The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-04-28
WHAT ONE WOMAN CAN DO.

1ne ArdmOrelte reprOuuceS mere
with a letter from Mrs. Edwarts Cal
lahan Dodd of Laredo, Texas, writ
ten to her lifetime friend, Mrs. Mary
V. .Niblack OF this city.
Mrs Dodd is a widow and a sue
cessful business woman. She has, as
she states, made thousands and thou
sands of dollars out of onions. What
she has done others can also do The
fine favored Bermuda onion such as
is raised on the Gulf coast, cannot
be raised here in the profligate abun-
dance that it can further south, but it
will be found to be most prolific
yielder and little care and attention
60 its culture will repay one well
both for the time taken and the mon
ey invested.
Let some one try this as a suggest
ion: Let some careful man or wO-
man select a piece of ground free
from rubbish and not over run with
a growth of poisonous weeds. and
plant, say, one acre in Bermuda On
ions and give them a thorough and
panstaking cultivation. Build a
good woven wire chicken fence
around the onions and try the rails
ing of the onion and raising of the
for one year and see which
brings in the biggest return for the
capital invested and the labor en-
tailed.
The soil here is Just the kind for
tho raising of all kinds OF root, or
bulb crops and, while we have not
the advantages of the warmer eli
mate Of the gulf coast, at the same
time we do not have to go to the ex-
pensive outlay colncident with culti- !
vation by irrigation methods.
Mrs. Dodd's letter follows:
April 10, 1912.
Mrs. Mary V. Niblack
Ardmore, Okla.
My Dear Mary:
On my return home from an eX-
tended absence | find your favor of |
March 5th, and rest assured it gave
me- sincere pleasure to again hear
from my friend of former days and
beg to thank you for your kind re-
OF me.
While I have been moderately sue
,essful anyone else could have pos
;ibly done as we'll or better if it prov
ID a case of necessity.
Although reporters, photographers,
and press representative from all
,ver the world have run me almost
o distraction. | have never given out
IN interview, have never adertised
ny products, and only at the point
VI desperation did I give to an inter-
lational concern my photograph and
did that simply because they told
ne they would certainly put some
lind Of a picture through the press
# all countries with my name under
t 50 | decided if they We're so deter
mined it were better that they have
good one, and sold them one for
good round sum which is business,
ou know.
Last year my first car of onions
rought me in cash in hand Sl,140.9O
the highest price ever paid for
ar. I have made thousands and thou
ands of dollars and have also spent
thousands developing my property.
i now have 675 acres of fine irri
ated land with a gas engine of $50
orse-power furnishing 1900 gallons 1
{ water per minute and also an elec
ric motor engine of 135 horsepower I
furnishing $500 gallons per minute.
'hese irrigation plants We're con- (
tructed according to my own plans (
nd surveyings, and my plant is the l
lrgest individual plant on the Rio ,
rande.
/ have more than 1900 feet of IA
,ch iron pipe and more than 1000 !
,et of fluming and about 40 miles of {
itches on my place. I wish you I
Duld come down this way and see it. I
eople who do not know me come l
ON New York New Zealand and I
ustralia to see my farm and I see I
o reason why an old friend like {
ourself should not come also. t
1t will afford me genuine pleasure I
be of any service possible to you {
the development of your tomato q
dustry certainly wish you the t
ost abundant success. /
You certainly remember my late s
Isband-Capt. Thos. W. Todd, who
as at one time mayor Of Tyler I !
ave been a widow for more than
We years and have a niece of mine 7