Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1874 — South-Eastern Kansas- [ARTICLE]

South-Eastern Kansas-

A private letter from Crawford County, Kausas, dated April 13th, 1874, says: “Spring still continues wet, frosty and backward. Slock feed is gone with most cattle keepers, and no grass yet. Thousands of cattle die. It is not a paying investment to borrow money in the fall because cattle are cheap and times hard, buy stock, buy leeu keep it? on, and in the spring Bell their hides. “Corn is 75 cents a bushel, oats 40 cents, prairie hay 88 to 810 a ton, cattle are tvorth $1.75 to s'i. per cwt., and hogs $1 per cwt. live. ‘®We made garden some time ago for hardy seeds and vegetables.— Peas, onions and the like grow some, but we have ventured no tender vegetables. Appearances are now favorable,, aqd this weelt we may be able to plant more. “Peach buds have started some, but none are in bloom yet. All kinds of fruit looks well. Wheat and rye w’ere more injured by the frosts of the past two weeks than Ofiring the whole winter, still the prospect is good for more than an average crop. Some, oats have rotted" in the ground ifi recent heavy rains.

“Last week a vote was polled Against issuing bonds to the amount of $52,000 for the Crawford county Court House. School districts vote tftXes in every direction for school., purposes. “The antagonism of land title j has in it a drawback unfavorable, and the population of this county is diminishing; the exodus hailing ‘ for Oregon, Missouri or Texas, and |in proportion to the first or last ' named States, more going to Ore- ' gon. Some return even from there.”