The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1914-04-03
STAFFORD County KANSAS
Some Farming Country, According to
Our Friend bud" Reynolds
r. F. d. 4, St. John, Kansas.


March 80, 1914
Editor OF Interior Journal,
Stanford, Ny.
Dear Sir
| will again write few lines to
nv friends through the Interior Jour
nal. We have had lot of very dis
agreeable weather through February
and March. plenty OF wind and now it
is pretty dry. but which. looks well
believe I stated in my last letter that
that there is the largest acreage Of
wheat ever sown in the State. The
assessors book for 1915 shows that
there were 2D080 acres of wheat in
Stafford county last. year and there is
a great deal more this year
While speaking of the 1913 asses
sor's lists which were taken March LIST
will give your readers few items
that will give them an idea of what
Stafford county, Kansas, is. Stafford
county consists of y townships. each
SIX miles square or 5O6.880 acres. as
sessed value of SIo,96S.Sl7, assessed
value of personal property S5.07l.410,
population of county 1lT32. The list
also shows that the county is rapidly
coming to the front in mule raising.
dairying and in growing alfalfa. AT
the time this list was made there were
Sal mules valued at $500 400; cows
and sizes 9,54S value %So.B00 There
o,+h value S2lS705; horses all kind
and sizes 9,5+s value S7S6.S0O There
were o,4ll acres in alfalfa and these
figures will be greatly increased this
year. ] think in a very few years al
talia will become one OF the leading
crops OF the county.
The assessors bool; also shows tina;
there were 502 automobiles in the coun-
~. Each auto owner is charged Ii
cense fee of $500, fifty cents of which
goes 10 State Auditor to pay for a
number plate and the listing Of the
car in the auditor office. the balance
goes to the county road fund
There are eight banks in the county,
four high schools and ninety common
school districts The common school
term is seven months and may be more
but never less. The average salary OF
common school teachers is sos per
month.
Another thing forgot to mention.
as rapidly coming to the front here is
the slo. | believe the number of silos
almost doubled in this county last year
The farmers are lust beginning to learn
how valuable they are.
Well, | have told YOU lot about the
county and when you consider that it
has only been settled about * wears.
believe you will see that it compares
very favorably with old Lincoln. And
as to the morals and high class of
citizens. Stafford county has no su-
perior.
Before close must say that am
sorry the State Prohibition bill
failed in the legislature I'm Kentucky,
for | know that prohibition law. such
as Kansas has. is great blessing es-
pecially to the rising generation of
young men. but | suppose the temper
ance people are very well satisfied
with what was ACCOMPLISH in that
session. The whisky people in Kansas
were trying to get the question again
before the people for vote. but when
the legislature passed a woman sui
frage law and ratified at the polls, the
rcsuhmission question died a natural
death. Since the women have a vote
il is admitted by the whisky people that
Kansas will never again be a whisky
state. do not believe Kentucky will
ever be a prohibition state until wom-
en- vote there.
Now, | have possibly said more than
ought too. so will close with best
wishes to all my friends.
Very truly
NJ. 6. REYNOLDS.