The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-06-21
"Tsxas is the Garden Spot Of the Lord"
$4,000 Acre Ranch of Dr. Chas. r. Simmons
Now On the Market.
Here Your Opportunity Buy Farm of from 10 Acres $40 and
Two Town Lots in This "Garden Spot for $2l0. Pay
able $40 per Month Without Interest

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acres and in one year cleared over
81. 900 from it, which was $333.33 per
acre.
Another man. So years old, from rs
acres, sold $1,000 worth of produce.
from which he realized $63.29 per acre
and then raised a Cotton crop on part
of it, which made him $35 per acre.
which made the same land net him
$9S.29 per acre for that year
Another man from 80 acres in 1904
realized as follows: From Onions.
s2.226.9l: from Cotton, $1,000; 200
bushels Corn: 10 tons Hay; 5000
pounds Sweet Potatoes.
Another made $4,000 from five
acres OF early Cabbage, which was
S64O 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 S207.69 from each
OF the 1870 acres he had planted,
Another Melted, above all expenses.
$50 per acre on Potatoes, and planted
the same ground in Cotton that year
from which he realized $S5 per acre,
which made that ground yield him 500
per acre.
Another realized S92,966 from 23O
acres in Melons, which was $l43.33
per acre.
Another Melted $4,000 from IS
acres in Onions, which was 5000 per
acre.
Another netted $17445, or $79.25
per acre from nine cuttings of 220
acres in Alfalfa, which yielded in one
year 2,47j tons and sold at $11 per
ton.
Another received 5000 from one
acre in Cauliflower; 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:
81 am one { the heaviest taxpayers
on farm lands in Mason and TaZewell
Counties Illinois, and have been ia
miliar with the conditions around San
Antonio for ~ years. Amy 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 $225
per acre.
Come TO tie land of beautiful sun
shine and almost perpetual harvest.
Where the people are prosperous,
happy and contented.
Where the tlowerS 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
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-
lions are unknown.
Where sufferers with Asthma, Bron-
chitls, 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 will
prevail.
Where it is 500 healthy that there
are few physicians and most of them,
to make living supplement their in
come from other business.
81 400 Reward will he maid 10 anv