The Settler's Guide from Chetopa, Kansas • Page 4

crow rich and ereat. Bat the progress in farming, social growth and especially the advancement comnarison is Her rich Kansas and the Indian Territory The following article from the Kansas Times embraces many items of interest regarding soils and cheap lands make Kan- that goes to make a State prosperous. Kansas has plenty of room and a welcome hand for all who come. The great portion of people that settle in the eastern counties bring with them considerable money. This they invest in land, stock and' farming uten sas a dangerous competitor to al others in the race for develop the question of opening the tern- of our educational interests, as the following which is published in the Educational Weekly, of Chicago, will show Kansas has 266,575 persons ot school age, an increase of 33.7001 torv to settlement, and is worthy ment and wealth.

She is in the of perusal: field on the most favorable terms, There is a popular belief in and nothing can now beat er. Kansas that only the speculators While the others are getting the and railroads favor the movement million she will increase two mil 24 640acres 10 miles west of chetopa on Coffeevile road 650 acres in cultivation and; now sown in wheat, large new frame house, large granary 2,000 bushel capacity, tjood wells and large pasture fenced, miles of thrifty young hedge, chics land south slope, daily mail, good chance to build up a village or sell goods. Price, exclusive of crop, 12 peracre. Would be divided 342160 acres 5 miles northwest of che-topa, valley land, 100 acres in cultivation, -60 enclosed for pasture, good frame house li stories, 16x32, with containing 2 rooms, cellar under house 16x16, log stable for 4 horses, 200 apple trees, 150 peach trees beginning to bear, never failing spring, also well and cistern, plenty of coal on the place easily mined, also sand-r stone quarry, choice land, school conven-ent. cood societv.

Price 2700 cash. 211240 acres choice bottom' land 2J mile east of Chetopa, all fenced, 16 in cultivation. This farm is located on the Baxter Springs mail route, is choice blacky soil, and a bargain at 2,500, cash balance 1 vear at 10 per cent. 455. SOi acres, f0 in cultivation, 65 apple sils, which will increase the amount of currency in circulation and give impetus to trade.

Large numbers of immigrants go almost to the border counties away to organize and open up the Indi- lions in the past year. There are 6,359 teachers in the State. There are 4,520 school houses in the State, valued at $4,052,918. an Territory for white settlement. In short Kansas is mistress of the situation.

She is superior to all rivals and need fear none. from markets, society and schools, nut. knnwinc that in counties like $214,379.90 was distributed last fund Kansas Crops Labette, land can be procured the State school The ollowincr table is made from a nrices near! as low as in anv of i lur amuiu purposes That is a mistake. Some of the wisest and most progressive thinkers of the country have of late come to realize the necessity for this changa and now advocate it. The railroads have agreed to resign all pretensions to previous ly claimed land grants, which eliminates the only objectionable feature from the proposed measure.

The railroad companies fa compilation of figures furnished by the commissioner of agriculture at Washington, D. to Hon. Alfred Gray, sec Kansas has a bonded state debt of $1,181,975. Last fear her receipts into the state treasury were $1,584,891. Or her annual income was $402,916 greater the far western counties.

An effort should be made by the east ern counties to make those coming west understand this matter. It would Holton Signal. retary of board of agriculture or nan sas. and dated November 25th. Kan trees beginning to bear, 'about 200 peach trees bearing, a cotton wood grove between sas ranks in wheat and corn from 1860 than her entire debt.

Two more years apple and pa'ch orchaids containing 40 or frnmn hnnsft and locr to 1878 as follows WHEAT. of this surplus would pay her entirely oo trees, a good smaii cabin adjacent, frame stable and corn crib, Kansas, Kansas is being heard abioad. fn almost every eastern journal Hank. Bank. Year.

16 out of debt. So Kansas finances are equally inspiring as her soil. Kansas City Journal. is copied satistics indicating our ...12 11 8 Tear. 1866..

1867.. 1868.. 1869.. 1870.. 1871..

