Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-04-05
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had known or has known since. for af-
tier that spring and summer things set
| tied down to more regular way such
as is found in older farming commu-
|nities.
Nearly all OF the land on the prairie
was this year broken up and sowed.
While. at that time there was no mar
ket closer than fifty or sixty miles, yet
the people believed that there would be
take the risk. But the market came no
closer and everyone hauled to Lewis
ton. a distance OF fifty-five miles. Cul
e-Sac forty-fve miles and Spalding
fifty miles. Much grain was marketed,
but many built grainaries and saved
their products and marketed them the
following spring.
"Freighters had many hardships to
endure and those who did endure them
and marketed their grain were but
poorly repaid, for wheat was only worth
40 cents per bushel, oats 81 per hundred
weight and barley so cents per bushel
and 1t was worth that to haul 1t. And
these conditions existed till the spring
OF 1900, when the Clearwater branch of
the Northern Pacific railroad was COM
pleted to Stuart and this gave the farm
ers a market within ten miles, and now
the enormous yields, which had never
been mentioned before, began to count
But before dealing with the yield per
acre 1T would be we'll to look back to
the spring of 1899. when few farmers
from Dakota. Minnesota and Iowa in
!troduced flax raising. The yield was so
gratifying that in the spring OF 1900 flax
contractors We're sent in by the grain
dealers and farmers We're given seed by
signing contract to deliver all flax
grown upon certain piece of ground
Many farmers contracted an average
lot thirty to forty acres. The yield was
an enormous one. ranging from twelve
ia twenty-five bushels per acre. This
|erormous yield, taken together with the
splendid price of from s112k to sl.G;
proved a bonanza for the farmers o:
this fertile prairie. The entire yield on
the prairie was over 100000 bushels, and
at an average price of $1.35 per bushcl
made a total of over s270O0O distributed
among the farmers. This was flax only
and in addition to the flax crop wheat
Larley and oats We're harvested III
abundance. Wheat averaged from
twenty to fifty-four bushels per acre
harley from forty to eighty-five bushels
per acre and oats ninety bushels per.
acre 1t was this enormous yield that
set the price of real estate SO high a
yield of eighteen bushels per acre of. flax
~ sl.35 made the products OF one acre
OF land worth s24.aO A yield Of forty
bushels of wheat was worth. a 40 cents.
mop A 1,ie,
bushels OF oats. at 80 cents per hundred
weight. was worth s24.3o A yield Of
forty bushels of barley at 60 cents per
hundred was worth si1.52.
man who had his entire 1850 acres
under cultivation could get all the way
from $500 down to $1.7o0 for his prod
uct Very few had their entire ranch
Under cultivation, but the majority had
ever 100 acres in and many rented
ground and had in from two to three
hundred acres, thus keeping the aver
age up TO the year OF 1900 Old debts
We're now paid off and the farmer can
now lay by for a rainy day.
The prospect for a crop this year
was never brighter at this time. Last
fall being SO open nearly all were able
to pillow at least half their ranches and
many sowed fall wheat But nearly all
lcok to flax as a standby and have con-
tracted from fifteen hundred ia six hun
dred acres each at a guaranteed price Of
80 cents per bushel and n price of 40
cents under the Chicago market should
II go higher than 90 cents. Many OF the
original homesteaders are contemplate
Ing building after the crops are in this
spring. 80
In conclusion we believe that any one
desirins to locate in the busy west will.
never regret trip up the Clearwater
river and onto this prairie We feel
confident that you Will join all who have
seen this section and learned of its re-
sources and golden opportunities in saw
ing that this is the finest agricultural
country to be found in the northwest. )"
a Raging. Roaring Flood
Washed down telephone line which
Charles c. Ellis. OF Lisbon. Ia, lad TO
repair. Standing waist deep in icy
water he writes. gave me a terrible
cold and cough. 1t grew worse daily
Finally the best doctors in Oakland.
Neb.. Sioux City and Omaha said had
consumption and could not live. Then
began using Dr. Kings New Discov-
cry and was wholly cured by six bot
ties" Positively guaranteed for coughs.
colds and all throat and lung troubles
by Geo. p. Powers. Price so cents and
81.
Claims have been filed by three Lima,
Peru, merchants in connection with a
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