Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-07-09
WHAT LAND Is. REALLY WORTH

Uncle Sans vast domain wherein the I
growing Of fruit has netted good
rate Of interest upon high-pricedl
lands. When ] speak OF high-priced
lands, have ii mind those that have
been selling on the market at fguresI
ranging between seven hundred and
several thousands am referring.l
also, to the average fruit tract lnder
the ordinary system Of handling and
marketing
"UnIoadina' Fruit Lands.
While money has been made in
fruit raising, as q have suggested,
and will probably be made in the fu-
Hure, my belief is that the maint
source of profit in fruit lands In the
past ten years has been through the |
taking OF raw land planting fruit !
trees thereon, bringing them up tol
about the point Of bearing, and then
unloading at fancy prices.
When people tell you OF vast sums
that have been made in the fruit Sec
tions, please remember what ami
herein telling you, namely, that more
profit, infinitely more profit has beena
|reaped from the selling Of fruit lands
than from the raising and marketing
OF fruit.
And yet do not wish to knock
fruit raising. Money will yet be made
from it. But condisuns win have tol
change. Fruit raising is an art a
science, as is good farming. The
man who is not willing to bscome a
putterer, an indefahgable worker, and
Ito be constantly son the job, winter
and sumner. with his pruning and his
fertilizing and his spraying and his
thinning and the countless other
things necessary to produce the maxi
4 mum yield with the minimnfn amount
]8of labor, better buy his fruit OF some
other fef1ow who lis willing to work
! while his horses stand In the corral
|eating hay and gTIHning at their mas
liter.
. "A Word About Freight Rates.
Let me adigress moment to speak
I.of freight rates in the west. and es.
peGially in the noun infamous sections,
lar distant from common points.
4 This is one OF the things wherein the
railroads have been industrhlly fos-
|terTng sentiment adverse TO railroad
interests. ss
am not seeking to instruct rail-
road managers concerning the meth
Il DDS which they should pursue III the
handling OF their own business, but
lit has many time occurred to ms
1 that If the socialists and the govern.
4 ment owenrship propaganda combined
had ontlined the scheme for promot-
ling the growth OF paternaIfstac and
Isocialistic tendencies they could not
have improved upon the methods re-
sorted 10 by some Of the railroad
managers.
81 For instance, in western Colorado,
until very recently as a result aof a
ldecisfon by the interstate commerce
commission, no man could receive a
through shipment of freight without
4 having it rebilled at Denver or some
iother common point. then passed
on as local. freight for which local
rates we're exacted billed my auto
mobile to a little town called Fr1lita.
| I paid s1o2 freight from Watertown.t
lI could have shipped the same car to-
Los Angeles. more than thousand
miles further, for less money. i could
have shipped it to Salt Lake City,
directly through Fruita and three
hundred miles distant, for less money.
Railroads Caught on
IN an early day q man living IN the
Grand Valley Tin which Fruita and
Grand Junction are situated used to|
buy corn III Iowa, ship It through to al
point IN Utah, and rebfll it to Grand
junction, paying the local rate back.
He saved thirty dollars on every car
load by 90 doing. Hut eventually the
|sIaJlroads caught on and boosted
Tue local return rate.
Another man billed his carload of]
|househoid goods from i point III Ne
braska Is Salt Lake CITY. going by|
the way of Grand Junct tion. when
the carload reached taarand Jnncti ion,
en route ne asked TIE train crew to|
Ewitch him 70 the sidetracb as he1
wished 10 stop 70 feed his etock (hs|
|swas shipntng as an enigr No
sooner "a he been placed 81 the|
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