The Kansas Pacific Homestead from Lawrence, Kansas • 4

i UDflD flnnn iorun BU101 THE KANSAS PACIFIC RAILWAY IS THE HOST DIRECT UNI TO THE Eeilti ul Flnsare Resarta of Colorado I lb Bockj Koarfab, AXD THE 05LY DIRECT LINE TO THE CITY OF DESYEE, COLORADO. LAND SEEKERS In the Southern part of the State, will do well, beforepurchas-ing there, or returning home, to come up and Look at our lands. They can come up by regular Stage Lines from the following points to Salina, our headquarters -TERMS OF SALE. On eleven years credit at seven per cent, interest in advance. Second On sir years' credit at seven per cent.

Interest, parable when accrued. 'Third For cash at 25 per cent, discount. Thus, land at S-f-co an acre can be bought for $3x0, all cask, TERMS IX DETAIL. The terms on which we nowofifer our lands bring within the reach of persons with small means a farm and home in a district of country rapidly filling up with population, and where in a few rears land must largely increase in value. We offer our lands to the public in three" different wars, via: 1st ON ELEVEN' YEARS' CREDIT.

Under this plan one-tenth of the purchase money, with interest at 7 per cent, on the deferred payments of principal, is paid at time of sale, and for the first, second and third years following, no payment has to be made, except the interest annuallv at 7 ner so that it is four rears QOXjODKaAJDO presents attractions that have already made it the great sanitarium of the North American Continent. At Denver, the Western Terminus of the Kansas Pacific Railway, close and sure connections are made at Union Depot with all the Great Through Passsenger Lines diverging from Denver. Baggage checked through to all points. The Kansas Pacific Railway is the only line running through trains, consisting of 'superb Pullman Drawing Hunters and Farmers, who love in their leisure hours to take gun and dog and woo the goddess of the chase, can find in this new country and on our virgin prairies, ample room and verge enough for the exercise of their favorite pursuits. West of Ellis, in Kansas nd Colorado, antelope entice the hardy hunter.

One ot the most exciting and exhilarating things in this life is the chase in the saddle, with large greyhounds, ot the fleet antelope. Prairie chickens and quail, wild ducks, rabbits, and other small game, are abundant among and near the settlements, and furnisV grand sport during Jthe proper season. from the date of purchase until the second payment of prin Nswton. ELZS. tlSX.

75 $4.00 70 $1.00 cipal ts required. EXAMPLE No'. 1. 1 60 acres sold May 1, 1S79, at $4x0 per acre $640x0 The payments would be due as follows May 1S79, one-tenth of the purchase money viz $64 00 one rear's Interest at 7 per cent, on 'deferred payments 40 00 Room Sleeping Cars, elegant Day Coaches, fine Second Class Coaches, best Baggage, Express and Mail Cars, ween the Missouri River and Denver without change, making close connections with all through express passenger trains at Denver and Kansas City. P.

B. GROAT, Gen.Pass. Ag't, Kansas City. JOHN MUIR, Gen. Frt Ag't, Kansas City, 8104 32 DEFERRED PAYMENTS.

And Ellsworth or Russell can be reached from Sterling and Gt. Bend, the distance being from forty to fifty miles, and the fare not greatet than $3.00. VALLEY KANSAS. i 3 1 Cm 1 u. 1 fa OF CEDAR CREEK, RUSSELL COUNTY, 1 Clurartnistic View ef the IsTimltnral ui CrmUDg lands tk tuns Facile Railway.

STOCK RAISING IN KANSAS AND COLORADO. The lands along the line of this road, both in Kansas and Colorado, offer the greatest facilities for stock-raising and grazing purposes. The natural advantages here presented for this branch of industry are the abundance of nutritious grasses with which the prairies and valleys are clothed the year round the bountiful supply of clear and wholesome water (so necessary in this pursuit) afforded i 1 CCN Mar 1 Second I Third SSi. 40 32 40 32 iSS, 40 32I 40 3 by creeks and springs everywhere within reach, and, what STATIONS, DISTANCES AND ELEVATIONS ON THE KANSAS PACIFIC MAIN LINE. 1SS3 $72 oo; 35 2S 107 iSSxj 72 00 30 24 102 24 or incalculable value to tne grazier, tne temperate ana agseeable climate- in which cattle are not, in summer, ex 1SS5 72 00 25 20 Fourth Fifth Sixth Seventh Eighth Ninth posed to the injurious attacks of flies and other insects, so WAGES IN KANSAS.

