The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1916-05-25
A FEW FICCERS.
EDITOR BEAVER HERALD:

EDITOR BEAVER HERALD:
| noticed in THR HERALD OF May IL
quite . nice little breeze about auto
mobiles" The article stated that. on
the Saturday before that date. there
we're three hundred and forty three
t343-codnt 'em) automobiles in the
city, and that at low estimate they
were worth s256,250. Now that 10
quite nice little pile OF money, and
we presume they coat much more than
that. Some OF the cars we have noticed
on the streets must have cost as high az
5000 to 81 800 each, and many of them
81 200 to 81 600 each SO your estimate
is certainly very modest.
| When we read the article I'VE stop
ped reading, and began to think OF the
changed conditions which the automo-
bile wagon in all it's has multiplicity Of
forms has forced upon us. Naturally
our thoughts drifted from the PRESENT
to the past, and we wondered why no
one had anything to say about "0ld
Dobbin" any more. What has become
OF him. and his. sisters. "old Nelly"
aud Kit" and Nancy" Are they
all gone--disappeared with the buffalo,
the prairie chickens and wild pigeonsf
And so we unused upon The past, pres.
ent and future until our brains began
to addle.
We finally made up what mind We
had left, and started out to settle the
question as to whether there were any
thing moving about except snorting
smoke wagons. We wondered where
we should go to find out what had be-.
come of "0ld Dobbin," aud also we
wanted to know about his half brother
ne with the long ears and melliauous
voice and while we we're about it, we
might just as we'll inquire about what
our best friend, "0ld Sookie,' and our
other pet, "0ld Biddy," the egg layer,
were doing these days.
So we wended our way to the court
house-that mine in which we dig for
Information on subjects which are ev->
'rybody's business and nobody knows
,uything about-and here's what We
dug up:
| ] inquired il there we're any horssa
left In the county now, and George II
J Wright. our old County Clerk. hunted
up the following informstiona ta
The assessment rolls OF 1914 showed
that there were l3 ,467 horses in Beaver
County then, anu that they were val
ued at $57S,429 How's that? But
hold on: There were Q ,53S mules, VAL
ued at $40 1884. The assessed value of
both horses and mules-the motive
power of farm and road-was 1888, ,763>
These figures show that the horses and
assessment rolls will show onsiderable
/ increase in the value of these animals. &.
+ Bully for Dobbin! ABAs Automobile.
2 Then we asked, how about cattlef
Well, "said Mr. Wright, 81 can't give
you the number OF milk cows, but
can give the whole number of all sorts
If neat cattle f" All right. said we
and we found that Beaver County had
28,0o0 head of cattle, and that they
s were valued at $72S, ia, or about s28 a
J. head Most any kind of a COW nov
sells for $50 to $75, and a three-y ear
old steer for 800 and up.
And then we inquired about wheat.
!. We couldn't get the exact figures on
wheat, but found that Beaver County
last year produced more than one mill
ion five hundred thousand bushels of
wheat q SOC, ,000), and it was worth
!. more than one dollar per bushel-that
. is, more than 81 100000. That wheat
g all grew, vas hsrye sted and ready TO
; thrash inside of ten months. How is
" that alongside of quarter of million
dollars for automobiles
We won't quote you the figures on
Beaver County's last years broomcorn
IS crop. II We did you'd faint. Maybe
q we will dig up some more next week.
We only give you these figures TO show
you that If ou want to buy a few
more smoke wagons you needn't hesi-
% tate, thinking that Beaver County ID
dead broke.
But don't hurry Old Dobbin and the
Mule into the discard you may need
them pull your old tin chariot out OF
the mud. And be sure to hang on to
Old Sukey. She and Madam Hen are
better than automobiles. Autos don't
give milk and can't lay eggs.
Yours for Dobbin. Sukey and Biddy.
III. - ID