to capitalists, by one or two successful t-flbrts, that the golden ball is rolling at their feet in the shape of wool and mutton, and once this fact is proved beyond cavil, these moneyed men will throw their energies to catch it in the direction of this western territory." Richard J. Stephenson, ot abaunsee County, Kansas, wrote on December 26th, 1873 Kansas, as a State, is well adapted to sheep husbandry, and in Wabaunsee County I can raise wool and mutton for fifty per cent, less than I can in the State of Ohio but, as in other localities, we need protection from the worthless curs. In ray four years' experience in Wabaunsee County, I have not bad a sheep killed by dogs or wolves!" James O'Neill, of Jefferson County, Kansas, wrote on December 22nd. 1873 "I am bound in onor to state, that there is no other State in the Union more adapted to the raising of all kinds of sheep than this, and I doubt there being any stock raised in the State that will pay as large a ALBANY: A S. IBOS1 srsiKor i Ni SlCWPnlST 3' 13 HILADI Si ft cannot be surpassed, the greater portion of it being covered with a luxuriant growth of rich and succulent buffalo grass.

The Imttom lands produce prairie grass in quantities sufficient for the supply of hay, while th deep ravines and numerous bluffs give good shelter from storms. For sheep farming, the peculiar formation of the county renders it pre-eminently adapted the pursuit of which must become a staple business. dryness of the atmosphere, and the nature of soil, form an effective preventive against rot, while the absence of burrs and thorny plants, save loss of wool, which facts combined, will tend make this section of the country the great wool market of the West. OSBORN AND ROOKS COUNTIES. Osborn was organized in 1871.

Population in 1874, 3,890. Osborn City is the. county seat. Rooks was organized in 1872. Population in 1874, 567.

Mock-ton is the county seat. The north and south iorks ot the olomon river traverse both counties, with numerous tributaries. There are good water powers, but -only utilized a small extent at present. As the tide of popu lation rolls westward, these counties will become great sheep-farming districts, for which they are eminently adapted. Lands in the two counties for sale by the Rail way Company, contain 61,850 acres.

TREGO AND (jJRAITAM COUNTIES. About three-fourths of the land is rich smooth prairie, and the balance good bottom. The Smoky Hill and Saline rivers run through Trego, with several branches of the latter runninp; northward through Graham county. There is abundance building stone, and from a recent survey, made I by the Geological Department of Yale College, superior vein of coal exists, closely resembling the famous Cannel coal. There has also been discovered near Parks Fort, in Trego county, a fine deposit of very pure chalk, an absolute rarity throughout the United States.

As to the soil, Mr. J. C. Henry, of Parks Fort, writes: "Take a spade, after three days drizzling rain, and dig anywhere on our new ground, you will find the earth as dry as dust one foot from the surface this rorc the miration of the country you can retain the moisture in the loose earth among the roots of your grain, by plowing say six inches deep you have splendid prospects." The lands for sale by the Railway Company comprise 346,938 acres. GOYE, SHERIDAN, WALLACE.

THOMAS SHERMAN AND KREELEY COUNTIES. These six counties, embracing an enormous tract of country, at present are but little developed, but present -a most attractive field for enterprise in stock raising and sheep husbandry. The lands for sale by the Railway Company comprisc 1,332,331 acres. SUCCESS VERSUS FAILURE. ITf.AVF.N- II ELI'S THOSE WHO nEI.P TnEMSELTES.

Never was a more absolute truism than the proverb, Nothing is so successful as success" The way to achieve success is the problem to be solved. A few gentle hints to the Kansas immigrant as to how not to do it, and how to do it, may prove useful; and in giving these hints, we would say they are a few of the results obtained by a lengthened experience of life and people in Kansas. The worth of a State in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it." The man who won't help himself can't expect others to help him. Let the motto be that of the old pick-axe "Either I will find a way or make one." It won't do to come to Kansas, if you wish to make ever so small a start, without a nickel, as too many do. It won't yxf.y, even if you have heaps of money, to bring with you a lot of heavy household goods or common-bred stock.

It wont pay to hire help when you can do the work yourself. It won't pay, in any way, to bo cfiicken-henrted, lazy, or dishonest. It won't pay to be a continual grumbler at home, whilst your wife is working like a slave for your comfort, and you are bemoaning the changes of weather. It won't do to have the idea that the land, on account of its fertility, will produce crops spontaneously. Jiut it will jyjy to put your shoulder to the wheel with a mighty strong will; and when you strike, strike hard on the annil, no matter what sort of an anvil it be.