Carpenters, per $1.60 to $2.25 Bricklayers and Stonemasons, per 1.75 to 9 50 Plasterers, per day 1.75 to 3.50 House Painters, per day 1 50 to 2.50 Blacksmiths per day. 1 75 to 2.50 Wagonmakers, per 1.50 to 2.50 Hamessmakere, per day 1.50 to 2 50 Shoemakers, per 1.50 to .2.00 TaUors, per day 1.50 to 2 50 Farm Laborers, per month, with 12 00 to 18. 0 Laborers in cities and towns, per 1. 00 to 1.25 Clerks, per month .......25.00 to 75 00 Printers, 25 to 35 eta. per 1000 ems, per day 1.50 to 2.50 Bookbinders, per day 2.00 to 2 50 97 0 92 16 87 12 82 oS 1SS6) 72 oo1 20 16 1SS7 72 00' 15 12 iSSS 72 oo' 10 oS destructive, in more southern latitudes, to the prosperity ef the owner.

Nor have we the long winters and heavy snows of northern climes, where cattle have to fee housed a 1SS9 72 00 5 04 77 04 Tenth Eleventh STATIONS COAL. The coal seams from the middle carboniferous, or true coal measure, in the Eastern part of the State, produce bituminous coal, which will compare favorably with the shaft coal of Illinois and Western Pennsylvania. The cost at the mines varies from 3 cents to 12)3 cents per bushel-according to depth of shaft. The Leavenworth coal shaft is the deepest, being 710 feet deep, and the vein is 30 inches thick. Of the organized counties through which the Kansas Pacific Railway passes, seventy-five per cent, have abundant supplies of lignite coal, ranging from a few inches to 200 feet below the surface and varying in thickness from 6 to 36 inches.

Along the Kansas Pacific Railway coal is found in Pottawatomie, Waubaunsee, Davis, Ottawa, Lincoln, Ellsworth, Russell, Ellis and Trego counties In Ellsworth and Russell counties it crops out on the face of the bluffs of the Smoky Hill River and other streams, and is sold at the mines at $3.00 per ton, and is delivered in the towns of Ellsworth, STATIONS. and fed for half the year. Here they grazethe entire 1S90 72 00 72 00 576 00262 0SS3S o3 So 9 3 winter on the prairies and along the streams, seldom requiring the use even of hay. Led by instinct to seek, and traveling hundreds of miles to obtain, the richest pasture Kansas City 648 213 Fort Ilarker. We offer a discount of three Percent, per annum for anr IState line 64i 22:1 Ellsworth.

1 584 1 440 1 467 and most water, the antelope and buffalo had 670 -30 Black Wolf. Arm st rone 6. here then favorite feeding grounds, until advancing civili number of payments made one or more years in advance of maturity, but fractional parts of a rear will not be counted. If the eight deferred payments of principal were paid out on or before Mar 1st, 1SS0, this discount would amount to 169 1.5S6 1 766 1.7 a 1 846 1 837 69 68.1 13 Kdwardsville 695 zation drove them westward. Stock-yards are established at Brookville, Ellsworth, Bunker Hill, Russell, Ellis, Buffalo and other points, where cattle can be shipped.

From seventy-five to one hundred per cent, per annum is a common estimate of profits on stock- $112.32 on the $576.00. 23 l.enape... 27 W3 1.893 2, Wilson 2o.l Hunker Hill 2'2 Hussell 273; Victoria. 23SHav 302; Ellis 312 Ogallah 322i a-Keeney- iV STil KANSAS PACIFIC LAND AGENTS IN KANSAS. Land Commissioner's Office at Salina, Saline S- J.

Gilmore, Land Commissioner. Wilson and Russell at $4.00 per ton. Withijj no other 2 01 2.2K9 -1 11 715 2nd ON SEC YEARS' CREDIT. Under this system we deduct 10 per cent, from the price 2 34 Land urant ix a sparsely-timbered region are settlers so secure ox the fuel question. In the southern part of Russell county none of the farmers are more than 2 2.678 730 "53 3 1( Fall Leaf 3T.

