Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-06-26
President Roosevelt Said:
"Texas is the Garden Spot Of the Lord"
5000 Acre Ranch of Or. ChaS. F. Simmons
Now On the Market.
Here Your Opportunity Buy Farm of from 10 Acres to $40 and
Two Town Lots in This "Garden Spot for $2i0. Pay
able $40 per Month Without Interest


acres and in one year cleared over
$4,000 from it, which was $333.S3 per
acre.
Another man, 65 years DID, from 70
acres, sold $4,000 worth of produce,
from which he realized 5000 per acre
and then raised Cotton crop on part
of it, which made him S35 per acre,
which made the same land net him
$9S29 per acre for that year.
Another man from 80 acres in 1904
realized as follows: From Onions,
$2,22691: from Cotton, $1,000 200
bushels Corn; II tons Hay; 5000
pounds Sweet Potatoes.
Another made $4,000 from five
acres of early Cabbage, which was
$640 per acre. and grew second crop
of Corn and Peas on the same ground
that year.
Another realized $4,000 from 80
car loads of Cabbage. averaging $500
per car, which was $20769 from each
of the $50 acres he had planted.
Another netted, above all expenses.
$50 per acre on Potatoes. and planted
the same ground in Cotton that year
from which he realized S35 per acre.
which made that ground yield him $95
per acre.
Another realized s32,966 from 230
acres in Melons, which was $14333
per acre.
Another netted 1000 from IS
acres in Onions, which was $500 per
acre.
Another netted s17,445, or 1928
per acre from nine cuttings of 220
acres in Alfalfa, which yielded in one
year 2,475 tons and sold at 81 per
ton.
Another received 5000 from one
acre in Caulifower; sown in July.
transplanted in August, and marketed
in December"
The same authority quotes the fol-
lowing statement from the Hon. JOS
eph Daily, of Chillicothe, Ill, who
owns thousands of acres in the Illinois
Corn Belt. He says:
Il am one of the heaviest taxpayers
on farm lands in Mason and Tazewell
Counties. Illinois, and I have been IA
miliar with the conditions around San
Antonio for II years. Any thrifty
farmer can get rich, and make more
money off of this cheap land, acre for
acre, than any land in the State Of
Illinois, that sells from $3.50 to 1925
per acre"
Come to the land of beautiful sun
shine and almost perpetual harvest
Where the people are prosperous,
happy and contented
Where the flowers bloom ten months
in the year
Where the farmers and gardeners.
grown June vegetables in January, and
bask in mid-winter's balmy air and
glorious sunshine.
Where the land yield is enormous
and the prices remunerative.
Where something can be planted
and harvested every month in the
year.
Where the climate is so mild that
the Northern farmer here save prac.
ttcally all his fuel bills and three
fourths the cost OF clothing his family
in the North.
Where the country is advancing and
property values rapidly increasing.
Where all stock, without any feed.
! fatten winter and summer, on the ma.
. tive grasses and brush.
Where the same land yields the
| substantials Of the temperate and the
luxuries OF the tropic zones.
! Where the farmer does not have to
work hard six months in the year to
raise feed to keep his stock from dy-
ing during the winter, as they do in
the North and Northwest.
Where there are no aristocrats and
people do not have to work hard to
have plenty and go in the best society
Where the natives work less and
have more to show for what they do
than in any country in the United
| States.
Where houses, barns and fences can
be built for less than half the cost in
the North.
Where sunstrokes and heat prostra
tons are unknown.
Where sufferers with Asthma. Bron
chitis, Catarrh, Hay Fever and Throa,
Troubles find relief.
Where, surrounded by fruits and
vegetables. which ripen every month
In the year, the living is better and
less expensive than in the North.
! Where the water is pure, soft and
plentiful
Where the taxes are so low that thu
amount is never missed.
Where Public and Private School,
and Churches OF all denominations arr
plentiful
| Where peace, plenty and good vii
prevail
Where it is so healthy that there
are few physicians and most of them
to make living supplement their In
come from other business.