The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-27
Prospects for a Bumper Corn
Crop Are Also Good.
SAINT FRANCIS BOOMS.
Butter and Eggs in Cheyenne
County Bring Nearly $4,000.
Much Talk of Extension of
Branch of b. & NJ. Railroad.

| Cheyenne county is harvesting a rec
| ord breaking wheat crop, there be-
| ing about $4,000 acres in fall wheat
which is good for IA to 40 bushels
an acre. There are about $4,000
acres in spring wheat which will run
from 10 to % bushels an acre Close
to $4,000 acres is planted in corn, and
| it is looking splendid; barley will run
from 80 to So bushels per acre, and
there are 1852 acres SOWn, and 1t
looks splendid.
Jacob UpIinger, one of the big.
wheat raisers in the county, believes
he will raise the largest crop of wheat
he has ever harvested, and that the
yield of wheat will exceed 40 bushels.
The county has about 1000 acres of
alfalfa, and the acreage is increasing
rapidly; there are about 5000 acres
of broom corn.
Butter and Eggs Brought 100000.
During the last year the farmers
wives made and marketed S5,SSS
pounds of butter, and the value of
poultry and eggs sold amounted to
over $4,000. Buffalo grass is lux
uriant, the best in many years.
Throughout the entire county forest
trees have made a wonderful growth
The population of the county is
close to 1000, showing a healthy in
crease over 1908. The total vaIua-
ton of taxable property is $5,6O4,345,
the last year.
Saint Francis is the county seat of
Cheyenne county. 1t has displayed
wonderful activity in the last few
years. In the erection of attractive
residences, growing shade trees and
building cement walks, the town is
keeping pace with all northwest
Kansas towns. The old timers have
MT forgotten the lamented Senator
Plumb, who made a visit to Saint
Francis 1901 To Io
enne county fair association, and in
the course of the address he paid the |
farmers of the county the handsome |
compliment of their beating any fair |
he had ever attended in the state in |
raising and displaying vegeta b1es |
grains and grasses
In the early days of the town and |
settlement of the country irrigation |
was the hobby, and the Lincoln land |
company and B. & NJ. railroad in |
vested thousands of dollars on the |
big irrigation ditch, which proved |
failure. Nature has since taken care |
of the Cheyenne county farmers in |
sending rains and they generally |
raise good crops, and this year it is |
believed the county will raise her !
banner crops.
St. Francis Terminus of b. & NJ.
Saint Francis is the terminus of the |
B. & NJ. railroad, a spur running |
from Orleans, Neb. About as MANY
rumors have been floating around |
about the extension of this branch
as there has been regarding the Mis-
souri, Pacific Central Branch) west |
of AtchiSOn.
for some people, and this one has been |
valuable to NJ Winter. owner |
and proprietor of the Commercial hotel |
He came here five years ago from Ne
braska- Financially he was poor as a |
church mouse. His friends had conf
dence in him, and they loaned him |
money to erect a hotel Today he can
easily clean up $4,000. His hotel is one
OF the Kind where commercial men like
to stop.
Saint Francis almost had a beet su-
gar plant of her own. That is the
money her business men and farmers
without drawing interest, and the poor
fellow who came from an adjoining
state to work up the enterprise didn't
fool the Saint Francis people to the
extent that the smooth talking fellow
could dispose of the notes until the
plant was built and in successful oper-
Grafton and satisfactory to the stock
holders.
May Get Beet Sugar Factory.
There are some who believes the en-
line Will soon be ripe when the plant |
Will be built. and that the country
to Saint Francis can grow
1eets, and that a beet sugar factory
There appears to be room enough in
Saint Francis and adjoining country
O support two banks. two lumber yards
md two newspa perS. There are about
dozen real estate offices, and they do
good business. All classes of bust
less avocations are carried on. The
own is the home of E. S. knight, the
Gwyer, who held down a chair in the
,ffice of secretary of state under J. r.
3urroW. 1t is also the home of the
present member of the legislature from
Cheyenne county, and besides two ex-
members give tone to Saint Francis
". B. Lockwood and Isaiah Crosby
'esiding here.
Old Settlers Picnic in September.
There will be a pioneer settlers pic
tic here in September. The former
VanOiteS who worked with all their
night to build up a town and lost
will meet their competitors who won
tut, more than half way, Saint Francis
Won in the town fight in the pioneer
lays of Cheyenne county. Such a pic
tic will be interesting, and it will repay
my one to attend it to hear the pioneer
repeated. Cheyenne coun-
y is going to raise banner crops this
ear, and everybody will feel like at
ending this picnic.
FINE WHEAT AT MINNEAPOLIS.
This Years Crop From One Forty
Pays for $50 Acre Farm.
Minneapolis, Kan, July 27-Moses
Bush, the eighty-three-year farm
er who marketed the first wheat of
he season at Minneapolis last week,
sat down to do a little figuring after
he had sold his crop at $1.01 per