The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-27
few SOD HOMES.
Cove County Is Growing Away
From Earth Floors.
Can Raise Anything in Crops
of Corn and Fruit.
PRAIRIE FIRES HURT.
Sweeps Through Tall Grass Into
Fences and Fields.
Have Fine Schools, Banks and
General Stores.
FIRES HURT.

Cove City. Kan. Dec. 27.-There is no
Disgusting the proposition that Cove
county is among the prosperous coun-
ties Of northwestern Kansas. All her
people say this, there is not a dissent.
More cattle is being fed this winter
than ever. and enough corn was raised
for home consumption, with good
weights thrown in.
There was time. and up to the last
Few years, when it was claimed Cove
county was too far west ia raise corn;
the reverse of this statement is true.
Stop the prairie fires in the language of
Col. S. S. Reynolds, who is one of the
pioneers of Cove county, and this coun-
ty win raise anything any other county
raises. Col. Reynolds has made the sub
ject of prairie fires a study, and how to
do away with them has been his theme
for upwards of a quarter of a century.
He is a Cove county enthusiast.
Wheat sown in this county last fall
Is looking fine, most of it. and a great
acreage Of spring wheat will also be put
i'm. In 1903 Cove county carried off the
banner in the largest yield of wheat
Per acre, an average OF 26 bushels an
acre. 1t is claimed some of the wheat
this year has tested "a pounds to the
bushei, and much Of it 81 pounds.
Sod Houses Passing.
Many good farm houses have been
built this year. The old sod house is
most a thing of the past in Cove county.
Fruit raising in doing we'll Among the
raisers CT fruit in Cove county there is
Samuel Long, John WOOlf Jesse Roger,
j. p. Springer, d. H. Ikenberry, J. L.
Cook, j. T. WOOlf, Eli Albert, Adam
Lahman and others.
In Cove county are T. L. Smith, J. T.
Menderhan William Richie, J. NJ.
SutCliffe r. S. Bentley, and Jacob Tus-
tin, who own from five sections to 20
sections. These large land owners are
not holding their land for speculate
but are making actual Improvements all
the time. raising alfalfa, forests, cattle,
hegs and horses and hay lands. In fact,
much OF it is well improved, and this Is
probably the reason that Cove county
lands are sought after
Good High School.
Cove county has a high school located
IN cove city. the county seat Of the
county. 1t was established in 1903 with
an enrolment of Is. This year it has
o. with d number of others who will at
tend later on. The faculty are: Prof.
S. E. Lee. principal. Miss Lillian Bur
ton, assistant principal and the follow
ing teachers. Miss Frances Hopkins,
Miss Pearl Jones, Miss Anna Richie
and n. T. Knight.
The Exchange State bank, of Cove
City, organized in 1888, has over s4O,-
OC0 deposits, mostly belonging to the
farmers In this vicinity. G. A. Jones is
president, o. b. Jones, cashier, and Geo.
D. Roger. present member Of the legis-
lature from Cove county, is assistant
oarhi;s
This year the farmers. or rather the
industrious wives, have made 70752
pounds of butter the value Of the milk
and cream amounts to S10.149, and of
poultry and eggs, S17.0S9, Cove county
farmers had out in alfalfa last spring
4,162 acres, and will largely increase this
acreage another year.
cove City has three grand stores, of
w A. Cook 6, Co, J. L. Cook and Geo.
y. Brown. Pierce & Spaulding are the
hardware and implement dealers. J. H.
Orten is the druggist. c. G. Crippen is
mayor commissioner and the black
smith. and his shop is supplied with all
the latest machinery. The Republican,
Gazette is the newspaper, A. K. Trim
Iner editor and proprietor. At one time
Cove City had three newspapers The
place also has a dilapidated court house.
The county deserves a better one
A. K. Trimmer, editor of the Cove
City Republican-Gaz has Jared bet
ter than most editors in the short grass
belt. He has entertained at his home
here Capt. r.. S. Osborne, when he was
the POpulist secretary of state, and Con-
gresham William Baker and ". A
Reeder, Governor Stanley and E D.
Wheeler. state forestry commissioner.
Speaking of newspapers, Cove county
had in 1886 and 1887 had no less than ten
newspapers. The Smoky Hill Globe was
printed at Jerome when some boom
ers threatened to make that place the
leading town in Cove county and north
west Kansas; it failed Ex-Judge Lee
Monroe, of Topeka, is now paying taxes
on school lots on that former townsfte
At one time three papers were printed
in Cove city. two i'm Grinneu two in
Grainheld and one each in Buffalo Park
and Quinton. Three newspapers are
printed in Cove county at the present
time.
One of the most popular young BUSH
ness men in Cove City is Geo. D. Roger.
assistant cashier of the Exchange State
bank and member of the legislature
from Cove county. During the session