Western Enterprise from Parsons, Kansas • Page 4

4 4 "WESTERN" ENTEBPBISE, DECEMBEB, 1872. Vox 1. No4. terprising citizens of Parsons, have but to build up and encourage the building of manufactures, to insure for their city the full fruition of its projectors' hopes and make it truly "a city of schools and churches, of manufacture, wealth and refinement," with a bright and glorious future. THE DAIRY.

PUBLISHED MOXTIILY. CORY KNAPP, XDIT0R3 PMPEOTOM, PAK30X3, EAS3A8. T. C. CORT.

v. j. KNAPP. pressing the juice, $3 incidental expenses, $2j interest on capital invested, 5 casks for 2,000 gallons of wine, $75; total, $99.25. Per contra, 2,000 gallons of wine, at 90 cents per gallon, $1,800, leaving a net profit of $1,700 per acre.

Of course this estimate is made for North Carolina, but with our soil and climate, where the grape grows spontaneous, and the blight and mildew are strangers, a fortune in the near future, will crown the efforts of the enterprising wine grower, be his present capital ever so small. blindly rushed to the junction," and who were now "playing freeie out," alternating between fear and hope as the projected town kings encouraged or discouraged the venture; but with advancing spring-time came the sunshine of hope, in the person of T. C. Olney, engineer, who proceeded to lay the site offinto blacks; lots," streets and alleys, during which time hundreds of people flocked hither from all parts of the country, and camped, some in tents, some in wagons, and others under nothing save the blue dounof heaven, with the dry prairie grass their only bed, all awaiting the first sale of lots which took place on the 8th of March, 1871, and before night of that day nearly one hundred embryo buildings were visible, the downer of each vieing with his neighbor to set up in business first. Large wholesale and retail establishments were opened up, trade came pouring in from the country, confidence in the future of the young city was fully established, but yet there was a lack of news, a derth of literary "sunshine," which was quickly supplied by (M.

W. Reynolds) the "Great Writist," whose quick foresight and shrewd business tack, impelled him to establish here, the great "Luminary" of Southern Kansas, the genial rays of which warmed into life every public measure of interest to Parsons or the country, and carried the news of the marvelous birth and wonderful growth of this ia-fant prodigy to the remotest corners of earth, Long live Milton, and may BREVITIES. Roads dry and dusty. New freight depot nearly done. Wanted A grist mill at Parsons.

Our new school house has a 500 pound bell. Calvin has a large nursery stock near Parsons. Labette is the banner wheat coun- ty'of Kansas. Potatoes are selling for sixty cents a bushel. The editors of the Sun write with Gosling quills.

Dry cisterns are fashionable in Southern Kansas. The First National Bank building is nearly completed. Three hundred children attending Parsons public schools. Send your collections to Ward, Park-hurst, Donley or Gosling. Only thirteen physicians and eleven lawyers in Parsons.

The settlers met in grand council at Parsons on the 30th ult. If you want to buy a lot or rent a house, go to Cory Knapp. If you want to buy a No. 1 farm on easy terms go to Cory Knapp, at the Western Enterprise office. If you want to buy a house and lot in town; go to the Enterprise office.

General Phil. Sheridan passed through our city November 25th. The Memphis and Northwestern Bailroad will be built through Par- sons by September, 1873. J. B.

Parsons commenced work as fireman on the Missouri, Kansas Texas Bailway, Nov. 23d. If you want to build a'nice residence house apply to Geo. Wells, of Lawrence, for plans and specifications. If you are in a lawsuit and want to get out safely, go to Gosling, Ward, Parkhurst or Donley.

