Southern Kansas Journal and Land Buyers Guide from Coffeyville, Kansas • 6

ryfe SOUTHERN KANSAS JOURNAL AND LAND BUYER'S GUIDE. can be no mistake in comintr to Geographical- First class in geography stand up. What State was given tho first mium for white corn at tho World's making of brick, and a Brick Factory in operation for the ol pressed brick. We have near tho city, a fine article of fire clay, and still a finer material for tho in their calling doing good work and have good patronages In tho Millnery line aro Mrs. M.

B. Taylor, Mesdames Cooper Gillum, who are ulso dress makers, and Mrs. Carpenter. All of these carry full lines of Millinery and Trimming goods. In Dressmaking wo have six establishments, Mrs.

Ilyde, Miss Clura Tluhle, Mrs. Lydia Robb, Mrs. Ilerrington, Mrs. Addie Shel- ELEMENTS OF WEALTH IN KANSAS. TI'O natural resources of Kansas consist largely in tbo fertility of bor soil, and that means wealth equal to the energy und couriigo of her people.

Good iurm lands are worth more to a state than are mines of gold and silver. The comparison may be mado between Kansas, an agricultural state, and Colorado, a mining state. Kansas farms are worth more than Colorado mines. A good mining country is fit tor lit-tlo else, a large part of the 6urlace being rough, hilly or mountainous, broken and rocky. In an agricultural Btate, liko Kansas, nearly every acre, all over the entire surface of the state, is susceptible of profitable cultivation.

That amounts to a groat The sustaining possibilities of an acre of good ground are wonderful. It is safe to say that one aero of good land, woll tilled, will maintain one average person. If wo take that as a basis of circulation, then ihiow out 25 per cent of our territory for waste and for buildings, iences, groves, yards, etc, and Kansas if tho immigrant is iixlusfi-ous, intelligent, eoberand persistant upon, some chanco for growth, and a certain remuneration for the work ers. Continued from Fifth Page. Coffey ville Institutions.

Messrs. Stuhblefiold Wagstalf have takon possession ol tho Flour COFFEYVILLE HIGH ,7 i i i i ii. -T "wwr lH INSTRUCTORS Prof, J. M. Butler Miss Anna Keller Miss Alice Cornthwaite Miss Carrie Harris; Miss Dora Stub blefield; Miss Celia McFall, Mollie Johnson.

Our city schools are thoroughly organized and in good working order. A regiv lar course of Study hasbocn in use for years, ments the High School, Grammar, Intermediate and Primary Departments. These de partments are under the supervision of the teachers. 'Jilie course of instruction is as best methods of teaching are used. During the last year in the High School Department, the pupils study Higher Algebra, Geometry, Rhetoric, Ancient History anil Book keeping.

During the Session of 1880 and pupils enrolled. These were distributed as follows Primary Departments, 503 Inter mediate Department, 97; Grammar Department, 80; High School Department, 13. A v. Fair, in 1885? Kansas. Tho first premium in yellow corn Kansas.

Which State roceived tho gold medal at that fair for the best corn in tho world Kansas. Which State recoived the first, premium on red winter wheat? Kansas. The premium on flour, graduated process Kansas. The first premium on flour, old process Kansas. Tho first and second on sorghum sugar Kansas.

The first for best ono hundred varieties of apples Kansas. Which state took ten first and two socond premiums on short horn cattle Kansas. The first on Polled Angus cattle? Kansas. What State has taken sixty-five other miscellaneous first and second premiums tbero Kansas. i The class is congratulated upon the knowledge of its lesson.

Y6u may go play. How Cattle Increase. Fow persons realize. how rapidly cattle, sheep and horses would multiply if all tho female progeny were allowed to breed each year. If one I 11 ri nria A i i t- tnrm a kept at breeding for ten years the result will be as follows, estimating that forty per cent, of the cows have would, beginning when two years old, in their turn have 100 cows 1st year drop 100 cows 2d year drop 140 cows 3d year drop 180 cows 4th year drop 236 cows 5th year drop 308 cows 6th yoar drop 402 cows 7th yoar drop 525 cows 8th year drop.

