Ho for The New Kansas du lieu suivant : Topeka, Kansas • 4

Where to Get Information. Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe RAILROAD COMPANY with the exception of the bottom and valley lands of Terms to Purchasers, the Cottonwood river and its tributaries, the country i generally is quite rolling, and is made up of sloping, The grant of lands to the Atchison, Topeka Santa rolling, ana high rolling prairie, and occasionally Fe Railroad Company, was given to assist the con-somewhat broken. The bottom lands of the Cotton-j struction of the road through an entirely new and wood are oten separated from the uplands by low unimproved country, where it had to be built, and operated for many years at a loss, before sufficient immigration could be attracted in to make a profitable business. The company is aware that the surest foundation for its own prosperity is a productive region, thickly settled by a prosperous and successful farming community; that its interests are identical with the bluffs, and abng these bluffs there are projecting beds of rock frori ten to twenty feet thick, made up of strata or lasers from one-third of a foot to three feet thick. This is tly very finest quality of magnesia limestone, and it is he best building material in the west.

Jt Outside of the General Office at Topeka wre have the following agents acting for us at the places given below, most of whom can sell you tickets at reduced rates, and assist you materially in getting good freight rates, and by giving you information about routes and how to reach our lands. You should always try to see some one of these agents personally before starting to the west. An interview will frequently assist you very much and save you a great deal of trouble and expense. here it is impossible to see them, it would be well to write to them, stating your purpose and requesting such information as would assist you. a HAVE TXT IiXFT Although tie summits of these occasional high rolls or I interests of the people by whom it is to be sustained.

ridg are? sometimes partially covered with smgiU It is, therefore, ready and desirous to give every advan-stones or shale, yet the soil from the very top to the tage in its power to the purchasers of its lands which base is of tie richest mould, and the best hay is made 1 1 from grasses mown from their sides. And it is upon will insure them success. Experience has shown that it is very difficult for a farmer to succeed if his first 2,500,000 ACHES State. Post Office Address. OF Nat sf Agent.

Hall Hall jfcv Felix Street St Joseph 4 S. W. Cox Jefferson City. City. IN Milan.

Boone ville. ioa N. Fourth St. Louis. Opp.Union Kan City.

Bethany Camden. Trenton. Gallatin. Sedalia. L.

T. Hatfield Thos. B. Wright. S.

B. hi. Snnssen 16. 1. G.

C. M. C. Brown Dr. J.

H. T. J. Flint W. H.

Ross. Jones 6c Southwestern Kansas, efforts towards the improvement and cultivation of his farm are crippled by the want, of meansj and as per terms offered, it waits for the pay for its land until the purchaser has brought it into a good paying condition, and has secured a comfortable home for his family and himself. It has been demonstrated in hundreds of cases, on the lands comprising thf grant, that a man, with a little means to make a start with, can improve his farm and bring it to the highest state of cultivation, can build him a good house, and surround himself with the comforts of life, and pay for all these, and the cost these higfcpr lands that the cattle and sheep most delight to here they find the sweetest and most nutritious grasses; hence this region is especially adapted fir stock raising and dairying purposes, and particular for sheep. From Florence to Peabody it is pleasantly rolling, almost alllaying well for tillage. From Peabody to Hutchinson, at the junction of Cow creek anl the Arkansas river, it is made up of long easy slopes or gentle rolls, laying in either case about right for-drainage all laying well for easy tillage.

Here are whole townships of iand in which not an acre FOB SALE ON Eleven Years Credit and Seven cent. Interest. Geo. W. Bonnell Iowa Fort Mad iso.

a per can be fcjind that does not lie well for easy of his land besides, out of its products, by the time the and takqit as a body the soil is not surpassed by any 1 -r body off land of the same extent in the West. The wide bottoms of the Arkansas, and those of the little Arkansas, and the uplands, with their long, generally almost imperceptible slopes, present almost interest-? ing view to the farmers eye. whole of the principal is payable. And in order to give the man of small means, who could not hope to do this elsewhere, the opportunity to accomplish it here, this company inaugurated the system of low PRICES, LOW INTEREST AND LONG CREDIT for itS lands. The lands can be bought from one and a half VlCVv H-J Irtilllvi 3 Cj A 1JC IclllLlb Ldll Greiner 6c Leicht Culbertson 6c Percival 6c L.