Why is it. that Miexell sells so much lumber? Because he has the reputation of selling the cheapest. If you want to get into a lawsuit, go to Parkhurst, Donley, Ward or Gosling, attorneys, Parsons, Kansas. If you want to keep out of lawsuits, i) To Oub Pateojjs. Hereafter the will appear, regularly on the fifteenth of every month, instead of the -first.

ii TO OUR PATRONS. The flattering success that has crowned the introductory efforts of the Enterprise, has induced its proprie-, tors to offer the following very liberal PREMIUMS, To the person sending us the largest list of subscribers, at one dollar, each, before January 1st, 1873, we will make a deed for a town lot, valued at 100 in either of the following growing towns New Chicago, Tioga, Thayer, Urbana, Galesburg or Erie, in Neosho County, Kansas, or Montana, Labette City, Els-ton or Mound Valley, in Labette County, Kansas. To the person sending us the second largest list, at one dollar each, we will deed a town lot in either of the above named towns, valued at 75,00. For the third largest list at one dollar each, before January 1st, 1873, we will give a lot, valued at $50, in either of the above named towns. For the fourth largest list, at one dollar each, before January 1st, 1873, vo will pay $25.00 in greenbacks.

For the fifth largest list at one dollar each, before January 1st, 1873, we will pay $15.00 in greenbacks. For the sixth largest list at one dollar each, sent us before January 1st, 1873, we will pay $5.00 in gold. The money must in all cases accom-jpany the and we will only be responsible to subscribers where we receive the money for their subscription. All orders must be sent to Cory Knapp, Publishers of the "Western 'Enterprise, Parsons, Kansas. TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS.

For the sake of introducing our pa-p er and getting it before the public we have taken some subscriptions on credit, have paid, some have not. "We need money. It is a necessity of our natures. We must have it or the fails. Send in your dollars.

PARSONS. On a clear bright day, in the early part of the summer of 1870, as the train from Ladore, moved slowly down the track of the M. K. B. B.

Hearing the forks of the Big and -Little Labette rivers, two men stepped out upon the platform and signaling down brakes, walked forth upon the beautiful landscape spread out before them, intently gazing at, and admiring the grand uninhabited prairie slope as it lie encircled in the outstretched arms of these twin rivers, the valleys of which re skirted with deep forests, whose rich foliage, and waving boughs add beauty and grandeur to the scenery, And seemed consciously to beckon a welcome to these adventurers. After a low, but earnest conversation of a few minutes the younger ot the two, drew from his pocket a map and hastily tracing the lines upon its face, wrote, 4 'Here will be found a city of schools and churches, of manufactures, wealth And refinement." They then boarded the cars, and the engine again went onward. The few passengers on board the train wondered at this proceeding, but as summer months -stole pn, it was all forgotten save by two men and their companions. In October 1870 the first survey of the Sedalia branch of the M. K.

T. JR. B. was run to the spot marked by 'the two men in the early summer, and lby November, 1870 the road was completed from Sedalia, forming a junction here with the main line of the M. K.

T. which was being pushed rapidly "through the Indian Territory, toward Texas and the Gulf. During the winter of 1870 and early spring of 1871 all eyes were turned toward the junction as being the destined point for an important town, and excitement ran high, not only throughout Kansas, but in other States and along the lines of railroad, all Were wondering and inquiring when the would be and each train that' arrived, -brought new worshipers from the east, who could see nothing save a beautiful With the mild climate and grazing advantages of Southern Kansas we can see no reason why Dairies will not It costs much less to keep cows here than in the east, and yet butter, cheese and mik are much higher. Butter is worth from twenty-five to forty cents per pound, cheese from fifteen to twenty cents per pound and milk from eight to ten cents per quart. A No.

1 cow will give at least forty pounds of milk every day (containing two and one half pounds to the quart) and would make one and pounds of butter, which, at thirty cents per pound, would be worth forty-eight cents, or four pounds of cheese, (counting ten pounds of milk to one pound of cheese) worth eighteen cents per pound, equal seventy-two cents or, if sold in the milk, at eight cents per quart, would amount to $1.28 for each cow every day. We call the attention of our readers to these figures, believing there is more money in keeping cows than in raising coin for fifteen cents per bushel. Who will be the first one to establish a cheese factory in Parsons I WHAT SHALL I DO FOR A LIVING? 1st. Get all the education you can. You can never get too much don't rely wholly upon books for.

your education, but learn to think, invent, and out of the book of na ture to read men and things de velop both mind and muscle, and thus be prepared to make a success of life by mastering your occupa tion, whether it be carrying the hod or filling a consulates mission to some foreign country. Choose some business; then thoroughly educate yourself for it. 2nd. Learn some trade, become a No. 1 mechanic, so "that if you Should be called a higher or more lucrative position and fail you will have something to go back to, an independent support for yourself and family.