68G cows 9th year drop 896 cows 10th year drop 40 4n 56 72 94 123 161 210 274 358 Total, (exclusive of first 100) 1,428 The number of bulls would bo the same as that of the heifers. Make all noHsihlo allowance for loss, vet i seo then the rate at which capital increases in the lire stock business in Southeast Kansas, whore the cost of keeping a beef from birth to maturity will not in many cases exceed six dollars. For Exchange. A farm ot 160 acres, four miles South of Mound Valley, in excellent cultivation, beautifully located. Will be exchanged for property in Coffeyville.

A rare chance. Call on Elliott Rosser. For Sale or Trade. 160 acres tour miles ca6t of the city. Thirty acres in cultivativation.

New house of four rooms, 2 wells, good pasture. Will sell at a bargain or trade for city property. Call on Elliott Rosskr. For Sale. Eighty acres, 3 miles North of Coffeyville.

Good house of 2 rooms. Land woll fenced and watered. Will sell cheap or trade for city property. Enquire of Elliott Rosskr. Renters Wanted.

for two fine farms at Oowala, in the Indian Territory. Inquire of E. D. Hicks or Maj. D.

W. Lipe, owners, Oowala, or Elliott Rosskr, CoffoyyiKe, Ks. For Sale. 65 acres, 2 miles from town. House partially completed, 30 acres under cultivation plenty water and timber, close to A.

Railroad. Elliott Rosser. For Sale Or will exchange for City Lots, 80 acrei of fine bottom land, one mile north of City. A In fruit farm. Elliott St Boon.

manufacturer of porcelain, and only fifteon miles from oar city, aro workable veins of a splendid quality ot fine coking coal, from which those building manufactories, canning factories, or packing establishments, can procure abundante ot fuel. Wo havo three Newspapers; "The Sun," published by Messrs. Peft'er Truby, "The Gate City Gazette." by Messrs, Moore Norris and "The Coffeyville Journal, by D. Stew art Elliott. Wo have fine quarries of building stone, tor sidewalk purposes, and some lime stone.

We have nno biack walnut, in abun dance in the Nation. Some Kansas Figures. It is shown by the fourth biennial report of tho Auditor of State for the fiscal years ending Juno 80th, 1883 and 1884 that tho receipts and expenditures tor the year ending Juno 30, 1883 tho amount received in taxes during tbo year was 763.45; from all other sources, 013.22; balance in treasury July 1, 1882, $644,323.76. Disbursements on account of the various funds (or the total expenses of the State for tho year,) leaving a balance in the treasury July 1, 1883, of $838,432.07. Tho statemont for 1884 gives: Receipts from taxes, all other sources, 406,055.08.

Disbursements during the year, leaving a balance in the treasury July 1, of $754,512.07. The aggregate valuation of property in the State for 1883, fixed by the State Board of Equalization, was 1884, $237,020,381.27. The number ot acres of taxable land under cultivation in 1883 was in 1884, an in crease of 1,361,974 acres. The land subject to taxation not cultivated included in 1883, 17,802,224 acres; in 1884, 18,252,224 acres an increase of 450,000 acres. Tho tables sum marizing the live-stock assessments for the two years show an increase in the number of horses in 1884 over 1883 oi 44,127.

The number of cattle had increased by sheep, hogs, 318,772. Speculative Investment, No man has the hardihood to ask a price for a lot or an acre that will not yield a speculative return to the purchaser for tho next five years. Tho man who cannot see the opportunities for profitable investment on every hand to-day, would never have seen it at any previous hour in the state's history. The Journal risks its judgment on tho proposition that Southeastern Kansas generally, and Montgomery county in the neighborhood of Coffeyville particularly, presents the finest field for speculative investment in the entire country. We depend for our future not only on tho great grain growing possibilities of our state, but on our livo stock which can be produced in the greatest perfoction for the least money as compared with any other similar extent of country.

Long seasons for grazing short winters and rich soils, centrally situated between the extreme north and extreme south, midway on the continent this state called Kansas possesses more substantial elements of wealth than the gold and silver producing territories west or south. A Bargain. Seventy-nine acres of land at King Station, on the M. A. Railroad, without improvements, somo ground broken.

Enquire of Elliott Rossek, Coffeyville, Kans. For Sale. Two Lots and houses, the best location in town. A fine bargain terms easy. See Elliott Rosseb.

wo have left 39,000,000 acres of as good land as the sun shines on, all iorlarming purposes. T.hink ol the population that area of productive soil would support. Allowing an acre for a cow, and another for a horse, or their equivalent in sheep or hogs or fowls, and we have throe acres for every individual person with land enough for animals equal to twice an average number owned by people generally in the best de- veloned regions of tho earth. But let us put it at five acres to the person, or twenty-five acres to a family of five persons, and then', alter al lowing one-fourth ot tho slate's area lor purposes above mentioned, there Would bo enough lelt to support a papulation of 7,800,000, supposing them all to live on farms, and ship their produce away. But people do not all want to till tho soil.