L. 33! Lawrence 151 Buck Creek. 14 Willianvtown 5. Perryville 52 Medina per acre. Une-nttn ot tne purchase money is paid at the time of sale, but no interest.

Jro more principal is required for three years. The interest at 7 per cent, on the 2.715 four miles away from coal, the veins being so numerous 754 37rt 2.94S along the Smoky Hill River. Z5 73 remaining tour-hiths is paid annually. 338) Monument. 3 OS3 55 6 Gopher.

3 220 779 rssl 3 7 40- 3.014 Thus we see that good and cheap fuel is within reach of almost every one purchasing Kansas Pacific lands. 81 420 Katrle 67 77 Silver Lake 9 1 Kingsville 33 RosHVille 3,203 3.336 4 835 440' Monotony EXAMPLE No. 2. 160 acres sold May 1S79, per acre $4 00 less 10 per cent. Net purchase money, S576 00 The payment would be due as follows: May 1S79, one-fifth of the purchase rnoner, $115 20 DEFERRED PAYMENTS.

9 St. Mary's 3 676 3.9 8 4 179 eai Arananoe 4f2 Chevcnne Wella. 7 r.civue.... 4.479 902 472 FirstView- Uf2 437 Kit Carson 4M Wild Uorse. 4 19! raising in Central Kansas and Colorado.

The increase in this business.everywhere along the line, from the foothills of the Rocky Mountains to the Missouri river, has been very large. This has been greatly stimulated by the cheapness of Texas cows, that can be bought for from $6 to io, end are crossed upon the domestic stock with much advantage and large profits. Thus the man of limited means can, in a short time, have a nice herd of cattle, and its rapid increase makes him independent in a few years. That Kansas and Colorado must grow upon their cheap lands and luxuriant grasses the beef and -wool that is to feed and clothe the miilions admits no longer of doubt. ere capital is every year investing largely in this 6afe and profitable business We have ready markets East and West, and Kansas City is the largest cattle market in the United States.

The minirg districts of Colorado, Montana and Nevada are depen lent upon our country for their meat and supplies. The Kansas Pacific is the main thoroughfare through this vast grazing region and each year, in the fall, immense trains are run daily for the transportation of cattle. Kansas City, the eastern terminus of the Kansas Pacific Railway, is the point from whence feeders throughout the Western States obtain their stock cattle, and during the season large numbers of them from Illinois, Missouri, TIMBER. In the central and western part of Kansas, timber is usu 4 340 4 550 4.743 4.9.12 110 St. George US Manhattan- 12!) Ogden 133 Fort Kiley 13S Junction City.

144 Kansas 15 1 157 Oetroit 162 Abilene mil sii Arova. 974 523 Mirage. VS4 Hugo 54'iake 1.016 555 Uiver Bend ally found only in small belts along the streams, as is the case in all prairie-countries. In some localities, as on Wolf ZJ 5 203 5.39$ 5,614 5 505 1,037 62 Cedar 1'oinU 1.957; WW.Godfrey 1 077; 672 Aeate 5 SI X) 171 Solomon 173 New 1 034 633; Deer TraiL h. Warner, Brookville, Saline County.

M. A. Drew, McPherson, McPherson Co. J. A.

Foster, Marquette, L. A. Minx, Lincoln, Lincoln W. T. Prescott, Sylvan Grove, J.

A. Wiggin, Ellsworth, Ellsworth P. H. Rishel, Holly Rood, J. T.

McKittrick, Wilson, G.A.Appel, Glen Sharrald, Rice 44 W. T. Nicholas, Lyons, J.n.McGee, Delhi, Osborne J. B. Corbett Bunker mil, Russell L.

V. Hibbard, East Wolf, Dr. H. A. Ellis, Russell, E.

D. Gorhara, Gorhaji, James Johnston, Bartondale, Barton J. D. Ronstadt, Ellinwood, C. M.

Smith, Great Bend, B. Brungardt, DTerzog, Ellis Jonas Waters, Victoria, W.L. Fuller, Walker. Edson Judd, Hays City, Jno. H.

