Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1875 — From Wichita, Kansas. [ARTICLE]

From Wichita, Kansas.

Mr. S. P. Howard has permitted us to make die following extract from a letter written to him by Mr. D. S. Green, datedat Wichita,flffterac, July 8, 1875 : ***** The season has been very favorable, so far, for crops, although it has been a little dry at two different times during the season, nothing has suffered for rain, as in each Instance it came just in time. We have had no locusts nor insects of any kind to operate against us. The wheat and oats are very good throughout this valley, and corn could net be more jw*wniaing than it io, M ta. many fields being in silk and tassel—quite a contrast from last year after the grasshoppers had passed over the country. Wichita is still improving quite rapidly, and we think is destined to become one of the best and largest cities in the State. It is supposed by our k nowing men that there will be a million bushels of wheat shipped from Wichita this season, besides what will be consumed by our mills. We have one steam mill of a capacity of one .hundred and fifty barrels of flour per day, said to have cost $50,000, together with the elevtor.Another is being built at- a cost of $20,000, to be run by the water of the Little Arkansas river. This will soon be completed.

Wichita, besides being a great cattle market, is seen to rank as one of the greatest grain markets in the Southwest. From Wichita, fifty thousand people are supplied with everything In the way of dry goods, groceries, hardware, 4e. I will only name one item that you may draw some idea of the business done here: There were four hundred and fifty reapers and mowers sold here this season. Now imagine everything else in proportion, and you have it This may seem quite large to you, but when you remember that these are scattered over four or five counties it will of course seem more reasonable. lam strong in the belief that this must and surely will be one of the finest sections of country on this continent; yet I would advise no man who is doing well, and has a good farm or business in the East, to make the exchange for one here ; but to a man of small capital, without a home, or the means of getting one, this is the most inviting of any locality. However, I would not have any one believe that it is a land flowing with milk and honey, or that cucumbers grow on spice bushes. Any man willing to work can soon build him a home equal to the best in any land.