Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1874 — Greenwood County Kansas. [ARTICLE]

Greenwood County Kansas.

Charleston, Ivs., May 10, 1874. Editoks Union: Through the the kindness of a friend I received a number of your paper which I -read and reread with much interest. Published in the place of my boyhood’s home, there was much in it to interest me. Many old familiar names appear in it, while many have disappeared and others have taken their places. When -I first glanced over the paper and saw the advertisements of physicians, attorneys, merchants, etc., who are doing business in your town, my mind ran back thirty-seven years to the old double log cabin that stood on the bank of the Iroquois, at thq foot of the main street leading to the river, (I do not "know the names of your streets) in which my father and uncle lived with their families, I exclaimed what a contrast ! Only thirty-seven years ago the double log cabin was all the town where Rensselaer now stands! Bat this is not whnt I started to write. Thinking some of the good people (we .want no others) might think of emigrating to this State, I would like to give a brief sketch ■TY

of ‘tins'purtlcular portion of it.— bam] here is considerably broken. Our farms arc' principally along tlie rivers and creeks. Since all thcvalley lands have been taken up, many farms are being opened on Uplands. The uplands will not produce as well as the valley land. Timber is rather scarce, but there is enough to do, if it was more: equally distributed over ,the country. We have an abundance of as pure water as flows. There are thousands of acres of land that is not tillable, which gives us the best range for stock for years to come. Short and mild winters make this one of the best stock countries I ever saw. We have few hot, §ultry days in summer, but there is always a nice, gentle breeze ; I have never experienced a sultry night here. We raise wheat, corn, oats and rye. Wheat yields from 10 to t>s bushels per acre; in some instances 35, and even 40 have been realized. Our average crops of corn are from 40 to CO bushels an acre ; iliave raised 60 bushels of measured —corn to tlie acre. Cotton is being cultivated profitably in late years. I believe this is the best fruit growing country I have ever seen. The country is new so there are but few bearing apple orchards yet. When we are as old as Jasper county, we will he far ahead of her in wealth. I have met severel Jasper and Newton county people in Southern Kansas, and would like to meet

more of them,

J. II. YEOMAN.