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The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-09
WITH THE FOLKS
In NEW MEXICO
An Overland Journey in Northeastern
Portion of the New State.
Prospects, Possibilities Brighter Than
Ever Before in History.
How Fruit and Farming is Finding It's Place in
Land of Sunshine and Silver.

white tents, the mission Of which is
highly significant Of the trend Of af-
fairs in New Mexico. Those tents We're
the temporary quarters of an outfit of
territorial surveyors who are laying
out the grants and tracts into sections
ready for the farmer, the fruit man
and the sugar beet grower.
Something of Grass and Soil.
The soil in the Montoya valley is
sandy red and contains much gravel.
Bear grass, heavy, coarse bIaded
plant covers much of this valley, but as
we climbed higher and higher toward
the west the growth disappeared. sup
planted by shorter grass which more
nearly covers the ground. Our auto
behaved splendidly, notice the refer
ence, "our auto" perhaps this was the
nearest the right to make such an as
sertion as we will ever attain.
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Has His Own Irrigation Plant.

Has His Own Irrigation Plant.
Whitmore has a spring back of his
house, the flow of which is damned
up. Twice a week he opens the gate
and irrigates his orchard. The water
sinks lower, runs to his meadows and
fields below and seeps out to strength
Ell and develop crops in lower lands
east of the house and orchard.
People travelling from Montoya val
ley northwest to Las Vegas make jim
Whitmore's for lodging. This is the
home ranch of the Antonio Ortiz
grant.
Several strangers in that country
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smelted and sold while the waters from
perpetual SHOWS ran toward the sea,
embarrassed, Sinking duty because
men searched only for the flower of
the Kobold. Today different story is
told. Papers of New Mexico tell of un-
flied activity in developing irrigation
plants. setting out fruit farms and
raising alfalfa. corn and sugar beets.
Notice the freight trains at this sea-
son of the year and one sees load after
load of the finest alfalfa being shipped
from the state.
Some Actual Instances of Big Crops.
A man named Badger in the PecOs
valley has sold two thousand dollars
worth of apples while thinning out the
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rights at forty dollars per acre, even
cheaper than land in eastern Kan
sas The Mexicans are inclined
to discourage the development OF
land. For centuries the Mexican
folks herded their sheep and cattle
on the common range and mesa and
many have become rich without any
special effort at work. Cattle com
panies have been formed, have leased,
bought or at least occupy great ex-
panses of grazing land and have be
come millionaires. They have fenced
their leases, and the cowboys equipped
with a hammer, wire pliers and a sup
ply of staples ride the fences" as
thev say Instead of following droves
of cattle over the face of Mother
Earth.
Things and Men Are Changing.
on our return trip our driver
told US we would eat dinner at
noon as we drove up to the lonely
stone house set across the roadway
from the pony barns, a lone cowboy.
Earl Elliott rode in from line of
fence. unlocked the door, invited US
into the house. rendered US the use OF
his tin dishes and table and then sat
down and chatted pleasantly, used
good language and extended the genu-
inc western hospitality, part and
principle of the cowboy life
But the cowboy slang, the glgantlc
gun, the red bandana handkerchief of
the Saturday Evening Post reminis-
censes are thing of the past. New
Mexico is conforming to the fruit farm
and sugar beet age
No Climate Equals That of New
Mexico.
People sleep out doors in New Mex
leo and sufferers from throat and lung
trouble take a new and lengthy lease
on life again.
In Jim WhitmOre's home there are
many rooms, enough to accommodate
all who come their way for nights
lodging. but from choice rather than
necessity these spend the nights in the
open air with only a blanket and
quilt or two between them and the
earth.
Wild Game Getting Scarce.
Herds of deer and antelope at one
time fed on the mesa and in the valleys
of New Mexico, but on our return trip
we saw our first and only antelope He
had been adopted by herd of cattle
for lack of better association. The
cattle had been sold or moved because
of home builders fencing up the range
and the lone antelope ran bewildered
across our path and on to the south to-
ward Old Mexico in search of four leg
ged friends.
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We left the Chestnut ranch at eight