It will pay to paddle your, own canoe with a steady hand, a dauntless heart, and an unswerving purpose. se to and will for cm 'XEXTSGTON HoJjcinsr.5fl.Mzabet7T. 7 1 Jv A aucaA iBovling Green kNASHYtLLE -ciw-rsrers'' 1 trnneri(te MACON1 rr- 1fi "CO Albany MOBILE! -v merous, varied, and well stocked. The whole aspect of the town indicates a well organized, irell conducted and irell-to-do community. The TJ.

S. Land Office is located here. Ttrookville, fifteen miles further west, the end of the Second Division the railroad, is, owing to the natural advantages of the surrounding country, and the well-appointed stock-yards erected by the Company, groicing in importance. Present population now numbers four hundred, with cood school and church organizations, good stores and hotels. The richness and fertility of the lands in this county cannot be surpassed by any other county the State.

It can boast of three, rivers, (the Solomon, Saline and Smoky Hill) flowing through with at least twenty large and small creeks. Good sandstone and rich beds of gypsum abound, while last, but not least," it was 'well named Saline," inasmuch as the deposits of salt throughout the country are practically inexhaustible. The principal business pursued in this county, at present, is stock raising, to which it is so well adapted, and there is no doubt but that more cattle are wintered here, change hands, or are shipped, than any other county in the State. The lands for sale by the Railway Company comprise 47,250 acres. Mcpherson county.

Organized in 1870. Population in 1874, 4,837. McPherson is the county seat. The Smoky Hill river, in the northern part of the county, flows from east to west its tributaries flow north, and the Little Arkansas flows southeast. The county is well supplied with springs.

Limestone and sand stone abound, and considerable quantities of gyp- snm of extra good quality. Good water power, but at present not utilized. Good schools and churches, with two weekly newspapers. 32,285 acres were under cultivation in 1874. Lands for sale by the Railway Company, 23,750 acres.

LINCOLN COUNTY. Organized in 1870. Population in 1874, 2,220. County seat, TAncoln Center. The face of the country is for the most part undulating.

The Saline river flows east through the entire extent of the county, with many tributaries. The county is well supplied with springs. Coal is seen cropping out of the banks. The quantity of white magnesian limestone is, for practical pin-poses, in exhaustible, with several salt springs and marshes on bait creek and its tributaries. 1 his county is specially adapted for stock-raising.

14,653 acres were under cultivation in 1874. Lands for sale by the Railway Company, 81,045 acres. ELLSWORTH COUNTY. Organized in 1867. Population in 1874,3,273.

Ellsworth, the county seat, witli a population of six hundred, is on the line of railroad two hundred and twenty-two miles west of Kansas City. It is a thriving and rapidly increasing town. It contains four church organizations; a graded school, built at a cost of 9,000, with an enrollment of one hundred and fifty scholars; a substantially brick-built court house, (costing $1 and county jail, built of limestone, at a cost of one bank, a goodly supply of the necessary stores, two hotels, blacksmiths, wagon shops, etc. A weekly newspaper is published here, 77ie Ellsworth Reporter. The town of Iiosland.

on the western boundary line of the county, two hundred and thirty-nine miles west of Kansas City has several stores and dwelling houses. Population about one hundred. The first experiment in tree growing was made here in 1871, by S. Elliott, the Industrial Agent of the Company, the results of which he gives, as follows: At Rosland, 1,586 feet above sea level, the growth of forest trees, transplanted and from seed, and of wheat, rye, corn, sorghum, and other crops, has been such, that any one looking at the field might well imagine himself in Illinois or Missouri, rather than on the high plains of Kansas. This field, in the spring of 1871, was west of all settlements in Kansas, but they have since extended eighty miles beyond." The Fort Harker military reservation is in this county.

