Mexico weekly ledger., 1912-03-14

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TIE annual mule sale Of Col j +.
|JoArsoa paich was held At Co
Iioaisi I'M. ran o town. THURSDAY,
was Proncaneeo oae of the mos.
saocessiEi nat the owner has held
IN recyst YeEss
TSsrs was a large crowd al buy
sFs il uiie,tsice and hiddi1s was
sririted 4 aanler Of buyers from
ahroad acre itry and purchased
stock
The sale ssliegated S1ssu Pit
IL had ct sea,Eng mules averaged
lsisa. and The sashest price paid foz
a pan was sNs ~ W. D Mason
The oeel Eaies brougbt fron 500
60 sssa a rair. sohn Burgess pad
ths sop priee fcr > pair
NJ. Jolrsca said On Friday
moFains he was we2 pleased ~tth
ltae q re sale. Though rhe
Icay mas rslhsr had. there was an
exceptionally good attendance
Two Aaarain county farrns. val
lred at SIS an acre and located due
south Of this city four mixes. wer
lrecorded, Thursday. and were Proba'
Iely the only traces Of and in Au-
drain county that were net upon
the Recorders books. They are
known as the ByTzs farms and have
been in the possession OF Richard
Byrns 4 sons since granted
S d Bryns. a son OF W. C. Bryns
had them recorded.
! Both grants are to Richard Byrnss
one for 50 acres was dated 1sE
and signed by Presden James K
IPolk later the property OF W. G,
Byrns; the other was for GO acres
dated 1877, and signed By Presi-
dent Mlllard fillmore and later the
lproperty OF Richard Byrns. Jr.
Until three years ago no one bur
e Byns ever Iivd on the property
land they have ' been encumber-
4 with a mortgage.
N. A Hopkins. who Is a breeder
Of PolIed.Angus cattle in Rails
county. No.. was on the market yes
terday with q drove Of s35poand
steers and heifers thai brought s7-25
While c~onrersing with ; Live Stocl
Reporter pea rasher" Mr.. Hopkins
gave OUT a few statements con
corning his county. The wheat is
not looking healthy Ep our way a
the present time" said he. but con
sidering the winter. which Ia.
been most severe. il really lookI
better than i thought Snow
in our vicinity have been a weekly
event and the ground ali winter hai
been covered with . blanket o
SNOW: that is. the greatest portion
Of the winter. / hope fer a mucl
better year in 1873 n the way d
crops. for hast year crops weS'
slim. Hay and oats we're about II,
worst. while Ia cora the yield ana
Equality was poor; IN fact. the quail
ity ranged poorer than Il has beei
in five years-Liye Stock Reporter
Judge Cook Groves who attends
the Finley sale at H~igglnsvIne
Mo, says a new record was mad
on jennet coils John Murray 0
Marshall raid ISIS for an eigh,
mouths old 5ennet colt
Clarksyille. No. March Z.
II the farmers Of Missouri wan
to see an increase in the populatioi
OF Missouri by the time OF the 1872
census, they ean do ii ~ bulldlnI
hard surface roads. This WIS tn
substance Of a lecture delivered o
the Burlington dairy and poultry sp<
ciai train yesterday b. Curtis Hill
Slate highway engineer. Missoul
Is already third in road making.
Hill quoted figures from the 1sl
censEs to show those eountie
which showed the geratest increas
ii population IN 1910 orer the 100
] census were the counties whic
made the greatest advance in goo
roads.
, The thirty counties which mad
! the greatest gain IL population il
creased their milsage OF hard SUI
face reads 3 per cent Of the tots
! OF the five years preceding the las
census.
The twenty counties that Shove
the greatest decrease in populatio
: added only s~even-tenths Of one ps
cent 10 their total mileage Of goo
rcads. buchanan County furnishe
she bulk Of this seyen-tenths, whic
: leaves nineteen counties with pract
cally no road improvements for II
5 period.
According 10 a recent report
sued BY the United States offic
Of good roads. only two states mad