The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-18
Santa Fe Gets Many Inquiries
From WOuId-Be Settlers.
Thirty Thousand Want InfOr-
nation About West and South.
WANT "THE DOPE" IN DETAIL
Movement of HOmeseekers Is
Already in Progress Now.
General Passenger Travel De-
cIines-HOmeseekers Travel.

Since the return of the Santa Fe
railway to corporate operation fifteen
months ago, approximately 10000
persons have communicated with its
representatives about agricultural and
industrial opportunities in Kansas and
other states served by its lines. accord
fng to the Earth, the company's de-
velopment paper. During no other
like period of the company's existence
has there been so great a number of
inquiries.
Letters have come from every state
in the Union, and from Canada-a
good many from Canada, from former
citizens of. the United States who have
grown weary Of the rigors of Canadian
winters. The inquiries, however, are
mainly farmers in the congested states
of the east and north, or ex-farmers
living in the cities They call for de-
tailed information; they want to know
about climate, living conditions,
schools, churches, transportation, mar
kets; they ask the price of land, the
terms, the cost of labor; they show
the best evidence of meaning business.
Santa Fe States on Boom.
"This," says the Earth, "can mean
states are about to experience an in
crease in population-new folks with
money to invest-young men and
women who are going back to the
farm, following tie war and the war
aftermath.
ALREADY the movement of home
seekers is on. While there has been a
hi= slump in freight traffic in the last
few months, the number of car loads
of immigrant moveables has increased
steadily, Passenger business generally
has fallen off. but the number of fam
lilies travelling to new homes in the
southwest has increased month by
month.
And it is not strange that the at
tention of these homeseekers and
other desirable investors has been
focused on the southwest. 1t is the
country of advantages, where the set
tier with modest income can buy a
home and make it pay for itself in n
little while; where the great outdoors
insures health and happiness; where
one man is as good as another so long
as he behaves himself.
This Year Gives Promise.
THE year 1921 gives promise of
being exceptional for production in the
territory from the Great Lakes to the
Gulf and to the Pacific, judging from
reports received by the Santa Fe from
Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Ne
braska, Oklahoma. Texas. Louisiana,
New Mexico, Arizona and California.
Crop conditions in Colorado were al
most perfect before the high waters
early in June. 1t is likely that yields
in that state will be reduced, but late
feed crops planted after the wet spell
will go a long way toward overcom-
ing losses. Pueblo, which suffered
more than any other locality is rapidly
meeting its difficulties, and soon will
be pushing ahead as if nothing had
happened"
The Earth is published for the pur-
pose of directing the attention of in
vestors to agricultural and industrial
opportunities in Kansas and the other
states named. Every interested in
Guirer receives the paper six months.
In that period all localities along the
Santa Fe are mentioned giving the
reader a fair idea of the territory
traversed by the companys 1874
miles of lines. Detailed information Is
furnished on request. This feature of
the company's activities is handled
by C. L. Seagraves, supervisor of agrl-
culture, Railway Exchange, Chicago,
and J. F. FARRELL, editor of The Earth,
Topeka. r