Edwards, Ellis, 44 Taylor Starbird, LaCrosse, Rush Jf. C. Terrell, Millbrook, Graham Durham F. Keeney, Ogallah, Trego Warren, Keeney WaKeeney, Cbas. W.

Mulford, Collyer, J. R. Miskelly, Buffalo, Gove Dryer, Grainfield, 5 705 May 1SS0 S3 25 S32 25 185 194 Wo 1.127 Byers 1.1731 603 Itennett 1.2501 617 Box Elder- 1 ol 1. 5,373 5.430 iSSt 32 25 32 25 3 25I147 45 5 23 ISS2HS 20l Ravaria Itrookville Hock Spring Elm Creek Summit Siding. vi.

ruu itrr 4 and Paradise creeks in Russell and Osborne counties, there is a moderate supply of fire wood. There are tracts in the western part of the State almost destitute of trees, and while settlers can find wood for a few years, it is quite necessary that they should plant forests. Coal is abundant along this road, therefore the necessity for wood is not so great. It has been demonstrated that trees can be successfully grown on the plains, but they need to be planted properly and cared for. Trees planted in the sod and un-cared for will die.

The experimental farm established by the company at Wilson, in 1S70, demonstrated in three years that the ailan- First Fourth Fifth Sixth 1SS3 It? 2CJ 210 2K.I 9 9 39 5.105 1.470 636 D. 1. Junction- I 638, Denver. 16 13' 131 1SS4 US 20i iSSsjiis 2c 8 06:123 26 Iowa and Indiana' attend the market. During the past year many new feeders have sought it as a source of supply.

Thousands of fine stock farms are still for sale OUR IjAND3 IN Colorado possesses nneonalled advantages as a rreat erazinc re 460 Soj 145 '3605 93 at low prices by the Kansas Pacific Railway, but ere long these will all be occupied and not obtainable at less than gton. Throughout the entire portion of the SuteTving east of the mountains, the valleys and plains are covered with nutritous grasses, upon which cattle and sheep thrive the year round, seldom thus, box-elder, ash, catalpa, Cottonwood, elm, honey lo treble their present prices. cust, maple, black walnut, Austrian and scotch pine and red cedar will grow rapidly there, and similar experiments requiring: any jier igga or eneiter man inat wnicn nature anorus Already imraeise flocks and herds ocennv nortions of this State. at Ellis were almost equally successful, seedlings at both and stock men from Texas and elsewhere sre driving their herds into Colorado, sonvineed of its superior advantages over every A discount of three per cent, per annum is allowed on deferred payments made in advance of maturity, in same way as on our eleven years plan. 3d.

CASH TERMS. We offer a discount of twenty-fire per cent, from the price per acre to those who will pay in full for the Land at the time of purchase. Thus, land'at $4 an acre on credit terms can be bougTTi for $3 all cash nonx THE SHEEP QUESTION. ciner a-ioruic egion 01 tna continent. i places attaining a growth in one year equal to that chron-! icled in the catalogues of nurseries east of the Mississippi I River.

Totbose wl9e tastes and Inclinations favor nastoral nnrsniu we can CMnfllei illy recommend Colorado as the most attractive and promising on us continent. The pastoral region embraces mil lions of acres 1 lot yet impropriated, which are open to all who de Trees and shrubbery for planting by actual settlers between Brookville and Trego, are carried free. One of our duly appointed Traveling Lund Agents will be found on our passenger trains, leaving Kansas City every sire to encase in ernwinz Mock. Sheen husbandry is already at trading mucin Mention in Colorado, and it has been satisfactorily morning. It is the duty of these ajents to give reliable Infor mation to all land seekers.

lemonsiratea aai wool growing cau be nado one ol tae most proir able industries. Cut there is a larsre area of our lands near ths monntsins fx- tending eay 60 miles east from Denver which can ba irrigated from Extract from the Russell Record, Dec. 2Sth, 1876. Wool-growers in this county, who have had long experience in the business in California and Colorado, claim many advantages for this part of Kansas over those States, and the fact that Russell county has more sheep than any other county in the State is evidence that it possesses advantages for 6tok men which are possessed by no other county. Twelve or fifteen tons of hay is sufficient to winter a thousand sheep, with the aid of a little corn, and this is not required generally until the 1st of March.

