Star of Empire from Topeka, Kansas • 1

STo. 8. APRIL, 1S7Q. NEW YORK, Vol. I.

HOMES FOE THE PEOPLE. AMERICAN RAILWAYS, THINK LINES. (t)t National anb vllompanij. ORGANIZED, 1807. OUR LAND DISTRICTS IN KANSAS AND COLOllADO.

PRESIDENT JOHN H. LOOMI8. SECRETARY AXD TREASURER CHARLES B. LAMBORN. GENERAL MANAGER WILLIAM E.

WEBB. GENERAL. AGENT: CYRUS lSr. PRATT. GENERAL MANAGER, (FOR COLORADO.) WILLIAM 1ST.

BYERS. forty and eighty acres, according to distance, and the furthest lots will be of one hundred and sixty acres, which is the largest amount one member can hold, and these the members choose in any manner they may select, giving to each an equal chance. The village lots, however, are sold from $25 to $50 each, and the proceeds devoted to schools and public improvements. Each member must build upon his lot in good faith, within one year, when he will have a deed. This provision is to prevent any one from holding real estate to increase in value through the industry and enterprise or others.

Thus it will be seen that, while each member is a partner in the rise of real estate in town, he is also an owner of country property, and even during the first year he and his family will have many of the advantages of an old settled country. While capitalists combine, the laborer and common men also should combine, that the land, which is the heritage of the race, may, in a manner, be free to all. The Committee have made selection of several thousand acres of our railway lands in Colorado, and the colony will commence to move about the twentieth of this month. We are charged with transportation of the families and household goods of this colony, and will move them with celerity, safety and economy, to their new homes. From the intrinsic value of the lands for different industries, the peerless beauty of valley and mountain scenery, which surrounds the and the great.skill and moral worth of the people who constitute it, this will be one of the most important colonial oVganizations on the continent.

The. town will bear the name of that upright philanthropist and statesman Greeley." THE GERMAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY OP COLFAX, COLORAES. This was organized at Chicago, in 1869, by GtiNERAL Carl Wulsten, assisted by the National The National Land Company are the legally constituted LAND AND EMIGRATION-AGENTS OF The Kansas Pacific Railway (Jo. AND THE DENVER PACIFIC RAILWAY CO. We are specially charged with the sale and promo-lion of, emigration to, and settlement of, their landed properties.

For the Kansas Pacific Rail-way Co. we offer for sale to colonies and individual settlers about 6,500,000 Acres, and for the Denver Pacific Railway Company 1,000,000 Acres. The lands are among the Richest Farming, Pasture, Fruit, Coal and Pine Lands in Kansas and Colorado. These lands are the alternate sections granted by Congress to aid construction of this great CONTINENTAL RAILWAY LINE To the Facific Ocean. The adjoining sections are Government lands and subject to entry by actual settlers under The Homestead and Pre-emption Laws of the United States.

Elsewhere, in our paper and circulars, which we "Westward the Star of Empire Takes its Way!" The natural grandeur of our ocean-bound Republic, the moral sublimity of our progress in material development, intellectual growth and social and political reforms, have wrought a migration of people to our shores which overshadows the Crusades, and surpasses the dazzling war pageantry of ancient and modern history. Every railway in Europe, and the ships on every sea are crowded with the people of all nations, following the magnetic Star, which shines for all alike in our Free Western Empire. America bids them Welcome and guarantees to every one a home, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." For the beautiful embodiment of the idea," which appears at the head of our paper, we are indebted to our Draughtsman, Mr. Edward F. McLocghxin, who designed, and to Mr.

J. C. Brcen, of New York, the Artist who has given such a faithful and excellent engraving of it. The Star of Empire is printed for us on the Aldtne Press, by Messrs. Sutton, Bowne 23 Liberty street Description of the Map Printed in this Edition.

