The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-18
GOODLAND.s PROGREss.
sherman County Town Is Having
Exceptional Growth.

Sherman County Town Is Having
Exceptional Growth.
Goodland, kan, Nov. 1S.=It is good
to hear the farmers of Sherman cOun-
ty talk of their prosperity. For sew
eral years past prosperity has favored
them. The grain production this year
was large, in many instances the yield
of grain reaching as high as 80 bush
els an acre, so bushels of oats to the
acre, and so bushels of barley. It is
said some Of the best farmers OF the
county are discussing the problem OF
curtailing the stock industry, and are
about to increase the agricultural IN
dustry. One firm here, Walker &
Jackson, have paid out for this year
crop of grains since the first of August
not less than $4,000, and there is
plenty more yet to move in Sherman
county. Those in position to know
say that more than 500 tons of hay,
including alfalfa raised in the valleys
of the Beaver and Smoky Hill, have
been cut so far.
Fruit growing his been successful,
the fruit canvasserS claiming their de-
lveries are the largest in the history of
Sherman county
Sherman county has been receiving
a large immigration this year. larger
than in any year in its history. Lands
have advanced, though it is claimed it
is much cheaper than it is really
worth.
The sales of cream and butter alone
for the last year, it is claimed,
amounted to about $4,000.
During the eventful period of rain
making here, when Rainmaker Mel
bourne first put in his appearance, and
later on when no less than three other
rainmaking companies tried day and
night to make it rain, and stop the
drOuth and hot winds, a radical
change has come over this section of
the state. Moisture has been timely,
and the farmers have made money.
Everyone of them has bank account,
and their granaries are full.
The county seat is GOOdland which
has undergone a growth this year sim
ply marvellous. The fact of it is, that
there are two actual owners of Good
land property to one renter. This
great growth in residence houses is a.
necessity, her population being over
1000, and the demand is for more
houses. A close estimate puts the
number of new houses completed and
under way at seventy-five- Besides
several brick business houses have
been built, including a needed hotel.
GOOdland now has three banks, two
National. The large deposits is an in
dicatiOn of the financial stability of
her people 1t seems there is plenty of
money behind every enterprise. A
steel Standplpe, 80 feet high, and an
electric light plant with a capital stock
of about $4,000, are enterprises of
the Goodland people.
The Republic, J. II. Stewart pub
Usher, has made so much money that
this Office has installed a linotype ma
chine, the only short grass journal
which can as yet afford it. Both the
Republic and News are well printed,
newsy and edited by Parson Stewart,
one of the best posted men anywhere.
He is an enthusiast for western Kan
sas, Sherman county and GOodland.
The GOodland people claim they
have no rival town in the western part
of the state. Its beautiful agricul-
tural plains, her wealth and great
growth, the Importance of the Rock
Island and the prospects of getting
one or two other railroads. seem to
point to Goodland as a most promising
town for the future as it is now.