The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-16
SOW A BIC CROP
Sherman Co. Farmers Put in a
Record Wheat Acreage.
Many Are Building Fine New
Homes These Days.

Goodland, kan, Oct. 16. : The
opinion is quite general that Sherman
will put out the largest acreage of
wheat the county has ever known.
Everyone who can is sowing wheat
besides thousands of acres of raw
lands have been broken out this year.
The county has a population of about
$500.
Many of the farmers are getting
along we'll financially, and those who
have stayed thru bad years are salts
fled they are here.
An instance of this fact is the case
of John Phillips. He came to Sher-
man county from Nebraska in 1908,
as a teamster. He saved his money,
and in 1909 he purchased a small
bunch of Hereford cattle. He now
has over 800 head of registered Here
fords, for which he has been offered
$125,OOO. He also owns a herd of
Percheron horses and recently sold
bunch of them for $4,000. Friends
who know him best estimate he is
worth not less than 100000, and
most of this he has accumulated in
the last ten years. He also owns II
quarter sections of Sherman county
| land.
Many Prosperous Farmers.
There are scores of farmers in this
county who are on easy street like
Mr.. Phillips, and they have made
their money by hard, industrious
work.
/ seat of Sherman county, but it is the
big trade center, with a Rock Island
/ freight division thrown in, which dis
| tributes about $40, 900 monthly to the
railroad employees Near town is the
/ famous vegetable farm of H. G. Tagt-
meyer, which has supplied not only
I Goodland but neighboring towns with
this years vegetables, aggregatine
about $4,000. He raises his garden
/ truck by irrigation. And tributary to
the town there will be wintered about
| 1900 head of cattle.
1t is claimed not less than $3.50, 900
will be expended this year in improve
! ments in GOOdland Including a $35,-
! 900 modern high school building, a
| large hotel and other business build
ings, besides a number of residences
Among the latter is the modern home
of Mr.. and Mrs ]. B. Light, who have
raised a family of a dozen children
erected at a cost of about $4,000.
Land in Demand.
That the demand for Sherman
county lands is improving one only
needs to watch the real estate firms
All of them are on the move. Many
farmers have added electric lighting
to their houses. Fred Stewart is sc
well pleased with his farm possession:
that he has treated his family to {
fine modern home of a cost of abou
$1,000. Many other farmers have
erected new homes this year. The
real estate firms have pushed fol
Goodland and Sherman county.
There are three banks in this town
and they have combined deposits o.
over 5000, 900. There are four bank:
in the county, the other being at Kan
orado, and has deposits of abou
S15O,00O.
The State Journal correspondent
has witnessed the growth of GoodlanC
from the start. 1t has made grea
strides Her growth has been of sucl
a nature that capitalists haven't beer
afraid to invest money. Many of tn
railroad men own their homes anC
have bank deposits and other invest
ments in Sherman county land Thu
country has prospered as the owner
have made it so, and the business in
terests have progressed as witness tn
stocks carried now to what they wer'
several years ago.