The -map printed in this editionjof the "Star," shows the Railroad connections from the Atlantic Ocean and prominent Railroad centers in the eastern, middle and western Suites, to all points-in Kansas and Colorado. The scale of the Railroad Map is about 250 miles lo the inch while that of Kansas and Colorado Ls only 50 miles to the inch, or in proportion to their size, occupy five times as much space as the States east of the dividing line. The Map showing the laud districts of the National Laud Company is sulidivided, in Kansas, into townships, each of which Is ix miles square. The nymlerof the townships aTe placed ajong the line of the Sixth Principal Meridians. Thu Ranges are e- andwestpf this linejtnd app-ir n) potion "of "the State.

Each township is subdh ided into 30 sections or squares, containing 640 acres each, anil being one mile square. The sections are divided into 10U, 120, 80, and 40 acre tracts, the latter being the smallest parcel ottered for sale. That portion of the Map representing Colorado is carefully and accurately presented. It shows the different lines of Railroads built and projected in that Territory, and the several stations already located. An Irishman on a Kansas Farm.

Ten years ago, a poor but determined and industrious Irishman went to Kansas as a common laborer on the railroad. A few years of honest toil and frugal management gave him the means to buy a home. Afterwards a team, with which he freighted goods to settk-nients and trading posts beyond the iron rails. Savings of this business enabled him to contract and deliver tbrage to the government. Then he tried a country store.

He was successful as a merchant also. Two years ago we sold him 160 acres of land at $3 per acre. He paid $96 at time of purchase, being the fifth cash payment we require at time of contracting sale of our lauds. He cultivated 25 acres of this laud in wheat last year. He raised eleven hundred and forty bisuels, which weighed 63 pounds to the bushel, about 46 bushels to the acre).

He sold the crop at one dollar and lift' cents per bushel, making seventeen hundred and'ten dollars for the whole crop. Specimens of this identical crop can be seen in our Chicago, New York, Baltimore, London, Glasgow, Dundee and Scandinavian offices; and if any of our readers should be sceptical about the success of our Irish fanner," all doubts as to his nationality and success, or of this premium upland wheat crop, can be dispelled by writing to Thomas Dickson, our noble Irish American friend at Ogden, Kansas. send gratis to all correspondents, we furnish the laws 4 uid Company through its indefatigable General and re'ndations under ftich these Government lands i Agent, U. JN. i.sq.

Carl Wulsten is a Prussian. In his native country an officer of distinction, in the line of the Prussian army. He had a large circle of German friends in the North-west, who were also earnest admirers of our patriotic statesman, Schuyler Colfax, after whom the colony and their town takes name. With such leaders the Germans rallied into one of the most practical colonization organizations we have located in the territories. In this movement we have been aided by President Grant, who ordered transportation to lie furnished for the colony by the War Department from Fort Wallace, Kansas, to Wet Mountain, Colorado, where the colony have been happily settled.

This is our furthermost picket colony, amidst the valleys of Colorado, and near one of the most enchanting Rocky Mountain ranges. We moved the colony by special train, consisting of a baggage, three passenger, and ten freight cars from Chicago, on the 8th of February last, over the Chicago, Alton, and St. Louis, and the North Missouri and Kansas Pacific Rail Roads. They took mills, machinery, and fine stock on same train, and have all the elements of prosperity and protection secured. Mr.

Pratt is their Commercial Agent at Chicago, and will assist all who desire to join the colony. can be taken by actual settlers. The lands we offer for sale comprise the richest portions of the Valley, rolling prairie, timber and coal lands of the Vermillion, Bio Blue, Republican, Saline and Smoky Hill Rivers, and tributaries in KANSAS. And the Bio Sandy', Platt, Beaver, Bijou, Kiowa, Squirrel, Clear Creek, St. Vrain, Big and Little Thompson, Cache-a-la-Pocdre, and tributary streams in COLORADO.

These lands are offered in tracts of 80, 160, 320 and 040 acres, to individual settlers and to colonies, in selections, to any extent desired, at from to SS pei Aci'e. Terms of Payment. Sales are made on credit, as follows One-fifth cash at time of purchase. No payment, except interest, at end of the First year one-fifth cash, with interest due, at end of the Second year one-fifth cash, with interest due, at end of Third year; one-fifth cash, with interest due, at end of Fourth year one-fifth cash, with interest due, at end of Fifth year. Interest on deferred payments at 6 per cent, per annum A Deduction of Ten per cent, on credit price will be made for cash payment in full at time of selection and purchase.