o'clock and at eleven We had climbed
to the divide separating the Wa
ter sources of the Canadian and
Pecos rivers. through the Ell Poso Gap
(meaning the hole in the walD and
began dropping down into the valley
of the Gallinas river. For an hour we
travelled making twenty-five miles,
when we came in sight of what ap-
peared at distance to he three or
four lunches of celery surrounded by
a healthy growth of hog parsley. Our
friend who manipulated the steering
gear of the auto explained that the eel
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the land for his people. Our own gen
eral kearney laid conquest and claim
in 1S45 to the territory for use OF
United states citizens. yet one and all
overlooked the crowning glory OF the
newest star in the azure blue. its agri-
cultural possibilities.
Many Dam sites That Lack Money.
Going distance of one hundred and
fifty miles in this country one may see
many sites where dams viii stop and
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the water from the mountain fed
stream down across about a thousand
acres of land While this project was
in use the elder Whitmore raised
seventy-five and one hundred bushels
of corn to the acre. But the call of
the rope, the quirt. the spur. was in
sistent and Whitmore turned his atten-
tion to the long horned cattle His
work of the orchard remains however
to show how rich are the valleys of
New Mexico and how abundantly ma
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proved to be an orchard of five
hundred trees or more. Every apple
I have ever heard of and some new
ones grow in the Whitmore orchard,
the Winesaps, Missouri Pippins, Jona-
thans, Genitians, Arkansas Blacks.
Willow Twigs, Ben Davis, Seek No
Further, and several other kinds vie
with each other in an effort to grow a
little larger, sweeter, more delicately
favored and tinted and develop the
LARGEST cron
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The antelope exodus came as the
land was being fenced, divided and
again subdivided.
Money Is Developing State
Men and money are working great
changes in that country. Takes both to
make the mill go. Men have come
and gone in the years gone past and
have plucked the fairest that was
visible. Mines in the mountains have
been operated, their gold and silver
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gathered al the Whitmore home that
Friday night three weeks ago. After
all had received introductions and
supper had been served we enticed
Jim away from the others and he told
US the story of the Whitmore family
and home.
Came With the Gold Hunters.
Father came here from New York
siXty-one years ago" began Mr.. Whit
more, during the time of the gold ex-
citement in California. He drove over
land, of course, in a wagon. Instead of
going on to California he stopped here
at Gallinas Springs and engaged in the
freighting business between Kansas
City and Santa Fe. Forty years ago
he made the reservoir to catch the
water from the spring out there and
today it stands full as you see, of the
purest water. That spring and
reservoir will furnish two feet of
water for forty acres of land every
year Father set out the orchard
about twenty years ago which orig
inally consisted of a thousand trees.
Stock running in the orchard has nib
bled away the tips of the boughs.
rubbed against the tree trunks, split
them down until about half that num-
Der remain"
Fruit Trees Bear AbundantIy.
Lets give Jim Whitmore a rest; lets
sharpen the pencil and tell about that
orchard. Never in all my life have
seen trees so completely loaded with
fruit as were the apple and pear trees
in the WhitmOre orchard. Boughs bent
down to the ground bore splendid juicy
fruit, every apple and pear a perfect
one and all larger than ever grew in
our orchard at home in Cherokee
county, Kansas.
Green fruit, as they call it there,
tasted good to the visitors who gather
ed under and went from tree to tree
expressing astonishment at every stop.
Don't want to say word derogatory
of Jim Whitmore, wouldn't do it for
anything in the world for he is a
prince. but Jim is also a cattle man in
a cattle land and enjoys roping and
branding a steer more than cultivating
and caring for his orchard. Should he
cultivate that ground around those
trees like old man Sardou does his
trees in Oakland. Jim Whitmore
would have more fruit than he could
haul away.
CAS- it is explained Mr.. Whitmore.
I'VE marketed eight hundred bushels
of apples last year from less than four
hundred trees and will 0 even better
this year J. E. Whitmore, Jim s
father, cut an irrigation ditch from the
Gallinas river several years ago, led
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-09

