Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-25
GREAT STORIES FROM TRIP
Trip County Man Circulates Fab.
ulOus Corn Report.
HE ORGANIZED THE COUNTY
W. n. BRckus Tens OF Land that
Yields Unbelievable Crops and of
Wonderful settIins Activity
In the View section.

The lobby Of the Merchants hotel betook
me general aspect OF a South Dakota
booster convention Monday morning, and
the stories told OF big potatoes. prodigious
corn Yields and other great achievements
was enough to make the city man harl-en
to the call Of the soil, doff business raj
ment for ovcralls and grab q hoe and a
railroad ticket for the promised land.
w. B. Backus. the man who organized
Trip county South Dakota was there,
ably seconded by r. c. Thomas. a mer-
chant Of Winter. s. D., the town OF Winter
oeng the metropolis and prospective
county seat OF the Backus bailiwicS.
Mr. Beekus is first Of all a South Dakota
patriot-after that, he is attorney for the
county OF Trip, largely interested also in
agriculture. lie will remain in Omaha
until Tuesday evening. and he is taking
keen interest in the Western Land Prod
ucts Exhibit TO be given in Omaha next
January by The Omaha Bee and The
Twentieth Century Farmer.
Trip county" said Mr.. Backus, was
not organized until June 10, 1909. and at
that time there was, OF course. not a
school house in the county. Now we have
sixty-five school districts, and each dis
trict has a comfortable school house. This
Is what call quick work in educational
advancement.
TriBp County Supreme.
/ In an agricultural way we are supreme
the only thing we need is development snC
that IL coming rapidly. The population in
1909 was S4S and It Is now believed thai
the forthcoming government census vii
show at least 5000 population. Another
/ Oklahoma rush--that is what we had anC
\ still they are coming.
But 10 get back to agrlculture join
RENTS, a Tripp county farmer, has perhaps
| the banner corn crop Of that section. Hi
fields will turn out a yield averaging sew
! enty-fiye bushels per acre Yes, / an
aware that seventy five bushels per acr,
is some corn crop, but II any there be VIII,
doubt, let the skeptic journey to the Remi
fields and see for himself the giant stalk
and the giant ears. thick as they can b,
packed.
John Bordeaux is another Of our ener
| getic farmers. lie makes a speciality o
oats, and his crop this year will yield fifty
bushels to the acre. Wheat runs from
twelve to fifteen bushels to the acre thi
year, but that IL not up to the standard
When II comes to raising potatoes we ar
there with the best. Our soil is wei
audpNeu 20 potato culture ana farmers ar
very generally inclined to that crop as
side Issue. We also raise flax, the ylel,
running on an average Of about nine bush
els to the acre.
There are five Incorporated towns II
Trip county, OF which Winter takes frs
ranG Lamro is the county seat at present
but we are going to vote next month on
removal proposition The Northwestern
railroad will be running into Winter With
short while, as construction is being rap
idly pushed. There is one distinction 60
Trip county Of which we are especial
proud, and that is the fact that we hav
no county debt-not single penny. Yer
few other counties IN any state can Say a
much"