Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1920-03-03

and had no such excuse as this to Of
fer either.
He also speaks Of Especially pre-
pared places, where they take their
prospects to" challenge the gentle
man to prove that there is q single
place OF the kind in the Valley. It's
true, there are beautiful places that
have been developed by the people for
their own pleasure, that the Companies
show, and also farms where men have
specialized along certain lines and
made success. The land companies
show these places but none OF them
were built for this purpose. He also
says "This is no better than your
home country" (meaning the north,
Now what do you think Of man who
would say thing like that? When
he can look around and see thousands
Of acres Of winter vegetables worth
from three to six hundred dollars per
acre, when his friends up north are
spending their time shoveling snow
and piling good money into the fire in
the form Of coal and wood, when they
can get It. Well / don't know what
you think about him to go back to
his old occupation Of shoveling snow,
as that is all ! consider him good
for. I
No better than the North! When
you cannot only do what / have stat
ed. in the winter, but where you can
raise as much corn as in the north and
OF better quality. You can raise as
good cotton as anywhere; you can
raise twice as much broom corn as
anywhere else; you can raise more al
falfa per acre than anywhere In the
United States: you can pasture three
head OF stock on an acre Of Rhodes
Grass; you can raise two crops OF
potatoes In one season; you can pro-
duce milk. beef, and pork for less than
what you can in the north: and wherc
you produce the best quality Of citrus
fruit at one-half the cost that 1t can
be produced anywhere else In the u.
s.; where you can have beautiful
flowers blooming all the year. Where
you can do all Of this and more, then
for man to say. ''you can do as we'll
In the North" whore you have six
months OF winter and cold weather
most Of the rest Of the year. have
my opinion Of such . fellow. He says,
1.-THE department Of justice Is investi-
eating this gigantic swindle," this be-
ing 90 the land combpanies have no.
thing to fear. % all / have ever seen
come out Of Government Investigation
PHO
was the beating down Of prices to the
producer and the boosting Of prices
to the consumer.
Do not misunderstood me and think
that I am defending the land compan-
les. for / am not. But we have to
hand the land companies their just
dues: for II It had not been for them.
i question whether this fair Valley
would have ever been developed, ut
least In our day. Someone had to put
up the money to start these irrigation
systems. and this was done by the
land men and many Of them went
broke in doing 30; besides at least
80 per cent Of the people Of the valley
were brought here by the Land COM
panies, including the gentlman in
question. and myself, few Of whom
would have ever been here II It were
not for the land men. But the VAL
ey has reached stage in Its develop
ment where 1t no longer needs the
Land Company and II you are expect
Ing to change your ocation to try and
better your condition, I would ad-
wise you to buy ticket and come down
here on your own hook and see what
the Valley has to offer and save a
couple hundred dollars per acre. Now
as the gentleman suggested. I would
say to anyone doubling these state
ments, challenge him, to come down
here and see for himself and II we
can't prove to him that they are all
true, will pay all Of his expenses and
send him home rejoicing.
trust the papers Of the North will
be fair enough to give this letter as
wide a publication as the former
article.
Respectfully,
]. j. CARROTHERS.
Hidalgo County, Texas
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