MVISfw iiuCMiNflfwMiMtfltAKMtoMMfrriMtMflM -yaj Products of the Salt River Valley LLOYD C. THOMAS awhiiaaiattkrtwrtt'BuMwui umiiiiiwmuib!wmiu mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ft 4 I V. In a country with the climate and soil that the Salt IUver Valley has the range of farm life is of course very great and practically everything is grown. However n brief description of the principal crops will undoubtedly be of interest. ALFALFA AND TIIK CE11KALS. Alfalfa is the largest crop grown in this valley. When well cared for and taken proper tare of a yield of as high as twelve tons per acre has been grown. The averago is from six to eight tons per acre. This winter seas on it brought sixteen dollars per ton. Early in the spring barley or wheat is disked In with the alfalfa and both crops grown on the same ground, the barley or wheat being cut with the first alfalfa crop, making the finest kind of hay. During tho winter the alfalfa is green and before the spring cutting begins cattlo are pastured on it. Ordinarily there are about 40,000 cattle pastured in the valley during the winter. Uarley, wheat, oats and corn are all raised and of course the yield is enor mous. Corn is usually raised as a sec ond crop, being planted after sugar beets are harvested in May or June. This gives two crops per year on the same ground. " OKANOH THK I.nAIlINO FIIUIT. The orange produced in the Salt Htv er Valley is not equalled in any coun try. In size, in color, in flavor and texture, it is the finest produced. The superb climate keeps away all smut and scale and no spraying or fumigat ing is necessary. The oranges go dls rect to the market just as they come from the trees, it not betng necessary to brush or wash them. The bring much higher prices than those from other localities and there are never enough to supply the demand. The Arizona orange reaches New York in time for Thanksgiving, ahead of all others. It often brings as high as nine dollars per box on that market. y HKsfiSiH An Excursion from Railroad Milk Cans Complete line at the following prices: 5 gal., 12y2 lbs $2'.25 10 gal., 17 lbs 2.50 10 gal., 20 lbs.'. 2.75 10 gal., 22 lbs 3-00 XeWT&. Co. OTIS Sc CONTRACTORS CEHENT WORK Twelve Years' All Work 307 Toluca Ave. Phone 613 ALLIANCE. NEBR. POMBt.O OJtAl'B-KltriT, AND LKMONS The grape-fruit grown in the Valley is of exceptionally flue flavor, not hav ing tho bitter taste so often found in this delicious fruit, Lcmous do very well and make big returns on the investment. DECIDUOUS FIU7ITU. An orchard of any kind is valuable. All fruits do very well. The conditions are the best for peach, pear, apricot, fig, grape, plum, apple, crabapple, nectarines, cherries, quince, blackber ries, red, purple and black raspberries, logan berries, dewberries, strawber ries, mulberries, citrons and dates. THF. CANTALOUPE AND WATKUMKLON. These are grown on a very large scale and hundreds of carloads are sent out from the valley every season. They ripen very early and get the top price on the market, excelling the Rocky Ford in quality. The melons are sug ary, sweet and tender. Watermelons do equally as well as cantaloupes and are also raised on a very large scale. 8UOAII I1KKTS, The "Glendale loess", spoken of in another Issue pt The Herald, is said to be specially adapted to the sugar beet, producing heavily and yielding a large saccharine percentage. The writer re cently made a trip through the million dollar factory located near Phoenix and It cares for from eight hundred to one thousand tons of beets per day. An income of sixty dollars per acre is averaged by the ordinary furmer, the experts making more than this. The soil "contains the most wonderful pro portion of soluble matter" of any 6oil known and there is plenty of it for sugar beet purposes. DATK8 AND 0LIVK3. The date is here a luscious fruit and the trees give the valley a tropical look. Dates are grown all through the valley and is becoming a good in dustry. The flavor of the fruit direct from the tree is delicious and much iMjMKfo WHwiMBMEKMiMWWMW'fcAK Los Angeles being shown over the BUSH and BUILDERS A SPECIALTY Experience Guaranteed better thau Imported. 