A well educated mind and developed body is a never fail ing mine of wealth. With a trade and education, if ambitious, honest, industrious and persevering, you will have no trouble in finding means for obtaining a livelihood. GRAPE CULTURE. Few people seem to be aware of the quick and large returns of profit realized from the culture of the grape. Mr.

Fraelieb, of Halifax county, North Carolina, an enthusiast in the culture of the grape, and with forty years of experience as a vineyard-ist, twenty years of which were spent among the vineyards of the Bhme, says, that each vine in the third year will produce about one peck of grapes in the fourth year two bushels in the fifth year five bushels. He claims that when in full bearing they will average from 400 to 500 bushels per acrej from which 2,500 gallons of juice may be pressed. Vines of the Scuppernong variety have, in his neigborhood, reached the venerable age of one hundred and fifty years, and cover from one and a half to two acres. A vine of this age in North county, covering two acres of ground, yielded last season forty-eight barrels of Trine, although its supports were dilapidated and not one cent had been expended in cultivation. He estimates the expense of pre paring an acre of vineyard as fol lows Average price of land per acre 810 twenty-five weU rooted vines properly set in the ground $8 fifty loads of compost, $10 5 ar- bouring with posts and wire, 50.90.

Annual expense of cultivation, 14.25 of gathering the grapes and PLANT TREES. Every owner of real estate, whether he lives in town or country, should plant and cultivate forest trees, and thus combine the ornamental with the practical. Plant them in your fields, fence corners, along the lawns, streets and roads. Let them be growing everywhere. Plant them, that your children may play in their shade, and climb into their branches.

Plant them to shel-ter and protect your stock from the scorching sun and pelting storm. Plant them for ornament. Plant them for nuts. Plant them that in years to come, you may have them for fuel and lumber. Plant a variety of kinds.

Let every prairie farmei have his grove, and every city dweller have his shady lawn and street. When the prairies of the West, shall be dotted over with beautiful groves of fine trees, and the highways, streets and lawns are shaded by the growing cottonwood, hickory, walnut, chestnut, ash, oak, maple, elm, and the many varieties that thrive in this country, then will the annoying gusts of wind and the much dreaded but unfrequent drouth never come, and the West will become the great paradise for the warbling insect 'destroying, songsters; and future generations, as they listen to the songs of birds in early spring time and merrily gather the falling nuts in the autumn, will write you in history as the philanthropists of your age. i HEDGES. In an open prairie country like ours, where timber is scarce and lumber high, the importance of fencing without having recourse to the very limited supply our small belts of timber afford, presents it self to every farmer. think the- best and most available means at hand for this purpose, is the Osage Orange hedge.

The estimated cost of the Osage Orange hedge, when three years old, and with a good stand, is about sixty cents per rod. On a farm of 160 acres one would need at least two and one-half miles or 800 rods of fencing, which, reckoned at the rate of sixty cents per rod, would amount to $480. Now suppose we fence with rails, we have a cost of ninety cents per rod, making a cost of $720, or $240 more than for the hedge. If we fence with posts and boards we have a cost of $1.20 per rod, making the whole cost $1,120, or $740 more than for the hedge. After the hedge is four years old it will turn cattle as well if not bet ter than a board or rail fence, and with less expense for repairs.

One great argument in lavor 01 ine hedge is that it can be done by the farmer himself, witn scarcely any cash outlay. 1 1 We call the attention of the farmers of our State to the proceedings of the "Patrons of Husbandry," at Lawrence, on the 5th published elsewhere in our columns, and would suggest the immediate organization of subordinate granges in every county in the State. farmers would protect themselves from the tyranny and oppression of consolidated capital and monopolists, they must organize and work to-frether. Any information wanted in regard to establishing granges in tne state of can oe naa Dy address iner P. H.

