Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-01-31
SOME FACTS WORTHY OF
CAREFUL CONSIDERATION

New York City is known and rec
ognized as the greatest city in the
United States today. With her great
Statue of Liberty extending a well
coming hand to all WHO wish to be-
come real American citizens; a city
that is considered to be the gateway
from the old world to the new; a
city where men who had courage to
invest in her real estate and get in
on the ground floor, have made made
millions from few hundreds invest
ed.
Chicago. another city known today
as the great clearing house of the
entire middle west, and one of the
greatest live stock markets in the
middle west, has gained a name in
history that was little dreamed of
fifty years ago. Like New York,
Chicago has made millionaires out
of the men who were far sighted
enough to invest their money and
take oh nee on her future.
San Francisco, another wonderful
city on the Pacific coast. is recogniz-
ed as one If The real cities of accom-
plishments and achievements that
was little dreamed of fifty years ago,
and after the great earthquake many
said that would be the last of San
! Francisco. However some men could
see great future for the destroyed
and ruined city and bought property
and Immediately began rebuilding,
and today, in this short time, San
| Francisco is a bigger and better city
than ever before The results are
! that those men who could see a fu-
ture to their city made millions. But
there is a reason for the wonderful
growth and development of those cit
les, as well as many others. II 1t
were not for the great Atlantic ocean
and her waters dashing against her
shores, New York would not be the
| city it is today. II it were not for
the great farming country which sur
round Chicago for hundreds of miles
which produces millions of bushels
of corn each year and thousands Of
cattle and hogs, Chicago would not
be what it is today If it were not
! for the climate that has enabled Cal
| ifornia to raise her far famed sun
kissed oranges and other fruits, San
Francisco would not be what 1t Is
today.
Then il water has made New York
what it is, if corn, cattle and hogs
have been able to make Chicago
wha. it is. and il climate has made
| San Francisco what it is
What will be the great future of
the great famous Lower Rio Grande
Valley?
We have the self same waters of
the Atlantic dashing our shores that
has made New York one of the very
greatest cities in the United States.
We have the same hogs, cattle and
corn that have made Chicago to be
known as the hub of the whole mid
die west. We have a climate that is
unsurpassed by either California or
Florida, where we can raise better
grade of citrus fruits than they can,
and where our average temperature
is seven degrees warmer in the win
ter time than in California; where
we have the richest soil to be found
in the United States; sunshine prac-
tically every day in the year; the
water where and as much as we need.
We, are located four hundred miles
farther south than the southern
point of California and eight hun
dred miles nearer to the northern
markets, with direct steamship lines
to Galveston and New York. Where
we can get our produce on the mar
ket from two to four weeks earlier
than they can from any other sec
ton Of the United States. insuring
us the highest market prices at all
| times. Where we can raise a larger
variety of staples than they can in
any other spot on earth. Where We
have a never ending. summer, where
the trade Gulf breeZes blow constant
ly from March until November max
| ing our summers cool and pleasant.
! Where we can pasture our stock all
twelve months of the year. and pas
ture three head to the acre the year
round. Where we can cut our al
falfa every month in the year and
get ton to the acre at each cutting.
We can raise from so to 80 bushels
Of corn to the acre and raise two
crops on the same ground each year
if we care to do so. Where We can
and do raise three crops OF broom
corn per year. Broom corn yields
from ton to a ton and half per
acre and it is worth $3.50 per ton.
Where We can and do raise from ten
to fourteen tons of cabbage per acre
in the winter months which last year
sold as high as $3.50 per ton. Der.
muda onions will yield from 800 to
600 bushels per acre and can be
raised in the winter months while
Iowans are shoveling snow. Sugar
cane yields from 35 to so tons per
acre and we have several large mills
in the valley. We can raise from
two to three litters of pigs each year
from the same sow and there never
was a case of hog cholera in the val
ley. Strawberries ripen in January
Grape fruit orchards that have been
set out only three years will yield
the fourth year and have been known
tf produce for the owner over $500
per acre. Dates. pnms. oranges.
lemons and figs will grow as well as
they do on the lands that are selling
for $4,000 per acre in California and
Washington. Where your living ex-
penses are less than one half what
| they are in the north. Where the
bee gathers his honey the year round
and where roses bloom every month
in the year. Where every month Is
seed time or harvest time. Where
only eight years ago this famous val
ley was covered with cactus and me-
spuite brush. We have a soil from
30 to 60 feet in depth which has
lain for years waiting for some man
to develop it. Only by accident Mr..
a. j. Mccall. who was born in Iowa,
near Denison. and who is an acknow-
lodged soil expert and familiar with
every phase OF irrigation, discovered