The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1905-07-21
BET FEN GO0HLARB AID EDSOE
SOME ATTRACTIONS THAT ARE a
DELIGHT TO TIE PAssERBY.
\ Ten-Acre Grove Up From the seed
on the Brlmer PIaee-Big
Feds OF Wheat.

The editor OF this paper has just
read an account OF the horrible death
from thirst OF two Colorado prospec-
tors who, by visions of wealth. were
lured into Death VaIley-she region
where Walter scott mined out his for
tune and who today attracts the
world BY the reckless spending OF his
money These two were lost in that
great waste Of sand which seldom re-
turns alive those who lose their way
or run short Of water
The plains OF western Kansas-tf1e
land right here in Sherman COUNTY
formed a part Of what geOgraphers
once called the great American de-
sert
We had an opportunity Sunday Of
riding over about ten miles OF this
particular desert encountering on the
way GASES Of wheat rye. barley and
other crops, OF an abundant yield
small groups Of trees and larger
groves We saw, also. men. houses.
sunday schools, cattle. water-tl7e
complement and equipment OF a civil
Hzation that makes one think OF
easy street"
Death Valley is supposed 10 be
fabulously rich in old, yet there is
more gold in Sherman county. fnfnf-
tely more happiness and fewer dead
mems bones.
-Four miles east Of GoodIand, on the
J. w Bruner place, is a young grove
OF ten acres that has. come m from
the seed with only natural rainfall
The trees have attained a height of
ten, twelve, fifteen or more feet. and
Wouldn' make bad place for a pic
Me or a camp meeting In looking
upon that glad spot. cool, quiet and
full Of healing TO the weary. one is
reminded, upon seeing their triumph
over all unfavOrable circumstance
Of the scriptural words-these are
they that come up out Of great trib-
ulation
For little distance TO the east of
this grove there is an occasional. soil
tary tree with thick branching down
toward the ground, not unlike the IA
miitar scene in eastern states. of a
tree conspicuous by itself in the cen
ter OF a field, the crop possessing all
the rest
The country on either side Of the
road from Goodland TO Edison is white
with rlpening grain, and in many
cases the grain has been cut down
and stacked On the Smallev farm
Tor instance, two miles east of town
there was a field Of about 70 acres of
me wheat and when headed last
week, II made seventeen big stacks.
FartherOn was seen an almost per-
tect field Of rye, the uncut portion Of
the field standing to the shoulder Of
a man, while on the rest the ground
was thickly studded with stacks.
All along the way there was a great
showing OF three things-wheat- rye
and barley. But one of the finest
single crops that was raised this wear.
or perhaps any year in the history of
the county, was the 16O-acre field of
Durum or MacarOni wheat on the
Rhoades Allen farm. about a mile
this side of Edison. Mr. Allen and G.
L. Calvert, his son-in-Iaw. went il
together last spring to see what could
DC done at raising AIacarOnf wheat
! Inc Allen farm had ben D. ken, s.r,
WIKI the pillow ten or Twelve wears
ago, and had since bcCn cultivated
more or less every year, so that the
ground was considered to be in ex-
celIent condition The ground was
prepared and the seed wheat put into
the drill Now something happened
away out Of the ordinary. 1t has been
| customary. and the result satfsfac-
tory, TO sow but a half busbeI Of
wheat to the acre, so that in case of
q uIE spell wheat sOwed moderately
thin would hold out better and longer
than thick stand. In this instance
one bUshel to the acre was drilled in
on sixty acres. and three pecks to the
acre on the remaining 100 acres. The
season was very favorable in the mat
ter of rainfall, and the result ex-
/ ceedingly hattering. This field of
wheat now being harvested. is a
marvel There i stands none of IL
50 low as ones knee and most Of il
nigh as the shoulder The heads.
bending over, have to fit in and ad-
Just themselves. thus presenting
continuous level surface excepting the
small iuterstices
Sowing one busheI to the acre in
western Kansas may be quite unsafe
generally, but it won out this year.
for II has been conseryativeIy estf--
mated that this $50 acres OF wheat
viii yield from 20 TO 35 bushels 10
the acre Can the total yield 4.OJG
bushels, which at so cents per busael
would make the crop worth 81 600.
which exceeds the rial ket price Of ne
land y almost a ehousan6 dollars.
And stin. people lured by the vision
Of gold, die Of thirst in Death Valley
and leave their bones to bleach upon
the hot sands of a treac bero71s waste