Already we have more than a hundred towns and cities in tho slate each with a population ex ceeding one thousand persons. Probably 25 per cent, of our people now livo in the towns. As the stale i3 further developed, this proportion will be greatly increased, for manufacturing industries will grow among us quite as rapidly as they do in other places. There is so largo a proportion of our state susceptible of the highest state of cultivation that there will be no dread of reaching tho danger limit of population. Manufactures are sell-supporting.

The city population may quite equal that of tbo country, as given above, before we shall have reached our highest state of development on a self-supporting basis. That would give us a population of upward of 15,000, 000 persons, all living off tho products of Kansas soil. New England and New York had an aggregate population in 1880 of 9,093,400, and still thero area great many farms of 100 acres and upwards in that part of the country. When towns become scattered all over the surface of the state at about equal intervals, so that all tbo land may be put to use in growing quick and salable crops at markets within an hour's drivo with a team, then will a state liko this be fully able to support ten times its present population, I is easv. then, to see that the nrincinal element of our wealth is not only roliablo, but that it will bo perma nentand is susceptible of indefinite expansion.

For manufacturing purposes, we have the raw materials. Our farmers grow wool, and cotton, and wheat, and corn, and cattle, and our supply of coal, of gypsum, ol lime atone, sandstone, lead, zinc and salt are amply sufficient for all our uses. Building tnatorial, as stone, lime and sand, are exhaustless. These things, taken in connection with our agricultural foundation, are conclu sivo evidencos of the best possible guarantees to tho people. There erage daily attendance for the nine mouths, and are fully as well educated as those in any will find as good schools here as they have and Feed Store in the old Eldride Bank Building and are stocking up for the promisod big trade.

They aro well and favorably known in tho communitj', and will succeed. Mr. J. C.Calvert has a Feed Store on South Walnut street, and is looking for a good trade from the public. In tho butchering business are tho Messrs.

Glockle Brothers, Strope Bright and C. T. Brooks. Each of is the oldest and largest newspaper in the SCHOOL BUILDING. Miss Septina Baker and Miss mid the pupils are graded into four depart Principal assisted by a corps of experienced practical as it can be made.

The latest and 1887, there were seven hundred and fifty-one 412. The pupils are under good discipline, Eastern city. Parties from the old States anywhere in the States. don and Mesdamoa Ruble Dillon, ail of whom understand the business thoroughly, and are up to the latest fashions. three Barber Shops, five Livery stables, five Blacksmith Shops, two Lumber and Coal Yards, three Express offices, three Wagon Shops three ilesturants, two Gunsmiths, one Dentist, two Bakeries, two Art Galleries, two merchant Tailors, city of Cefteyville, Kansas.

The first low- one Omnibus Line, one Woven Picket Fence Factory, one Post-Officc, one News Depot, and not ono open saloon. We have five Real Estate Offices, five hotels and ono Electric Light Plant. Three Depots, and a city for railroad facilities equal to any in the State. We have three School Houses with six hundred pupils, and a corps of efficient over by Prof. J.

M. Butler, a gontlcman possessing a wide reputation as an efficient educator. Wo havo fine material for the er Printing Press used in the city was placed in the office of Tub Journal by its present publisher. It has a large circulation among the farmers and business men of Montgomery County, and is regarded as reliable in all of its departments. The, editor will gladly answer all letters of inquiry respecting the city or locality.

Address D. STEWART ELLIOTT, Editor Journal, Coffeyville, Montgomery County, Kansas. tbo above gentlemen are thoroughly practical men in their calling, and handle none but the best of beef, and other animals, for slaughter. Tho beef of Southern Kansas has a reputation second to none, and is superior to much ot that found in tho States of the East. Saddlers and Harness makers wo have in the persons of Mr.

J. R.Jordan and Mr. D. Davis, and their work is par excellence. Mr.

J. W. Cubine, Messrs. Suthard Blease and Mr. W.

Briet. They aro our Boot and Shoemakers, aro proficient men.