The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-06
CROP WAS SMALL
Rains Play Havoc With POta-
toes in South Kaw Valley.
Santa Fe Handled About 800
Cars Out of District.
REORGANIzE THE COMMISSION
SIasOn Thompson Would Pat
tern 1t After Court System.
Other Items of General Interest
in the Traffic World.

The potato growers on the Santa
Fe side of the Kaw valley have apouI
finished their crop. which, while small:
was larger than the estimates placed
upon it at the opening of the digging
season. The Santa Fe has hauled out
of the valley approximately 5Oo cars:
There were about the same NUMBER OF
cars on the Union Pacific side II the
growing season had been right, there
probably would have been 1000 cars
on each side of the river.
Prospects in the early spring were
for a record potato crop in the val
lev but the heavy rains came, and
kept coming with the result that ali
fields were damaged and many des-
troyed, while the crop which matured
was so late that the price gave the
growers a return little, if anything,
above the cost of production. The
Kaw valley potatoes usually are ready
for the market the first week IN July,
Just after the Texts crop is gone, and
just before the Iowa and Minnesota
crops are ready for market That
enables the Kaw growers to sell their
production at a fair price. But TINS
season they were brought into compe-
tition with the northern growers and
forced to sell for from 80 to 81 cents
a bushel
AS one grower, who is something of
a sportsman, said: I'VE shook dlce
with the weather clerk this year. and
lost"
The 142 expert potato growers in
the Santa Fe territory, as shown by
circular issued from the office OF d.
vision Freight Agent B. F. E. Marsh,
are:
Topeka-B H. Pugh, NJ T. Kelsey.
r. Tomlinson, H. c. Taylor, N. E.
Copeland. ]. W. Demon, Newton
Scott, o. w. Andersen and w. P. Daw-
son.
ecompton-Thomas Glenn, Tom
Tarr, Fred Moore. T. wiezer and Dock
Glenn.
Bonner Springs-John Nelson, ia
cob Scheidt, Monroe Mann, Schubert
Bros, Amos Wright, Curtis Harvey
and Otha johnson.
Corliss-L. L. Corliss, John Turner,
w. c. Randall. Frank Lee. VIM. J.
White, w. j. Hague, Chas. French,
Geo. Klass and S. d. Randall.
De Sota-Edward Whisman, o. 3.
Anderson, o. E. AshIock. Fred Thorn |
as. Harry Dicken Chas. Dicken, c. p. |
Dicker, Fred Watson, Micheal Kenne-
dy, z. Gardner and Frank Brannock.
Noria-William Altenbernd. Carl |
Altenbernd. John Moody, L. NJ. Wal |
tiers, Chris Schaacke, Jack Hughes, |
Robt. Mcfarland. Frank Kennedy, |
sci, r. K. Nichols, c. G. Perkins. Mrs. |
Martha Charles, John OFT, Jr., James
Saunders, Edwerd Straachan, Carl |
Copp and Conrad Altenbernd.
Turner-John Swartz, Geo. Klamm,
c. Hubert, julie Gaignat, Mercer Bros,
Joseph Mamie. A. GODDARD. R. Moore, |
F. w. Deyer and ]. B. Hale.
Eudora--William Smith. A. ]. Smith.
Chester Moody, Ed Perkins, Oscar |
Powell, Ony Powell, Joseph Witt, Roy |
Dougherty, Fred OFT, Don Westheffer, |
VIM. Schlegel, James Roe, Bert Brown |
L. E. Perkins, G. H. Rothberger and |
NJ. H. Cox.
Holliday-Otto Theden.
Lawrence-J. H. Corel, Eben Bald |
win, Park Hetzel, w. E. Koehring, |
william Thomas and o. E. Leonard.
Lake View-J. c. Beurman, James |
Doyle, Frank Hale, Jacob Lillich, |
Speaker Bros, Robert Fillibert, Frank |
Toeneboehn, Jr., Frank Toeneboehn. |
ST., Frank Wendt, Pete Partonnar, |
Edward Partnonnar and w. A. Pedi-
go.
weaver-Geo. J. Broers, Carl Nels. |
H. E. Westerhouse, Melvin Wilson, |
Ben ]. Neis, Otto Spitzi and Mrs. |
J. Kindred.
Wilder-James Mann, L. G. Frisbie, |
H. Theden, DR.. L. E. Lee, VIM. Kero- |
her, NJ. S. Glynn, Geo. Theden, Otto |
Theden, Fred Schneider, James Pear
son. Schleidt Bros, Geo. H. johnson, |
L. Feilbach and Fred Theden.