Example. 100 acres, at $4 per acre, will cost $040, to be paid as follows Principal. Interest. Cash payment $128 00 End of first year 72 End of second year 128 00 and 30 72 End of third year 128 00 and 2:5 04 End of fourth year 128 00 and 15 36 End of fifth year 128 00 and 7 68 The same farm maybe purchased for $576, cash. Our lands at Seven and Eight Dollars per acre are the special! line tracts of rich bottom.

soil, having ORGANIZED COLONIZATION. There is no man integral within himself. We are all parts of one grand community, and it behoves every man to know what his neighbor is about. Hence we unite, for mutual benefit, large corporate interests to economize the movement of people by colonies, and immediately secure to members thereof all the home institutions, social and material. The advantage of the colonization system for the West, consists in simultaneous occupancy of the lands, and by co-operation of labor and mutual help, each makes a permanent, comfortable home on his own tract.

The maximum of each mans power is increased by unison with the labor of others as in public works, manufacturing, etc. A great reduction in cost of transportation; implements, materials, stock and supplies can be purchased at manufacturers or wholesale price saving several retail dealers' profits. Cattle, sheep, and hogs can be herded cheaper by co-operation. Homesickness is prevented. Although the land is new and the country strange, there is a community of old friends a pure and healthy tone is given to social life.

Communities made up of miscellaneous settlers from all sections and nationalities, require years to become homogeneous socially, and prosperous in their industries. Organized emigration secures within the landed limits of the colony, the control of public affairs, the benefit and control of school lands and monies donated by the State and National Government for common schools and higher institutions of learning. We have settled several Colonies on our Railway lands. TWO LARGE SWEDISH COLONIES purchased and settled upon, in the fall of 1868, thirty-two thousand eight hundred acres in Sallne County, Kansas, south of Salina. We visited them in July last, and found in one township nineteen dwelling houses, mostly of stone, substantially built, aid several-thousand acres under good cultivation, with large crops ready for harvest.

They had built a stone church and school-house, and have one store, one blacksmith and other mechanical shops. The people are contented, prosperous and happy. They had recently an accession of one hundred and thirty, and number about three hundred population, and increasing in numbers and prosperity daily. Our next settlement was an ENGLISH COLONY IN CLAY COUNTY, KANSAS organized in London, England, by the Rev. Richard Wake, a Methodist clergyman of several years residence in the United States, and most prominently and creditably connected with the press and people of of England in emigration movements.

As an itinerant servant of his church and Master, he has traveled over the great States of the West, and while preaching the truths of our holy religion has been looking for good homes for his fellow countrymen. He has been induced by the Colony in Kansas to take their leadership and the church have appointed him to reside permanently with it. The Colony now numbers one hundred and fifty or more, and is receiving accessions daily from England and the Eastern States. The tract selected by Mr. Wake consists of 32,000 acres of Railway lands and about 30,000 of Government lands, lying in alternate sections between the Republican River and Chapmans Creek.

The lands are a magnificent body of the richest prairie soil, and contain quarries of fine building stone, and well watered by the Republican, which traverses the Eastern border, and the Chapman and other streams. The whole tract has been surveyed and judiciously divided into small farms, and is being rapidly improved. A town, bearing the name of Wakefield, has been judiciously laid off on the Republican River, a ferry established which places the Colony in communication with the settlements on the east side of the river. Churches and schools are being built, and a happy selection of representatives of all useful trades and professions, are now there. Wakefield and Wakefields, the name given the whole tract, will soon have communication with Junction City, sixteen miles distant, by a branch railroad of the Kansas Pacific.

This is the only element now required to make the Colony one of the most successful and influential in the West. The business of the Colony is transacted under the name of The Kansas Land and Emigration Company the principal offices are at Wakefield, and Junction City, Kansas, and at No. 13 Godliman street, London. The National Land Company made sale of the lands to this Colony, and in promotion of their emigration interests we represent them at New York, and furnish their people with the same desirable facilities that we do to all others emigrating to settle on our Railway lands. OHIO COLONY.