W. Myers Prather olster P. C. Wright D. M.

Baker 44 Chambers, Farley 6c Cornell Bros. Cone C. A. Chapman B. J.

E. Stevenson Julius FenneuAr Vonge W. R. JVrrey J.C. ETkles J.

44 Dr. W. Bood 44 Thom. Sectional Maps, showing these Lands on a large scale, with the Sold Lands colored Bed, will be furnished for Fifty Cents each, and circulars and full information will be sent free. i Address, A.

S. JOHNSON, i Acting Land CommiseionO Kansas. 'v r- ARTHUR GOEE-vI) Land Commissioner. From Hutchinson to the west line- of the State, jvto eight dollars an acre. In order that ie purchaser distance.

miles, this compand 1 ds occupy tne mhy use his money on the land, a creat or eleven magnificenT valley of the Arkansas. This beautiful1; years is given at a rate of interest lower than is valley, heretofore but little known on account of its demanded in any of the Western States. By availing themselves of these generous advan- Burlington. Fairfield. Des Moines.

Wapello. Lineville. De Witt. Chariton. Creston.

City Marengo. Wilton. 3d 6c Brady Davenport. Raplls. Council Bluffs.

Mount Pleasant Macon. Galesburg. Tackson ville. Keithsburg. Bloomington.

-57 Dearborn Chicago. 2 N. Clark Chicago. -Morris. Cairo.

Grove. Block, Danville. P- O. Box 909, Rockford. great distance from market or commercial thorough fares, is now, since the railroad was built through it, drawing the attention of the whole country, and its wide bottoms and rich rolling and sloping uplands are proving as productive as they are attractive.

tages, which this company was the first to offer, hun- i Jno. E. Frost, dreds who might have earned only a bare living from day to day, or who would have passed their lives as tenants on the farms of others, have secured for themselves farms and homes of their own, and are to-day prosperous and thriving men. R. Fields.

D. D. W. D. Sanders M.

W. E. L. Monser. C.

S. Orth. B. Patterson. C.

Ruth a I Swann 6c M. Solomon A. Michelson Co. German Agts Lucius Whitney White, Wells 6c Co J. W.

Davis L. H. hitson H. V. Eeckwith- Cornelias Russell C.

W. Marston. Eleven Years Credit. TERMS OF SALE. Terms Xo.

1 Is on eleven year's credit with seven per cent, interest. The first payment at date of purchase is one-tenth of the principal and seven per cent, interest on the remainder. At the end of the first and second year only the interest at seven per cent, is paid; and the third year and each year thereafter one-tenth of the principal, with seven per cent, interest on the balance, is paid anually until the whole is paid. Example. 160 acres at $5 an acre, bought January 1st, 1876, the payments would be as follows Geo.

C. Indiana. Porte. Vosbrink 6c Judson Learned. Morris Thomas Hotel, Seymour.

Kokomo. 6 and 8 Hubbard's Block, Indianapolis. Lancfs of the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe R. R. The company have yet remaining for sale 2,500,000 acres of land.

They are situated in the counties of Wabaunsee, Osage, Lyon, Morris, Chase, Marion, Butler, McPherson, Sedgwick, Harvey, Reno, Rice, Barton, Stafford, Rush, Pawnee, Edwards, Hodgeman, Ford, and thence westerly through all the counties to the western line of the State. At present the lands are in market only as far west as Edwards county. TPe grant consists of the odd numbered sections lying within twenty miles north and south of the railroad. While the railroad commences at Atchison, the lands of the company are found between Cottonwood and the western State line. 1 The prices charged are low, and the terms of payment asked are extremely liberal, and when it is remembered that the alternate sections not owned by the Railroad Company are all open to homesteaders and pre-emptors, it will be seen that the opportunities offered to the settler are extremely flattering.

