The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-02-04

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have been necessarily omitted or want
of space, many amusing, others interest
ing and some OF Importance only to those
participating. We could take . column
o, two relating how Bishop, the associa-
TONS great, big hearted president would
rip and tear and threaten to jump the
excursion everytime some poor dyspeptic
would smngg!e a bottle IT mild Beer III
to the car; ilow Bronson would hang out
so late nights at every stop that all the
dives in the town would have to be
searched by the tired boys before lie
could be rounded up; how Longstaff and
Roberts insisted on the lights being out
in the ear ut 8 o'clock and everybody in
bed SO thew, like tired children they
were. ro"ld sleep; how Andrews-the
Plankinton chap-would storm up and
down the car nights singing, dong the
terpentine dance and n can-can general
ly till everybody in the sleeper WAS
awake and sweasing-aimost everybody;
how Tauhmau would Insist on propping
up q window with one CT his slices every
hot night, knucking over switches aud
te egraph poles along the road and
wondering the next morning how in
blazps that shoe fell ont OF the window;
how the Bristol News boys managed to
get up a Irritation with nearly every
lady on the train and would persist in
occupying some benedict's seat ard try
ing TO mash his wife instead of remain
ing in their own section where they be-
longed; how Charley Hackett couldn't
e. joy himself at all because Mrs. Hackett
wasn't along; how Samuel Burleigh Mil-
on made a Wisconsin quartette chew
the rag at Tampa and would not be
bothered with a grip, bundle or package
OF any kind under any circumstances
alil 81 forth an 50 on, but we refrain
Let tho dead past bury it dead.
All nay is srlss
All grass IL hay
W.r. n,s. t, IN ,-row
Bat we're gone today.
And that reminds Is that hay in
Ihomasyiile sells for 1923 q ton and oats
at 20 C nts d bus!el. Prices must be
even higher in Florida. What few cattle
are seen i'll the later state range through
the pines and browse like so manv deer.
The state about is a. we'll adapted to stock
raising as South Dakota is to pineapple
culture. AS q result butter, eggs and
silk are scarce articles and it is only in
the tirst-riass hotel; aud restaurants
That these three essentials to good living
are found in their original purity, and
condensed milk is the rule rather than
the exception. Restaurant prices aver
age so per cent higher than in Chicago
and it's so cents for q dozen fried oysters
within 50 miles of where they IRE sold
at SO cents a bushels. Michigan apples
can be bought at Tampa on the gulf
coast at less than they sell for iii Kim
ball, hut at no place south did we find
bananas as cheap as in Chicago. Oran.
g.s are s0ld-the hest-8t % cents a doz-
en-. The SAME oranges sell in Chicago
al 80 cent?.
1t is all Il myth about oranges tasting
better when picked from the trees
Most Of the oranges npcn about Jan. l.
but III order to catch the holiday trade
and escape possible frosts and a weakened
market later the bulk OF them are picked
packed and sh ipped n month earlier
The fruit can remain Oh the trees for
two months without injury after fully
Opened. There is always n slight I'D.
vance in price in February aud March
and some growers delay picking until
this .ime and ward off n possible frost bv
builuins smudgc fires about the groves
AT night.
1t is rs difficult to raise a profitable
hearing orange grove in Florida as a
tree claim that will stand the scrutiny OF
Uncle Sam in the Dakotas. The orange
is a native Of Florida and Is found now
quite frequently in the wild state and
was formerly extensively cultivated in
towns and cities for ornamental purpos.
es. The wild orange is not edible. The
orange OF commerce is obtained by bud.
ding. 1t takes about ten years for the
grove to begin returning some Of the
money expended on it. From this time
if properly cared for, the trees increase
i'll production until so years Of age,
when they begin TO decline. An orange
grove that will yield a net revenue OF
500 an acre is held at about $500 at
acre. The grove ut Tampa Bay of eight
acres mentioned in a former article wa.
sold for $4,000 an acre. The trees wert
then l6 years old. A grove that viii
produce 500 IN acre net has a Weld O
about 100 hoxes TO the acre. At tht
prizes the groves are held at they viii
average about 20 per cent on the invest
ment. The fabulous prices p1nfitahl,
orange groves are held at lead the uhin
formed to telieye that q fortune iiee il
orange culture. 1t generally takes {
gold mine to develop Il gold mine, ant
wants a gold mine to raise n goo,
orange grove OF aly considerable size
Wtien informed that this or that grow
ON the outskirts Of come town or cit,
was sold last week or at such a time 70
n $1,000 an acre, We asked several busi
ness men why they did not get hold o
piece OF good land near by and as thei
means wolla admit cultivate a grove
The answer was, Il ean buy one clleapp
than can raise it," 1t costs $50 a
acre TO clear a piece OF good orange tire
land to start with. Northern men go t
Florida with q thousand or two dol,a,
buy q piece OF land. clear it OF and sta,
a 20 or 25-acre grove. Before they hay