1872.. ...24 1873. ...18 1874. ...19 1875. ...17 1876.

...19 1877. ...16 1878., ...21 CORN. Hank. Year. granary, five hundred bushels capacity, two wells, one at house the other at barn, and all fenced with cross fence between pasture and cultivated land.

30 acres in wheat, 7 in oats, I in potatoes balance in corn. This farm is two miles south ot Chetopa, convenient to school house, fronts on line of Indian Territory, and just across the line lie thousands of acres of fine range for stock The neighborhood is an excellent one. Plenty of coal and timber convenient. Prcce of farm with half ot entire crop in granary ....11 1 2 vor the organization of Territory, on general principles. They see a rich country contiguous and naturally tributary to their lines a wild and vacant waste, uncultivated and unproductive.

Settled by an industrious agricultural population, its trade and com- merce would help repay the com panies their outlays for the construction and operation of their lines. Except in the far western and barren portions of the Territory, the Indian inhabitants are partly civilized, and there can Hank. Year, Al it a it 7 1866-7 22 183. 1868 25 1874. 13 1875.

1870 .20 1876. 1871 9 1877. 1872 9 1878. 14 6 6 6 4 Kansas for Chetopa, Kansas. Office in Marsh's Brick Block.

The total wheat crop in 1878 is 32,315,371 bushels, and the Cal-f ornia crop is estimated at 30,000,000 hardly be a doubt that territorial ana criD, larm wiuiuui. uiuj, fiow. -Can give possession in tall or sooner. 497 160 acres 12 miles from chetopa, 20 acres in cultivation, box house, 2 rooms, young orchard, school house at corner of the land. Price 600 cash.

No. 400280 acres bottom timber land, 4 miles north east of Chetopa, would make an excellent stock larm, running water. Price, $3 per acre, in payments. No. 40190 acres on State line, seven miles outh east of Chetopa, 30 acres in cultivation, good frame house, 1J sories, with kitchen, Kansas stable, young hedge and rail fence on south side, two good wells, small orchard.

Handsome place, good stock range on south, with running water, choice place for cattle or sheep ranche. Price, $1200, i with bushels, giving Kansas the front rank; organization and contact be taken on sale un We wish it distinctlv understood that no kind of property will in. order to se bargains ess a reasonable price is put upon the same, as we must have white settlers would better their while in corn she has produced there can be no well 9 bushels in 1878, and although these cure buyers. COUKr. iignres are less uiuu tuo uiup ul jloi she maintains the same relative rank as before, the corn crop of 1878 being universally short.

These figures are Ts situated on the line of the Indian Territory, has an abundance of coal, and In fertility of soil is one of the best counties in the State. The 31., Ji. T. K. runs through th onnntv.

from the north to the southern boundry where it enters the In grounded opposition from any quarter to this measure. The arguments in its favor outweigh every other consideration. The only objection we hear comes from a few Kansas people, based on the puerile fear that the opening of the Territory will in astonishing, as Kansas at one bound ranks first, while in 1877 she stood eleventh. dian Territory. It is well watered and timbered, being traversed its entire length by Neosho and Labeett rivers.

Population 1878, 17,196. Nearly every district is provided with a school house and good schools, and the country is being rapidly settled up with an intelligent and industrious class of people. Our Agents. The following named persons are authorized-to act as our agents in soliciting purchasers for our lands. They will be able to give considerable infor Correspondence SolioiltecL BUY PARTIES WISHING TO troduce a dangerous rival for the favor of emigrants, and thus retard the growth ot their own State be diverting a large number of people to the new field, a very absurd view to take of this ques-tpn, as the Times has heretofore endeavored to show.

is already a giant. Her rich prai mation not contained in this paper, as many of them own land here, and nearly all of them have either lived or visited here. Any arrangement or negotiation they make will be ratified cash balance 3 vears at 10 ner cent. No. 403160 acres 5 miles southwest ot Chetopa, 42 acres in cultivation, frame house 16x26, 3 rooms, good stable, good sized orchard of apple and peach trees bearing, 2 fine springs of lasting water, choice black limestone land.

