Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1879 — Deitghtful Kansas. [ARTICLE]

Deitghtful Kansas.

Correspondence of Tse Union. El Paso, Kansas, January 1, 1879.—The winter thus far has been extremely cold, the oldest settlers claiming that it is the coldest since 1865. There is plenty of snow for good sleighing, something quite uncommon for Kansas. The Arkansas river at this point has been frozen over for three weeks so that loaded teams cross with safety. Stock looks well. The great stock range, one hundred milea southwest of here, has been snowed under for two weeks, and unless it becomes warmer soon stock out there will starve to death. During the winter season on this range stock feed on buffalo grass and require no bay except where snow falls, which is very seldom. If one wants to raise cattle extensively he should go to Barbour county, Kansas, where the broad prairies teem with herds of cattle numbering from 500 to 3,000 AmTjMiines as numerou*. In our section wheat looks well and bids fair to be a a good crop. About one-half of last year’s crop has been sold for 50 to 68 cents a bushel; some think the price will reach 80 cents before spring. There is plenty of corn at 20 to 25 cents a bushel. Hogs are worth |2 per hundred, weight gross. Game, such as deer, antelope, wild turkeys, ducks, prairie chickens ana quails, is abundant. Land buyers from ludiana and Illinois are iiuiucrous, traversing the country in jevery direction in search of homes.

CHARLES BOWEN.