The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-17
AROUND PLAINVILLE.
Where the Quarters Raise 1000
Bushels Of Wheat.
iRoOks County Enjoying the
Benefits of the Boom.

Plai1ville, Kan, Jan 17.-Midway pc
tween Salina. and Oakley, on the Salina
& Oakley branch of the Union Pacific, is
Plainvile. the progressive Rocks county
trade center and the capital of Paradise
Flats. Every acre Of land on these fats
can be cultivated, and many quarters
have raised for years more than 1000
bushels of wheat. 1T is to be expected
then. that a road over 200 miles IN
length passing through as fertile and
thickly settled country as any part Of
Kansas. and teening with thrifty towns
ought and should run Sunday train
fEvery acre of land for miles around
Plainville is tillable, level, rich and pro
6uctive
For many years this section has been
so productive that today it is the best
improved country in the west half OF
. Kansas. And when it is considered, also,
that crops are usually sure, and that
one acre Of this land viii make the own
er from $40 TO S15 per acre every year.
can anyone wonder that the owners Of
this land do not care to part with their
homes?
The vice president OF the Kansas I'M
plement Dealers association lives and
does business I'm PlairVille He believes
he resides in the best town in the state.
3 ne 4Ea60IA Oh TINS Is LHdl ne mas QDliE
Well and continues to make money. His
name is O. G. Cochran. He located here
ia 1882. He started In life by breaking
prairie with an OK team for IS cents
day. Today he is reputed to be worth
$500, 600, and he made every dollar or it
here.
Many farms have changed hands but
there has been but little immigration
coming in because there is but little land
( for sale near tow. A stranger gets the
+ best idea OF Paradise Flats by starting
out in any Gil ection from the town and
inquiring Of the farmers who own the
/ land If they will sell or If they know of
any of the neighbors who viii sell their
land
The Inhabitants of town and country
are mostly American. bright intelligent
and happy. They have fine homes and
tire Injuries Of life. They educate their
children. as the neat roomy school
houses in town and country will speak
: for themselves. The mammoth Touring
mill and several elevators. the $4,000
stock cf hardware ara Implements one
/ firm carries, besides a smaller stock
handled by another firm. the finely built
modern homes. painted and the beautiful
bluegrass lawns, and what is growing
I i'm the country this winter and what has
grown almost every year for the past
: ~ years, shows for Itself what Paradise
Flats produces. And Plainville the
beautiful city in the center of the fats.
IS now and in the future VIII continue
5 10 5E the Ger lEL OF 4 country MnEEE
every farm for miles around Is as nat
urally attractive as the Imagination of
man can devise
1t is claimed that Plainville has close
+ to 600 Inhabitants. Some one has count
4 ed more than 100 buildings erected in
i1905. and for the scarcity Of carpenters
others would have been built.
f Before the close of the present year
l.lainVilie viii have beautiful park.
the ground having been donated, and
the city itself VIII vote bonds to main
tain it, WaterwOrks Is necessity. al
though there are upwards of 200 wind
mills on the townsite This enterprise
win be q real thing before the summer
jas over
Another enterprise. Will be the light
ing of the town with electricity. Bur
troughs Bros, who have built up in
u lainyiHe one of the largest and most
ieuccessful milling plants i'm this section
Of the state have added a $4,000 dyna-
'Tro. and viii furnish the light. These
enterprises and others under way have
/ been practically accomplished by the
lsu5star tial encouragement and aid of
the commercial club.
Colby BROS. & Nailow. general mer-
chants will erect this spring a brick
building. two story above basement ami
421100 feet deep.
The new National bank building is
modern in every particular. 1t is heat
ed by hot air with hot and cold water
IT cost S11.000
MirN & Bower. of Lincoln, Kan. have
recently purchased what is known as
the Watson ranch of 1920 acres. which
in connection with the Hamilton ranch
they bought some time ago. gives them
over 4.eo0 acres in Rocks and Ellis coun-
ties and makes one Of the richest ranch
es in north central Kansas. 1t is well
watered. They are feeding over 900 head
of cattle this winter. 1t is certain these
men know good thing when they see
The town and country is full of tele-
phone wires and a fine layout of nice
farm houses and an intelligent class of
people appear to enjoy them
1t viii take something unusual to stoa
the progress OF Flainville. It has big
start. and Paradise Flats is boosting
her along. There has never been am