May, 1880.
THE WEST SHORE.
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ington Territory without liability to
failure nine years out of every ten, it
bents the Western States, and never
fear, the time is coming when good
market! will be opened for it.
What consists in "an exceedingly
small portion of the land," within
SO VAST A TERRITORY
as Washington, in the mind of the ed
itor, the reader is left to vaguely im
agine, lie means, however, that no
forest land is "capable of being culti
vated " until cleared of timber, 1 sup
pose.
A large proportion ol the trees in
Michigan are pine, the stumps of which
arc equally troublesome to the fanner
as fir and cedar stumps will be
Washington Territory. Still Michigan
farmers manage to get along, enduring
besides this the dreadful cold winters
which are more to be feared.
Some of our most prosperous States
now teeming with happy people, wcr
not so many years since a howling wil
derness. True, Washington Territory
" forests abound in wild animals," but
as the country settles up it will be rare
sport for the nimrods to clear them out.
If our forefathers had backed down at
the mere mention of "varmint," their
grandchildren would never have been
worth a cent.
WACOM UOADS
will be constructed in due time, not
withstanding the city editor's pen lias
made it " impossible."
Self-interest takes many Eastern
farmers to Oregon and Washington
Territory) perhaps, and no doubt with
the right sort of energy ;uid Industry
they gain in the long run more than
is lost "by the operation." The ma
jority of farmen who go there, let us
hope, have a home and the future wel
fare of their children in view.
LUEINO ADVEB 1 ISSMSM 1 s
sent out by "land sharks'1 in the South,
induce many Northern ami Eastern
people to go there with the expectation
of becoming rich in a short time. I hey
arc generally disappointed, aird those
who ran, soon seek a home in a climate
more safe and agreeable. J he super
abundance of pilfering blacks ami
yeuly visitation of yellow fever, arc
disadvantages of the "Sunny South"
too widely published to need ventila
tion. Farms may be had there on very
cany terms, but the new-comer must
prepare high roosts for the domestic
fowls, strong and close pens for the
pigs, and an inexhaustible purse to pay
the doctor bill-.
Of Kansas, "the garden of the South
west, hctitiously so called,
1 KB DISADVANTAGE!
ire rarely told, and it is the best adver
tised of all the Western States. The
roving emigrant need hardly go so far
is the Pacific Coast for novelty. What
with periodical grasshopper plagues,
intuial drouths invariably attended by
myriad armies of chinch-bugs that in
fest the fields destroying the promising
wheat and changing the darkly green
corn to a sickly yellow, files thickly
covering the prairies in summer, 1
plague to bipeds and quadrupeds in
doors and out, late spring frosts fatal to
budding fruit and damaging to youn
wheat, wintry blasts in mid-summer
known as Nor'vvestcrs, surprising th
farmer reeking with perspiration in hi
shirt-sleeves, and sending him shiver
Ing, teeth chattering, double-quick to
1 .1 1 ... .1 a 1 c &
IQQK tnc k miicu me, ncsmcs ircqucni
destructive hail-storms, water-spouts,
cyclones, and fearful thunder-storms,
electric displays in a ten less sky, the
play of the lightning and the roar of
the thunder dazzling ami deafening
beyond description, but followed by no
refreshing rain, surely Kansas is sup
plied with novelty enough if novelties
are possessed ol charms, iicmusinc
hardy, indeed, to endure year after year
such appalling disadvantages
and BE HAi'l-v.
I defy any one to say, conscientiously,
that I have over-stated anything
People in Eastern Slates are infatu
ated with Kansas by reading wonder
fill stories eulogising its delightful
climate, the marvelous cures wrought
upon bronchial and pulmonaiv aflbo
lions, and exhilarating edicts of the
pure air, etc. Nothing can be more
absurd. Those throat and lung al
factions exist, Bl times, to an alarming
extent. Could it be otherwise in
country where in summer the fun, the
umbrella and the overcoat are in icqiii
sitiou often during the same day, and
the wind blows for weeks successively
tilling the air no thickly with dust that
one cannot sec objects a rod diitant
The hot south wind is the crowning
evil. It renders life a burden and
torment to the hard-toiling farmer.
do not expect this article to turn one
emigrant away from Kansas. Let him
come here, and a few years bulletiug
.i.t a isa .
wttn trie soum winci win moi
lil'I'KCTfAt.l.V TUU N IIIM A WAV
if he is able to get away after gaining
bis experience) I have known it dur
ing spring and SURimer to blow cease
lessly at the rate of ninety miles an
hour, almost without a variation, night
Hid day for three long weeks. Noth
ing is visible beyond the distance of a
few rods through the dense clouds of
dust swept from the cultivated lields.
The line dust is silled into the houses
through Key-boles and between sashes
and sills of the most tightly closed win-
lows. People close their doors and
partake of meals in I heir cellars. Hedge
rows and stone femes become banked
upon either side with dust until horse
men can ride over them with the great
est facility, and they arc rendered
worthless to prevent the trespassing of
slock. After one of these frequent dust
storms, 1 have witnessed people
CI.KANINO OUT THIS IH'HT
from their second lloor rooms with a
large scoop-shovel and a coal bucket.
It is liner than Hour, and drifts up in
little banks on the lloor through 1111
opening just large enough to insert the
lade of a case-knife in. Every spot of
moisture on the prairie is lapped up by
the wind s hot breath, leaving the
ground pan bed and dry. The waving
wheat and nodding corn withers and
Ilea as il passes over, and the prairie-
grass turns yellow, as if scorched by
lire. Tiees transplanted to the irrairic
w
never attain a vigorous growth. Their
trunks become Ivvisled ami their houghs
ICraggy, and owing to being forced to
can toward the north the greater por
tion of the time by the wind, they grow
bent in that dlrSftlOTh aWBlltlg, 111 (lllkll
Weather, to have an nihility to the mag
netic pole.
Time arc really men in Kansas who
believe it is a good country, but they
win- boffl and raised here mid were
never forty miles from their own dug
outs, and consequently
KNOW NO III. I I I II.
Other parties who claim so much for
"The Garde of the Southwest," have
selfish interests to promote and are
troubled very little with a conscience
that might check them from king cb
I joqucnt like Eli Perkins.