Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-06-26
Joy in the West.


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
drouth 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 Colorado border. and the
people are wild with joy.
have passed over this entire coun-
try. They have already harvested
80, 100000 bushels of wheat in West
ern Texas, and now the reaperS in
Southern and Western Kansas are
running in wheat fields loaded with
grain. Everywhere, wheat, corn,
oats and rye could not look better.
Good times are coming from the West
to help Mckinley in the East.
For three years Western Kansas
and Nebraska have lost their crops.
Nebraska stood the drouth from Colo
RADIO 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 to.
Miles of corn bins line the railroads.
Corn is selling at II cents a bushel,
and not a hog in sight. Last years
crop is still in the bins. They are
waiting for the pigs to grow. BY fall
the pigs will be here, and then two
crops of corn will be turned into
pork.
The railroads which will profit by
this wonderful crop are George
Gould's Missouri Pacific, the Chi
cage, Burlington & Quincy. Santa Ee.
Rock Island and Union Pacific. The
st. Paul and Northwestern are wheat
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 treat
ed before the frost comes. Ten
thousand dollars worth of machinery
in California will manufacture as
much sugar as $4,000 worth will in
Nebraska. Still Nebraska is doubling
her acreage of beetS and chicory.
There is one Chicory farm at O'Neii,
Neb., covering $500 acres. The old
Mckinley bill put , cents pound
duty on manufactured chicory and let
raw chicory come in free This pol
icy brought twenty seven chicory fac
tories from France and Belgium to
America. The Wilson bill took off
that tariff and the twenty-seven
Nc kinley .chicory factories closed
down and our money went to Europe
for chicory again. The new DIngley
bill puts p cents on manufactured
chicory. l cent on raw. This tariff
will bring back the factories again,
and chicory will take the place of
much wheat land in this country.
The free silver 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 drown
ing they caught bold of anything.
The prosperity which the big crops
will bring TO the West will make rail
roads pay dividends. set the 50. 000 Idle
railroad men West OF the Mississippi
TO work. make the farmer rich and
happy, anl XIII Bryans Silyerism as
prosperity once killed Viewers green
back craze.
The Overland Limited to California S22.5J
On June 29th to July 3rd. the Union
Pacific will make the very low rate OF
SD 80 to San Francisco for the y p
S. G. E. convention hfistian en-
ueavorers and their friends who go
via the Union Pacific will get there
II hours sooner than those who so via
other lines. All those who wish to
go in comfort and with economy.