The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-27

lin, is the famous Benton ranch or LOU
acres, the property Of Otis L Benton
This ranch has been paying invest
ment4 At this time il is stocked Win
1,755 head of hogs of his own raising,
besides ,175 head of cattle. This ranch
is well watered and the stock have am
pie shelter from severe storms.
A sign on one of the buildings In Cd
erIin reads. Square Deal Land COM
pany - Whether this meant that the
old land companies were raising the
prices Of Decatur county quarterS TOO
high the Square Deal firm didn't say
So. The several land agencies in Ober-
lin are crowded with land buyers, and
all the firms are giving their patrons
square deal
gress of the Gulf. Hutchinson & North
west railroad. As it viii reach Oberlins
before it does Atwood, the Oberlin peo-
pie viii hold the first celebration, ana
when it reaches Atwood they viii be
over its effect, so they can help the
county seat on the west celebrate It's
coming.
erlin improvements and building IS
going on in any direction one may look
With one acclaim her people say tne
times are the most promising in the
history OF Oberlin.
The story the Same i'm Southwest
~There's plenty room in western Kansas
fore more people. They can all make money
~ Block of Syracuse That is a cattle
country and people who stick 70 eattIe
will come out all right. Those VINO nave
stuck to the cattle business have made
good money 49,, - 49,.
ing wood They have, or are getuhg, teie-
phones They have their own waterworlSs
and some of them are ngurlng on electrlc
lights and automobiles When tne 81 stern
owners and mortgage companies quit pay
ing taxes on their range these actual res
idents took it in and now thsy own Inlles
of it. bought for a song. True, TINS IS
rather hard on the NONRESIDENT landOWn-
ers but it is the making of the people
who hung on like grim death when others
we're cursing the country ana leaving II
Therefore il is hardly proper to blame
fhesa men for doing business and making
the most of their opportunities. BESIDES,
the opportunities for others to come ana
do likewise are still Open
THE three townships Of Liberty, Rich
land and Lamont in Hamilton county,
embracing nearly 10000 acres Of as good
land as the county contains, are occupied
by sixty-eight persons, men, women anu
cniidren RINK OF II, edch peLsuil ~ - al
three townships mas, II II were equaAS ~ e
vided. 40 acres-nearly seven sections, OF
land to use as free as the ar they or eatle. |
placed in the center of seven sections they
would be seven miles apart; or. 4 we con-
stltute them into seventeen IanlllleS u
four persons each, placing each family IN
the center of its tWenty-SeVen and one
half sections of land, then these seventeen
families would reside twenty-seven and
one-half miles apart, and in the center OF
a tract embracing 17.647 acres of land
1T takes demand to make substantial
land values and where there are no people |
to create a demand there can be none. !
There is lots of room for loo more people |
in Hamilton Stanton and Morton coun-
ties There are, according to last report, |
122, 048 acres of government land in Ham |
ilton county subject to homestead entry. |
Some of this is not good land. but prob |
ably half of it is. There is also consider /
able school land purchasable at $125 per
acre on long time with small cash pay
ment, and these lands also tend to bear
the local market for land. In fact, as you
will no doubt be ready to admit, we are
lnne- on land and short on hlrnanitN-,,