The increase, taking a low average, may be put at 80 per cent, of the ewes; that is to say, that for evy 100 ewes in the flock 80 lambs may be raised. The wooL at the very lowest prices which have prevailed for a WATER. tne natte ana otner streams and. possessing a very fertile coil, proximity to the irreat minim; reirion of non producers of the nec essaries of life, and an unequalled climate, is destined in the near EMIGRANT RATES OF FARE. An abundant supply of water can be found in all the streams that tuture to oe a nigniy cultivated, densely populated region of suc cessful tanners.

now tiH-ougn tnis part ot ivansas. in some localities gooa never-tailing springs are numerous, and water can be obtained in wells zenerallv at a depth of from 15 to 40 feet. Occasionally wells are From KANSAS CITY or LEAVENWORTH to ooints I Our Colorado lands are offered at 2. 00 to $5.00 per acre. 1P0RTAHT FACTS TO BE OBSERVED.

First Under our Eleven Year System, no principal has to be paid for four years after date of purchase. Second Under our Six Year System, we dkdcct 10 per Cent, at time of purchase, from the price per acre. Thcs LAND AT $4 A3? ACRE 1VOIXD BE SOLD AT Third Under our Six Year System, no principal has to be paid for three years, after date of purchase. Fourth Under either of the above credit systems, a discount of 3 per cent, per asxcm will be allowed on any number of payments made one or more years in advance of maturity. By paying up in one year, this per annum discount would amount to 19J per cent, fiat, on the entire purchase money.

By paving up in two years, it would amount to per aeeper, nut tney are rare. named below. 1. i. 1 ine iouowing ar tne aeptns 01 some xc tL i.au upcuBca cping, iwiuig ind by the railway company to supply water tanks, and some of th increase clear profit, i at sheep brought in the market, ishese were dug through two other veins of good water in order to the last year, about 5) cts.

per and those shipped from 'secure an extra supply. Such a course would not be necessary for Junction Citv, Kan. Chapman's C'k. MARKET PRICES. One of the first and most important items for consideration to the here average about 100 lbs.

per head. The cost per head domestic or tarrn use. uetroit, Abilene. $4 00 4 50 4 50 4 60 4 60 75 4 60 man who contemplates settling in a new country, mxt be the mar- Kan 5 00 6 25 5 50 5 75 6 00 6 2 6 35 6 60 6 75 Kt-i in 01 me coiumoquies ne is iiKeiy 10 require, me wnowina table (fives prices as approximately as possible at the different FARMERS' WELLS. ELLSWORTH COCSTT.

Solomon, Minneapolis, New Cambria, Salina, points named remembering that price there, as elsewhere, fluc Bunker FUJI, lusell, Walker's, Victoria, nays City. Ellis. Ogallah, a Keener Collver, Buffalo, GrainficM. Grinncll, Carlyle, Denver, tuate according 10 tne seasons, etc 8. S.

of fattening and marketing these sheep would not exceed $1. 10. The climate is so mild that the loss from exposure is very small, not exceeding one per cent, in well-kept flocks. Hay and grain can always be had at reasonable prices, and in any quantity desired and the labor is as cheap here as in any of the States farther east. Logback, high upland, 62 feet, e.

w. 14-15- L. Herzig, 25 6 w. 30-15- D. A.

Smith, nnland. Ji 20-15-8 s. e. 4 65 4 65 4 70 4 75 4 75 4 90 4 7 00 7 15 7 25 Havana, Black Wolf. Wilson, Dorr a nee.

25 26 a 29-io-a U' 20-15-8. W. F. Morgan lowland. W.F.Tompkins, n.

w. s. e. 7 50 Col 20 00 eeo eo eeeeceee eeo oseeee SUSSELL COTHfTT. The above facts have been kindly furnished us by T.

R. Depth. Water. 22-13-14 20 feet -8 feet. IS oe Messrs.

urooks ac tnurcn ana JMessrs. vittord probably the most extensive sheep-raisers tn the State. g22SS- 2 S33 at IC JgS? Emigrant Tickets can be procured at our Immi BBS IT" Henry Hadlock upland, s. H. W.

Uewcv, n. e. H. Wentworth s. w.

H. L. Pestana a. w. 22-14-14 15 27 13-14 22 26 15-13 27 4 -11 11:23 gration Office in Kansas Citv, opposite Union Depot, cent.

