Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-02-08
WRITES OF CALIFORNIA
IN AN ENTER rRlNlNG
MANNER FOR MAHER
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that I also bought all the finest grapes
of all kinds from the growers here
for Csc a pailful, or about &c per
pound or less.
Truth Good Enough for Anyone
I have strung this out longer than
I intended and / hope you will for
give me for being the kind Of a knock
er that | am, but as I said in pre-
vious letter, "The truth is good enough
for anyone" Mr.. Editor, put this in
black type so that Mike or his friends
will be sure to get it.
There is a bill pending now in our
state legislature which, if it passes,
will take all of the emigration and
colonization business out Of the hands
of the so-called boosters" and place
it under state control. The bill is ia
thered by Elwood Mead, one Of the
best known and best posted men on
irrigation and colonization in this
round world. He it was who was
paid the princely salary Of twenty
five thousand dollars a year by the
Australian government to put into
effect a colonization scheme, the sue
cess Of which has never nearly been
4 equalled. Would you call him a
booster or a knocker? The object Of
his bill is, of course, to put check
upon INSCRIPTIONS real estate oper-
ators, irrigation companies, COLOMBIA
ton companies and the like, who have
filled the east with agents, paid writ
ers and gilded literature.
The result has been disastrous to
too many who have listened to their
Isong and come out here and invest
ed their all only to lose out.
An Observation
It has come within my own person
al observation that one man made the
first payment on 40 acres of land at
$125.OO per acre and took an option
on two other forties, when all he had
in the world was $4,000 and cleri-
cal job back east And before a ru-
raj credits commission appointed by
Governor Johnson to investigate con-
ditions in the new farming districts,
with a view to helping them fnan-
cially. / heard expert testimony by
the head Of what was one of the larg-
est colonization companies in the
state to the effect that a man should
have 100000 in cash under present
conditions to make first payment on
40 acres at $4,000 per acre, and put
on his necessary improvements and
bring it through the construction pc
riod up to the time it would begin to
be sustaining. And, mind you, this
same man was at the head as man
ager of this large corporation, with
offices in Chicago, Pittsburgh, and in
fact most all of the eastern cities,
who allowed his statesmen to accept
a first payment on forty acres at
$125.00 per acre.
This is only one incident out Of
hundreds, and the result has of course
| been detrimental to great many
communities in the state, and in fact
to the whole state.
1t Sometimes Freezes
You hear of different orange groves
making $1,000 per acre in a season.
1t has been done, lots Of times, but
you scarcely ever hear Of total losses
of crops through freezing or some
other cause, which is frequently the
case. This reminds me of an old
German who shipped his orange crop
east and as the crop did not bring
enough to pay the freight the eastern
agent wired back for money to COM
plete the payment. The German wired
in return, Il got not any money; II
ship you another car of oranges at
once"
Will Grow Beans
| A man in Marysville had 40 acres
of beans last year, got SO sacks to the
acre and sold them at 81ac per pound. |
have leased 40 acres just across from
him ad if l do as we'll, 1 win let you
know. But I don't know beans only
when see them and if I don't make
it go I promise right now that 1 will |
never open my "yap."
expect to get busy blowing next |
week SO I will have to forego any
more writing for some time. So long, |
Mike. Come up and see me before
you return to frigid, but beautiful, |
Baraboo. Be as easy on me as you
can. Take all the new hat bets that |
you can get on my not returning to |
the east to live. I have lived in |
California too long. It has ''sorter' |
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