The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1907-03-18

pcriences in South Texas.
Men who came here with $500 and
5000 few years ago are now inde-
pendently rich.
"A young man who came to this
country for his health, bought 1S
acres and in one year cleared over
$4,000 from it, which was $S33.33 per
acre.
Another man, 65 years old, from
20 acres, sold $4,000 worth of pro-
duce, from which he realized s63.29
per acre and then raised a Cotton
crop on part of it, which made him
$50 per acre, which made the same
land net him $9S.29 per acre for that
year"
Another man from so acres in 1904
realized as follows From Onions.
S2,226.91; from Cotton, $1,S0O; 200
bushels Corn; IL tons Hay: 5000
pounds Sweet Potatoes"
Another made $4,000 from five
acres of early Cabbage, which was
500 per acre. and grew second
crop of Corn and Peas on the same
ground that year"
Another realized $4,000 from 90
car loads of Cabbage. averaging $500
per car, which was s207G9 from each
of the 1870 acres he had planted"
Another netted, above all expenses
$50 per acre on Potatoes, anG planted
the same ground in Cotton that year.
from which he realized $35 per acre.
which made that ground yield him
s95 per acre"
Another realized $32,966 from 230
acres in Melons, which was $143.33
per acre"
Another netted $21 900 from S5
acres in Onions, which was 5000 per
acre"
Another netted S17,445, or $79.25
per acre from nine cuttings OF 220
acres in Alfalfa, which yielded in one
year 2,475 tons and sold at $11 per
ton"
Another received 5000 rom one
acre in Cauliflower; sowE in July,
transplanted in August, and marketed
in December"
The same authority quotes the fol-
lowing statement from the Hon. Jo-
seph Daily, Of Chillicothe, ILL.,, who
owns thousands of acres in the IIli-
nois Corn Belt. He says:
Il am one of the heaviest taxpayers
on farm lands in Mason and Tazewell
Counties, Illinois, and ! have been
/ familiar with the conditions around
San Antonio for 12 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 S225 per acre.
Come TO the land. of beautiful sun
shine ard 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,
whose seasons never end, eat home
grown June vegetables in January,
( and bask IN md-winter's balmy air
and glorious sunshine.
Where the land yield is enormous,
and the prices remuneratiya.
Where something can be planted
and harvested every month in the
year
Where the climate is so mild that
the Northern farmer here saves prac-
tically all his fuel bills and three
fourths the cost OF clothing his family
in the North.
Where the country is advancing
aud property values rapidly increas-
ing.
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
Injuries of the trOpic zones.
! WHARF tho Favrna,. I..nc nnf 1atra ~
work hard six months in the year to
raise feed TO keep his stock from
dying during the winter, as they dc
IN the North and Northwest.
Where there are no aristocrats and
people do not have TO work hard to
have plenty AID so in the best so
ciety.
Where the natives work less and
have more TO show for what they dc
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 suBstrolles and heat pros
trations are unknown.
Where sufferers with Asthma
Bronchitis. Catarrh. Hay Fever and
, Throat Troubles lind relief.
Where. surrounded by fruits ans
vegetables. which iipen every montl
, IN the year. the living Is better ant
less expensive than In the North.
Where the water is pure. soft, an'
! plentiful
! Where the taxes are so low tina
the amount Is never missed
Where Public and Private Schools
and Churches OF all denomination
are plentiful.
Where peace. plenty and good vii
. prevail.
. Where It is so healthy that ther
D are few physicians and most OF then
to make a living supplement thei
i income from other business.
no Plaza. San Antonio. Texas.
'aid TO any one proving that
rtisement is not true.