18 f varieties are being grown on the liovornmurit farm near Phoenix at Tonipe. They were brought from Africa, Egypt, Arabia and Persia. Olives are to be seen everywhere. Munger llrothers. a firm who put up olive oil, have a large acreage hi olivo trees and make good money out of pickled olives and olive oil. INDUSTRIES OF THE VALLEY." C'ATTLK Cattle are grown on the range ami fattened in the valley on alfalfa, not knowing the taste of giftin, going to the market in prime condition with the least possible cost. Some range own ers have their own alfalfa fields; some hire the needed winter pasture; while many farmers buy young range stock and fatten them for market on their own fields. It is all good, there being no cold or severe storms, and very few cattle ever see the Inside of a barn or shed. Iloth feed and climate induce rapid growth and early maturity. Three to five head to the acre for pas ture is not unusal. How is that com pared with the short grass country? THK DAIItV. As with man so It is with animals, the natural life is that of the open, and it makes for the health of the dairy cow, Alfalfa makes a balanced ration; the cow gets nothing else and needs noth ing else. No barns are needed for the storage of winter feed, nor stables for shelter. Green feed is continuous and good cows on these green fields return a net profit of from $70 to $80. leaving the calf out of the count. We have a record of 120 cows, which produce an average, each per annum, of $77.40 for milk alone. Tuberculosis is unknown among native cattle, and tho various pests and diseases of cattle are practi cally shut out by a vigorous enforce ment of law. No diseased stock enters tho Territory. The cities and towns call for more butter than Is produced, and the mining camps area very good home market. Salt River Valley. A Mode! Town Under the above caption the Abing don, III., Kodak has the following to say about a neighboring town: Hoopeston, Illinois, is a model town. The mayor draws u salary of .10 cents a year, the city clerk $1.80, city treas urer $1 50. city attorney $.10. The city is divided into four wards, the ulder liien of u hleh are paid 25 cents for each meeting. The city marshal is paid $U00a)ear, the night policeman $600, the night watch $310 by the city, $250 by the citizens which makes a total of $600. The street commissioner is paid for the actual work done. Hoopeston had, according to the census of 1000. a population of 3,853 The assessed valu ation of the city is $3,000,000 The output of its manufactories amount to $3,000,000 yearly. Average number of people employed is 1,550; averago MMjf-, paid S19S.O00. The city main 1. 1 ins two banks and the average capi ta. -tock of one is $200,(00 and of the other, $175,000. Hesides all we have j mentioned there are ten churches in which to worship, ten miles of cement walks, four school houses, a city hall and a fire department which cost $10, 000. and numerous other utilities. There is not a saloon in the town, the citizens having decided upon that ques tion thirty-three years ago. Under the local option law a vote was taken to determine whether Hoopeston was to continue dry or go wet. The result cf the election showed those in lavor of the town remaining dry to out number the wets 5 to 1. Exchanges Please Notice The Herald is not in the habit of complaining of treatment received either personally or in behalf of the citv which it represents; but we think we have a right to insist, in the interest A Salt house. Horses cost at two or three years about one-third as much to reor as In colder climates and brlug good prices. They run at large In the pastures, need little shelter, and reach maturity early. Very close attention Is given to the breeding. iioos. Hogs, as Is every other domestic ani mal belonging to the barnyard, fond of aud thrive on alfalfa. Prices are very good and a tine grade of hogs Is the rule. 8IIF.KI-. About .100,000 head of sheep come In to the valley from the ranges to be sheared, and many are bred here for early lambs. The gain Is phenomenal aud the sheep are well taken cari? of iif.f.8 ' The desert itself is full of sweetness, and the bee gathers It alike from thorny cacti and blossoming sage und palo verde. The mesqulte yields honey, und the orchard and alfalfa field. Many apiaries are in the valley and the nver age yield per colony Is large. It is counted as one of the profitable in dustries of this region, and the man who can manage the little workers while caring for his farm Is happy. Over twenty carloads of extracted hon ey .are shipped every year. of Alliance, that those newspapers in northwestern Nebraska that have been publishing "a scarlet fever scare at Alliance" let their readers know with out further delay that theie is not now a case of scarlet fever here, at.d