Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-06
President Roosevelt Said
"Texas is the Garden Spot Of the Lord"
90, 900 Acre Ranch of Dr.. Chas. r. Simmons
Now On the Market.
Here Your Opportunity to Buy Farm Of from 10 Acres $40 and
Two Town Lots in This "Garden Spot for S2O.
able $40 per Month Without Interest

country for his health, bought Is
acres and in one year cleared over
$4,000 from it, which was $333.S3 per
acre.
Another man, 65 years old, from 10
acres, sold $1,000 worth of produce,
from which he realized $63-29 per acre
and then raised Cotton crop on part
of It. which made him S35 per acre.
which made the same land net him
S9s.29 per acre for that year.
Another man from so acres in 1904
realized as follows: From Onions.
$2,226.91; from Cotton, $500; 200
bushels Corn; IL tons Hay; 5000
pounds Sweet Potatoes.
Another made $4,000 from five
acres a 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 S207.69 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 $35 per acre.
which made that ground yield him S95
per acre.
Another realized $50, e66 from 230
acres in Melons, which was $143.33
per acre.
Another netted $1,000 from 35
acres in Onions. which was 5000 per
acre.
another netted s17.445, or s7925
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 from one
acre in Cauliflower; sown in July,
To- - = IL k<,1
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:
tI am one of the heaviest taxpayers
on farm lands in Mason and Tazewell
Counties. Illinois, and 1 have been IA
miliar with the conditions around San
Antonio for IL years. Any thrifty
farmer can get rich, and make moro
money off of this cheap land, acre for
acre, than any land in the State of
Illinois, that sells from $3.50 to $225
per acre."
Come to the land of beautiful sum
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,
whose seasons never end, eat home
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-
tically 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
Injuries of the tropfc 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-
lions are unknown.
Where sufferers with Asthma, Bron-
chitis, Catarrh, Hay Fever and Throat
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 the
amount is never missed.
Where Public and Private Schools
and Churches of all denominations are
plentiful
Where peace, plenty and good viii
prevail
Where it is so healthy that there
are few physicians and most of them,
to make a living supplement their in
come from other business.
81, 600 Reward will be paid TO any
ona ueovsn6 that any efafamouf