The Ward County independent., 1922-11-09
DON'T GO WEST UNLESS YOU'VE
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lively little attention and are pretty
sure to yield well.
Apricots have proved particularly
good paying crop for the past three
or four years We heard Of orchards
yielding 8 to 10 tons per acre for which
/ the canncres paid the owners $65
at from 5000 to $1,000 per acre. BY
the time you get yours there Will be
a lot of apricot orchards in bearing
that are not now, and in all prob
ability you will be pulling up part or
thing else that somebody is making
time.
Truck garden ranches and alfalfa
| fields may he had at from $275 to
! ly taken off truck garden ranches,
all the children to work with you from
Italians do, you had better stay out
of that game.
Some people who understand the
contrariness Of the hen do very we'll
raising chickens on big scale. If
you can bring them through I don't
see why you shouldn't make Il for
tune as each fowl you buy for the
table costs a days wages, and eggs
are way up, bringing Csc per dozen a
few weeks ago, and going up to
around the dollar mark during the
winter. But most folks seem to get
quantities of experience and little
cash out Of that business for some
reason. One man we visited sold
one day old chicks, his incubators turn
ing out 24O, 900 every three weeks dur
ing the spring months and around
25,00O when we were there. We were
told that he started at the game about
eight years ago with a capital of $500
and that now he was cleaning up $780,
0QQ-$35 900 per year out Of his place
of ten acres.
Without doubt an acre Of ground
in this part Of California will raise
all the vegetables, fruit, chickens and
eggs that a family can use. But this
acre Of ground and any kind Of a
house will cost more than Il good Da-
kota farm, buildings and all. 1t is
equally impossible to make living
out Of five acres, or even ten acres
and there are few twenty acre ranches
that will give an average family a
good living. And when you get up to
20 acre improved ranches, you are
talking money, SO much that if you
put it out at eight per cent, the in
terest would make a comfortable liv-
ing for most families. To attempt to
buy such a place on a "shoestring"
would be financial suicide. If the
place is paid for, one may be able to
get along very well.
II you are not already a booster
for good roads, you have only to go
west to be completely sold on the
most elaborate road building program
the most enthusiastic good roads nut
, is able to conceive. Without good
roads the west would be impassable
There are no natural roads in the
loose western sand. The western states
have spent millions on good roads
and are planning to spend much more
than they have already spent. Good
roads and water are the making Of
the west. Without either it would
still be a wilderness.
One cannot very well avoid giving
his impressions Of the coast cities.
Seattle is very quiet, and feels the
b.sinrss depression keenly. Ship
building is at a standstill and the
rows of government built steel and
wooden ships rotting at anchor in the
harbors Of Seattle and Portland at
test to the extravagant program of
the shipping board and the great eco
n2,nlc waste Of war. There is little
building going on in Seattle or Port
land The latter is very attractive
city, but pretty hot in summer and
extremely moist in the winter months.
some 43 inches Of rain annually fall
IN both Portland and Seattle.
San Francisco is a real citv. Sit
uated as it is on a small peninsula,
the city cannot easily expand, and in
density Of population it exceeds even
New York. Across the boy few
miles distant are Richmond, a Stan
dard Oil city; Berkeley, the seat of
the great University Of California;
Oakland, d city of 250,0O0, and join
ing 50 closely to Berkeley that it is
difficult to say where one city ends
and the other begins. There is more
building activity in Oakland than any
other coast city we visited with the
exception Of Los Angeles. Piedmont
lies further up the bay. For all prac-
tlcal purposes, San Francisco and
these bay cities are one, and alto
Eether contain more than one million
and quarter of people, or about
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