Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-01-19

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some of the best men of south western
Kansas should be subjected to a TRADE
of driviling abuse heaped upon them by
a bevy of sore heads?
BY what authority do they charge
that the A. X. & c. R. r. is not the
main line of the Rock Island, when
every indication points to the truth of
the statement that it is? Not only is
it operated by r. I. men, with r. l. roll
ing stock, and every department under
control of Rock Island officials, tickets
sold through and passengers carried
through to eastern points without
change of cars, contrary to the state
ment of Elliott, etal, freight billed
through without extra charge for trans.
fer at Bucklin, as charged by Elliott,
etal. Not only do these things point
out the A. K. & c., as the main line of
the Rock Island, but numerous inter-
views with Rock Island officials report
ed in Missouri and Colorado papers re
garding their plans for Pacific Slope
outlet, without any regard whatever to
Dodge City or Kansas, have been re-
ported showing these officials to have
stated that their line to the Pacific coast
would run via Trinidad and that it was
almost completed to Dodge City, Kan
sas, and would be pushed from there
in the spring
Up to the present time the treatment
of the people clifford county by the orr
ginators of the A. X. & c. r. r. has
been such as no reasonable man could
complain of.
Let us look at their ludicrous state
ments regarding the sugar-mill. In the
first place they price the cane correctly
as worth 81 per ton at the mill, and fol-
low this up by stating that it is we'll
worth double that for feed upon the
farm, entirely forgetting, although able
to see through the court house wall,
that cane fit for feed is entirely unfit
for sugar, that sown cane cut while
small and of fine stalk, which makes
excellent FEED, would be entirely useless
for sugar, and cane, cultivated and
brought to maturity so as to yield the
greatest amount Of sugar would be ut
terly useless for feed. They say no far
mer can raise it for les than 81 per ton.
A man with two teams can cultivate
40 acres of it and have it standing ready
for the market with less than three
months work. The average yield as
stated by the experimenters at Ft Scott
is II tons per acre, giving the total Of
480 tons of cane, which these farmers (?)
state will cost $3.50 or $lGO per month,
which even Kansas farmer will con-
slider fair wages. As regards the i'm
poverishment of the land we have no
doubt whatever, but the manufacturers,
whoever they may be, would be only
too glad to have each farmer who de-
livers ton of cane at the mill haul
away ton of refuse, less the 125 lbs.
of sugar which has been extracted,
which cut into shavings as it is, would
make the very best of manure, and
which should be spread again upon the
land and not destroyed. The fact of
the matter as it appears to me is that
Elliott, ct al. having allowed their blind
prejudices, hatred and malice to over
come their good sence and led them to
make statements not only foolish in
themselves but in something untrue
Elliott, ct al. should not forget that if
every farmer in Ford county should de-
vote himself to the production of cane
for feed it would speedily rot upon the
ground, and neither should they forget
that if each farmer in Ford county this
year had ten acre patch of cane which
would yield him $50 to $25 per acre in
cash regardless of the amount of labor
he expended upon it, 1t would be to him
q mighty staff of support. D. WIN.