What is the Santa Fe Route? Very few people, comparatively, are aware of the length and character of the Santa Fe Route. It has been built so quietly and rapidly, has penetrated such an entirely new country, that it comes to many as a great surprise to learn that a railroad, operating 71 1 miles, extending from the Missouri river to the Rocky Mountains, has been built since 1870. It only requires a glance at the map of our country, and the important geographical position the Santa Fe Route occupies, from Atchison and Kansas City, on the Missouri river, to Pueblo, at the base of the Rocky Mountains in southern Colorado, following the finest stretch of country in the West, through the Arkansas Valley, to comprehend that this is really one of the most important railroad routes in the West having at Kansas City and Atchison the most complete system of eastern railroad connections, and in its course opening up and reaching forward to that portion of the New West which is known to be the most wealthy in agricultural and mineral resources, and is attracting the attention of immigration more than any other portion of the West. We wish to dwell upon the importance of studying the map of our country to comprehend rightly the important position occupied by the Santa Fe Route. It is in the most desirable temperate belt of latitude.

A large portion of the country opened up for settlement by its construction is known and admitted to be the finest body of country yet discovered in the West, and is filling up with population more rapidly than any other locality, and consequently is offering the best field for opportunities to the farmer, the stock-grower, the merchant and the manufacturer. Where population's pouring in rapidly, where towns are springing fromprairie knolls inif cities, alrpost by magic, with an unsurpassed agricultural country to sustain them there is the field for opportunities. Interest. Total. Prin.

Date of Payments. Jan. 80.00 50.40 50.40 50.40 44.80 39.20 33-6o 28.00 22.40 16.80 xi.20 5.60 1876, (date of 1877 1878 879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 130.40 50.40 50.40 124.80 119.20 113.60 108.00 X02.40 96.80 91.20 85.60 80.00 80.00 80.00 80.00 80.00 80.00 80.00 80.00 80.00 80.00 Geo. M. T'riest E.

C. Peter Hilty Ft. Wayne. B. F.

Vn Logansport. L. H. Wisconsin Doylestown. W.

J. Wngglesworth Darlington. Bowe Bins. 6c Shepherd Fond du Lac. T.

M. Richland Centre H. F. Poinington. Michigan Charlotte.

Curtis Sc 41 Kalamazoo. J. C. 44 259 Main Jackson. C.

else n.Qt Gnswold St, Detroit. L. H. 44 Muskegon. Kahlo Crowe 258 Summit Toledo.

N. R. Warwick 44 138 Vine Cincinnati. D. C.

M. Evans 44 Newark. S. S. Stanton Bellefontaine.

A. W. 44 Mansfield. J. Allen Gardner 44 Croft Sl Phillips.

Pennsylvania Pittsburgh, op. Post Office. J. W. Keerey 4 Laceyville.

Phillip He sen 44 Titusville. W. R. Bierly. 44 Williamsport.

W. M. Adams 44 York Springs. A. B.

Close New York Elmira. L. H. 44 239 Broadway, New York. C.

C. Deaa 44 Jamestown. Thos. Yoongbauer Minnesota New Ulm. Christensen A 44 Mankato.

Cooper 8c Hirchelwood 44 Cloud. John Gilman Worcester. Atkisson 8c West Virginia Parkersburg. Clarence F. Snith 44 Fairmont.

A. W. Burnett Huntington. J. W.

Leslie. -Virginia Wythe ville. H. C. Kentucky x6o Jefferson Louis ville.

Jno. L. Truslow Tennessee Chattanooga. Total of payments at end of 11 $800.00 $1,152.80 $352.80 Terms No. 2.