There's a Reason for Interest Here.
Is there any wonder then that people
are being attracted to New Mexico.
Old Narvaez was attracted to New
Mexico nearly four hundred years ago
by stories Of its gold and riches, Cor
onado was Iured there by the same
love of lust and conquest Old Po Pc
the willy old Aztec Indian fought the
Spanish to q stand still trying TO save
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and honked, honked couple of breaths
We took hasty leave of the Chestnut
family. consigned little Hugh, C. to the
care of his aunties and hustled into the
waiting car and were off for the foot
hills of the Rocky mountains.
Montoya Valley in north heastern New
Mexico is a beautiful valley covered
with gramma grass. a growth which
fattens cattle both winter and summer.
Practically all the land worth it has
been homesteaded. The Kohn Brothers,
merchants of Montoya, have purchased
decided hom mesteads until now they con-
troll about a hundred quarter sections
of the richest land around Montoya.
So as we left Montoya valley that
morning we realized that between the
thrifty Mexicans. the Kohn Brothers
and solid substantial home seekers, the
best land that may be obtained free for
the effort of living on it had been
snapped up.
In the Cattle Country.
New Mexico roads are universally
coed and we fairly flew as the throb-
bing Cadillac turned her hood in the
direction of the Glorietta range. OF
course New Mexico mas long been
known and recognized as the cattle
country. We passed by or crossed great
tracts of land leased by cattle men or
owned by cattle companies where
thousands of white faced cattle raised
their heads from their grazing just
long enough to snort their disgust at
the horseless wagon that drank gaso-
line and discharged a disagreeable
breath.
Our journey took US through the
Preston Beck grant, known in that
country as the Hicks ranch. We
passed by the home camp of the Hicks
ranch, saw an outfit of cowboys with
chuck wagon and COW ponies ready to
leave for a roundup. while just across
the road from the house stood three
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1911-04-14
CANDIDATES
NOMINATED.

The Town Caucus called for the pur
pose of placing in nomination ticket
TO be voted on at the elertion next
Tuesday was held at the Opera House
Monday night. The meeting was call,
ed to order by Mayor J. A. Jones. and
the call was read by Otto Sharon
temporary secretary. y. A. Jones
and o. Z. Stuart were nominated foI
chairman and q ballot taken which
resulted in the selection OF Mr.. Stuart
by vote of "a to IL. Otto Sharon
was selected as secretary bvaccla.
nation.
A motion carried unanimously to
nominate the candidates for the of.
fees of trustees in open caucus in
stead OF in ward caucus. The chair
man appointed A. q. Granger and /.
w. Wiltfang to act as tellers and
nominations were then declared TO be
in order.
For town trustee fIom the first
ward J. p. Clark and j. A. Jones were
nominated and the ballot resulted,
Clark 50; Jones 20.
In the second ward T. III. Keeling
and j. A. Fraser were placed in nom-
ination for town trustee and Mr.. Kel-
ling was chosen as the nominee by a
vote of 20 to %.
For the third ward trustee @. A.
Craven and j. l.. White were placed
in nomination and the ballot resulted
in Mr.. Craven being chosen as the
candidate by vote Of 81 to 10.
Otto Sharon was nominated for
town clerk for the third successive
year by acclamation.
For the nomination Of assessor j.
II. Dithmer and Victor Wolff were
candidates and on the first and second
ballots tied with 26 votes each. The
third ballot resulted in the selection
of Mr.. Wolf, the vote being Wolf 2e !;
Dithmer %.
For Town treasurer Thos. Brake
was nominated by acclamation, as
was w. A. Sehwicntenberg to succeed
himself in the Office of police Justice.
q. Il. Bertsch was also nominated by
reclamation as candidate for town
justice.
The ticket dominated Monday will
go on the ballots as the citizens tick
cts, for the election next Tuesday
At the same time the proposition will
be submitted to the voters on sep
arate ballot; shall intoxicating liquor
be sold'at retail in the town OF Ka-
doka.
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1911-04-14
HOME CIRCLE
COLUMN.
APPEARANCE AT HOME.

