The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-05-24
AUTOS Do NOT LOWER
PRICE OF HORSEFLESH
Demand Keeps Up; Increased
Cost of Feed Also.
Especial to The Free Press. /

Especial to The Free Press
Chicago, May 1G.-High prices for
horses are being forced still higher
by the enormous task of replantine
the farm acreage on which wheat
was winter killed i'm Illinois and
adjacent states and is bringing hun.
dreds of farm buyers to the Chicago
horse market. The crop damage that
has made necessary the great a
mount of replanting and the high
winter prices for feed has created
demand for horse flesh that is
unprecedented. In Illinois over half
OF the wheat acreage, in Indiana
and Ohio about 45 per cent of it
and in other states 10 to 20 per cent
has been abandoned, which means
that horse power will be needed for
millions Of acres more than normal.
This demand so greatly exceeds the
supply of horses discarded as re-
suit of the use of motor trucks i'm
the cities that prices are rapidly
climbing. High prices for feed have
and new price record will be set.
In preparation for this emergency
demand some of the horse dealers
at the stock yards have been scout
ing for equines for several weeks. Ii.
b. Throop, an authority on horses
and who has sold as many as sixty
horses i'm one minute. has predicted
that draught horses will be higher
five years from now than ever be-
fore. "The automobile and motor
truck don't really affect the de-
mand for horses, the demand is so
enormous and nationwide" he said.
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A total of $6435, 900 rental for
ninty-nine years was the sum named
in lease recently executed for
Mrs. Hetty Green in Chicago, the
rate being S65.OG0 year for the use
of strip of land AZ by 1870 feet
in the business district A milling
company will replace the building
with a modern structure sixteen sto-
ries high at cost of about 81 ,000,-
600 which of course will add that
much to the value of Mrs. Green's
land. This lease has been taken as
horrible example of the present
system of taxation. it being urged
that the social growth of the city has
given the present value to the real
estate but that the increment has
gone to the land owners and not to
the public. Private ownership or
possession of land is conceded to be
essential" a bulletin of the American
Economic league declares, "but when
we permit such ownership as that
of Mrs. Green to include not only
results from individual effort but
also the result of a community's en-
terprise, does it not appear that We
90 far toward condoning a violation
of the eighth commandments" Ac-
cording to this view the cost of
living has been advanced about so
per cent by the policy of exacting
revenue from industry instead of
land values. The cencus of 1900
showed that 25O,251 persons are
possessed of $4,000, 100000 of the to-
tai of $4,000, 900 of the nations
wealth, or in other words that three
tenths of one per cent of the popula-
ton possess II per cent of the nations
Astor, now a British subject, re-
ceives a revenue of $10,O00,000 over
here for allowing American citi-
zens to transact business on Man
haitian Islands.
An agent for the wilderness" has
been produced in Chicago by the an
nual problem of vacations, a life
long love for the sylvan solitudes
having urged II. G.. Nc Cartney, of
the Chicago Athletic club to become
"a solicitor for primeval forest and
rivers" He not only makes it a
point to get into the midst of the
solitudes himself but systematically
turns missionary to induce as many
other men as possible to go as he
goes and where he goes. Probably
no man i'm the country has located
so many retreats of the trout and
muskellunge as he. This year at his
camp at the very head waters of the
Mississippi he expects to discover
some new one. The lend of the
trair' for him will lead to the divide
whence one can go by canoe toI
tidewater either north or south as
one elects He has assembled there
a wilderness library" that embraces
about everything written about the
great outdoors and it's denizens