Price 81000 414 80 acres choice land one mile from Chetopa, handsome location, 30 acres in cultivation, 10 acres inclosed for pasture, 130" rods of young hedge, 80 apple and 50 peach trees, the latter bearing, new frame house 14x20 with kitchen attached, school house at corner of land, good soil, handsome loca-cation. Price 950, 700 down on balance at 10 per cent. 416. 160 acres fine rol ing prairie, only mile from corporation, 135 acres in cultivation, hedged nearly all around, 2 wells, one large cistern, 200 apple, 75 peach trees, also cherry and other trees, good li story frame house, 6 rooms, good frame granary stable, handsome place, only mile from depot and within one mile of city schools. Price S2500, cash.

99 160 acres choice bottom land 1J miles north west of Chetopa on the Oswego road. 75 acres in cultivation, 40 acres enclosed for pasture, log house, good well, 200-rods of hedge on the line, plenty of coal underlying the place at a depth of 5 to 15 feet, excellent soil partly bottom land with4 good V. 0 We have some choice locations on the State line for Stock farms. These locations are joined on the north by thickly settled neighborhoods with all the advantages of Schools, and on the south is found a Stock Kange as far as the eye can reach with abnudant water at all seasons, and haying facilities unsurpassed. City and Country Pronerty Exchanged, Bousrht and Sold when approved by us.

"Walker, Vandeveer bankers, ries ana homestead lands, her vast railroad system, her miilion Wolf Phillip ersberger, Princeton, 111. W. E. and W. C.

Sawyer, Paxton, of enterprising farmers and 0 Parties having lands can effect a speedier sale and at much smaller expense by call ng on us, as we advertise, show the lands and perfect the sale at a very small com mission. 111. J. Wordell, Laurelvale Tandragee Ireland. chanics, together with her enormous agricultural productions, have given Jier such a good name in the older States, as well as in D.

A. Talbot, Sioux City, Iowa. -J. D. Gamble, attorney, Knoxville, Iowa.

Lodge Houston, attorneys, Mon-ticello, HI. For Capitalists on first Mortgages on Improved Lands COLLECTIONS PROMPTLY PJJADE. Europe, as to make the position of Kansas impregnable. The opening of the Indian Territory to settlement would be an actual benefit rather than a detriment to Kansas. The emigration fever now prevalent North, East and TV.

A. McClintick, merchant, Cerro Any one contemplating to this part ol Kansas who will send us his addres will receive occasional copies of this paper free. 1l building place, will matce a handsome farm and a valuable one, 2,600. acres half mile from land, running water all seasons on corner of farm, frame house two rooms, moder Gordo, HI. G.

Li. Bester, real estate agent, Peo Labette county is as tar South as the Southern mild winters, our people are mostly from Illinois, of Virginia. We have very ndiana, and other Northwestern States. Thus it will be readily seen that this is the ria, 111. Garnette Thomson, 125 Dearborn street, Chicago, 111.

B. Haines Passmore, real estate South, would be intensified, and at once precipitate upon us a only State where a nome can be with the discordant political ele- secured this Jar South without coming in contact stream oi nome-seeKers unnrece- dented in the history ot Western J. Cramer. ment of the older States. Chetopa is 30 miles from the -west line of Missouri, and 3 miles from the North line of the Indian Territory.

The Cherokees are our neighbors and no wild or hostile In dians nearer than 200 miles. Very few Cherokees live near the line and our stock-dealers and raisers have an immense range for their herds. Yenango 123 acres 3 miles north of Chetopa; 90 county, Pa. Hon. S.