Eleven years with seven per cent, interest. No Part of the principal due for four years. During the first four years only the interest is required, and in the last eight years one-eighth of the principal, with wpn npr cent, interest on the is paid with seven 1 4 i (I Price and Location of the Lands. i Prices vary according to soil, location, water supply S' nber, proximity to railroad stations, and other advan-ges, in precisely the same manner that other lands ty All these peculiarities of every lot. offered for sale may be learned at the office of the Land Commissioner, or of any of the local agents along the line but every man will, of course, examine in person the land he expects to cultivate, and the locality where his home is to be, and for this every facility is offered.

It is quite impracticable to prepare and send out lists of prices but the following will show the general range of prices in each county "i No.oH Ack'ks remaining for sale Jf, an. 6. Price per Acre. Cc unties. Counties.

Acres. annually. Example. 160 acres, at $5 an acre, bought January 1st, 1876, the payments would be as follows: Osage From Atchison and Kansas City. The main line of the Santa Fe Route starts from Atchison, on the Missouri river; it runs in a southwestern direction to Topeka, the capital of the State, where it makes connection with a branch 66 miles long from Kansas City.

Leaving Topeka, one of tlie rfost beautifully located cities in the western fcoutry, it continues southwest through Carbondale, Burlingame and Osage City, the three principal coal mining towns on the line, to Emporia, a handsome growing city off 2,200 inhabitants, possessing the State Normal School, and at the crossing of the Missouri, Kansas Texas R. which gives a connection with tide water at Galveston, Texas. From Emporia the course of the Road is almost due west, following the beautiful Cottonwood Valley to Newton, passing through a region which has been aptly called THE GARDEN OF KANSAS, portion of which is similar in almost a large 7.00 8.00 8.00 .8.00 8.00 8.00 9.00 8.00 6.00 3.00 to 1.75 to 3.50 to 3-50 to 2.50 to 3.00 to 4.00 to 1.75 to 3.00 to McPherson- 49.216 .....255.156 Rice 136.912 Barton 142.492 Rush 59-760 Pawnee 201.668 Edwards 132.655 Stafford 90.000 Kiowa 46.000 20.000 Ford 115.267 Unorganized 744.256 374 Wabaunsee- 10.685 Hyon 155 Greenwood- 640 Morris 28.427 Chase 119.463 Marion 90.201 Butler 35-455 Harvey 55.800 60.007 Rebate on Freight. Instead of offering a rebate on freight paid by land ourchasers moving into the country along the line of the road, and subjecting them to the exceedingly annoying and tedious process of getting part of the money they have paid for their freight back again, this company have fixed a low emigrant freight rate, and all persons moving into the country can obtain the benefit of it on their household goods and stock for their own use, by haring their goods billed On Emigrant Account. This rate will apply to household goods, trees and shrubbery for planting, stock, farm implements old wagons, ana such articles as a farmer would have on hand and desire to take with him to his new home.

New goods or anything for merchandizing use, or lumber will not be taken on the low emigrant freight rate. One man in charge will be passed with car containing stock. The Terms of Sale No. 2, where only the interest is paid for the first four years, are applicable only to lands lying west of the west line of Reno count', on the south side of the Arkansas river, and west of Range 18 west, on the north side of the Arkansas river. East of these lines the land can be sold only on cur Terms No.

1, No. 3 and No. 4. There are some few sections of land lying contiguous to stations, and particularly well placed, for which a somewhat higher rate is asked. The average price of our lands remaining for sale will be about $4 an acre, but choice farming lands will average $5 per acre.

Two Years Credit. Terms NTo. 3. Three payments. In consideration of the purchasers paying one-third of the principal at time of purchase, with ten per cent, iiterest on the remainder, and the balance in two anmal payments, we make a discount from the appraised rice of twenty per and the payments will come as bllows: Example.

