The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-22
Measure Of Success So Far At
tanned Is Only an Index of
That Which Is Certain to Fol
low In a Short Time.
INDUCEMENTS THAT
APPEAL TO SETTLERS
Lands Are Extremely Cheap, OF
the Highest Fertility, While
the Magnificent Climate Adds
to the Delight of Life.

In the marvellous development Of GER
tain sections of the Southwest within the
past i've years one of the most striking
features is the quickness and ease with
which many thousands of home seekers
have found their opportunities and i'm
proved them.
Striking indeed are the results in COM
parison with those Of former times, vet
not surprising when one understands the
systematic methods followed today by the
great railroad systems in securing and
distributing without charge information
In regard to the Southwest.
One Of these systems the Frisco. went
ahead Of the home seekers and spread its
tracks over Oklahoma, Indian territory
and Texas. In building it's line, how
ever, it looked to the future, and not to
the present, for its returns, and complete
success cannot come to the railroad until
its territory becomes a land of produce
tive farms and busy towns.
1t is not sufficient merely to have the
land peopled; 1t must be peopled by those
who will succeed. The railroad compa-
ny's interest is thus identified with that
OF the home seeker, and it not only gives
MIN without charge the benefit Of the vast
amount of information 1t has secured
about the Southwest, but is continually
seeking to add TO Its information and i'm
prove the methods of distributing it.
The company honestly endeavors to
place the home seeker where he will sue
coed, and the choice offered to him is not
restricted to limited territory, but COW
ers the empire of the Southwest, with soil
OF every kind for the farmer and oppor-
tuntties in professions and trades for
those who prefer to seek the future cities
of the Southwest.
Opportunities Not Exhausted,
The hundreds who have sought and
found success in that territory have not
exhausted the opportunities, but have
merely proved the worth of the country
TOR the thousands who will follow.
Farm lands in the great Southwest
capable of growing rich, diversified crops
range IN price from SO per acre upward,
and conditions are nowhere more favor
able for the raising of wheat, oats, corn,
potatoes, cotton, broom, corn, alfalfa,
coWpeas, peanuts, sorghum, timothy.
clover, castor beans, melons, all of the
garden vegetables, apples, pears, peaches,
plums, cherries, grapes, and the various
berries.
Thousands of acres might be put in
wheat alone, and, with an average yield
OF twenty-five bushels to the acre, would
pay for the land the first year, though the
maximum yield Of wheat in the Southwest
is forty bushels. This is likewise true of
oats, where sixty to eighty bushels are
an average, with as high a record as 107
bushels. & r.
This land in potatoes could also be
! made to pay its cost; $50, to 200 bushels
are an average yield to the acre, with cli-
matte conditions permitting two crops.
In almost every part of this marvellous
| new country the lands can be made to re-
pay the original capital in a single yield
II 1ntelligently looked after. Is this true
! OF Iowa, Illinois, or any Of the Northern
| or Eastern states? 1t is not The
! Southwest alone presents this offer to-
| day, and the rapidity with which it is
being accepted will soon increase land
| values there in proportion to those OF
the more densely populated states.
Growing Season a Long One.
The growing season in the Southwest
extends over period of seven months
while in the North that is the period o1
the close feeding season. The close feed.
ing season of the Southwest seldom ex.
ceeds three months. The reduction o.
expense In that item alone is over one.
half.
The farmer of the Southwest may 81
vary his crops that there may be no, I'm
l. dl1Q IRISH If uorlx OF ~;
Their need he fear failure of any particular
crop. If it should be too dry and hot fo1
good corn (though the general rainfall
is uniform and Adequately, a good crop o
cotton, Kafir corn, and alfalfa may b,
depended on. In the Southwest alone d,
products of the North and South grow
side by side with equal profusion, show
ing that both soil and climate adap
themselves equally to cotton of tn
South, corn and wheat of the North, an
tobacco of the South.
Towns are being built everywhere owe
this vast fertile region. Skilled labo
Is scarce. There are few carpen
tiers, few stonemasons, few masters o
the trades. The resources of the sur
rounding country are boundless and mus
demand more building, more and large
cities, which means metropolitanism
It's quick transformation in the South
| west from meadow 10 meCrOp0l1S-hV
years is all 1t has taken in several typi
cal instances, and the energetic man q
the village Of today must become tn
wealthy citizen of the city few year
later. s -s.-. t ~. .ltT
Perhaps your opportunity is awaitin
you in the Southwest. If you need hel
in finding it, write A. Hilton, genera
passenger agent, 975 Frisco building, 81
Louis, Mo-, tell him what you want, an
he will place you in touch with the RICH
man.
When the time comes to make your tri
to the Southwest, remember that on tn
first and third Tuesdays of November an
December round trip tickets will be sol
at rates rs per cent less than the far
one way. 81 - 4 u
WICHfTA'S RAPIDLY
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