The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-06-09
Norfolk Has Great Chance

ounudy, OClODeT 10.
Norfolk Has Great Chance.
G. L. Carlson, VINO mas Just returned
from trip to Texas, gives the follow
ing interesting statement to The
News, of conditions in the southwest:
Throughout the eastern part of Kan
sas the late rains have placed the
country in fairly good condition. On.
ly in few localities have the crops
suffered to any extent for moisture.
West of Wichita the country has been
very dry until the first of the week
when all of the southwestern part of
the state was visited by heavy rains.
Eastern Oklahoma has fair out
look for a crop. Like eastern Kansas
this country inclines to a gumbo or
heavy clay and requires more moisture
| for good crop than soils containing
more sand. Western Oklahoma has
been very dry for two years-last year
but little was grown and harvested ex-
| cept cotton in all of western Oklahoma
this year small grain will be a total
failure throughout this district. In
many places wheat and oats have been
plowed under and the land planted to
cotton. This crop will grow and ma
ture fair yield with only enough
moisture to terminate the seed. Like
western Kansas, western Oklahoma
has been given an abundance of moist
ure during the early part of the week,
in some places five inches of rain hav-
ing fallen. The hot winds Of last week
made these rains timely and helpful,
as even the grass had burned out In
fact, there is nothing growing in west
ern Oklahoma but the towns, and they
are made to grow with the money
brought in by the people from further
east and north
| Dry in Panhandle.
Texas is in much the same condition
as Kansas and Oklahoma In the east
the crops are good. Around Dallas
the small grain is harvested, and both
the yield and quality is good. Some
of the wheat threshed yielded up to
40 bushels per acre. West from FIT.
| Worth the country has been dry, and
produced little or nothing for three
years. The wheat and oats have been
plowed under that the land might be
planted to cotton, the only money crop
of this section of the state. The furth-
er west one travels in Texas the drier
he finds the country. In the Panhan.
die the water has disappeared from
the watering places and live stock is
without either food or water. Both
horses and cattle are now forced to
live by browsing an mesquite for food
and eating cacti for their water.
During the early part of the week
heavy rains fell in many parts of the
extreme western part of Texas, and
througout most of New Mexico. In
some localities this was the first moist
ure for period of three years.
These rains were so violent in
places that large railroad bridges were
washed out and the Canadian river
is out of its banks throughout most
of its course.
! The people of western Texas are OF
an optimistic and hopeful nature
Though nothing has been grown for
three years, except in small areas, yet
the people are a unit in talking and
showing the few merits of their coun
try in such a manner that they are
still selling land at high prices, ex
tending their railway systems and
thereby opening up new territory.
Texas Hospitality.
Speaking of the people, it is diff
cult to find better entertainers, and
they do their entertaining in a way
that is all their own. They are never
in hurry but when it comes to sell
ing land, or in getting the other fel
lows money, they can make us lool
like thirty cents. Our train reached
Bowie just before in the morning
and the clerk at the hotel said, break
fast will be ready in just a minute, ;
but it was o'colck before we got it
The landlady played hostess by telling
us that the strawberries were fresi
from her garden-"just picked this
morning; that the cream was from
her beautiful jersey cute; that tn,
eggs had only "just been laid; and
have been wondering ever since if tn,
delay in getting that early breakfas
was not occasioned by her being com
PEELED to wait until the hens had lai,
those eggs. But the strawberries wer,
excellent, the cream delicious the egg
, could not be better, and the landlad,
and everything else was fine, so W,
| forgot all about the delay and wishe'
| we could stay longer.
If they have any faults we had N
time to learn them, but taken as
| whole the women of Texas are a fin
| lot-good entertainers in their owl
| hospitable way, and very fair to loo
upon.
: The children too, are very interest
ing, and there are so many of then
| The rich and poor alike have larg
= families, and though the weather i
f dry and crops will not grow, childre
l in large numbers can be seen in ever
1 house.
/. They're City Builders