The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-06-26
ON NEBRASKA PRAIRIES.
Instances of Men Who Started With
 Little and Are Now We'll Off.

Little and Are Now Well Off.
 The real hints of the United States are not in Washington, Philadelphia or San Francisco, but upon the broad farms of the west. Here are some &C., tual experiences of Nebraska farmers whose lot MT. Bryan has so often de- plored
 Three years and half ago Charles J. Wsker bought eighty acres of land within four and a half miles of Min den, paying $1750 an acre. In three years his profits from sales of what he raised on the farm paid for it. He would not sell now for $2,500.
 Fifteen years ago George Barnes went from Missouri to visit brother in Nebraska. He had dollar in cash and the clothes on his back. His broth CT lent him a pair of horses, and the first money he earned was hauling grain to the railroad. Afterward he borrowed money and took a timber claim and homestead in Harlan county.
 He paid back the borrowed money by hauling more grain. He worked for his board when he could get no other work. To-day he has 320 acres of land under fence, a house in Alma where he lives in the winter and money in the bank.
 T. c. Phelan came to Nebraska in 1SS0 and filed on a quarter section in Greeley county. He paid $50 on an ad- joining quarter section and built sod house. It took every dollar he had. He borrowed some money to stock his farm, Three years later he had enough money laid by to buy another quarter section Then he built a frame house, hauling the lumber fifty miles by wag on road To-day he owns 1,1120 acres, 400 fenced for cattle, and the remainder under cultivation. MT. Phelan has been in Europe several times, has travelled all over his own country, and to-day enjoys an annual income of nearly 4,000 from his farms.
 August Warner and Peter Peterson arrived in Lancaster county twenty years ago from Sweden. All they pos sessed was the clothing on their backs. They worked ayear as farm hands, and the next year each bought, with his savings paid down to bind the bargain, an eighty acre tract of railroad land To-day Warner owns twelve eighties" and Peterson has title to thirteen. Each is worth $50,0O0
 Lem W. Titman came to Hamilton three years. ago with barely capital to operate a rented quarter section. He realized from his first years crop enough to justify him in renting a 400 acre farm. Last year he sold 3, ,000 ushes wheat on the mar ket direct from the threshing machine at 5S cents bushel. He has this year 225 acres of fall wheat, so of corn, 40 of oats and SO of pasture land.
 Ten years ago Andrew Sherback came to Custer county with $2,000 in cash and some live stock. He had money enough left after buying quarter sec tion to stock it and operate it. To-day he owns 400 acres of land, all we'll inn with all kinds of labor saving farm implements, several thousand Tn bank and doesn't owe a dollar He makes 5000 year without any trou- ble save that of overseeing the plant ing and harvest. The remainder of the time he spends in town, where he Is ed- ucating his children.
 In 1885 Carl Graham loaded all his goods upon a wagon In Nal vern, Ia.. and started west He had Just married and had little money. Thirteen days later he landed in Custer He struck job herding cattle at s25 month, while his wife became ranch cook at S4 a week. They had sev- ed $500 by the next spring. Out of this he paid for the team and wagon that had brought them west, and with the remainder purchased the relinquish ment Of a homestead. He made a dug out and covered it with timber from the canyons. Nearly all his furniture was homemade. By 1888 he had reach ed the frame house stage and had 200 acres under cultivation. To-day at the age of i2, he and his wife have quit the farm for the city to give their three an education. He can afford to do this, because he owns $40 acres of land 1S7 head of cattle, hundreds of hogs and substantial houses and barns on all of his farms.-Chicago Inter- Ocean.