This Colony was settled by us at Bavaria, Saline County, in 1809. The people are all from central and northern Ohio, and are of that sturdy and intelligent class which have made Ohio the third State in the Union, in numerical and material strength. This Colony had fifty-three houses erected last year a church, school-house, and railway depot. We sold them 7,000 of our railway acres. They raised good crops and are delighted with their beautiful Kansas Valley lauds.

THE UNION COLONY. N. C. Meeker, President. Horace Greeley', Treasurer.

The plan adopted by the Union Colony of this city is for those wishing to join to contribute $5 for expenses, and $150 for the purchase of land. A very reliable Committee was appointed to make a location, comprising as many advantages as could be found, and to purchase the same at the lowest rates. They will have a very eligible townsite laid off into building lots, containing 1 acres each, and adjoining the town, and lots ranging from three, to five, ten, fifteen, twenty, Next to the pride which we take in our magnificent Pacific liailways, and our rich lands along their lines, we esteem the great Trunk Line Rail-Roads which connect them with the Atlantic cities. In ability of management, equipment, wholesome provision for the comfort of passengers and speed in transporting freights, they are fully equal to the progress attained by American genius in all our social and material relations. We publish, for several of these roads, notices of the line of route, time, and connections made, and facilities afforded the traveling and shipping public.

THE ERIE, ATLANTIC AND GREAT WESTERN, AND THE OHIO fc MISSISSIPPI RAILWAYS afford a broad gauge, through route without change of cars, passengers -or household goods, from New York to St. Louis, and the North Missouri Railway and the Missouri Pacific take our passengers to Kansas City where they make close connection with our well built and admirably managed Kansas Pacific Railway. We take pleasure in speaking of the superior accommodations and the painstaking carefulness, with which the Officers, Agents and Conductors of the Erie Railway, and the Ohio and Mississippi (its connecting line at Cincinnati, Ohio,) have taken to aid us in promoting emigration to our lands. By this line families secure a trip without interruption. There are no more elegant and comfortable passenger cars, or better built or tidy emigrant cars in the world, than on this line.

The good time, and more than ordinary kind attentions in treatment of all classes of passengers, is the especial remark of our people who have gone West by this route. Mr. Wm. R. and Mr.

Chas. E. Follett, the Passenger Agents of the Erie and the Ohio and Mississippi Railway Companies laid us-and'OHr friends in London, England, and of our English Colony at Wakey field, Kansas, uriuer pleasant obligations for courties to the English boys sent to us by the Earl of Shaets-bury's Reform School Society of Great Britain. THE PENNSYLVANIA CENTRAL RAILROAD. This company have one of the most important, best built, and thoroughly well managed systems of Railway communication on the continent, from New York and Philadelphia to Chicago and St.

Louis. It is unsurpassed in excellence of general equipment, for passenger and freight traffic. From New York, passengers go by this line to Philadelphia and Pittsburg to St. Louis, and via Pittsburg to Chicago. The marked attention given by the managers of this line to promote comfort of passenger travel, has given to the public unexceptionable cars, great safety and speed of trains, prompt connections with all Western lines, and rates as low as any other route.

Mr. Henry W. Gwinner, the very able General Passenger and Ticket Agent of this Road, was the first President of the National Land Company, and as a practical advocate of organized Colonization, he has made, through an able corps of General and Local Ticket Agents, the Emigration business of the road a most popular feature. Our Kansas land-buyers, who take this line, make the same close connection at St. Louis with roads to Kansas City, and for the line of the Kansas Pacific, as by other routes.

THE CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND PACIFIC RAILWAY. By all the trunk lines from the Atlantic Cities, passengers lor Western Illinois, Iowa, Northern Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, and the Territories, will find this to be the direct connection from Chicago to Omaha, where thev will make close connection with trains on the Union Pacific Railway for California and intermediate points. It is a part of the great through railway system between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. It is a thoroughly built, substantially equipped and admirably managed road. It is the popular route from Chicago to San Francisco, and we commend it specially as one which will give perfect satisfaction to the tourist and colonist.