By paying up in three years, it would amount to 13 per cent. Fifth A contract may be paid out at any time, and a Warranty Deed obtained from the Railway Company, The foregoing terms are applicable only to the lands in Kansas as far West as the 3Soth mile post, which is four miles west of Carlyle Station, in Wallace county. All the lands -west of this point are sold on five the payment required at time of sale Veing one-fifth ot the purchase money, and interest in advance for one year at six per cent, on the remaining four-fifths. The other payments would become due as follows: EXAMPLE. 160 acres, purchased May 1, 1S79, at $5.00 per acre 1- Principal S1O0 00 Payment at time of purchase, Iateret.

4Q C. M. n-w 14 4 zx from Geo. W. Smyzer, John Trammer s- e.

14-14-12 i 46 n. w. 26-14-12 8 A. ROEDELHEI3IER, ELLIS COtTKTT. Court House.

Hays City. 30 feet deep upland. S3 Henry Winters, n. w. X.

sec. 34-13-18 63 feet deep on upland ridge. -o a 33 SPECIAL EMIGRANT AND MINER'S iz. ii. one, s.

see. zo-ia is iu ieec aeep on npiana. Jos. Broims. s.

W- XA sec. 34 12 IS 30 feet deep on uplands. W. Perry, s. e.

jtf sec 4-13-20, 20 teet deep 6 feet water; upland. THE HERD LAW. A Judicious herd law has been adapted pretty generally along this road in the eastern and central counties, and has become universally popular. Under this law cattle are not allowed to run at large, but are pastured under the care of herde.s. This renders fences unnecessary, and farmers do not build.

The benefit of thus abolishing this enormous item of expenditure is incalculable. The poor man with but a few hundred dollars capital can thus throw all his resources into the cultivation of the soil, and lay the foundation of a prosperous career; while, if he were obliged to fence his cultivated land, he would be retarded very much. If he has 160 acres, the S750 which it would cost to fence it, would enable him to break and cultivate the whole tract. rSi FREIGHT TARIFF. i3 a uuerj b.

e. sec. 4-13-ru, a iees aeep a ieet water upiana. M. D.

Little, 8 e- deep; 4 feet water: upland. Jas. Watts, s. w. sec.

34-12-20; feet deep 5 ft. water; upland. ones a The followinz rates will cavern all ahinments of hnnaehnld rnndn. 40 see 9 Total DEFERRED farm implements, wagons, stock, trees, shrubbery, second hand miners' tools, on emigrants' account only, from Kansas City, PAYMENTS. Lieavenwonu, Lawrence ana xopesa.

i i martin Alien, n. w. sec. s-u-is -o ieet aeep Dottom laaa. J.

E. Hubbard, n. e. sec. 8-13-20; 29 feet deep 13 feet.

Jno. H. Edwards, e. sr. a sec.

8-13-20; 22 feet deep; feet. RAILWAY WELLS- rrego, 70 feet. Supply abundant and good quality. Buil'alo 120 feet. Is ever faili ng and good.

Sheridan, 27 feet Supply fair quality medium. ooeto on Principal 'interest. TotaL Per Car TO Per 100 Load. P5 Mav 1 Walker'i 40.00 4 1st Pavment, 2d 3d Victoria- $3S 40 2S bo 19 9 60 35 40 iSS So 169 60 1C0 00 $160 00 6o co 160 00 160 00 40.00 50 00 50.0J 1SS1, XSS2, 1SS3, -SS4, Ellis Buffplo bagle Tail, Col 16 feet Bountiful supply of pure water. Kit Carson, 3i feet Good water; supply moderate.

River Bend, 20 set. Abundant and good. Agate, 90 feet. Supply moderate but good. Deer Trail, 16 feet- X'ever failing and good.

Box Elder. 14 feet. Never failing and good- Schuyler, 15 feet Never falling and good. 4th 5th a. -J3 5 2 i 5 2 -5-2 2.

2 1 60 00 60.00 Grainfield vi Per Per Car 1V 100 Load. Ogden 40 35 00 Junction City 40 35.00 Wakefield-. 40 S5.00 Clay Centre 40 35.00 Chapman's Creek 40 35 00 Detroit- 40 35.00 Abilene 40 35.00 Solomon 40 35 00 40.00 New Cambria 40 35 00 Salina. 40 35 00 Bavaria 45 35. M) Brookville 45 35.00 Ellsworth.