At Ellsworth depot there are commodious stpek yards, doing a very extensive business in shipment of cattle to the Eastern States. The general surface of the county is un dulating, some portions bluffy, well adapting it for crrazini? Diirooses. The Smoky Hill river runs a little south of east through the entire county, with numerous tributaries. A good quality of coal is found in various places, and an abundance of good stone for building or conversion into lime. Stock raising in this county is made a specialty; there are herds of a thousand each that have not consumed five tons of hay during the past winter, and still have done exceedingly well.

tu unA fiaio thn Cmnnnv amonnt. 155 000 acres UAKiua abii Kuan TheseTthree counties, lying respectively to south of Ellsworth, Russell and Ellis, at present are not so fully developed as the preceding ones, and out laid the of to the ot I jx? Baxter Sps. ft I 1i 1. lnia 1T-T" Gibson JJUKK EPOET 1K i. 7virtil "-3 A LVFRTn qn.ilitv of magnesJan limestone (known as the Junction City marble) is found in the bluffs all over the county, while gypsum underlies the whole.

In boring for coal at Junction City, salt water was reached, ami still flows in a constant stream. The lands for sale by the Company amonnt to 41,704 acres. MORRIS COUNTY. Organized in 1858. Population in 1874, 4,306.

Council Grove is the county seat, with population of 1,000. This county lies some distance to the south of the Kansas Pacific. The lands for sale are 7,260 acres. CLAY C0USTY. Organized in 1866.

Population in 1S74, 4,689. Clay Center, the county seat, is on the Junction Citv Fort 'Kearney Railway, thirty-three miles from Junction City, with a popularion of 800. The county is watered by the Republican river, flowing in" a south-easterly direction, and by numerous small streams. There is good water power, but not utilized, with plenty of first-class fire-clay and magnesian limestone. The herd law is in force.

The quantity of land for sale by the Company comprises some thousands of acres. DICKINSON COUNTY. Organized in 1857. Population in 1874, 6,407. Abilene, the county seat, with a population not far short of 1,000, is a substantial, go-ahead town.

It has some excellent stores, carried on in commodious buildings, one bank, a fine brick school building, erected at a cost of A 12,000, with good church buildings. Solomon City, nine miles west of Abilene, is situated at the mouth of the Solomon river, in this county. The population of the town is about 500. It is one of the most flourishing locations on the line of our road. Within a short distance are two well appointed salt works, owned by the Continental Salt Company and Dewer (the former are about to enlarge their operations this spring, working by solar evaporation, the latter by the boiling process), a flour mill, worked by water power, obtained by dam on the Solomon river, furnishing ample power for other manufactories, a grain elevator, three general stores, two grocery stores, one hardware store, two drug stores, one furniture store, one boot and shoe store, one harness store, one jeweler's store, two hotels, one lumber yard, and a commodious stockyard.

Of church organizations, the Catholics have one, the Presbyterians onp, the Baptists one, and the Methodists one, at a total cost for buildings alone of with a school house costing $5,000, the number of scholars beinff about 100. There are several smaller towns scattered throughout the county, all of which are rapidly errowing. This county, with its plentiful supply of streams, its fertile valleys and sufficiency of timber, added to its central position in the State, is one of the richest, most fruitful, and con sequently most prosperous on the line of road, and offers to settlers most unprecedented advantages The herd law is in force. Number of cultivated acres, in 1874, was 51,887. Lands for sale by the Company amount to 42,100 acres, 35,000 acres of which were selected in 1869, and have been withheld from market ever since, nut are now onereu ior saie.

OTTAWA COUSTY. Organized in 1866. Population in 1873, 4,000. Minneapolis, the county seat, with a population of six hundred, is situated on the Solomon river, at the mouth of Pipe creek, on an elevated slope of land commanding an extensive view of the county. It has a good school house, Presbyterian church, two fine halls, and first-class stores, but no' saloon.

The Solomon river flows from the northwest to the southeast corner of the county, and furnishes excellent water power. The Saline river flows through the southern part from west to east; there are many other smaller streams and a good supply of springs. Coal is found in various parts of the county, and both sandstone and limestone abound. This county is exceedingly well supplied with timber. 16,929 acres were under cultivation in 1874.

The valley of the Solomon river is justly considered one of the richest and most fertile tracts of land in Kansas. The mode of cultivation during the past two years has vastly improved, and, noticitfistamZing the adverse causes at work last year, the yield of wheat was never before st ui Ai known to be so abundant. The lands for sale by the Company comprise 42,850 acres. SALINE COUNTY. of in it, in WILMII Charleston JlUlea SAVANNAH 7 rKwrsswicK' JJACKPOWTLIJ! hence, in view of the fact that some of the richest lands the Company has for sale are comprised in these counties, lands well watered and fairly timbered, the inference arises that they hold to the public special inducements for successful colonization.

