Dodge City times., 1888-11-29
TO The Farmers.

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The writer of :his article desires to sa.
few words to the Ford county farmer
through the columns of the TINES:
Gentlemen and farmers of Ford county
| The interests you have manifested in the
| last few weeks in organizing and per
| fecting an agricultural association Is al
enterprise in which great credit should
be awarded to you. 1t is the fOrerunnel
of great achievements to be accomplished
! in the near future, and it is but proper
that the gathering of the people, through
their delegates, from the various precincts
! throughout FoId county should be held
! ID Dodge City, the metropolis OF Ford
eo.3ty, and we might add the metropo
lis .f = estern Kansas; city of renown,
unt: wide spread nOtoriety; city OF en-
terprise snd nerve. coupled with ambition
and fortunately located IN Ford county,
the promised caanum of the west. \ city
which every farmer Of Ford county
4 interest and should feel sell
nr;d. in nieking ii the great commercial
ai,v of wes,,.rn Kansas. And trust that
or- ,,i,ed en,rrts in the agricultural
associ.tion will be OF such vital import
ance to you. and Of such 5enent that Il
will place you in the foremost rapks OF
the very best farmers in the state. IL Is
to Won farmers that the citizens OF Dodge
owe tl.eir welfare, for you are The people
VIII, helm sustain arG r'aIniain the sue
cessfu, enterprises whiyi, the; enjo! and
for wh;ch lhry teei go lhankiui.
Have you stopped 10 think oi late wha'
a grand future and bright prospects are
on the verpe of being showered on the
people of Ford county. Now that the
election is over and business has assumed
its regular course, We should all look 10
and give our attention to the welfare of
our county, thereby promoting our sell
interests,
Among the enterprises which l caH
YOUR attention 10 the Soldiers Home.
which with united effort we are bonnd
TO get established here at the expense OF
the state, increasing the market Tor Vege-
tables for the farmers of Ford county.
Next Is the development of our coal,
which without doubt will he cOnsumated
in early spring. thereby adding to our
population from three to five Thousand
miners to say nothing Of other business
which is bound to come, still increasing
our markets. And again when We take
into consideration the great railway en-
terprise of the Omaha, Dodge City i
Southern railroad. connecting as it does
the Gulf on the south with the GREAT
Lakes on the north, passing directly
our county with its main line,
with its machine shops and round'hOuses
at our capital, employing as II will nearly
1000 men, adding another valuable in
crease to our markets. And if all the
above mentioned can be con-
there is no telling what other
will follow, for all we want
is cheap fuel and competing lines for
freight to make us a manufacturing cen |
ter as well as wholesale distributing
point.
Now farmers all of these enterprises
can be acquired if you will work in uni
SOC with the people of Dodge City. for
where there is unity there is strength,
and you can plainly see that it is for your
interests that unity should prevail. and
thereby make Ford county the paradise
of Kansas. with Dodge City your capitol,
the greatest manufacturing and COM
mercial CITY of the west. II. II. &.