Mr. A. M. Smith, of Chicago, is the General Passenger Agent of this Road, and is alive to the importance and practicability of our Emigration and Land Development enterprises, and has given us unsolicited aid to promote economical transit of our intending settlers in Colorado. He has our hearty thanks.

NORTH MISSOURI RAILROAD. This is a direct rrad, and for Colonists and their household goods, and for travelers from St. Louis to North Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, New Mexico and California, one of the very best lines west of the Mississippi. Passengers and freight are transported with speed, and the highest degree of comfort and connections with all lines east at St. Louis, and west at Kansas City, are close and reliable.

Under the General management of the Hon. William M. McPherson this line has grown into the first importance among the great iron arteries uniting the Middle States with the immense interest laying between the Mississippi and Missouri and the Pacific Ocean. Since Mr. Mcpherson's connection with this road and the Kansas Pacific Railway, in which he is also a Director and large stockholder, St.

Louis has been able to win back a large portion of the business of Iowa and the valley of the Missouri and the Territories which by unfortunate circumstances of the war, were diverted to Chicago and other northern cities. With Mr. John D. Perry, Mr Adolphls Mier, Mr. Carlos S.

Greeley, and General William J. Palmer, the leading and enterprising spirits of the Kansas Pacific, Mr. McPherson was the first to give practical indorsement of our idea of a National "Land Company." In the creation and operations of our organization, these gentlemen and Mr. McPherson have been our earnest and practical friends and it has been a friendship valuable to every family who have moved to our land districts. The dollars we save an Emigrant in moving on a long line to a new home in the west helps him to make the new home comfortable at the start.

We have to thank Mr. McPherson who is bold enough to face opjxjsition and heart enough to enforce a policy directly in the interest of the emigrating land settler. With the far-seeing and true Scotch-American sense, which is characteristic of Mr. McPherson, he baBavea that help to the emigrating agriculturalist and miner now will bring his great railroads a splendid traffic, when the plains and fertile prairies on his lines will become the homes of a dense and happy population, and the mines yielding precious wealth enough to pay a hundred national debts. So much space Ls cheerfully given to state a fact, and point a moral and its effects.

McPherson has teen our friend, and the emigrants friend and a man or corporation who fails to stand by a friend is worthy of neither home, friends or success. EXEC UT1 VE COMM1 TTEE. JOHN S. LOOmS, CARLOS S. GREELEY, CHAS B.

LAMBORN, fM. E. WEBB. DIRECTOllS. JOHN S.

LOOM IS, CARLOS S. GREELEY, CHAS. B. LAMBORN, WM. J.

PALMER, CYRUS N. PRATT, WM. E. WEBB. COM Ml SSI OXERS OF EMIGRATION.

Charles F. .4 Ludgate Hill, London, Eng. Rohert Stewart, St. Andrew Dundee, Scotland. Alexander McDonald, Holy town, W.

Alsop, Garthmill, North Wales. Patrick Bode, Stockholm, Sweden. B. B. Peterson, Gothenburg, Herman Roos, John Millar, Henderson BROTHERS, Christiana, Norway.

Tuayben Copenhagen, Denmark. R. Arnold, Toronto, Canada. HeSam hey, Ko. 2 House, New York.

9 AG EXT S. Geo. O. Evans, Room 3, 1427 Washington, D. C.

149 Baltimore Baltimore. Lansing Millis 5 State Boston, Geo. D. Teller, 19 Exchange Buffalo. .1.

II. Jenkins, 204 Genessee Utica, N. Y. Price Brothers, 145 Superior Cleveland. Allan Pollock, Scranton, Pennsylvania W.

S. Jenkins, Delaware Leavenworth, W. Jones, M. D. St.

Joseph, Mo. Hattley Hay, 10 Williamson Square, Liverpool, Eng. GEXERAL OFFICES. NEW YORK CITY. Jons 9.

Loomis, President, No. 2 Astor House. Office of the Star of Empire," Stephen W. Sears, Commissioner, PASSENGER AND EXCHANGE OFFICE, Xo. 3 Eon-ling Green.

