People's voice., 1897-07-22
Writes Encouragingly of Kansas.


W. T. Sullivan, the pOStofice in
Spector who was in Wellington sew
eral weeks ago and arrested Jerome
Entrekin for misuse Of the mails, has
been touring the state since he left
here. Mr., Sullivan in writing to a
friend in Washington, DC, gives
some encouraging words of Kansas:
1.-The big rains and big crops in
Kansas means death to POpuism and
fakeism, and the people are really al
work for themselves. Since May 81 |
have been at only two towns where
they have not had rain in forty-eight
hours previous, or that it did not rain
while was there, and the outlook
for crops was excellent. The wheat
crop in western Kansas is all that
could be asked for. In the eastern
part OF the state there are localities
where wheat frOze out, and is a failure
but the crop will not fall below CO..
100000 bushels. The corn crop looks
excellent now, but it is too early to
make prediction for it. Corn is now
'midsides TO horse in the Wichita
section of the state, and looks well
everywhere, and is growing fast, but
a few days of hot wind might yet
destroy it. There is more old corn in
the state than was ever cribbed be-
fore. At Lebanon, Smith county,
which is about 250 miles from the
east line, in the northern tier of cOun.
ties. a town Of 500 or 900 population,
now 100000 bushels Of corn in crib,
and sixty days ago it was selling at
l0c per bushel. | know one man who
bought 10000 bushels a. that price.
1t is now lac there, and is being
brought in every day. The cattle are
too scarce to eat it, and yet Kansas
has more cattle than Texas.
in Clark county, the fourth county
from the west line Of the state in the
southern tier, there are S400, 900 worth
of chattel mortgages on cattle, which
have been put on in the last six
months. The average mortgage is
about sl2 per head, and, counting the
cattle not mOrtgaged, there must be
over $4,000 head OF cattle in that
county alone, and some other counties
have more. Clark lisa grazing county. |
1t had about LOO voters in it in 1872. |
1t has about LOO entire population
now, and nearly all the land belongs
to eastern loan companies. 1t is
almost all fenced by cattlemen-wire
fences-and the companies are getting
comparatively nothing for Its use. l !
saw one man who said he had forty
two sections fenced. He owns l6O
acres Of it. To some who own as
much as section in one place he pays
SIS per section rent, to most of the
Others nothing, and If the owner or
agent kicks he tells them to
come and take their land;
that he does not want it and has
no claim on it. They do it.
He has 200 cows, and his calf crop
will be between 900 and 700. He has
sold his calf crop to be delivered DC.
tober lst, at SO per head for the entire
crop. Another with about an equal
number of calves has engaged his calf
crop at 1915 per head, to be delivered |
in Kingman county on the same date. |
The COWS are now selling at about s22 |
per head. They are graded Durhams. |
The calves are very good-run with
cows and take all the milk. The 2
year-old steers are selling at from s24
to $50 per head, according to quality.
Corn is stored at every station
east Of the third tier Of counties from
the west line Of the state, and there
is considerable corn even west Of that,
but if no corn is raised this year there
is almost enough old corn cribbed up
to fatten every marketable steer and |