A. Fitch, 127 St. (ST. Washington, D. C.

Capt. J. P. Willis, Cornell, Livings onTpa in pnltivatfAn. frsmft hnnsfi 17-y29- 4- ate improvements, price 5000 casn 433109 acres on State line, 9 miles southwest of Chetopa, 50 acres in cultivation, 5 acres fenced for pasture, with stock water, one story frame house 14x17, Kansas stable, 50 apple and 50 peach trees, open stock range on south, thickly settled on the north, west and cast, good school house in the district.

Price, $700. No. 478. 160 Acres 10 miles south west of Chetopa, 110 acres in cultivation, 25 acres fenced for pasiure with abundant stock water, farm all hedged except 40 rods, hedg, turning stock, about 5. acres in o'chard-handsome grove of maples, land gently sloping, farm house li stories 3 rooms, good frame stable and granary good wells and a cistern, good land, handsom place.

$1300 inpayments' 442. 160 acres oJimcet land. 9 miles west of rooms 2 stories and cellar, frame barn 40x64 settlements. The increase in the yolume would more than make tip to Kansas the very slight diversion effected by the Indian Territory. Investigation would prove to the newcomer that there is very little choice between the two as to climate and productive very substantially built.

30 acres of pasture ton county, HI. Wm. Wilson Bankers, ienced with some timber. 160 apple trees Earl- 499 80 acres 10 miles west of chetopa, small log house, 20 acres broke. Price $300 cash.

356320 acres 5 miles "west of Chetopa in Turkey Creek Valley large farm house, large sheep barn 40x60 of pine lumber with stone foundation, large grainary 3,000 capacity. Stone smoke and milk house 12x20. Wagon sheds and all the nescessary buildings new and in good repair required on a first class farm and sufficient to handle 65 budded peach trees, 12 pear trees. Price 81600. 600 down, ballance 3 or 4 years at ville, 111.

C. C. Courtwright, merchant, Newark, HI. 10 per cent. 160 acres mile from corporation limits Jr.

Brooks, Jiig Jiock, Jvane coun 130 acres in cultivation, 12 acres in pasture fenced, separately. 15 acres of orchard mostly bearing, apple, and cher ness of soil. In all other parUcu lars Kansas has an immense and palpable advantage. The Indian Territory is but another card to induce people in the overcrowded sections of the east ry. 2 miles of hedge fence around ana ty, 111.

R. B. Rutherford, real estate agent, Mattoon, 111. W. Coates Son, Russellville.

Chester county, Pa. Chetopa, 80 acres in cultivation, 20 acres fenced for pasture, good frame house, 3 rooms, 100 apple, 30 buded peach trees, all commencing to bear, smoke house, 1000 head of sheep. Several mile of neatly trimed hedge. Several mile of plank and rail fencing. Two pastures of 80 acres oach with running water all seasons.

This is one of the handsomest and best farm in Kansas or any other 6t ate. Now occupied throurh the farm, frame house 7, rooms. stables with room lor six horses, and stor gtaiia tnl I tr hmiea 1 rrr nn Kancoci era Kia age room for 600 bu. of oats and 700 bu. of fn "trn Woof" nnr! nnnA nn thai JLr.

u. j. uauipuen ney uve. corn, hay loft. Land gently rolling large Tr Pittsburg, Pa.

cistern and spring1, a large grove or maples House on rising ground in plain view of town, very handsome and good farm. 3o00 1 down balance 1 ana 2 years acres of wheat, 1600., 600. down, 2 years on balance at 10 per cent. 496 320 acres 14 miles west of chetopa, near P.O. and shops, 130 acres in cultivation, li miles of young hedge, 700 young fruit trees, permanent spring, frame house 4 rooms, Kansas stable.

$2000, one-half cash, balance long time at 10 per cent. at 8 per cent. them as the Indian Territory, county, Ind. Sullivan The Indian Territory on the south Hannibal Young, box SS, Gosport, would be no more ot a drawback Ind. tt Kansas than has been Nebras John H.