D. C. Hartwell, General Ticket Agent. Augcst Petersohn, Scandinavian Edward F. McLougiilin, Receiving ST.

LOUIS, Corner 5th and Elm Streets. Chas. B. Lamhorn Secretary and Treasurer. E.

B. Byington, Agent, No. 27 South 4th St. TOPEKA, KANSAS. Wm.

E. Weuis, General Manager. J. W. Hinciiman, Agent.

CHICAGO, 111 Dearborn Street. C. N. Pratt, General Agent. R.

F. Arnold Agent. DENVER. COLORADO. Wm.

X. Byers, General Manager. LOCAL AGENTS US THE LINE OF THE KANSAS PACIFIC RAILWAY. Pliny Kansas City, Missouri. Schei.l Lewis, Lawrence, Kansas.

Phil. D. Fisher, Wamego, Elijah Walker, St. George, ADAMS Elliott, Manhattan, A. C.

Pierce lunction City, N. H. Whittemokk, Vhua, S. J. McFarren, Detroit, John II.

Mahan, Abilene, Cramer Campell, Solomon City, II. Bishop, Saina II. Johnson, James Miller Ellsworth, V. W. Lambert, Lindsey, Ottawa Thanks to Railroad Officer.

The officers and members of the National Land Company, desire to express their gratitude for the generous assistance extended to them by all Officers and General Passenger and Ticket Agents of the various Railways throughout the country, in establishing our relations with their roads and developing a new and untried business, the success of which to a great degree, having been attained through the indispensable co-operation of our Railway friends. Our Chicago Office. Correspondents throughout the Northwest, are requested to correspond with our General Agent, Cyrus N. Pratt, at No. Ill Dearborn Chicago.

Colonists and Emigrants will be supplied with our trans-iMrtation tickets at reduced rates from Chicago, and Pratt wUl also attend to the shipping of household goods and other freights at the lowest rates over all Hues to Kansas and Colorado. Results of Farming in Kansas. We desire to show by facts and figures to the farmers of the Eastern States, some of the practical results of prairie farming in Kansas, collected and averaged from personal investigations and data, furnished by some ot the most reliable and intelligent farmers in the State. The following estimates include first payment on land and are alo made upon the value of the labor perform both timber and running water, and, in some stances, deposits of gypsum, and the finer qualities ed, or at the price which a fanner would pay for the work, if he employed other hands. Land Sales of the Kansas Pacific Railway.

The Laud Department of the Kansas Pacific Railway Company commenced business January 1st, 1868. The first six months of that year there were sold 21,834 acres for $62,379. The progress of the land development of the road not being as rapid as desired, or expected, the Directory encouraged the organization of the National Land Company, which was finally effected in June, 1808, and we were immediately charged with advertising the landed properties of the road, and with sale and promotion of settlement of their land grant by movement of actual settlers thereon, through our Emigration Bureau. To advertise the lands, we commenced the publication of the Star of Empire, which was most efficiently accomplished through our General Manager, Hon. W.

E. Webb, and our General Western Agent at Topeka, Mr. James I. W. Hinchman, Editors.

Our Eastern Office was opened in New York City, from which well-regulated agencies were established throughout the Eastern States and Europe, and through winch our Star" with maps and circulars, descriptive of our lands, have been well disseminated. The first six months of our Agency there were more than four times as much land sold as during the previous six months by the Riilroad Company direct. The second six months the sales wen; six times as large, and the third six months of our Agency the sales of the road were more than fourteen times as large as the first six months of their business under the old system of conducting Railway Land Departments. LAND SALES. I ACRES.

I SOLD FOB. 160 acres Railway lands at $5 per acre. First or fifth cash payment. House 1 story 2 rooms (estimated) Fencing 250 Breaking SO acres at $4 120 bushels seed wheat at $1 50. 180 Sowing and harrowing per acre, $1 80 Harvesting and stacking 2 50 200 Threshing 2,400 bushels at 12c.

bushel 2S8 Drawing to market at 5c. a bushel 12U I Total RESULT. The farmer receives for 2.400 bushels wheat sold at one dollar per bushel $2,400 His total outlay, first year $1,796 of building stone, conveniently situated for quarrying. This class of lands are best adapted to stock-raising and the cultivation of corn and all grasses. Lands at from Four to Five Dollars per acre have less timber and bottom, but in most instances have water and strong soil of great fertility adapted to the production of wheat and all other small grains, and fruit.