'160 acres, at $5 an acre, bought Januiry 1st, 1876, would amount to $800. Twenty per cent, off would reduce it to $640, and the payments would be as follows: Half Fare to Families of Purchasers. Purchasers of our land, moving to their lands with their families, can obtain tickets for themselves and the members of their family, at our offices in Atchison or Kansas City, for one-half the regular ratet upon presenting their contract for land bought of the company, or a receipt for the first payment. Tickets will be sold under this arrangement to all points between Cottonwood and Kinsley on the main line of the road. Parties moving into Wichita Branch can buy these tickets to Newton, and pay local fare from Newton to destination.

Land seekers will notice how much better this arrangement is than that of paying the whole amount for the tickets, and then having to go through the tedious and annoying process of getting a portion of the money back again. How to Select The only satisfactory course for purchasers is to come and see the country and make their own selections. All the Companys land has been carefully examined, and in the general office of the Land Department, at Topeka, Kansas, can be found plats and descriptions of every lot, which are freely open to the inspection of all enquirers, and experienced men who are personally familiar with the lands will give any information desired. The company have a local agent at each of the stations along the road. These agents are reliable men, are furnished with plats and prices of all the lands in their vicinity, and they will cheerfully afford you every facility for examining and selecting the lands for sale.

You can, at their offices, make application for the land you select, paying the first payment on the same, and receive credit for your Land Exploring Ticket, should you have one. All subsequent payments are made to the General Land Office at Topeka, and the system of payments which has been established will fender the duties of every one who purchases land perfectly easy and eminently satisfactory him. The lands of the company are so vast extent and 30 varied in character, that the wishes (5t almost every one can be met, if the intended purchas jyjjnake them known. jr In another part of this circular we give a list of our local agents at the several stations, and also a list of our agents in othrir places. characteristic to the famous Kentucky.

At Newton, a branch extends south 27 miles to Wichita. From Newton, the main line of the road runs directly west, following the fertile valley of the Arkansas river to Pueblo, at the base of the mountains, and 618 miles from Atchison. In another place we give a list of the towns along the line, and such statistics as will be of interest. The road is now completed to Pueblo, giving a direct eastern outlet to the immense business of southern Colorado, New Mexico, the famous San Juan Mining region and Arizona, and furnishing a valuable western market for the su-plus products of the valley and giving to the traveler from the east the most direct all rail route to all of southern and western Colorado, including nearly all the attractive pleasure resorts, Colorado Springs, Pikes Peak, Manitou, the Garden of the Gods, Cheyenne and Grand Canons, the San Juan Mines, New Mexico and Arizona. Those who own and control the road are men of Boston, capable of performing thoroughly all that they attempt.

The road itself speaks well for the present, and is a striking symbol of what will be done in the future. Built in the most thorough manner, of 56 lb splice-jointed iron, oak ties, Howe truss bridges, stone culverts, rock ballast, substantial station houses, it shows plainly that it has been built to stand for all time and to perform the duties of a great through line. This is a matter of more importance to you than may perhaps at first appear. If you are about to select a new home, it is to your interest to throw in your fortune with a healthy and powerful enterprise like the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe railroad, which is destined to be the favorite thoroughfare across the continent. Join hands with an enterprise which is bound to greatly assist you by its own substantial and rapid progress.

One point, however, of the greatest importance to the settler is this: The road has less grades and slighter grades than any other railroad in the wfet for the distance operated, and as a consequence, as soon as there shall be enough business to justify the running of more than a limited number of trains, its rates can and will be reduced to a very low figure. The land grant through which this company has built its road has been justly called BEST THING IN THE WEST. To the fanner and stock raiser it offers magnificent opportunities, and when in addition to all the natural advantages presented by this country are added the the artificial advantages which this railroad enterprise has given it, it needs only the casual examination of the inquirer to make it command attention above all similar enterprises. Cash Purchase. Terms Mo.