Don't say that it doesn't matter
how you look around the house, for
it does matter a good deal. 1t mat
ters in its establishment, of which
the feminine head is credltable or
questionable representative; it mat
ters in its example to the children and
to the help, it matters to the husband
and father, who usually, if he is half
a man, feels a sense of pride in the
appearance of his family. 81.
1t is poor encouragement to him to
find confusion and carelessness in
dress and waste and destruction run
ming riot about the dwelling. 1t is
one of the important duties of every
woman to keep herself and her house
in condition as presentsble as pos
sible, considering her circumstances
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1911-04-14
TEACH THE BOYS.

A well-known man, the monument
of whose exceptional ability as f.
nancier in the great dry goods estab-
lishment of which he is the head, con-
tended that a discussion of the sub
iect from his standpoint would serve
no good end, since every merchant
was an individual, and for every in
dividual there would have to be a
different prescription, adapted to per-
sonal temperament, mental capacity.
What would be good for one might be
poison for another.
He suggested that the way to make
good business men, who would know
how to acquire surplus to dispose of
whether or not to invest in stocks,
how much money to keep on hand and
how to guard against stringency in
the money market, was to give more
attention to the morals Of the bo, 8
who were starting in business. He
wished it could be shown to them how
they were wasting their opportunities,
how they were stultifying their manly
spirit, how they are wrecking their
chances for future prosperity when
they indulge in games of chance, pool
playing, gambling. and other vicious
practices that rob them of their
nights rest and I'll their minds in the
day time to the exclusion of the bust
ness with wAich they are intrustcd.
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1911-04-14
STREET IMPRESSION.

The street impresses us with the
fact that life is full of pretentions
and sham. What subterfuge, what
double dealing, what two-facedness! !!
Do all the people who wish you good
morning really hope you a happy day?
Do all the people who shake hands
love each other. Are al those anx-
ious about your health who inquire
concerning it? Do all want to see
you who ASH you to call? Does all the
world know half as much as it pre-.
tends to knowS Is there not many
wretched stock of goods with a
brilliant show window? Passing up
and down these streets to your busi-
ness and your work, are you not i'm
pressed with the fact that much of
society is hollow and that there are
subterfuges and pretentions? Oh!
how many there are who swagger and
strut, and how few people who are
natural and walk. While fops SIM
per, and fools chuckie, and simpletons
giggle, how few people are natural
and laugh. The courtesan and the
libertine go down the street in beau
tiful appeared, while within the heart
there are volcanoes of passion con-
suming their life away.
i r
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1911-04-14

and yet sleepless Hiram Scranton, of
Clay City, H., coughed and coughed.
He was in the mountains on the ad-
vice of five doctors, who said he had
consumption, but found no help in
the climate, and started home. Hear
ing of DIR. Kings New Discovery, he
began to use it. II believe it saved
nv life,n he writes "for 1t made new
man OF me, so that ] can now do good
work again" For all lung diseases,
coughs, colds. lagrippe, asthma, Group,
whooping cough, hay fever, hemor-
rhages, hoarseness or quinsy, its the
best known remedy. Price 5Oc and
sl.O0. Trial Bottle free. Guaranteed
by the Kadoka Drug Co.
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1911-04-14
Kicked BY A Mad Horse.

Samuel Birch, of Beetown, Wis.
had most narrow escape from losing
his ieg, as no doctor could heal the
irightful sore that developed, bat at
last gactlen's Arnica Salye cured it
completely. It's the greatest healer
of ulcers, burns, eczema, scalds, cuts,
boils, corns, cold sores bruises, and
piles on earth. Try it, 25c at the Ka-
doka Drug Co.
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1911-04-14
BEST WAY.


