Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-22
STRONG APPEAL IN FARM CRY
Many Listen to Call and Are Moved
70 Go Away.
CHANCE FOR PICTURE sOLvERs
Excellent Fruit land in Famous See
tion Of California; valued ut
s1.2OO VIII Go ON sec
ond Prize.

The cry. Back to the farm" has been
heard recently from many sources. The
newspapers and magazines have given out
the call; Il has been sent out in clarion
tones from the pulpit and platform, but 1t
must be more than mere cry-it involves
the solution of great sociological prop
lem, and the happiness and the prosperity
Of multitudes OF people. The cry has been
forced by a condition Of poverty and des-
titution; The multitudes OF unemployed IN
our large cities and the employed receiving
scarcely sufficient remuneration to pro-
vide the necessities OF lne-the high cost
of living. etc These have given rise to
the popular cry Back TO the farm and
IT is now inspiring men to geek after a
means through which a response 70 the cry
may be made practical.
1ie salvation Of the immigrant. ignorant
OF the language aud customs Of our coun-
try will be found in their colonization.
Thousands are wrongly directed and are
led to locate on cheap land where, because
OF the poor soil and little rainfall, a living
is impossible
where Land Lies.
Tehama county California, where is To-
Gated the second grand prize in the Book
lovers contest OF The Bee, lies squarely
across the head Of the Sacramento valley.
It's surface is diversified and includes the
crest Of both mountain ranges, with at
tractive foothills and much OF the broad
and level plain OF the Sacramento valley,
! divided by the Sacramento 'river. There
are fertile plains and rolling foothills and
! rich bottoms until the very mouth Of the
canyon is reached, from which place the
Sacramento river energies. The second
! prize Is a ten-acre ranch IN this country,
! the value of It being 81 go.
| In the settling OF California the Spanish
crown found It difficult to persuade people
to go far from the comforts OF an estab-
ished civilization. To overcome the diff
| Guilty grants of enormous tracts of land
were made TO favored individuals. These
| grants include the most desirable lands in
! the great state of California. The Lutheran
! colony property Is a part Of an old Spanish
| grant: II is a fine level tract OF 5000 acres
and the soil is rich and deep, adapted to
all kinds of farming and fruit growing
! With five or ten acres and sufficient phys
ical strength and energy and good judg-
| ment an independent living for family is
assured on any part Of this tract of land.
Location Of Colony Land. 80
| The land is located, about five miles
southeast Of Red Bluff the county seat oi
| Tehama county. The Sacramento river
| runs within one and one-half miles of thi:
tract, and nearing completion within on'
| mile is the Northern Electric railroad Th'
country roads leading to the property are
fmacadamized, and at any season OF thu
year are good, making travel easy either
with horse and carriage or automobile.
List Of PPiEeA,-
The prizes to be awarded are as follows
First-A White Steamer automobile. {
beautiful five-passenger car. celebrated FOL
its durability and speed valued at 5000.
l Second-A ten-acre ranch. i'm beautiful
Tehama county, California;; delightful eli
mate. rich fruit land: value. $3.50. Full in
formation concerning this land may be ha
at the office of Trowbridge-B Bolster com
pany in the City National bank building
Omaha.
Third-A beautiful Krell Auto Gran,
player piano (have the music OF the mas
ters in your own ,home); value. $500 Thi
prize is exhibited at the Bennett store, Six
teenth and Harvey streets ~,r
| Fourth-One lot In the business distric
OF Ralston. a lot ,25x1O0 feet. on Maywoo
street. value. t216: Full information ma
be had at the offices of the Ralston Town
site company 9O9 South Seventeenth stree
| Omaha.
Fifth--an the beautiful suburban town O
Ralstoh.' one lot in the residence portion
50x1s0 feet; this lot is valued at s225. Flu
Information may be had at the offices o
the Ralston Townsite company, 800 sovt
Seventeenth street. Omaha,
Sixth, Seventh and Eishth-Three set
Twelve volumes) of Nelson's Loose-Lea
Encyclopedia, the encyclopedia that canno
grow old: each set valued at 500. Thes
books are exhibited at the store OF w. A
Hixenbaugh & Co, 1914 st. Mary's avenu,
Ninth and Tenth-Ths Book of Knowl
, edge. or Child's Encyclopedia. a universe
work for school children. twenty-four vol
umes each set, $685. These books are ex
hited at the store of w. A. Hixenbaugh 1
Co.. 1914 St. Mary's avenue.
Add to this forty-tive cash prizes a
follows: Five 1900 prizes. ten 800 prizes
ten 500 prizes, twenty 31.OO prizes
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