Stewart, New Dover, Union ka on the north, a State which she county, Ohio. by the owner as a very successful sheep farm. Price Balance 1 and 2 years at 10 per cent. 454 160 acres choice black sloping limestone soil, 6 mi es southwest of Chetopa, 55 acres in cultivation, never failing stock water running all seasons, good spring, smal house and a few trees. Price 1400 cash or 1200 cash.

No. 469160 acres 10 miles west of Cheto 5027-680 acres 18 miles west of Chetopa, 12 miles east of Coffevvllle 200 acres in culti vation, 50 acres enclosed for pasture, good snrins. 10 acres in orchard, peacn trees has outstriped three to one. There Thomas Wright, 79 state street, 370 160 acres choice bottom land in Cher okee county, i miles N. E.

of Chetopa, 80-acres in cultivation, enclosed with post and beariuff. fram house. 14 stories 16x22 are people enougn in the older! Daniel A. Ilorton, Stockton, Chatau- pa, near rost umce ana snops, miles oi good hedge turning stock, 60 apple and 150 budded peach trees all bearing, 30 bearing: States without home, seeking to with kitchen attached. Stabling for four horses, good productive land, weU watered lor stot-k hy a running stream.

Price $10 per grape vines, abundance of small fruit, good acre.luOO cash or in one two or tnree years rail fence, 1 i story frame house, log stable, good never failing well of good waur. 104 apple trees beginning to hear, 58 budded peach trees, also cherry and pear trees, Handsome place, choice land 1 i mile from school house. Price 1800, 1,000 down, long well at door neverfaiung, house lbx30 ceiled qua county, K. Y. C.

R. Gabriel, New Antioch, Clinton Ohio. Bushnell Warner, Ottawa, HI. W. P.

Thompson, Dixon, 111. at 10 per cent ballance in good town prop Better tneir condition, to nil up to overflowing all the new States and Territories of the West. What must be done is to arouse their interest and prevail upon inside with lumber, frame stable, granary and corncrib, shade trees around the house. erty in some of the western states, property must be clear of encumbrance good reasons rrfce $1500. for selluxs.

i 498 160 acres 14 miles north west of che Theodore K. Stubbs, Oxford Pa. Fairfax West, Lee's Creek, Clinton them to move, ine orgamza topa, 40 acres in cultivation, box house. Price $600 cash. 503 1G0 acres 2J miles from a good town 4 miles trom county seat.

House 23x32 li stories with addition 10x22, two barns one 17xS8 the other new story 16x38, 14S acres Hon of the Indian Tarritorry and HOTEL The National Hotel located in opening it up to white settlement the city of Chetopa, main Tiuildfng 25x72 feet, 3 stories with 22x63, 2 stories will attract universal attention cultivation, 12 acres in pasture good well, well hedged with good effective Osage orange hedges, 5 acrea in orchard, 500 bearing trees, limestone land, several ceilings of first story 11 ft, of second 10 ft, and of 3d 8 ft high. Large roomy office, parlor and dining room, 65 rooms in all. ana give western emigration a new impetus. The State ot Kant sas cannot fail to be benefited by hundred fine shade trees ot large growth, a most beautiful and excellent farm, as good Ohio. Henry E.

Strong, Alliance, Ohio. J. H. Shields, Wapokoneto, Ohio. N.

S. Nichols, Oronogo, Mo. E. H. Barnhart, Areola, Douglas county, Ind.

Wm. C. Haines, Delavan, 111., G. W. Isaminger, Ohio.

K. Glass Columbia City, Ind. M. Davis. Lebanon, Ind.

Allen A. Herr, Lancaster, Pa. Hamilton, and W. Jeffries, Bridge-ton, Ind. WP A.

Brothers 95Powers "Rnrhpstpr. X. as there is in the West. Price $3500, $1500 The house is new and every way convenient, making a line appearance and is well ventilated. Uroad porches whole length of house on 1st and 2d stories.

