Volume 15 , Issue 32

Ulysses Kansas - The Garden of the Gods

This article appeared September 29, 1885, with the headlines: "Grant! The Banner County of the Southwest Looming Up In Great Shape. Ulysses, the Garden of the Gods!"

With this issue the proprietor of the Register stepped into the editorial chair with the perfect understanding with himself that he was going to stay right in Ulysses.

He wrote, "The reason why we have entered into the newspaper business here is simply because we believed that Ulysses, and Grant county, were without parallel in all southwestern Kansas. We were not mistaken. Following the tide of immigration we immediately upon our arrival perceived the most fertile land we had ever beheld, and the prairie dotted with the houses of settlers, characterized by their true homespun honesty, peaceableness, thrift and intelligence. We also note that in all our wide experience in western Kansas, and in the booming times of Colorado mining regions, never have we noticed such a great influx of immigration as Grant county is now receiving. It is marvelous and indicates the fact that before the expiration of three months every government spot now free in the county of Grant will be taken up by those most forward in the ranks of the rushing crowds. From Hartland, Lakin, Garden City, Meade Center and every accessible point, the home seekers are heading for Grant county and the booming town of Ulysses.

"We treat merely of last Saturday's Business as trisected by the reliable US Land agents, Goff & Earp, of Ulysses, in respect to locating home seekers in Grant county, and not on the business done by other agents in this county on that day. William H. Storm, Henry Evans and William Riney, of Attica, Harper county, Kansas; Stephen M. Wood and daughter, of Green City, Sullivan count, Missouri; P. P. Doze, Norwich, Kansas; A. H. Baldwin, Stock county, Ohio; George L. Barrick, Columbus, Kansas; Isaac Saul, Medicine Lodge, Kansas; Lewis H. Orr, Anthony, Kansas; William H. Whittington, Lyman A. Bender, Leroy T. Twen, Charles A. Ewen, Perry O. Moorhead, and Albert Ewen, of Harper county, Kansas, were located in Grant county on Saturday last by Goff & Earp, and we never saw a happier party than these gentlemen as they expatiated on the beauty of the country and the merits of the soil."   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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