The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1904-09-30
ESTABLISHED 1886.
THINKS SOMETHING OF US
r 4. FAxoE WRITES NEWSPAPER Ar
TICLE ABOUT SHERMAN COUNTY.
Says Very Few Counties Evidence Pros
Perify More Than Sherman-Wh heat
Raising, Dairy and Stock Industry
Basis ofAIarveIous Growth.

r. H. Faxon, private secretary Of
Senator Chester I. Long, who was in
GoodIand. Saturday, September II,
when Mr.. Long made a political speech
here, made observations upon our in
dustries and the prosperity within our
borders. In a special correspondence
to the Hutchinson News, under date Of
September 20. Mr.. Faxon says:
Evidences are numerous these days
of vast improvement in the develop
ment Of western Kansas. This IS es-
pecially true of the short grass sec
tons. But there are very few counties
that evidence this situation more clearly
than Sherman county and the town of
GOOdIand.
Sherman county, but one, is the ex-
IRENE northwest county in the state It
borders Colorado on the west and Chey-
enne county is all that intervenes be-
tween Nebraska It is'so near Colorado
that the inhabitants of the county
are as familiar with Colorado counties,
town and politics as those Of
Kansas; and with Bryan and his policies,
and other things in Nebraska, as with
home men and affairs. But because Of
the fact that it is on the border, Sher-
man county is no less genuinely Kan
san; and GOOdland is a typical Kansas
shOrtgrass county seat
1T is marvellous the development of
this shortgrass section Through boom
days and the times of financial depres-
sion under Cleveland from 1893 until
1897, hoPeiessness and despair seized
most of the extreme western section.
There abided a few though, with a de-
termination to hold on; and the result
Of today proves to these that they were
right. The country has thrived amaz-
ingly. Land has been reclaimed; the
cultivated area has increased; wheat
raising have been the principal OccuPa-
ton of the citizens, and the past few
years have been full Of promise for those
who had faith IN the country and stayed
with it; and for those who came since.
cit is wonderful how the dairying in
terests have grown in the extreme west
eTn part of the state. It is no better
exemplified than IN Sherman county
Nearly every other farmer has his bunch
of milk cows and has engaged in this
promising business. Cream is taken to
GOOdland, KanOrado, RuletOn, the sta
tons on the Rock Island system and is
shipped to Topeka, to the Continental
Creamery company. or to Denver and
Colorado Springs. Good prices prevail,
and perhaps one-half OF more of the
county residents of Sherman county
receive checks monthly for their cream
which will run from SIS to 500. This
is not altogether the chief source of
revenue, either, for feed, crops, and
cattle for market are grown as well
as cream produced for shipment.
THE cream is separated on the farm
before shipment. Nearly every farmer
has a separator of his own. He has
learned that this is the most profitable
and the safest way of shipping his milk
product. Then throughout the country
are receiving stations, and some one
man takes the accumulated shipment of
the locality to the station to be ex-
pressed to Topeka or elsewhere.
The grade of cattle used for dairy
ing has not been especially material
heretofore, though attention is now be-
ing paid the matter In the strictly
dairy section, and in eastern Kansas,
Jersey cattle seem to predominant, but