Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-01-05
LAND VALUES AT
MONTE CHRISTIE, TEXAS
Facts Are Set Forth In The Following
Article. Read 1t And Think 1t
Over Very Carefully.

What do you call good land? Lands
that produce half bale of cotton or
twenty bushels of corn, are considered
good lands in the black land belts of
Texas and the owners of those lands
would give prospective purchaser the
horse laugh were he to offer him less
than SIS per acre for their dirt.
Let US make some comparisons and
we will then leave it up to the reader to
decide where he would like to make
investments.
On the Rome farm, a few miles south
of this city and near Mission, last sea-
son they made on twenty acres an
average of eighty-two bushels of corn
per acre on the same lands from which
Mr.. Rome, two months before, harvest
ed bumper bean crop. This made two
money crops on the same land in one
season of six months, Can any other
country under the sun show a similar
recordg The same acreage in the North
would have brought what-about $500,
Mr. Rome's returns from the sale of
the corn and beans Melted him nearly
81, 600 He paid 500 an acre for his
land
Mr.. Romes success is only one of
many in this section. We will take the
case of w. w. Birket of Mission who
made neat little bunch of money on a
field of twenty acres of alfalfa. Mr.
Birket is a Kansan and all of his eX-
perience as a farmer was confined to
wheat raising. He came South last
year and bought forty acre tract on
the first lift land, cleared it and in the
Spring planted alfalfa. In July he had
cut his hay several times and by the
end of the season he had made enough
money off of the twenty acres to com
plete payments on his forty to purchase
city property and to build home in
town. He informed the writer one day
this week that he had just closed a deal
| to rent twenty acres of his farm to a
neighbor for one year for $500 cash.
The other twenty is seeded in alfalfa
and will in all probability produce as
well as it did last season the same being
ten tons per acre.
The same acreage in Kansas would
have produced about one-third the net
returns that the valley farm produced
and the labor necessary to get the one
third yield would have been three
times more strenuous.
Take for instance the success enjoyed
ny oJlltS ~ NlCliOlsOll Vi tlC iIst DCiiSl
lands. Mr.. Sites was locomotive
engineer on the Southern Pacific and
Mr.. Nicholson was a machinist. All
they knew about farming would not
make volume of over ten thousand
pages, but they knew how to work
railroad men always know how and
with this asset combined with good
judgement they started a crop on lands
they purchased with hard earned money
The very first year the goddess of For
tune smiled upon these venturesome
railroaders and they tucked away
$40, 600 cold cash from a crop of onions.
This year they have already cleaned up
that amount and part of the same
lands produced after the onions were
harvested-a bale of cotton to the acre.
The cotton made pin money for the
children and the ground was kept in
good condition for the pink bean crop
that was planted after the cotton was
picked
We could go on this way for many
moons showing what has been done in
this section, but we think we have
shown enough to convince the skeptical
ones that land in the valley, even at
$500 per acre, is cheap when compared
to the S15 lands of the one.crop- per-
year sections.
Land near Monte is on the market at
a bargain price. Get wise before it is
too late.
Next excursion, January 10th.