This is a time on balance. 444 80 acres 80 rods from Chetopa Depot, 40 acres broken, log house, permanent run-ing water and coal, rare chance. 1200 in two payments, or 1100 cash. 443160 acres 12 miles north west of Chetopa, 40 acres in cultivation, smll house, Kansas stable, orchard, running water, school house at corner of farm, and shops two miles distant. Price $700, $550 down, ballance in payments at 5 per cent.

490160 acres 7 my es north west of Chetopa, 75 acres in cultivation, 80 acres enclosed for pasture, including 60 acres of timber, new li story house JL2x20, 35 fruit trees, 100-rods of hedge, abundance of running water all seasons, and plenty of coal, land partly bottom, and as good as there is in the State Price $2000, $1500 down. 34360 acres li miles south of chetopa. 60 acres, in cultivation, good frame house li stories, 16x20 with large kitchen attach ed, plank stable, never failing well at house and spring also on the farm, choice land 35 acres sown in wheat, school house i mile from the house, this joins No. 340 and down ballance in 1, 2, 3, or 4 years at 9 per the new rush which must surely follow. The material interests of Kan cent, 501 SO acres choice bottom land 5 miles property every way desirable and the only first class hotel in the city and is.

well known throughout the west as a popular house and is now leased and doing a fine sas really demand an industrious from Chetopa and 5 milas from Oswego. 40 and productive population on her business. The owner of this property is a stock and not a hotel-keeper. It comprises 8 lots in nest portion or the city and the property is now onered lor a short Hon. Addison Eby, Elizabeth! own, Pa.

time for 4000, 1-3 one and two years at 10 par cent or will trade lor good farm property in Labette or Central Illinois Immigration to Kansas The- immigration to Kansas Steam Grist and Merchant Mit.t Lo acres in cultivation, log, house, good land for wheat, corn, hemp or cotton, has raised 30 bu. wheat per acre. Price 81200 one-half down, ballance in 1, 2 or 3 years at 8 percent. 500 75 acres oh state line, 6 miles sonth-west of Chetopa, choice land, CO acres in cultivsrtion, 1000 fruit trees, 200 buded peach trees in full bearing, S00 apple trees legining" to bear. "8 acres enclosed for seperately with runmg water all seasons, land all enclosed.

1 story bouse painted, out kitchen, 2 small stables, good well at door. large shade trees, handsome pJace, a mile lrom Umber. School convenient, thick setUed inside- of state line, and fine range tor stock outside, with run-iu water mile from larm in stock range. Price 800, Sdo down ballance in 1 and 2 years at 10 per cent. southern b.order, in place of the wild Territory as now exists.

The population for awhile, at least "would, furnish a now market for the products of Kansas, at much more remunerative rates than she now gets. Put a million white people into the Indian Territory, another million into Nebraska, and she would be so flanked and hemmed in by prosperity that, irom very sympathy alone, even though she were as barren, as Arizona, Kansas would have to next spring promises to be im cated 15 miles west of Chetopa, 15 miles east of Coffey ville, two story building, one wheat burr of 80 bushels capacity per day, mense. Throughout'' the entire east the name of Kansas is sound one corn' Dur'or zotr nusheis capacity per day, abundant supply of water, no other wouia oe sold with it. Price $1300, 300 cash. 1000 in 4 years at 10 per cent.

407. 104 acres on line, Smiles southeast of Chetopa in Cherokee county, 45 acres in cultivation, 6 acres fenced for pasture. 30 acres timber. Fly creek runs through the stock range adjoining the farm oa-the south, thick settled neighborhood Echool convenient, two small log houses, log-stable, 70 apple and 70 peach trees beannfrl li miles good rail Price 1,000. fcool down, balance 1 year at 10 per cent.

ed and high encomiums of praise mill nearer than 15 miles, thickly settled and are heaped npon her rich soil; sa fine wheat district, mam building 30x30 with engine and coal house, 14x40 mill now lubrious climate, good schools earning 512 per day. l'ncs C3JS0O, or or and churches and everything else. interest at same proportion..