Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-12-28
Williams
Real Estate and Horse Sales.
Auction Every Other Friday.
Private Sales Daily.
stabIina for Country Teams.
Lee Fleener, Auctioneer
Will Also crv Country Sales.
ABOUT THE PAN HANDLE.

Aou know when we We're boys
s IsI II some of you happened to be
girls then, l know you are not now)
aIiu USED to go to school and study
lsometimes) "jogfy," we learned,
among number of other things we
I,ad 70 unlearn afterwards, that The
Fan Handle of Texas, was but a part
OF the Great American Desert" where
IN me long -horned and hungry looking
leXas steer was allotted GAO acres of
ground each, for his Individual support
ana where, by covering his allotment
actlVely three times day for five
years, he managed to reach maturity
of 700 to 800 pounds.
In the fertile mind of the Educated"
BOY IT was associated with the great
sahara desert, lacking only the wan
dering tribes Of Arabs and the camel
with his portable water tank
Such we We're taught az bows, to
consider the Pan Handle of Texas and
THIS notion. like many of the myths of
youth, still clings in the minds of
many boy grown up.
But right here is where want to
begin my heart to-h heart" talk with
you. The Pan Handle is no desert
1t Is one of the finest and largest bod
les of prairie land ! ever saw.
Inc SOL IS rich and very retentive of
moisture. Water, though not so cold
as IN Iowa. is excellent in quality. aud
abundant in supply The only remain
ing question is, do they get sufficient
rainfall. The government report fol
| II years shows an average annual
rainfall of "a inches, which comes
mainly in the growing season, but DIFF
ferlng soils require varying amounts of
rainfall. so there is finally but one ac-
curate test. and that is results
We can cite you to men who have
been there three to five years who are
turning off crops--field crops--not an
acre or two of onions or Strawberries
or any other small patch 1t has broken
their backs to produce but fields OF
| wheat, oats. kaffir corn. etc-40 sc
100 acres in the field Welding then,
$50 to $40 per acre, on land that cost
$40 to S15. Men are there Who in
seven, wears. starting with practically
nothing. have made enough at actuu
| cash for the best 100 acre farm in
Iowa. That may sound strong. but
you heard what I said, and all yor
need to do is to go with me to the
Pan Handle and If YOU don't find my
statements trl'e, the trim don't cost yo"
cent. Move than that-this great
| garden prairie of Texas Is be'ue
bought In small farms. aggregatine
hundreds of Thousands of acres every
month, by men from the northern
states. But these are poor fellows who
didn't Study their "iogfy" when the,
were boys. Yes. thev are men VIII,
have made money; they come from
every walk of business life; hard
headed formers. successful merchants
bankers. doctors. even lawyers, If the,
have lost any rich relatives lately
These men gro no fools. They go t.
| investigate: they b-y. They are ius
as smart as vn'l or Though you may
have been VOW mothers only boy oil
even It Won were YOUR fathers only
boy. There NAV be nothing 70,
haven't learred-b''t there NAV be
few things Wv haven't urlearned
The Pan Handle is the best land in
vestment In America today Lam
never goes back in hard times. CT
with us and see for yourself
MORRIS WILLIAMS,
| OttumWa, Iowa,