Dumbould; or G. W. SDur geon, Jacksonville, Neosho4 county, Brown county, Kansas. your "Sun grow in size and increase in brightness as it grows in years. Before the close of the summer, the M.

K. T. B. B. Co.

had erected the finest two story brick passenger depot in the State, and were vigorously pushing the grading for their Bound House and Machine shops, both of which are now (December, 1872) nearly completed, and are of magnesian limestone, with iron and slate roofs, the former building 1000 feet in circumference, the latter 100 feet wide by 300 feet long, the roof alone costing nearly 40,000. Besides these buiidings, the company has here, a large car-house, are now building their magnificant freight depot, and have the grading all done for an extensive foundry and other railroad buildings. Over three hundred children are attending the public schools, in a 20,000 brick building, (built by the bonds of the district,) furnished second to none in Southern Kansas; and prayers each sabbath from five different congre gations of devout worshippers, all zealously engaged in the construction of costly magnificent church houses. Large two and three story brick blocks are going up on the business corners, and all over the city, residences are springing into existence like mushroons in the night time, and still the cry from the constant stream of strangers is, "do you know of any houses to rent Business of all kinds and the profes sions are represented here by live, en ergetic men. Here then is a city not yet two years old, with a population of over two thousand.

Four newspapers, the 'Sun, published by Beynolds Gosling; Western Enterprise, by Cory Knapp; Land Guide, by Walker, Thom as Wilson, and the Settlers A dvocate, by T. D. Bancroft; a $20,000 school house, huge and magnificent round house, machine shops, car house, freight and passenger depot, three lines of rail road already built with the fourth, (the Memphis Northwestern) in process of construction; to be built and operating from Thayer on the L. L. G.

B. via: Parsons to Eitchie, on the Atlantic Pacifio Bailroad, by the first of September, 1873. Two and three story brick business blocks; the First National Bank building, a two story brick, the finest in Southern Kansas; mammoth wholesale and retail dry goods, clothing, grocery, hardware and drug stores; the finest and best kept hotels in the west. Situated as it is. in the heart of a rich agricultual county, and within the cotton growing region, and by the M.

T. B. B. brought into close prox imity with the great cotton fields of Texas, with an inexhaustible supply of water and an abundance of coal, the en get Donley, Ward, Gosling or Parkhurst to draft your contracts and examine your titles. A large number of improved and un improved farms tnd town lots for sale or rent by Cory Knapp, at the Western Enterprise office.

Parsons has a $20,000 school house, mammoth round house and machine shops, four church houses under process of construction, and the grading all done for an extensive foundry. Was you ever in Khodus' cellar? you ought to go down and see those large boxes of fine apples and huge bins of the best varieties of Irish and Sweet potatoes, you will find Uncle John, at No, 7 on Johnson avenue, where he and Mr. Carlock will sell you all kinds of family groceries cheap, cheaper, cheap est. We made a raid on our genial friend and townsman, Lee W. Ong, the other day in his neat and nicely furnished photographic rooms, corner of Biggs and ohnson avenues.

Mr. Ong is special photographer and artist for Parsons, and his specimens exhibit a degree of talent rarely equalled. Making faces appears to be his forte, and he guarantees satisfaction in every case. If you would see yourself as others see you, call on Lee W. Ong.

We call the attention of Eastern capitalists to the superior advantages of the West over the East for loaning money and will say in this connection that we are prepared to negotiate loans for parties East or West, and will in all cases see that monies loaned through us are loaned on first class real estate securities, and that such parties shall realize at least 12 per cent, on their loans. We can furnish any reference required. Address 1 1 Cory Knapp, Parsons, Waeat in Labette county looks first rate; Farmers notice the difference between wheat that was put in early with a drill and that sown broodcast later, and profit by the observation. 1 1 site, and the few pioneers who had.