4. This is a sale wiere the whole amount of purchase money is paid down and deed given. For cash we make a discour vcf twenty per cent, from the appraised price. Example. Jan.

i) 1876, x6o acres at $5 per Cash discount of twenty per cent 16020 Paying up in full on Long Credit Purchase. Exploring Tickets. Land Explorers Tickets can be purchased at. the companys offices in and Kansas p'ftiand of 4jbur principal State and County Agents, a list ofwhich will beULuud In another part oit this circular. A certificate will be given to each purchaser of a Land Explorers Ticket, containing the following fagreement: I 44 In consideration that the party to whom this Certificate is issued shall, within days from the date of this Certificate, purchase one hundred and sixty acres of the Lands of the Railroad Company, on the terms proposed in either of its terms ot sale, numbered one, three or four, and suriender this Certificate, the said Railroad Company will allow such person on the first payment on such contract the sum of (being the sum stated in the certificate,) or one-half of said amount in case eighty acres are purchased or one-fourth of said amount in case forty acres are purchased and if the purchaser prefers to make his purchase under the terms numbered two, one-half of the above amount will be allowed.

But one rebate will be allowed on any one purchase of land. These exploring tickets permit the purchaser to stop off at the different stations going and returning, to examine lands and see the country. All persons, who buy on long credit are allowed to pay up at any time they desire to dao, and jobtain 3 deed to their land, and they will receive a liberal dis-cdunt for payments made sometime in advance of maturity. Why go to Southwestefif Title to Lands. Suggestions to Land Buyers.

Before coming to purchase lands, jsee to it that you nave the necessary means, and make cafeful consideration as to their expenditure. None" should come without proper forethought and needful capital, but with these the way is open and the prospect bright. It is difficult to make progress anywhere without capital, and nowhere is the need of mdney more keenly felt than in a new settlement. You will require money for the expenses of transportation for yourself and family, and such household goods and stock as you may determine to bring for the first small payment on the laid purchased; for buildings and other improvements for farming tools and provisions until you can raise and grow and sell a crop. -f It is not advisable to transport heavy ot bulky material any great distance.

Agricultural- implements adapted to the soil of the region, and household goods in all their variety, can be purchased here as cheaply as in the Eastern or Middle States, after adding the cost of' transportation. Cattle and horses should not be brought, unless of some superior class, as ordinary breeds can be purchased for much less than they could be landed here. The land comes to us by patents from the United States and the State of Kansas, and when full payment is made, we give Warranty Deed to the purchaser. Because, the building of the Atchison, Topeka Santi Fe Railroad has opened up for settlement the foiert body of land in the western couitry, situated in tie most desirable climate, 38 north latitude, the lati-tide of central Kentucky and Virginia, with an altitude cf fom 1,500 to 3,500 feet above the level of the sea, securing a remarkably pleasant and heilthy climate. JHiis being the last Land Grant put ia the market, it Fers better selections and at lower prices than anv Other land grant possessing land that compares at all vmi it in quality and desirable features.

phe country being the newest opened for settlement, thee is yet plenty of government land waiting 'only ocipation to secure possession. 1 v. rihe recent history of Illinois is being repeated here on grand scale. The pioneers who come and possess the jpil of this splendid Valley, at the nominal price, of, 1 an acre, will secure homes in a beautiful and hej country, that ill enhance in value so rapidly as to 1 ake them rich from the increased value of the land. This circular is sent free of charge to all who apply for it, and we will cheerfully furnish copies in the English German, or Scandinavian languages, for yourself and friends, as well as any other definite information, an application to.

A. Acting Zand Commissioner, Topeka, JKaneaa. ARTHUR GORHAM, Asst fond Commissioner. The General Character of the Lands. No railroad company in this country possesses lands of a more excellent or varied character than does the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe.

The character of the country from Atchison to Emporia is a fine rolling prairie, frequently varied by the bottom and valley lands of the creeks and rivers which the road crosses. From Emporia to Florence. i. Lx A- 1.