60 40. 0 Wilson 60 40.00 Banker IIUL. 50 4 1 Russell 00 40 00 50 50 50 60 60 70 70 75 80 85 90 90 90 95 10 120 70.O1 Kit Carson. 80.0 DISCOUNT FOR CASH. This feature, as we put it (and we know no other company carrying it so far), permits our purchasers to make one or more payments in advance, and get the discount for cash at any time, under either our long or short credit sales.

FRUIT. Kansas ranks high and will rank much higher, among her sister States in the cultivation of fruit of all kinds. In the counties on our road there are no less than 38.452 acres of orchards, vineyards and nurseries under cultivation; and such is the extreme richness and fertility of the oil, that all varieties peculiar to this latitude grow luxuriantly. In the eastern settled portion of the State apples, pears, peaches, plums and cherries are a complete success. The uplands and climate of Kansas seem to be especially adapted to grape culture.

The rains of April, May and part of June are conducive to a large and healthy growth while the pure, dry and warm atmosphere of the subsequent months impart the finest avor to the fruit leavine no doubt as to the future rank of Kansas among 90.00 90.0(1 90.00 BUILDING STONE. T.Ue lxer B.jou 95.0f lOO.OO 100.00 Magnesian limestone, 01 "Junction City is found in many places along our road. It can be quarried in blocks from eisrht to ten tons weight, and even larger, One man will be passed with ear containing stock. The rates in cents per 100 lbs. will apply on shipments of Live Slock, in leas and can be sawn like wood to any desired 6hape.

This man car loaas, at regular estimate rates, or rates en straignt stone is now beina extensively used for buildina. It is of a car luaua ox biock, see ur oiock lann. juio niuiit. wn i reigni Agent, Kansas City, Alo delicate cream color, and when first quarried is quite soft, but soon hardens by exposure to the aii Some of the cost ELEVATORS FLOURING MILLS. On the line of the Kansas Pacific Railway from Kansas Citv to Havs City, there are 76 elevators, with a storage capacity of bushels of grain, and a loading capacity of 59.200 bushels in twenty-four hours.

There are also 52 flouring mills with 169 run of stone, and a capacity of 4,3 10 barrels of flour per diem. liest and most elegant edifices in the West have been built of this material. Its durability has been tested for years in LAND AGENTS, Appointed by this Company, will be found at all the prin. cipal places along the The duty of these asents is simply to show the lands and give our prices, and when a tract has been selected, to fill out the application and attest it. The applicant will then forward his application and first payment to this ofiice, addiesszd to S.

J. Gilmore, Land Commissioner, Salina, Kansas. Here all applications are subject to approval or rejection. If accepted, the contract is made out in duplicate; one copy is sent to the agent to secure the signature of the purchaser (unless otherwise ordered), and when returned to this otSce properly signed by the purchaser, the duplicate of same, duly executed on our part, will be sent to the purchaser direct. the erovernment buildings at Fort Riley; more recently in NEW MARKETS WEST OF KANSAS.

the magnificent capitol in Topeka, and in other large the wine-growing States. It should not be omitted that the wild grape, wild plum, gooseberry, blackberry and strawberry are native to the soil. It needs only to be 6tated that Kansas took the premium over all other States at the fair of the National Pomologi-cal Society of Philadelphia, in 1869; at the fair of the American Pomological Society, at Richmond, in 187 1 and has taken the highest premiums at the fairs of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, at the St. Louis fair, at the State fairs of New York and New Hampshire, and at the New England fair at Lowell, Mass. structures elsewhere Jseveral towns along the road are That Kansas should ever find her best market in ths West, wu principally built of it, and have a substantial and handsome at oae time regarded as the visionary dream of the enthusiast but it is now certain of realization.

Already lam Quantities of her appearance. A fine duality of this stone is found in abundance in products. Including wheat, corn Hoar, batter. gs, and salt, as the principal items, are carried by the Kansas Pacific Railway from Ellsworth, Russell. Ellis and Trego and Gove counties.

