The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-12-29
SAYS THY ARE CONE
Writer 10 the Eagle on Sub
ject of Hot Winds
THINKS FIRES CAUSED 'EM
BY Leaving Prairies Bleak
and Bare to the Sun.
THINKS FIRES CAUSED 'EM
To the Editor Of the Eagle:

To the Editor OF the'Eagle:
In an article Of your paper the follow
ing heading appears: cut out thefword
Blizzard. ado to that another term, ''Iiot
Winds. and make the unnecessary terms
absolute from all newspaper columns.
Seven years ago this month you kindly
published by article Prevention OF Frai-
RE Fires Versus Hot Winds" The Kan
sas Farmer also published it and through
your paper it was scattered over the
state. Mr.. Watson then of Larned now
postmaster at Kinsley showed by statis-
tics that every time we had extensive
prairie fires we had following them hot
winds and diminished crops The state
legislature seven years ago this winter
passed the ireguard law. 1t was kept
in effect two years when the railroad
companies broke it down on account of
extra taxation and the law declared I'M
constitutional The railroads have as
rule done their part pretty effectual and
have been great aids IN furnishing limit
TO great sweeping fires Our western
part of the state lost the great bulk of its
population on account of these hot winds
caused by prairie fires laying bare the
surface at least every three years on an
average burning up not only our crops
out central Kansas with often sufficient
moisture in its soil had its crops burnt
up by the inflowing hot winds from our
burnt off and arid districts west.
This freguard law being put in effect
for two years. Let the buffalo grass
grow and the cattle men, finding our
pasture good while drcuths in Arizona
and the southwest were starving their
cattle shipped these skeletonized brutes
into our state by the thousands in the
spring Of '96 to the present the herdmen
for the sake Of pasture have taken care
of our native grasses Cnstead of fireguard
law) Result is our western part of the
state is covered with rich grass and
greatly increased amount of blue stem
which cover the ground, holds the rois-
ture, absorbs the rays of light, stops re-
Election which produces heat, and by these
means the state is practically redeemed
from hot winds Land owners in central
and western Kansas ought to hail the day
when the cattIemen came in and they to-
gether with the settlers tokk possession
Of our part Of the country. Any means
by way OF high rents and taxes that
would drive the owners of herds from our
state would be fraught with disastrous re-
suits and with prairie fires resweepinS our
western third OF the state would be a sure
return to hot wind days. Heretogore peo-
pie refused to pay taxes in this part of
the state and great lists Of lands subject
10 tax sales were annually exhibited and
the losses to the state by way Of dePopu-
lat;on and loss of tax fell more heavily on
the eastern hall. and our losses can hard
" estimated I want to say t~sthose-i
who own land in western Kansas were
it not for the present cattlemens Drotec-
ton your land would not he worth SO cents
on the dollar: Instead of crowding out
and putting unnecessary burdens OF tax
on them. encourage them to stay and your
land unequaled for richness will not only
return to it's normal value, but win in
crease in value sufficient to pay al past
expenses and losses. Take care Of Kan
sas and Kansas win take care IF you.
Editors of Kansas papers cut oct not cnly
the word billiards for winter breezes in
Kansas. but the ''hot winds for our sum
mers." both of which are inappiicable and
unnecessary for the hot wind DAYS are
conditions of the past. Yours truly.
AMID rug T1oSea CIV