Ho for The New Kansas from Topeka, Kansas • 3

Stations and Table of Distances on the Line of the A. T. S. F. R.

R. EASTERN DIVISION. a .2 2 SZJ STATIONS. ATCHISON Cummings- -Nortonvilie- Nichols alley P'alls Rock Creek Meriden North Topeka 6-3 44 6.0 3-6 5-7 8-9 45 10.2 TOPEKA- i i.o CITY DIVISION. KANSAS CITY City Junction! -Turner 17.0 1 23.0 De Soto Junction 24.5 i De Soto 25.0 Crozier 32.5 Eudora 39.5 Lawrence Junction 40.5 Lawrence 45.8 -Lake View 50.5 Lecompton 34 61 lenci ale (handler Mills I- 62.0 i TecuiiiSeh- 66.0 -TOPEKA 1.0 6.0 10.0 6.0 i-5 3-5 45 7-0 1.0 5-3 47 37 34 -35 4.0 Topt'i-irt Pauline aKarusa Carbondale 5.6 Scranton 3.9 Burlingame 5.3 Peterton- 54 Osage City 2.9 5-0 2-5 41 5.1 6-3 o.S 9-3 2-3 2.9 54 6.7 6-3 5-S 6.2 1 1.6 Barclay.

Vrvonia Reading Horton Emporia Junction 1 Plymouth Saflford -Ellinor Cottonwood Elmdale -Hunts- Cedar Grove Peabody Walton 10.0 Newton i 6.9 WICHITA BRANCH. VALLEY DIVISION. Newton Halsted Burrton Hutchinson Peace Raymond Great Rock Garfield Nettleton Kinsley. Spearville -Dodge City Cimarron Pierceville- Lakin Syracuse Blackwell Las Animas West Las Animas La Junta-Rocky Ford Apishapa Nepesta PUEBLO 8-9 12.3 10.5 10.1 134 S.8 10.9 6.7 7-i 195 16.5 15.7 15.9 19.0 15-3 17.8 11.9 14.1 13-2 17.7 16.1 16.6 43 15.8 10.6 12.2 12.4 2S.0 Water Power. I Local Agents.

We give below a list of our local agents at the stations on the line of the road. These agents are provided with maps and price lists of the lands in their vicinity, and they will take pleasure in showing you the lands and rendering you every assistance they can to find a location that will please you: Burlingame Newman Spauldin Emporia H. E. Norton. Council Grove D.

C. M. Evans. Cottonwood M. S.

Lake. Cottonwood FcJi? W. S. Romigh Co. Florence Robinson Barker.

Marion Centre Case Billings. Peabody A. B. Salisbury. Newton Muse, Spivey Co.

McPherson M. P. Simpson. Sedgwick City W. H.

Hurd. Wichita Steele Levy. Halstead G. W. Sweesy.

Burrton Lyman Cone. Hutchinson C. C. Hutchinson Co. Peace Smith, Stubbs Ricksecker.

Raymond C. D. Stevens. Ellinwood F. A.

Steckel. Great Pend D. N. Heizcr. Pawnee John Linda i vast mining regions, tributary to that locality, furnishes a valuable western market, in addition to the best facilities-for reaching eastern markets, through the strong competing lines at Kansas City and Atchison.

The settlers in the Arkansas Valley will always command a profitable market for their products. ABUNDANT FUEL. Coal is found immediately on the line of the road. And the completion of the road to Pueblo brings the valley in direct and cheap communication with the most extensive and valuable coal fields in America, not only securing abundance of fuel, but cheap fuel, through the active competition between the eastern and western mines. BUILDING STONE.

As far west as Newto The country is abundantly plied with the finest quality of compact cream colored lime stone, in layers varying from one inch to four feet in thickness, and west of Newton there is stone enough for most of the local wants, and in some places abundance. FREE HOMESTEADS. The government lands lying contiguous to those of the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe Railroad have not been and cannot be purchased by speculators, to the detriment of the actual settler, as is found in so many of our western land grants, but can be obtained only by the homesteader, and pre-emptor Jience every man who locates upon our line can do so in the assurance that the lands lyir pous to him will not be held by speculators and cf the market for years to come, bi up at the bors and market for years to come, but they will all be taken the earliest possible moment, thus giving him neigh- md cultivated farms on every side. The region traversed by the Atchison, Topeka Santa 'T Railroad in Southwestern Kansas, is noted not only its excellent and abundant supply of water for domes-ti purposes and stock growing, but it is possessed of usual facilities for milling and manufacturing, in the oat amount of water power found along the line of railroad. 't Emporia, the Neosho and Cottonwood each afford water power used in running excellent flouring mills and other machinery near the city.

The Cottonwood River affords constant water power along its entire course, and flouring mills are erected at attonwood, Elmdale, Cedar Grove, Florence and Mari an Centre. On the Little Arkansas, a fine mill has been erected at Halstead, and smaller ones, both above and below the railroad, on the same stream, and at Wichita on the branch road. At Hutchinson, a valuable power is being improved by The Hutchinson Water Power Company. A canal two miles long conducts water from the Arkansas River to Covr Creek, which flows through the city where a flouring mill is being erected. The extent to which this power can be utilized is almost unlimited, the water being used everal times over.

It is the most extensive power west; 'ssippi ivtr, is prGetly safe and is offered to of flour, paper, castor and Linseed oil, goods, -wood works, agricultural wagons, at reasonable rental. Full particulars an be obtained by addressing the Company at Hutchinson. It is proposed to utilize the waters of the Arkansas at various points near the railroad line est of Hutchinson, 'and experts confidently predict that the Arkansas Valley is to become as famous for its manufacturing interests, as for its agricultural superiority. I Good steam flouring mills are also to be found at Pea-jbody, Newton, Sedgwick, Wichita, Hutchinson, Peace land Ellenwood. The Advantages that we claim above those of otter Companies.

