The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1907-06-07

ADpltS,
Page 63 of the book entitled Beau
tiful San Antonio" officially issued by
the Business Mems Club of San An
tonic, dated May, 1906, says:
1T is readily conceded by all those
who know anything about Texas that
the most prolific agricultural section
is that which recognizes San Antonio
as it's logical center, particularly that
portion directly south of San Antonio,
with the Gulf of Mexico bordering on
the southeast and the Rio Grande bor-
dering on the south and west.
within the last four or five years,
In the territory named special atten-
tion has been given to growing vege-
tables, they maturing at time when
they secure the maximum prices on
Northern markets, which markets they
virtually invade without a competitor.
The profit in growing vegetables in
this territory will be seen by an exam
ination of the following figures, Sc
cured from reliable sources, showing
Net Earnings Per Acre:
"Watermelons from $500 to 100000.
"Cantaloupes from $4,000 to $500.
Cabbage from $125.00 to S225.00.
"Caulihower from $500 to S225.00.
Beans and Peas from $4,000 to
$l25.00.
Tomatoes from $125.0O to $4,000.
Potatoes from $4,000 to $4,000.
Onions from $4,000 to $4,000.
"Tabasco Peppers from $4,000 to
100000 per acre.
THE Chicago Record-Herald pub
fishing the following individual expert
ences in South Texas:
"Men who came here with $500 and
5000 a few years ago are now inde.
pendently rich.
"A young man who came to this
country for his health, bought IS
acres and in one year cleared over
$4,000 from it, which was $33333 per
acre.
Another man, Go years old, from 79
acres, sold $4,000 worth of produce,
from which he realized $63.29 per acre
and then raised Cotton crop on part
of it, which made him $35 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, $1,S00; 200
bushels Corn; IL 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
uhiph HO07 go from nach
of the 1870 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 2SO
acres in Melons, which was $143.33
| per acre.
Another netted $4,000 from 80
acres in Onions, which was 5000 per
acre.
Another netted $17,445, 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 $500 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, H., who
owns thousands OF acres in the Illinois
Corn Belt He says
II am one of the heaviest taxpayers
| on fam, 1anHc In Mason aud Ta1awpll
Counties, Illinois, and have been IA
miliar with the conditions around San
Antonio for IL years. ANY thrifty