The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-29
TIE WESTERN COUNTIES.
The Material Condition of the Western
Part of the State.

TOPEKA. Kan, Nov 2S--J. H. Pitzer, o.
Arkelon, Seward county, is in this city
engaged in the case in which Sam Wood Is
interested. When questioned upon the
material condition Of the southwest, uC
stated:
"As You are aware, we have lost many
of our people during the past two years,
principally those who are fOrerunners IN
settlement, whose only objects are 10 take
claims, mortgage them, and then leave the
country. 10 was not the nprOductNeness
of the country that drove them away as
they would have left the famed blue grass
regions of Kentucky in the same manner.
"Our farmers have put in large acre
age of wheat There was but little put IN
last year, but what there was yielded well.
We have good country, but it needs sci
entific and industrious farming. a man
cannot scratch the ground and then 90
into town and talk politics and expect to
win. Farmers must work with their
hands instead of with their jaws. Two
miles out from my town farmer plowed
his land five inches deep when lie first
game to Kansas three years ago, and the
next fall plowed it four inches deeper. As
early as possible in the spring he planted
his corn, and then never left his fields un-
til July. Last fall, when his neighborS
were trying to shock their little stunted
cornstalks. he gathered an averageot forty
one bushels per acre and received goOu
prices for it.
- speak Of this solely TO prove that
farming will pay whel farming Is done IN
stead of the usual loaiing. There are three
products that can be successfully grown
wheat. rye and broomcOrn, while corn for
feed is p sure crop with deep plOwing ana
careful attention. While irrigation would
be "a good thing. and we will have il. this
artificial supply of water is not absolutely
necessary.
''Our sorghum was a failure. We have
the mills and consequently next year VIII
try beets for sugar. lf that should not
prove successful, We viii abandon all at
tempts at making sugar and stick TO those
crops we know viii pay.
I'VE are anxious to have the herd law
repealed so far as il relates to our section
of the state. Our farmers are poor but
they can manage to enclose their crops
with two strands Of wire, and then we
could utilize vast region of unprOductive
country in grazing cattle, a. we have grass
and water in abundance.
"ThOSe who voted with the Peoples
party are as much cLagrincd over the elec-
tiOn Of Jerry Simpson TO congress as are
the Republicans They recognize the fact
that be is not in any sense fit man for
congress, and while they voted for him in
obedience to Alliance dictatiOn. they would
" y
recognize aS a representative man. j do
not know how il is in other parts of the
state, but with us the Alliance will not
hold together two years.
we will have a good dose TO admins
ter to Wichita one of these days. The dele
cation from that city worked hard at the
convention and gave us our
medicine, which we took, and then they
went home and knitted not only HallOwell,
but the entire state ticket. Judge Botl1in
truly said: If Sedgwick county should
sink, and the hole fill up with water peo-
pied by fishes, the rest of the state would
not i'm the least be the sufferers We will
sink that county, a prediction you can re
member. We Will pay all our debts with
interest
Mr. Pitzer is one Of the young men who
have have built MP the western part of
Kansas, and now has the same faith he al
ways had. lie IS not an enthusiastic
boomer" lie believes that only hard
work by good citizens will ever bring
Western Kansas into repute and give il a
standing among the prosperous communi-
ties.