Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-01-15

terlny Is still greater In fhe case OF Otne
real estate in Kansas The principle in
volved is identical in both cases. the rea
estate in the farms and the real estate II
the railroads, each having added to tn
value of the other, though in practice
has been carried much further IN on
case than in the other.
The wheat growers OF Kansas, as
class, cannot be in condition OF dlstres
and suffering, after period of prosperit..
such as is shown by the Mcpherson sta
tistics Evidence from many othe
sources confirms this view. A we'll in
formed newspaper recently had occasion
to investigate the subject, and published
the following:
From county officers, from abstrartors
from real estate agents, from none!
lenders, from all persons who have facil
tiles for knowing, comes information
that in the past tour or five years, Kan
sas farmers have removed mortgage:
from millions of acres. Most of our far
mers have enough to live on, no mattal
what is the price of wheat. They know
that there will be a change in times, anC
they are prepared to wait for il. There
may be some cases of great hardship
but they are exceptions, not the rule. L
the Ohio river should overflow farms
and destroy crops and cattle again next
spring, Kansas farmers will send oul
corn and wheat as they did last year"
The large Loan and Trust Companies
report that 80 per cent Oft their maturing
loans are being paid MP, and that it is
to replace the loans, except to
immigrants WHO are just beginning to
open new farms. Seven per cent of the
balance is being replaced, and consists
mainly of money loaned to farmers who
wish to enlarge operations, or who have
INDUCED in the luxury of speculation.
The other 3 per cent requires fore
closure, and was loaned to men who
proved to be hepeless'y worthless, with
rare cases only among these where some
stroke of misfortune brought on the
trouble.
If, here and there, cases can be found
where farmers, through improvidence or
have accumulated indebted.
ness, the interest on which they find it
difficult to pay. we would suggest as only
fair that any scheme for their relief
should include the banking, money loan
ing and other well to do classes, as well
as the railroads. 1t is not Just, if rel eff is
required during time of temporary de-
preston, to throw the burden upon one
Class of property alone, and
no freight tariff or other
charge can be more severely
felt than the tariff of high interest.
1t is of the utmost Importance to Kan
sas interests that such facts as these
should be known and spread abroad.
The newspapers of Kansas are as much
interested as the railroads or any other
A false alarm at this time,
such as Illinois has suffered during the
past few weeks, would paralyze the inn
migration, which is preparing all over
The country east of US, to again enrich
Kansas during the coming year. Already
1 number of sensational articles have
been spread abroad to the effect that
Kansas farmers are at the last extremity,
and, as class, would leave the State if
hey had the means. This agitation is
the work which the railroads
are trying to accomplish by large expen-
1itures for advertising the advantages of
he State during the current year, thus
saving to the State the expense of an I'm
migration Bureau. In startling contrast
70 this is the condition of the farmers in
Great Britain and France, where large
part of our surplus is consumed, and who
ire known to have suffered such severe
osses during the last four years, in many
cases amounting 10 the earnings of a life
inc and in all cases leaving them in a
crippled condition. This result in those
cannot be charged to the rail-
'oads, as the crops are there consumed
almost on the ground where they are
All the evidence tends to-
show that sections like Kansas best
adapted to the cultre of grain in the
argest amounts at the least expense
nave about finished the process of re.
iucing and crowding out the culture of
yrain in its former large amounts in
hose sections where costly artificial fire.
.iliZers and other expensive methods
ire necessary. The struggle of the sur
7ival of the tittest is about ending and it
s ending in our favor.
FUTURE PROSPECTS.
The most conservative authorities in
heir reviews of the past year show that
We have not anything like as much rea-
son for apprehension as in several former
FEARS.
We quote from late financial review,
Is follows:
"The rate Of export has been suffic.
emily vigorous since last harvest to
make it by no means certain that We
shall have on hand one and One-half
bushels per capita in wheat and fur at
he date of maturity of our next crop,
md that it is reserve SO small that it
nay be regarded as absolutely unsafe, to
say nothing about its not being a heavy
DAD to carry. The present prospect is
hat this reserve will be little more than
/ bagatelle in comparison with the les
ening of the worlds wheat crop the
coming year owing to the recent terrible
reduction in prices"
The above estimate includes not only
he crop of 1884, but also the surplus
,arried over from 1888.
Other authorities make the probable
urplus much smaller.
The Department Of Agriculture at
Washington in the October report.
,age 81, gives detailed estimates
and makes surplus of only
100000 bushels from this years crop.
The State Board of Agriculture (page ~
'stimates the reduction of wheat acre
lge for 1885 in Kansas as equal to the
rain of 1884 over the crop of 1883.
With yield per acre equal to the aver
lge for the past eleven years the product
n 1885 will be 23,S01 $50 bushels in place
If nearly 100000 bushels in 1884. In
illinois there is loss of acreage of Is to
70 per cent, and in nearly all the wheat
growing sections of the world there are
material reductions in acreage, and in
,ut few place has the crop entered win
er in as favorable condition as it did
or several years past. We do not pre-
iict high prices for wheat, and renewal