The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-23
BUSINESS is Good
Editor of "The Earth" Finds
Southwestern Country Well on.
Agriculture and Industry Boom
ing Turnout Roads Territory.

in the southwest and a revival of bust
ness have come true in most cases,
especially SO far as the territory served
by the Santa Fe railway is concerned.
Generally speaking, the southwest in
cludes the country from the Great
Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico and to
the Pacific ocean.
Starting September 1, from Chicago,
for the purpose of making inquiry re-
garding agricultural and industrial
conditions, the editor of The Earth,
Santa Fe magazine, found big yields
of grain, fruit and vegetables in Illi-
nois, Iowa. and Missouri, with steady
demand for production at fair prices.
A marked Improvement was seen in
the livestock features of farm opera
lions.
Notwithstanding the coal and rail
strikes, factories of various kinds re-
ported encouraging prospects for the
days to come. and wholesale and retail
dealers said that when the labor trou-
bles are ended. the country would en-
ter an era of unusual prosperity
Bankers described the situation from
their viewpoint as having eased up a
bit. and they co,-ld see favorable signs
of better times on the futures bort-
zon.
Kansas Has Banner Year.
Kansas is enjoying it's banner year
in many respects. Wheat and oats
made better than normal crops; grain
sorghums broomcorn, potatoes, fruit
and vegetables will show record pro-
auctions; the same likely will be true
of alfalfa Tic corn yield will be
about normal, altho in some sections
there was damage due to an unusual
hot spell late il August and early in
September. J roducts of the dairy and
the poultry yard will top the record
in volume of business handled.
The building activities turnout the
state are far ahead of those of 1921.
They include new homes both in city
and country, business houses, new
schools and churches, municipal i'm
provements and good roads Nearly
every locality has building program.
1t is not a BOOM" New structures
are going up because they are needed.
A good many people are moving to
Kansas-farmers mainly. Land values
still are within reason. The new
corners as a rule have sold their high
priced farms in the east and are buy
ing land equally good and much less
expensive in the Sunflower state.
Farmers have emerged from the
period of depression, and expect to
get thru the ear with something to
the good, and they are counting on
return to normal condition in 1928.
Industrially, Kansas has held its
own. The production of oil has helped
a good deal Kansas banks are in
excellent condition. They have CO.
operated extensively with the states
important interests.
Oklahoma Even With Kansas.
Oklahoma has done about we'll
on it's farms this year as has Kansas.
1t raises nearly the same kinds of
farm stuff IS does it's northern neigh
Dor. with the addition of cotton, pea
nuts and pecdns.
Oklahoma expects to lead all the
states this year in the production of
oil. The estimate is 100000 bar
rels. Also it is estimated that this
years gas production will be 1885,
100000 cubic feet, and the coal pro-
duction. 100000 tons. Oklahoma
this year will raise half the nations
supply of broomcorn.
The population of Oklahoma is in
creasing rapidly. The farms are get
ting the greater per cent of the in
crease. The cities divide the increase
about evenly with the oil fields. not
counting Oklahoma City and Tulsa,
which are growing by leaps and
bounds.
Farming Beats Mining in Colo.
The state of Colorado long has been
a leader in the production of gold,
silver and coal, and it still is best
known in other parts of the country
mining state, altho the value of
its production from the soil this year
will be three or four times that of its
mines.
According to the bulletins of the
state board of agriculture, Colorado
farms, ranches, orchards and gardens
will top the records this year. The
Arkansas valley. the most extensive
and highly productive section of the
state. has just finished shipping 1000
cars of Rocky Ford cantaloupes, and
is getting ready to send thousands
of tons of beets to the sugar factories
There is greater activity in all lines
tn NprTr fnC
any year since the war. The improve
ment industrially is especially marked
The reopening of the copper mines
the extensive preparation for operat-
ing new coal fields, and the upward
trend of affairs in the lumber dis
tricts have gone a long wy in restor-
ing public confidence. Business men
are optimistic. buying heavier, and
planning for h .ndling an increased
volume of trade.
Crops in the irrigation districts gen.
orally have been good-in the valleys
of the Rio Grande, the Mesilla, the
Rincon, the Pecos, the Portales, the
San Juan and the ella, and around
Las Vegas, Colmer Springer French,
Maxwell and other points. Population
in the irrigated sections is increasing
steadily.
In the so-called "dry farming" dis
tricts-where farm operations are
carried on with the minimum of mois-
ture-farmers ire constructing mex
pensive underground silos for their
grain sorghums and corn, which they
feed to livestock. They are engaging
in dairying and poultry raising, which
they find profitable. Some of the
states best wheat yields have been
found in the dry farming districts.
r. California IN total volume of pro-
duction this year will be far ahead
of 1921 and 1920, and will equal. If
not surpass, 1913, which was the rec
ord year.
Good Year in Texas.
The biggest state-TeXas-whi
raises almost everything grown in any
part of the United States, will count
1922 one of it's best years. Texas
will take the lead in cotton, grain
sorghums and cattle, as usual. and
also in the total acreage under Guilt
walton. Crop Yields as a rule are highly