Bisbee daily review., 1904-05-25
Bloomfield. Iowa. May 1s. 1904.
Editorial Correspondence.)

tldtlOh. iuo peOple 0SIc i've Shtap- CT than any other class of people in the United States. Don't understand that they are skinny" or don't have plenty to eat. have been reyeling in the delights of yellow leg chick en. and the "fixins" that go with it. But the chicken and the"fixins" were mostly raised cn the spot. The country is fenced off into 40, so and 6o-acre farms. and about the only things they don't raise here are or anges and bananas. Then there is the garGen patch" ill the rear of the house, that is usually tended by the housewife, which is good for a square meal anytime from now on. Spring is just opening here now, but don't be alarmed, l am not going to unload any spring lines cn you, al though I notice the local papers are doing a good business in that same spring poetry.
 Most of the well-to-do farmers, for a radius of fifty miles. live in town, and by the way this place has been a town before Arizona was on the map. This is a great place for ''old timers ' serday and they all had lanced in here overland, anywhere from '46 to '5S. They just came and settled on a 40-acre trac... and stayed settled. oh hn same "40'' or "S0," as the case may be, and some additional land has been bought, but in no case, has the family moved six miles in either direction. All the eastern states are represented by these "old timers" but Indiana and the New England states predominate
 For peace and quietude this section is where you want to come. Everyone seems to have plenty and is satisfied. There is the most satisfied feeling here I ever saw, and then just now the prospect for good crops this fall is excellent which makes this condition more so.
 This week every able bodied man. who had not planted. and who owned as much as ten acres. was right in the middle of that ten acres. There has been so much rain that the ground has not been favorable for ploughing but this week all the elements were favorable and there was something doing in the planting line. Corn is the crop here, but none of it is ship ped out of the state Stock feeders buy every bushel that is for sale and cattle are brought hge from the Kansas City market to be corn fed and forwarded on to Chicago. to meet the demand of the fancy trade.
 This industry was a failure, from a financial view point, up to the pres ent time this year. A high price was paid for stock in Kansas City. and with corn 50 cents a bushel, some of the feeders in this section dis. covered that they had put in the win ter at a loss of time, labor and some dollars worth of corn, and that the receipts were less than the expendi- lures. As one farmer. who feeds cattle for the Chicago market said: If someone had killed the blamed cattle, the day I got home with 'em, I'd been big winner now"
 The weather here is generally the principal topic of conversation The weather at present, the weather just past and the weather anticipated is al- ways in order. On the weather de pends the crops and on the crops de bends the prosperity of the country, so I could see that it was perfectly legiti- mate for a man to talk about the weather, if he wanted to. Just now everything is lovely. The corn is in and "a-comin' fine. Oats is up; the timothy and clover pastures green, and the hogs and cattle for market are fat and there's nothing much to do but just sit by, kind of tented like, and watch nature do the contenteG like, and watch nature do the work.
 l UUQ dP 70 in a flourishing condition: ie- the obtaining and retaining of a pension from Uncle Sam. There a score of -old vets" around here and they are all doing well. They vote the straight Republican ticket, always have and always will. and put in most of their time in the spring, pushing a lawn mower. They can tell you about the war and most Of them were in at the big fights.
 Candidates are begining to bud and sprout in this neck of the woods I was up town yesterday with an old timer and on the corner was young fellow giving everybody the glad hand and passing out cards. As soon as I saw the round corners" I knew we were face to face with live can didate. The young man wanted to fa rounfv clerk or something like