The Saline County journal., 1889-09-12

Five hundred farmers he'd q meet.
ing In q grove nine miles from
Wichits last Saturday 20 consider
corr and wheat crops. They decided
10 cell ss little as possible nov, bu,
crib their products and walt Tor bet
ter prices.
Eagle Optic: Larned is forming
q lake from the artesiaD well istely
dug, the dimensions Of which are %
be about 800 feet wide by 500 feet
| long. The water contains different
kinds Of mineral the principle Of
which is salt. It contains six per
cent, salt.
Lawrence Tribune: General John
G. Fremont IL said 10 be reduced TO
extreme poverty. He confessed
judgment In q New York court the
other day for 500, and declared that
he was not able 10 pay the amount
The nation should not allow one who
has done 20 much for lt 10 spend his
last days In abieet poverty.
El Dorado Republican: The very
minute the deep water harbor IL
completed and line OF steamers put
on, Q pool would be formed and the
people would 70 ON paying the same
old transportation prices. The
people want laws 10 break down the
pools, monopolies and trusts much
more than they want deep water
harbors.
It 10 safe 10 say thst. putting the
Kansas corn crop at 8OO, co. 600 BUSH
els, which is, IL anything, below rather
than above what the harvest will
prove, and the wheat crop 1000 600
bushels, and TO these add the value
Of all the other crops raised this
year-worth In round numbers at
least SOD, ,OO0, 900, the total agFicultur-
al production Of the state for 1889 will
exceed I'm value the total product Of
the gold and silver mines In this
country for the past twelve months.
The earnings Of the Atchison, To-
peka 4 Santa Fe system for the
second week In August aggregated
s5le, ,096 against s46s, 1i7 for the same
period last year, q gain OF about
t21 900. The AtchIson lines proper,
and leased lines, not including the
Texas and California roads. made q
better showing, earning 1896 ,3Il
uEalu8t NDpDN@yy lasN yOaNg VI
nearly s3O,OOO. For the month OF
August thus far the Improvement is
still greater, although not by any
means what it should be. The Cal
lfornla roads and the roads owned
Jointly with other companies In
Kansas continue to pull down the
earnings OF the main line consider
ably. The immense wheat and corn
crops which now seem assured In
Kansas and Missouri will produce q
great Improvement In the receipts
FOR the rest Of the yesr, although Il
IL now too late TO hope that the
earnings will meet the fixe,l charges,
and the deficit II likely to be two
or three millions.
A mortgage In the west, and par
tlcularly In Kansas IL far from be-
ing an evil or betokening poverty
and distress on the part Of the bOr-
rover. There are q few mortgages
which have been placed because the
farmers wanted the money to live
on. For the most part they are
placed because the man with little
capital buys q farm and runs In
debt for implements wherewith to
furnish It or cattle to stock 10. He
expects to pay of the Indebtedness
In one or TIVE gUod seasons and sell
dom Is he disappointed; during the
past two years he has been, but
better times are ahead. The fact
that mortgages remain that were
placed on lands several years ago IL
due to conditions which could not
be fOreseen and could not be
avoided. In plentiful years the
farmers have frequently paid for
their land with the crop Of single
year. In Dickinson, Saline, Sedg-
wick and other counties Il was
frequently done. The land has
risen 10 too high valuation to make
such q thing possible now, but it
shows that the thrifty settler In jus
tilted In borrowing enough money
to put his land into the best possible
condition. The three crop failures
I'm 1SS8-'S7-'SS have kept mortgages
ut q standstill, but this year will
show q large reduction In their
amount.