A MUMS IMC 1 .11 UUUIUg rVglODB Ol IsOlOrHUO inu uie immiar rnnui oen nnmin: ni inn minH nf Tnn r-r fvi fine block of stores, the fine school house and a number ol dwelling houses in Russell are built of it; the railroad hotel orado and the now famous San Juan and Lead ville regions, with their concentration of a non-producing population, is creating a demand for breadstuffa and other necessaries of Ufa. which Em TIMBER CLAIMS. In addition to the-Homestead and Pre-emption laws, a recent act has been passed whereby every settler, as the fruits of his industry, can obtain another freehold of 160 acres, under the following act An Act to amend an Act, entitled "An act to encourage the growth ot timber on Western prairies. "Any person who Is the head of a family, or who shall rrtvori at the ae of twentv-one rears, and is a citi- at Ellis is of this beautiful stone. A peculiarity of this stone is, that when recently taken from the quarry it may iu ik mo promise ana potency 01 weaun 10 tne great agricultural region ot Kansas which lies near the mountains fee as easily sawed as pine, and ret exposure hardens and renders it very durable.

THE GREAT PLAINS In discussing the agricultural possibilities of the Great Plains, Rev. J. A. Anderson, of the Manhattan College, argues thus When a man harvests twenty busnels of wheat to the acre, that fact is quite as satisfactory to him as any analysis of the soil, or any record of the rain gauge. en of the United States, or who shall have filed his de NEW MAP OF KANSAS.

GYPSU3I. And if through a period of years this fact repeats itself as often as in those States where an ex. rience of generations has demonstrated their adaptation to wheat raising, he would disbelieve any assertion not in unison with the facts. best and most complete map of Kansas, 70x40 inches, has lust been nublished fev Messrs. Ramsey.

rt How to oome to Kansas, and How to Select Lands. Land Excursion Tickets to Elli and return are on sale at the leading stations on nearly all the principal railroads leading to Kansas Citr. These round trip tickets are sold at verv low rates, can be purchased at all times, and are good for forty days, thus giving ample time to select lands. The holder of one of these tickets is entitled to a credit of $10 upon his first payment, if he buys 160 acres, and $5 for So acres. Parties can come out singly, or in large coirnanies, but it is better for two or three to come together; for in ch cases the hotel accommodations will be found better, our local Agents can give more attention to a pmall party than a large one.

We have a large staff of reliable local Agents, who mostly supplied with teams, and are at all times ready to show our lands to intending purchasers. The names of the Agents will be fo'jnd to another column 00 this pace claration of intention to become such, who shall plant, protect and keep in a healthy growing condition for years, ten acres of timbet on any quartet section of any of the public lands of the United States, or five acres on The great value which gypsum will render to Kansas must 'be as a plaster applied to the crops. While it is excellent lktt Hudson, of Kansas City, and by remitting for the grapes and grains in various ways, it is particularly seventy-five cents to them, the map will be sent by mail. On the one hand, he would be slow to expect that his any legal subdivision of eighty acres, 01 two and one-half field could average seventy bushels to the acre on the other hand! he would laueh at the statement that the soil was too condition that renders it available to the roots of plants. This map is printed on strong linen paper, is section ized acres on any legal subdivision or iorry acerb or one-tourth part of any fractional subdivision of land less than fort) acres, shall be entitled to a patent tot the whole of said poor, or the supply of rain too small for profitable whsrf Gvosum for sulphs ate ot umej is round in many places in growing.

However valuable the facts and theories ot the Kansas. in the western portions, in the upper valley of shows the lands we have for sale, nd all the rivers, tail-roads, counties, county seats, and post-offices, in the State is the largest and most accuiate map of the State 1 Jiuarter section, or of such, legal subdivision of less than ortv acres, as the case ma be. at the exniration of the eneral science relating to agriculture may De, ana many rtne Valine and Smoky Hill rivers, particularly in Wallace 5-em are valuable, still the best of all possible evidence JCOunty, it is found in most beautiful crystals, and though said eight years, oa making oroot ot such fact bv not less. ever puoits.iea, anc is worth ten times its cost to parties uiftn is ic um uia mc icutn. go valuable, it is cheap, coming to ivansas to pjTchjuu land -lit two creoicie 1111.

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