The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-20
BRE WSTER GROWS
Thriving Village on Rock Island
in Thomas County.
A Good Trading Point With
Solid Business Firms.
BIG CATTLE SHIPMENT
More Than $4,000 Worth Han
died in One Week.
Story Of PrOsnoritV of Farmers
BIG CATTLE SHIPMENT
Story OF Prosperity Of Farmers
Of Community.

/ brewster, N dil-s OClp SCH 5000
with home man he will tell you that
Brewster shipped more carloads Oh
grain in 1909 than any other station on
! the Rock Island road west of the MIS-
souri, river. More than 200 carloads "f
grain were shipped out. Yet the town
is little known outside of the local pa
pers It is a Thomas county town OF
about $50 population, half way between
| Colby and Goodland. It has territory
| tributary unmo1ested by other towns
| for about 20 miles both north anu
south and more than half this distance
east and west. That the town is a
good trading and business center the
solid business firms will bear out the
statement. 1t has a state bank, lum-
Der yard, two elevators, four general
stores hardware and implement house,
furniture, drug store, machine SHOPS,
meat market, two hotels, four real
estate firms, and livery barn. One Oh
the active business men says that 1T is
entitled to more than a passing notice
because of the amount of business the
firms do.
Recently more than $4,000 worth of
cattle was handled by the Brewster
buyers in one week, and the same week
one of the big alfalfa ra1sers, Lee
Conquest, delivered a carload of alfalta
seed which brought him close to $6,5O0
He has one of the best farms on BeaV-
err creek. of which 200 acres is in al
falfa, besides a good orchard and sub
stantial improvements in home ana
barn. He comes to town in an auto
mobile.
Here's a Prosperous Farmer.
w q Rear is another prosperous
farmer rustler He owns an automo-
bile besides 2 800 acres of land, oper-
ates a steam plow in his farming, and
this year harvested close to 5000 BUSH
els of wheat.
in the Brewster neighborhood- He
owns 800 acres of well improved lana,
and this year he raised about $500
bushels of first class wheat MI.
Eicher is one of the enthusiastic
farmers, and he claims that all OF the
old settlers who came here when he
did and stayed through drouth and
grasshoppers have made money. The
same is true of most OF the farmers
who trade in Brewster.
That the Brewster State bank is a
good business institution for the town
is shown as it paid check in one day
of about s13, 900, and several merchants
report their daily sales in one day as
high as $500 and more. This IS ex-
elusive of the butter and egg trade
which aggregates between $500 and $500
a week. The hardware, implement and
furniture store of Fred H. Horney will
sell goods for the year now closing az
gregating $50. 900. He sold this season
81 headers, one binder and one reaper,
beating the record of any town on the
Rock Island road west of Bellevue.
His sales and collections for one day
this Gall have aggregated $4,000
Located in Great Wheat Belt.
One of the claims of Brewster is that
the town is located in the great wheat
belt of northwestern Kansas. While
this section has suffered somewhat
dTn1Ifl1 in Time and
July the elevators will handle close TO
$50 cars of wheat this year, which viii
be another record breaker. The farm
ers in general are in good spirits, ana
so far as the wheat acreage is con-
cerned this fall will witness the
largest acreage ever soWn. And they
are confident they will reap a rich re-
ward for their labor. To the home
seeker or speculator, this section is
good place for investment Lands
range in price from $3.50 to $50 an
acre, probably cheaper than they will
ever be again. The people of Brewster
invite all who are seeking western
Kansas lands for wheat growing, TO
come here and be one of them, and
where wealth, health and sunshine all
abound, and wheat, alfalfa, eggs and
poultry are putting our farmers on
Easy street. This little burg of about
$50 people has a bank which was Or
ganized in 1905 and now shows de-
posits of over s5O,0o0 That land IS
cheap here r. 7. Hemming tells of a
farm of 1850 acres, adjoining Brewster,
about one half of it under cultivation,
which is offered at $22 an acre. The
land offices of the Lund Real Estate
company and the E. w. Albright
agency are filled with the farm cereals
raised this year near Brewster. To
visit them one would think he is in the
favored east where crops never fail.
About everything that can be grown on
the farm adorns the walls of these
land agencies.
One of the oldest settlers of Brewster
is r. T. Hemming. He came to Thorn
as county in 1880, with a few dollars in
his pocket
Had Nerve to Stay by 1t.
He has had the nerve to stay by it
and made money. For the first five
years he lived in the county, and