The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-06-26
JOY in THE WEST.
Eli Perkins Finds the Country Once Afflicted b,
Drought Now Garden Of Eden.

Eli PERKINS FINDS the Country Once Afflicted by
Drought Now Garden Of Eden.
The East can prepare to rejoice.
You would rejoice now if you could see
the wonderful crop of corn and grain
which is now waving over "a drought
region which has missed crops for two
or three years.
Copious rains have come all over the
far West, from San Antonio up through
the Texas Panhandle and on through
Kansas and Nebraska to Dakota.
Western Nebraska and Kansas are
soaked with water clear up TO the Col.
orado border and the people are wild
with joy.
Ihave passed over this entire country.
They have already harvested 100000
bushels of wheat in western Texas, and
now the reapers in southern and west
ern Kansas are running in wheat fields
loaded with grain. Everywhere, wheat
corn, oats and rye could not look better.
food times are coming from the West
to help Mckinley in the East.
For three years western Kansas and
Nebraska have lost their crops. Ne.
braska stood the drought from Color
ado to Lincoln for two years, and then
parted with her hogs and cattle. Last
year she had superb corn again, but no
hogs or cattle to feed it to. Miles of
corn bins line the railroads. Corn is
selling for II cents a bushel and not q
hog in sight. They are waiting for the
pigs to grow. BY fall the pigs win be
here and then TIVE crops of corn will be
turned into pork.
The railroads which will profit by
this wonderful crop are George Gould's
Missouri Pacific, the Chicago, Burling-
ton, and Quincy. Santa Fe, Rock Island,
and Union Pacific. The st. Paul and
Northwestern are wheat roads, and
their crops in Dakota and Minnesota
look fine.
The reason sugar is going all over
California is because beets do not
freeze in the winter there, and they can
use less machinery and feed out all the
beets to stock after the sugar has been
extracted. In Nebraska the beets have
to be harvested and treated before the
frost comes. Ten thousand dollars
worth of machinery in California will
manufacture AS much sugar as $50, 900
worth will in Nebraska. Still Nebraska
is doubling her acreage of beets and
chicory. There is one chicory farm at
O'Neil, Neb., covering $500 acres. The
old Mckinley bill put 2 cents a pound
duty on manufactured chicory and let
raw chieory come in free. This policy
brought twenty seven chicory factories
from France and Belgium to America.
The Wilson bill took off that tariff and
the twenty-seyen Mckinley chicory
factories closed down and our money
went to Europe for chicory again. The
new Dingley bill puts 215 cents on
manufactured chicory, cent on raw.
This tariff will bring back the factories
again, and chicory win take the place
of much wheat land in this country.
The free-siIver craze in Kansas and
Nebraska is wearing out. They all say
that Cleveland hard times, the stopping
of factories in the East and bad crops
in the West, drove them to silverism
When they were drowning they caught
hold of anything.
The prosperity which the big crops
will bring to the West will make rail
roads pay dividends, set the $4,000 idle
railroad men west of the Mississippi
to work, make the farmer rich and
happy, and kill Bryan's silverism as
prosperity once killed Weaver's green,
back craze.
ELI PERKINS.