. The speediest and easiest way to
benefit mankind would be for every
person to reform their own life, re-
gardless of what others are doing.
Such a policy would bring about a
change for the better in both public
and private affairs, and so after the
relationship of mankind that every
one would strictly mind his own busi-
ness. Meddlesome persons who are
continually prying into other peoples
affairs and carrying tales between
friends and acquaintance create a
great deal OF mischief are best con-
tented when they can spread scandal.
1t seems more natural for them to
speak i'll of a person than to utter
words of praise, and their habit of
gossiping becomes 40 fixed that they
can talk scandal almost unconscious
ly. 1t is just as easy to say good
words for friends and acquaintances,
even ii not wholly deserved, as it is
to speak i'll of them, and the effect on
the community is always beneficial
in a general way. Scandal gathers
strength as it travels by word of
mouth and can never be recalled
when once in circulation. Try speak
ing well of everyone and see what a
change it will make in your own hap
piness as well as in the welfare of
others.
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1911-04-14

Arbor Day,

Ssys .
And recammend that the people OF
South Dakota fittingly observe. the
same by the planting of trees, vines
and shrubs, around their homes,
along the roads, and highways, and
about the public school and state
buildings.
The evident necessity for the growth
and protection of trees should be an
incentive to all the people of the state
to take an interest in the subject and
gives it due consideration.
The press. pulpit and schools can
be especially effective in bringing
about the desired. results and liarge
upon these several agents the need
for their cooperation in establishing
a statewide propaganda, tending to
develop love of the beautiful in Nature
and creating and fostering in the
minds of our boys and girls desire
for those things which make our
homes more pleasant and attractive.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I
have hereunto set my hands and
caused to be affixed the Great Seal of
the State of South Dakota. ~.
Done at the Capitol in the City of
Pierre, this 4th day of April, in the
year of our Lord, one thousand nine
hundred and eleven.
r. S. VESSEY,
.. Governor.
SEAL
BY the Governor.
Attest.
SAMUEL G. POLICY,
D., Secretary of State.
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1911-04-14
CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENTS.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

REV. ID. s. BROWN, Pastor.
Preaching service every Sunday at
1O:3O a. m. and 1880 p. m. Prayer
meeting Thursday evenings at 1880.
Sunday School at 1880.
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1911-04-14
Midnight In The Oxarks

Is your subscription paid up? If
not remember we can use the money.
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GOVERNORS .. -.
PROCLAMATION.

In harmony with a custom we'll es-
tablished and now obtained through
out various states of the Union, /, r.
8. Vessey, Coy ernor of the State of
South Dakota, do hereby designate,
set apart, and proclaim,
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-06-30
Church and State.

eff our government is to be endur-
ing it must rest on principles of JUS
tice, truth and righteousness, sane
toned by recognition of a supreme
being whose experimenting provi-
dence watches over the affairs of ma
lions and of men. There is no Off
cial union of church and state in this
country, but there is no antagonism
between the civil and religious au-
thorities. Church and state move on
parallel lines. The state holds over
the spiritual rulers the aegis of its
protection without interfering with
rights of conscience. The church helps
enforce civil laws by moral and re.
ligious sanctions. 1t is the duty of
us all, churchmen and laymen, to
hold up the hands of our president,
as Aaron and Hur stayed up the
hands of Moses. cardinal Gibbons.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-06-30
Rest for tuberculosis Patients.

DR.. Joseph H. Pratt of Boston, who
was the founder of the first tuberculo-
sis class in the United States in the
Emmanuel church in Boston, claims
that in the treatment of tuberculosis
absolute rest, often in bed, must be
extended over period of months, be-
fore the consumptive should take any
exercise. He says: prolonged rest
in bed out of doors yields better re-
suits than any other method of treat
ing pulmonary tuberculosis. Patients
will have a better appetite and take
more food without discomfort and gain
weight and strength faster than pa
tents with active disease who are
allowed to exercise. Complications
are much less frequent. When used
in the incipient stage recovery is
more rapid and surer."