The Brinkley argus., 1917-08-17
Nl1OR TRIP THRO' ' VHEATLEY RI(E BELT
,.. Argus Nan Makes a 'r. r.o,s Country Trip Thro inc Lower Prairie
 Rice Fields.

dow for a cross country S.t0r s% trip, I never saw than ggdsv ['s, last-the day l had se- I, '...0d to make a run thro' the 1s 'I.ser prairie" or Wheatley- |.cadvjn rice belt. The weather v,s v really too cool for a palm ,sacb and therefore most com ! irritable out in the sun.
 The Sunshine Special, that's J motor car, headed out of Rdnkley and the run to Wheat sr was done in about l3 min ,tps At Wheatley l found Hustler H. K. Smith and W. $. Fnth, the clever bank president ,nd cashier, both away'on a trip nd Russell Johnson, the Rice MnCashier, serving at the bank. pnssels pretty new bungalow in gbeatley is just about nearing nmpletion but he denies that le has matrimonial intentions. |hstmaster RroWnlee was sick ,bed and Wheatley looked de- srted that day so 1 drove away ,Rav to the rice fields east. At he Dusek Ranch 1 met Joe D. Dusek, Jr., who with his. father and brothers has in many hum ded acres of rice. Joe says the nce is backward this year, From Duseks I drove to the Mitchell Ranch, north of Goodwin. This time last year Mitchell was look linz after about 1000 acres of nee. He had about 600 acres of new rice in and 2 new oil burn ing plants OF the new ranch just south of the Rock Island tracks aGOodwin. 1 heard (tho' not from MitchelD that they sold about $34, 900 worth of rice from that new ranch alone last year and that Mitchell cleaned up a nice bunch of money and sold but MT. Mitchell is culti- Rtng his old home ranch this year and has in about 300 acres. The Mitchell cottage is an ideal hnch home. The pretty flowers espeak the artistic taste of the ady of the ranch and some of lhese days I'm going to accept her kind invitations to dine,
 Just north of the Mitchell Ranch is that of c. c. Brown, a teVer young rancher who has NO acres of nice rice but 'hlch l didn't see because I was MpOsted on his location until D late.
 SSlnglng south l ran to the F@ ranch and plant of the Good sn hce X Stock Farms, which lut referred to as having been sened up by T. H. Mitchell sl year and which the latter va me had a clever efficient aaasger m the person of Mir. G.
 Vlubb. l swung the ear in 1s ranch driveway and enjoyed ''ug the pretty new modern splss built for the Supt. and ss corp of assistants but I found A'' Oll0b had driven to Brink ! ia llls Ford to shop and there Ae dldn't meet him nor did I sts' ms foreman, Will Staggs. ~ ,1O Is sad to have been success 1la ms crop this year. I un
 ss'and that this ranch has 'sa' 10000 bags and that
 y expect a 35, ,0O0 to 40. GOO s'AeI yield, This means that
 are expecting a minimum \, ~ or 6O bushels to the acre si'n rlce at $2.00 per bushel S'ler well that's better than \ 'specllng in Klondyke, don't
 X, ai'nk! They tell me that 'anch of l,l65 acres is now so by two wealthy Des bs" a1sS capitalists, J. F. Riggs. N Tt p ln'law !! of Manager Clubb, sna niplI III C. Schmidt, President 's DesMoines City Railway s,,t.1 nlllng the car back west I l,''5 sa to run to the BuehhoIz I,sa sa and as l did the west
 ~. Limited train showed up.
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