Linn County KS Archives News.....La Cygne. April 20, 1878
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The La Cygne Weekly Journal April 20, 1878
Linn County
Saturday
April 20, 1878

La Cygne.

La Cygne is incorporated as a city of the third-class. It has about 1,200
inhabitants. It is situated on the Marais des Cygnes river, 62 miles south of
Kansas City on the Missouri River, Fort Scott and Gulf Railroad. It has one
Presbyterian and one Methodist church, a graded school employing four teachers,
a lodge of Masons, Odd Fellows and Knight of Honor, the usual complement of dry
goods, clothing, boot and shoe, grocery, drug, furniture and hardware stores,
restaurants and bakeries; two banks; a grist mill, woolen factory and grist mill
combined, two saw mills; several wagon and blacksmith shops, marble works, one
photographer, two jewelers; a lumber yard; a grain elevator; two grain
warehouses; livery stables; good hotels and boarding houses; several carpenters,
masons, painters,and machinists, etc. La Cygne is one of the best business towns
in Kansas and is growing constantly. Spring farm work begins in Febraury and
March. Winter commences about December 1. The soid ar!
 ound La Cygne is remarkably fertile. Farmers raise abundant crops of all kinds
of grains, fruits and vegetables known to this locality. Good improved land can
be had from $10 to $25 an acre. This is an excellent stock region. Coal, wood,
water and stone is plenty. Good hickory wood is worth but $2 a cord and coal be
bought for ten cents a bushel. House rent in town is from $4 to $12 a month.
Wages are good. Near La Cygne is a large tract of various kinds of fine, thrifty
timber. A manufactory for furniture, wagon wood work, wood work for agricultural
implements, a cheese factory, etc. would find plenty of facilities to operate
with. Letters containing five cents for postage, from parties wishing to know
more of this locality, will be promptly answered, or this paper will be sent one
year for $1.50, six months for 75 cents, or three months for 40 cents by Kenea &
Lane, La Cygne, Kan. 
 

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