The lands in the three counties for sale by the Company consist of 222,000 acres. RUSSELL COUNTY. Organized in 1872. Population in 1874, 1,500. Russell, the county seat, 263 miles west of Kansas City, on the line of railroad, is an important and flourishing town of about 400 inhabitants.

It was out and the country around it settled by the North-western Colony, who came out in 1872 from Ripon, Wisconsin. The locating committee appointed to examine lands in Nebraska and Kansas, after a thorough investigation, selected land here. Supplies are brought here by the railway for all the counties north and south, for many miles along the Saline, Solomon, Republican and Smoky Hill rivers. There are two church organizations here, a school house erected at a cost of $4,000, and an abundance good stores. JiimJcer Jlill, eieven miles east of Russell, is situated in the centre of tfte county, and was laid out two years ago by a colony from Rerea, Ohio; shortly afterwards followed by a large immigration from Cumberland county, Pennsylvania.

It has a population of about 150, and is a rising, well appointed little town. Hie county is traversed through the southern portion by the Smoky Hill river, and by the Saline a little north of the centre. Good limestone is plentiful, there are some excellent salt springs, mineral paint and pottery clays while a fair quality of coal is found in abundance along the banks of the Smoky Hill river. It is a remarkably good county for grazing purposes; many thousand head of cattle have done well through the past winter, with no other feed than what they have obtained for themselves. The lands for sale by the Railway Company, comprise 234,500 acres.

ELLIS COUNTY. Organized in 1867. Population in 1874, 1,500. Hays City, the county seat, with a population of about 300, is 289 miles west of Kansas City, and is well located near the centre of the county, at the point where the railroad crosses Big creek. It possesses a well built stone school house, erected at a cost of $6,000 also a court house of same material, at a cost of 16,000, which are the two finest public buildings in the western part of the State.

All branches of trade are well represented. Fort Hays military reservation adjoining the town is delightfully situated, and almost encircled by a belt of timber. It is confidently expected this will be made one of the most important military posts in the West. The Government sections of land surrounding the town have been almost entirely entered upon under the Timber Culture Act," the results from which, in no distant future, must wonderfully improve the locality. There has been recently established here a United States Land Office.

Ellis. This town, near the western line of the county, and thirteen miles west of Hays City, stands at an altitude of 2,019 feet above the sea level, and possesses many advantages over other Com an have liere a llouse, machine shops, mmodation for the 8hi'ent of cn (employing from 75 to 100 men). It is the end of the third division of the road, and is the residence of the Division Superintendent. The Company have also built here a large hotel, of magnesian limestone, from the neighboring ouarnes. The population is about 400.

There are good stores. school house and church and the whole appearance of the town is that which a well ordered, thrifty and industrious community would possess. At Victoria, a station near the eastern border of this county, there is an extensive tract of very fine land, the main portion of which was purchased from the Railway Company (as will be seen in another place,) by Mr. George Grant, of London, England. The county is watered by the Smoky ITill river running through the southern part, and the Saline on the north, with Big creek, a tributary of the former, running through the centre.

The climate here is particularly pure and invigorating, warm days in summer, with cool, refreshing nights the soil very rich and loamy, which, with good cultivation, is exceedingly prolific. Within a quarter a mile of the town of Ellis, on the farm of Mr. Jno. H. Edwards, vegetables of every description, fruit her tree! have been successfully grown dur- 1 in.m, imgawvii.

Winter wheat put in, good season, grows well and yields abundantly. Hungarian and millett have done well, while all kinds of small fruit flourish with ordinary care and attention. Pure and good water is attainable at an average depth i of from twenty to thirty feet, and good building stone is aonnaaiu. rorswcK raising mis county The the the to to a ill" 4 i 4 Organized in 1859. Population in 1874, 5,500.

Salina, the county-seat, population, two thousand, is well placed on the bend of the Smoky Hill river, one hundred and eighty-five miles west of Kansas City. The commercial prosperity of this town is, we venture to say, almost unrivaled by other towns in the State. Its stores are nu-.