These lands slope gently from the streams to the uplands, or divides between creeks and rivers. Properly designated intermediate land," and for purposes of general farming, are perhaps superior to the bottom." Situations for building, and charming views of magnificent valley and hillside landscape, is a desirable characteristic of these lands. The tracts held at from Two to Three Dollarx per acre are "uplands" high, rolling prairie good, strong soil, specially fine for fruit and grazing purposes. The wild prairie grasses on these hinds yield, ordinarily, from one-and-a-half to two tons of hay per acre. A fine quality of building stone abounds.

Grapes are most successfully cultivated on the hillside farms, selected from this class. The Germans and Swiss, who make butter and cheese, and the New' England fanners, who love the hill and narrow intervening valleys between, take these diversified tracts in preference to the level or more gently undulating Giving net profit of. foo These figures are no exaggeration. We know of many farmers who have done better through exercise of greater economy in labor and superior tanning. IStW First 6 Second 6 First Second (i i 21.84.14 02.309.03 I 89.437.15 i 867,413.61 i 128,083.61 I 328,820.29 66 947.488.02 542,279.59 Total Sales to January 1st 1870..

Our sales for the year 1809 are four times larger than the sales of the Illinois Central Hail way during anybir yrears since offering their lands for sale, and the Illinois Central has the best managed Railway Land Department in America. These results are fairly attributable to our thorough organization and novel plan for advertising the patrimony of the Railroad Companies and the economical facilities secured for transporting and settling emigrating land buyers. prairie. The soil is of the same general quality and Railroads in Kansas. The aggregate length of Railroads completed in Kansas Ls 81)7 miles; in progress of construction, 474 miles, and projected 449 miles.

Of the roads now in pregress of construction, at least two hundred miles will be completed within three months. Across the Missouri river, at Leavenworth, the bunding of a railroad ami wagon bridge of iron sub. and superstructure is in progress. It is intended to have this bridge completed the coining summer. When the lines now being constructed are completed, Kansas will have 1,820 miles of railroads.

Railroads in Colorado. There are several lines of Railroad projected in Colorado, but as vet the Kansas Pacific and Denver Pacific are the only lines which have made any material headway. The" Denver Pacific is built from Cheyenne to Evans, a distance of 58 miles, and it is confidently expected that the remaining 48 miles will finished by-next June. The Kansas Pacific have completed 60 miles in Colorado, and expect to finish their road to Denver by next September. When these roads in completed they will, with the Union Pacific, make an unbroken through route from the Atlantic to the Pacific, via St.

Louis, and will command forty to fifty per cent of the through or trans-continental business. Earnings of the Kansas Pacific Railway. The earnings of the Kansas Pacific Railway Com-oanv for Miscellaneous, Passeiurer and Freight traffic. for the vear ending 1868. was' $1,010,161.83, and for I the year'1869, $2,225,850.11, being an increase of $315- character, but not so deep.

Nearness to the railway depots, and to towns and villages enhances values here described, but, as a rule, the lands are appraised with reference to intrinsic value of soil for various branches of agricultural or other industries. TITLE. The title to the lands we sell is perfect and undisputed. The patents issue from the United States to the Railway Company, and the purchaser receives General Warranty Deed from the Railway Company direct upon making full payment. Our Ohio Agency.

Messrs. Price Brothers, Bankers, at 145 Superior street, Cleveland, have been appointed Agents for the National Land Company, in Northern Ohio, and will furnish descriptive information of our lands, and supply transportation to colonists intending to settle within our land districts at reduced rates passage or freight. 088.I8 over 1808. 1 he net earnings ot the road 1869, were $839,690. The average length of the road operated during the year was three hundtod ind sixty-eight miles.

There was transported ovi the road in 1868 and 1869102.960 head of cattle to eastern markets..