not a home where there has been scarlet fever hut what has been thoroughly fumigated. We would not for any thing advise parents to expose their children to a dangerous disease, but we are conSdent that there ' is no. more danger in bringing children here now than in taking them anywhere else. Big Twenty-five Cent Show The Sells- Floto which will be in Alli ance June 23, has the reputation of be ing the biggest twenty five cent show in America. The owners of the show are determined to make it the most largely patronized show on earth, and it looks to us as though it may not take them many years to succeed in their ambition. Shows, like other enter- prizes, are. usually run for the money' that can be made out ot them; but in this case it seems that the proprietors are working for a reputation as well as for the money that can be made. Appreciate Good Printing While here last week the manager of the Alaskan Comedy company ordered a lot of bills printed at The Herald office, some of which were used here, but most of them were for other places. Our prices were slightly higher than what they had paid in the eastern part of the state.' but the "Alaskan" people said that our printing wos,done. better, and they seemed to be quite willing to pay the slight difference iu the price. River Valley Date Palm in Full OSTIUOUK8. Africa was originally the home of the ostrich but the climate of this valley was found to be so suitable for the purpose of raising domesticated ostriches that they were imported here and now it is one of the leading In dustries. Ostriches ore raised in other parts of the United States but on a much smaller scale than here. There are now about fifteen ostrich farms In the valley. The largest farm has over four thousaud birds aud some of the smaller have only a few. The ostrich lives entirely on alfalfa In the Salt River Valley nnd the profits made out of the feathers are very large. That the business is profitable may be seen from n comparison be tween an ostrich und a stper. At the age of three years a steer Is worth from J S3.1 to $45. and will probably net his owner ten dollars over the cost of his up-keep to the duti of his sale At thu age of three years an ordinary ostrich in the Salt River Valley, is considered worth from $25u to $1.10 Every eight months you pluck feathcisto the value of from $3.1 to $luo anil have your bird left. At thlsiigc Jic i- consuming from six to eight pounds of alfalfa per day whie the steer a.Uthe age nf three years Is consuming fiom forty to sixty pounds of alfalfa per day. It Is there for easy to understand why o.trlclr ISPECIAL SALE! June 16th I have just received MEN'S AND Come down to my place of business and I will show you my cheap line of Oxfords, ox bloods, tans, etc. They are cheap foi ihe money and they' have got the wearing qu ilities, are guaranteed and I stand back of ihe gtiirantee. These shoes are the cheapest and best for the money in this town. If you want to save money on shoes come in and see my stock. Special Sale on Dry Goods and Clothing Just received, a fine line of FELT and STRAW ' HATS for Men and Boys. These hats are bargains at the prices asked B.ESSAY 1 15 Box Butte Avenue One-half block north of Burlington station, ?5RB3e ":v Tu-ri- Bearing, raising is becoming very popular with us. Thero arc not many birds for salo In tho vally for tho reason that when a farmer appreciated the enormous yaluo of the bird, It Is hard to got him to Bell it, and they llvo from seventy-five to eighty years of age. Phoenix, Arizona, Junel, 1010. BiiTNyiTcw Bill Nye was a practical newspaper man and somewhat of an advertiser himself. Having a cow which he wished to sell, he advertised her as follows: "Owing to my ill health, I will sell at my residence in township 19, range 18, according to the govern ment survey, one pluah raspbgrry cow, aged 8 vears. She is of undoubted courage and gives milk frequently. To a man who does not fear death hi uuv form she would be a great boon. She is verv much attached to her pres ent home with a stav chain, hut she will be wold tti nn one who will agree to tie.it her riuht. She is one-fourth Shut thorn ami three-fourths hyena. I will uiso throw iit a douhleb.uieled ohutgun, which goes with her. In May she usually goes away for a week or two and returns with a (all red calf with wabbly legs. Her name is Rose I would rather sell tier to a uon t evident." to July 7th a large assortment of BOYS' SHOES I on east side of street mb 8Wp