The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-26

carrying on their agricultural work by the most scientinc and intensive methods known.
 For all of his faith: for all of the veioping the great southwest, 1t IS doubtful if he could have foreseen many of the latent forces which have since rapidly lent themselves to the vast enrichment of the land of his birth. ra m PIain Ts Be Seen. He knew that i've acres of rolling grass land devoted to one COW was wasteful and exfravagant, and that the economic truth lay in putting an intelligent farmer on that soil who would raise wheat. corn, cotton or ai- falfa. He knew that still greater prof it's were to be made from truck gar. den crops. He possessed keen ap- preciation of the possibilities at hand in the vast areas of Extern Texas timber lands and the opportunities for irrigation and systematic dry land farming. But he could not have fore seen, except vaguely, the industrial domain to be developed by the diseov- cries of great coal, oil, gas. Son, ce- snent. asphalt. stone and marble de- posits. which promise in the near fu- ture to make the Southwestern States as great from a manufacturing stand polnt as any of the Eastern States and the now rapidly developing south ern States.
 That Yoakum is an ardent believer In the future of the South and South-
 west country and that he is pre-emi- nentiy an empire builder is evident by what he has and is today accomp- fishing. He has driven, or has caus- ed to be driven. through his confident advice, thousands of miles of railroad out over the vast virgin plain of Okla- homa and Texas, in the sure knowi- edge that the people will follow a steel artery of transportation as quickly as they followed in the olden days the natural arteries of water transportation.
 In the old COW days of Oklahoma, the writer was solemnly assured again and again that Western Oklahoma was so dry that 1t could never be used for agricultural purposes. He concurred in the opinion as he rode in late August over these brown grass prairies twenty-five years ago. Yoa- kun believed differently. Compare the COW man picture at that time with the Yoakum realization of today. It is a land now gridironed with railroads and filled with prosperous towns that grew in night"
 suggestions looking toward the com pletion of the idea that the people aid the railroads and the railroads aid the people was made in his recent speech at Shawnee, Okla. He outlined there the imperative need of each for the other and planned still further CO., operation through a farmer-railroad organization. where the various prob lems of marketing and transportation could be worked out to the mutual interest of both. Yoakum has struck the keynote in conversation with the writer In saying:
 Every additional bushel of wheat the farmer will raise and ship to market over the railroad increases our revenues.
 livery ten cents more per bushel he receives for his grain increases his purchasing power of goods the rail. roads must haul. .. ,,.a. .ss r
 ''No sentimental explanation need be sought of our desire to Increase the prosperity of the farmer.
 "We dare not. if we would, mako his transportation rates so onerous as to deprive him of fair profit, but be- lieve we can add to his profit by atd- ing him to market.
 ''The growth of the population Is re- tarded or accelerated as the voice Of the people proclaims hard times or l. prosperous times,
 "On the other hand. the farmers must see to U that we are allowed 70 live. Under the present Federal and State regulation every reading man can determine, if he chooses, for him. self whether or not we are earning sufficient profit to pay the owners of the railroad for the use of their money and leave the railroad sufficient funds for It's up-keep and betterment
 Yoakum Is never known to look al a stock ticker, the usual adornment of most downtown New York offices Tn fact nowhere on the floor of his large administrative office Is this piece of machinery to be found.