The Newark journal., 1919-01-02
ROY M. CRAIG, Business Manager
Dollars Run Into Millions
Riqht Under OurNOse.

Some time ago The Jt urnal mentioned the
fact that large drainage canal should be dug
in the territory lying east cf Newark between
town and Black river in order that this land
might be put in cultivation.
The need is becoming more and more ev-
dent. Lately there have been several families
moved from this community to other counties
and other states because they could not get
land to cultivate here.
The cry is 70, land They say that there
is chance for the small farmer account
of the big fellows "hogging' all the land.
The land owners in this district and the
commercial interests of Newark should get
together and dig canal in this territory.
Thousands of fertile acres Of land that
would produce from half bale to a bale and
quarter of cotton per lie as yet unclear-
ed in this territory between Newark and Black
river.
A drainage canal sufficient to care for the
needs of this area could be dug and the cost
apportioned so that no great expense would
fall upon any individual.
The opening up of this land would not on
ly be good investment tc the owners thereof
but would be a boom to Newark, for from ev-
cry additional acre of land that is cultivated
IN that territory Newark would receive some
benefit.
One of the greatest needs of this commun-
ity is more tilabe land. There is not enough
good land to supply the demand
Land is too valuable to let it lie idle. Ev-
cry available of good land in this COM
munty should be made to produce something
If it will not profitably produce wheat, corn
hay or cotton, it should be converted into graz
ing land for the maintenance of some kind of
live stock that will assist in increasing the
wealth and prosperity of the community.
In that vast from Dota creek to White
river and from Newark to Black river, there is
hardly of land but what would produce
good crops if properly drained and opened up
for cultivation
There is at least 1000 or 5000 acres of
good land lying idle in this immediate COM
munty that should be producing good crops
when properly drained and put in cultivation
Suppose for example, that 5000 acres of
this land was in cultivation and had been in
wheat the past year. At an average yield of
20 bushels per acre, it would have produced
100000 bushels of wheat which at 81 per
bushel, would have brought 100000 to this
community.
Or if this additional 5000 acres had been
in cotton the past year, it would have produced
at least $50 worth of cotton per acre-some
OF it that was in cotton produced good deal
more There is $250,0 worth of cotton that
could have been produced. and should have
been produced, in this community the past wear
The cbjector and moss-back may say this
is not true picture because the prices of farm
products were abnormal the past year Very
we'll Cut the productive figures one half
Then we still have at least 100000. IN TEN
YEARS THIS MEANS A MILLION DOLLARS
A drainage canal, dug with dredge boat
outfit and made sufficiently large to drain the
entire area under consideration, will cost only
few thousand dollars, and the payments can
be made to extend over period of ten or twen-
ty years.
II the people of this community can invest
ten or twenty thousand dollars in an enterprise
that will add million dollars to the wealth of
the community in ten years, isn't it good in
vestment?