Free press., 1907-06-22

95, 900 Acre Ranch Of Or. Chas. r. Simmons
Now On the RAaFket.
Here Your Opportunity Buy Farm Of from 10
Two Town Lots in This "Garden Spot $2IO. PAY.
able $40 per Month Without Interest

country for his health, bought Is
acres and in one year cleared oTer
$4,000 from it, which was $333.33 per
acre.
Another man. e5 years old, from -
acres, sold $4,000 worth of prodHce,
from which he realized $63.29 per acre
and then raised Cotton crop on part
of it, which made him SIS per acre
which made the same land net him
$9S.29 per acre for that year
Another man from so acres in 1854
realized as follows: From Oniosx.
$2,226.91; from Cotton, $500; 3es
bushels Corn; y tons Hay; 5.o0s
pounds Sweet Potatoes.
Another made $4,000 from i've
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 $27, 600 from 50
car loads of Cabbage. averaging $3ee
per car, which was $207.69 from each
of the 80 acres he had planted
Another netted, above all expenses.
$50 per acre on Potatoes, and pianted
the same ground in Cotton that year
from which he realized $35 per acre
which made that ground yield him Sc
per acre.
AnOIuCl tCoilEOQ FoLs0OO kIOIH GS0
acres IN Melons, which was $143.S3
per acre.
Another netted $21 900 from as
acres in Onions, which was 5000 per
acre.
Another netted $17,445, or $7s.2S
per acre from nine cuttings of 22e
acres in Alfalfa, which yielded in one
year 2,475 tons and sold at $11 per
ton.
Another received 5000 from one
acre in Caulifiower; 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., whe
owns thousands of acres in the Illinois
Corn Belt. He says:
81 am one of the heaviest taxpayers
on farm lands in Mason and TazeveH
Counties, Illinois, and l have been Ia
miliar with the conditions around San
Antonio for II years. Any thrifty
farmer can get rich, and make more
money of of this cheap land, acre GOE
acre, than any land in the State or
Illinois, that sells from $3.50 to $22S
per acre.
Come to the land of beautiful sun
shine and almost perpetual harvest
Where the people are prospersnz,
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, ana
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 tbs
luxuries of the trOpic zones.
Where the farmer does not have %
work hard six months in the year ta
raise feed to keep his stock from dy-
ing during the winter, as they do In
IuS NOFln ana NOrJDWSSI.
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 an&
have more to show for what they dO
than in any country in the URiteH
States.
Where houses, barns and fences can
be built for less than half the cost in
the North
Where sunstrokes and heat prostrz-
tionS are unknown.
Where sufferers with Asthma, Bron-
chitis, Catarrh, Hay Fever and Throat
Troubles find relief
Where, surrounded by fruits anA
vegetables, which ripen every month
in the year, the living is better ana
less expensive than in the North
Where the water is pure, soft ana
plentiful
Where the taxes are so low that thS
amount is never missed.
Where Public and Private Schools
and Churches of all denominations are
plentiful.
Where peace, plenty and good viz
prevail.
Where it is so healthy that there
are few physicians and most of them,
to make living supplement their In
como from other huSineSS