BEING NEW ENTERPRISE. The Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe Railroad is the newest railroad enterpiise in the west, and has opened up for settlement a vast body of new country lying along the Cottonwood and Arkansas rivers, which is attracting particular attention for itsj fertility, healthfulness and beauty, and for the opportunities to get choice selections, and profit by the rapid development of the country. THE MOST DESIRABLE CLIMATE. The climate is infinitely superior to that of any other land grant road. Lying along the parallel of 38 north latitude, the favorite laitirde of America, it is just far enough north and just far enough south for comfort.

THE HEALTHIES? COUNTRY IN AMERICA. The railroad enters tie Arkansas Valley at Newton, near 1,500 feet above the; level of the sea, and the valley has a gentle and uniform 'rise of seven and a half feet to tlje mile this, with a temperate latitude, the well drained surface of the land, no stagnant water or overflowed lands, tell the story of its healthful climate. THE FE.lTlT.ITY OF THE SOIL cannot be surpassed, consisting of a large proportion of thoroughly drained jalley land, producing bountiful crops of all the grainsj fruits and vegetables of the temperate zone. With ordinary industry the can pay for his farpt and improvements xiom the products of the land. PURE SWEET WATER is abundant everywhere, and is found in springes and running streams) and when in wells, at a depth of from six to fifty feet.

ITS SETTLEMENT, unprecedented in the history of the West, with the cream of Eastern immigration, has given this new country prosperous towns, churches, Schools, mills, and the society and conveniences of a well ShUericommunity. LCVV PRICES. We ask much lower trices for our lands than those, asked by any other mpany, possessing as fertile country. We ask partici lar attention to this fact. While some companies are off ring some special attractions in cheap fares, we give our purchasers the benefit of cheap prices for the lands.

THE POOR mans CHANCE TO BUY A FARM. Our terms of payment are eleven years credit and seven per cent, interest, and the fare paid over the road as far west as our lands are irf market, is credited on the first payment of a purchase bf 160 acres, and a proportionate part on a less quantity of land. To obtain the benefit of this rebate for fare, the purchaser must buy a land explor- ltllu Lamed. jerry Toie4 H. P.

pcott- Kinsley Milner it Spivey, IN CONCLUSION. Our advantages are also large in the possession of a first class railroad, located in a most desirable climate, at. good school system, very low taxes, enormous opportune ties for raising stock, and all those varied items of importance which go to make up the welfare of a community. Cattle, Hogs, Horses, Mules, Sheep. Southwestern Kansas irva magnifiejnt region for stexk raising-tf all kinds.

On every hand lie boundless pastures of the most nutritious grasses, which would be countless fortunes to the farmers of Illinois, Ohio and other eastern States, if they possessed them. It has been the history of the settlers in all new countries, and is perhaps equally applicable to old countries, that those who paid particular attention to stock raising have met with the best success. The judicious handling of stock is a good aeal like having money out at interest jney eat and fatten while you sleep. Dairying. In such a country, with ranges for stock unrestricted and pasturage limitless, the production of butter and cheese must be profitable.

Butter is worth, the year round, from twenty to forty cents per pound. Regular manufactories for cheese are being established with success. As yet, in this line, comparatively little has been done. The abundance of pure cold water; the frequency of springs; the facilities for cool cellars which everywhere exist, ana the cheapness with which cattle can be raised and fed, leave this branch of labor without any drawbacks, and insure handsome returns and liberal profits to ail who may engage in he dairying business. About Schools.

This is a question hich every Kansan answers with special pride. The youth of this commonwealth need not go a thousand miles from home to obtain a thorough practical or even classical education, for, to the credit of oUr law-makers be it said, in no department is a more generous liberality manifested than in the cause of popular education. i Aside from the common schools, Kansas boasts of averal institutions of a higher order, foremost among hich stands the State JJniversity, at Lawrence, with an eminently competent faculty, and occupying a building s.e.c2?d Slze only to the State University of Michigan, ers ticket, with which is a receipt for the money paid, and! a aave College and the Episcopal this receipt is his claim for rebate on purchase. Seminary; at Manhattan the Agricultural College; THE market for product 3 Lmpona and Leavenworth each a Normal School. THE BEST market for products.

Institutions are maintained also for the education of the The road is now completed to Pueblo, and in connec-l blind and the deaf mute. Business Colleges are in exist-tion with the Rocky Mountain system of roads and the ence in most of the large towns of the State I Fruit-Growing. The vicissitudes of climate, which make fruit-growing so precarious in nearly all parts of the west, do not apply I to the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe Railroad lands. The ij peculiarities of soil and climate stamp his region with the characteristics of an excellent country for the raising of fruit; and, indeed a number of fine orchards along the line I sufficiently exemplify this, while along what is called the Sand Hills, near the Arkansas valley, the wild plums, grapes, which there grow in the greatest profusion, show what is possible with cultivation. In parts of this country which have been settled several years since, many establishments are found where the cultivation of small fruit is made a specialty, and the crops of grapes, strawberries, blackberries and raspberries are I generally enormous.

It is a well-known fact that Kansas 1 received the Gold Medal for the finest display of fruit at the National Pomological Exhibition at Philadelphia, in 11869. Most of the fruit exhibited there was grown in the county of Jefferson, on the line of the Atchison, Topeka 8c Santa Fe Railroad. I 11 mmm 'Tr1.