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VOLUME 9, NUMBER
12
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14 Acres of Onions
that Yielded $6250
Mr. A. P. "Wright, on his 14 acre farm in the Rio Grande Valley of
the Gulf Coast Country of Texas, gathered 5000 crates of Bermuda
onions last season. These onions were marketed in New York City,
in competition with the best Bermuda product, over which they took
precedence in excellence and price. Mr. Wright received $1.25 per
crate or a total of $6,250, an average of $446.40 per acre. The cost of
raising these onions and getting them on the cars was $1,631, leaving
a net profit of $4,619.
How many men holding' responsible positions In the business world make that
much In four months' timo? Do you? It is no wonder that men in all walks of
lifo aro eagerly giving up their city llfo for the freedom, profit and healthful
ncss of tho Gulf Coast Country of Texas.
It Is easy to mako a
success In tho Gulf
Coast Country of Texas.
Raising fruits and veg
etables down thoro is
simply "malting gar-
GULP COAST SUCCESSES
Next week wc will pub
lish In thin innRnzInc an
other example of hucccmh In
tho Gulf Coant Country of
Texan. It will be worth
your while to look for It.
you havo had experi
ence so much tho bettor.
A few acres will be
all you need you can
buy it on easy terms,
and with proper care,
tho first crop should
more than pay for tho
land.
don" on a larcor scale'
any ono can do it
oven a city man. If
You do not havo to wait long for profits in the Gulf Coast Country of Texas.
Crops aro usually harvested in four or five months after they are planted.
Tho Gulf Coast Country of Toxas Is no longer an experiment irrigation and
quick transportation to tho big markets of the North and East havo made big
ylolds and enormous profits a practical certainty. A great chango has mado big
yields in tho Gulf Coast Country of Toxas within tho past two or throe years.
Prosperous towns and cities havo sprung up small farms, highly cultivated,
aro ovorywhoro In ovldenco. Irrigation has been extended and methods of
marketing havo been improved.
Tho climato continues to bo a marvel to all winters mild and sunny sum
mers pleasantly cooled by Gulf breezes.
Investigate this proposition whilo tho land Is within your reach. Next year
u wm cost more.
A trip of investigation will bo Inexpensive.
twico cacn month you can buy round trl
tickets via the Rock Island-Frisco-C. & B.
Linos to any point In tho. Gulf Coast Country
at tho following very low fares:
vinculo ju.uu i lvnnaaB vuy ko.uu i
Peoria ao.00 St. rani 32.50
st: IjouIn
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30.00
25.00
ri HieWnterVegetaMe
uarcijgii jt America
Minneapolis '
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These tlckots aro good for twonty-flve days
and allow liberal Btop-ovcr privileges.
On excursion days tourist sleepers run
through from Chicago, St. Louis, St. Paul, Min
neapolis and Kansas City to Brownsville,
Toxas, via tho Rock Island-Frisco Lines.
If you would liko to know more of tho big profits growers
pro making in tho Gulf Coast Country of Texas, write me
today for somo vory interesting literature wo have pre
pare for froo distribution.
JOHN SEBASTIAN, Pass. Traffic MgrM Rock-Island-FrJsco-O. & E. I. Lines.
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Fortunes in
Fig Orchards
E. C. ROBERTSON
General Salos Manager
SOI Klam Building,
HOUSTON, TEXAS.
president of the New York Central,
announced that 101,000 tona had
been ordered for 1909 delivery, in
clusive of 20,000 tons already re
ceived from tho mills. The data
before which tho remaining 81.000
tons must be delivered is August L.
Statehood for Arizona and New
Mexico was defeated in the senate
by a vote of 47 nays to 35 yeas.
Former President Roosevelt will
sail from New York for Africa March
23. He will take passage on the
steamer Hamburg. Mr. Roosevelt is
now at Oyster Bay where he says
"ho is resting."
A press dispatch from Guthrie,
Okla., follows: "By an overwhelm
ing vote the house today refused to
pass a resolution condemning the
administration of President Roose
velt and greeting the Taft adminis
tration. The resolution, which was
introduced by Representative Ross,
a democrat, cited Taft as the rescuer
of the ship of state from the 'sea of
absolutism.' "
The United States senate, in extra
session, confirmed President Taft's
cabinet appointments. Mr. Taft
made other appointments as follows:
Huntington Wilson of Illinois, to be
assistant secretary of state; Beek
man "Winthrop, of New York, to be
assistant secretary of the navy; Wil
liam Loeb. ir.. of New York, to ho
collector of customs for the district
of New York; Lewis Dalby, of Vir
ginia, to be .an Indian inspector;
John P. McDowell, of Illinois, to be
receiver of public moneys at Willis
ton, N. D.
Judge Hosea Townsend, who was
United States judge for the southern
district of Indian Territory up to
the time Oklahoma became a state,
died at Ardmore, aged 69.
A verdict awarding the United
States government $134,116 dam
ages in unpaid customs duties from
the American Sugar Refining com
pany was rendered by a jury which
heard charges of misweighing sugar
imports. The verdict rendered was
for the full amount sued for by the
government. Motion for a new trial
was denied and counsel for the de
fendant was given sixty days in
which to prepare the case on appeal,
which it was announced, would be
taken. ,
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lUchmond, Va. ' ' 'ni &
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2? nn tUti minutes as his pToliitlo-
to conserve such rights as tt i ?
assembly might have. joInt
The New York Herald savs- i?iw .
mportant contracts for rSfa nin J2J
sL" S25d,8laee tUe Uauoove?
steel prices began was mnrtn i7nl.
yesterday, when WllllaC 0 Bvom,
The Associated Press reports the
record of casualties on inauguration
day as three deaths, three probably
fatally injured and more than seven
tyrfive. persons slightly . Injured. ' The
dead are- Sa-rmiAl Vnntio-. nn.n. ne.
this cityi Norman A. Stall, 45 ;oars
w, "Y" , -u va- Anarew B.
Doran of Pittsburg, Pa. The serious
K. 1,n;iurFed werQ Policeman Frederick
SJSf SaiSUe! ?arter of Virginia and
William Deniel of this city. Samuel
Young was electrocuted by stepping
on live electric, light wires on Wis
consin avenue; Norman A. Stall died
of epilepsy while viewing the par
ade, and Andrew B. Dorari, a Pull
man conductor, died of heart disease
upon arriving U the Union station
last night. Dirk was severely in
jured In an attempt to arrest a
Greek for disorderly conduct. Car
ter was stabbed in the abdomen by a
negro, and Deniel was overcome bv
gas. J
The pay of President Taft was
Anally fixed by congress at $75 000
per year. The vice president's 1.
ary was not increased.
HOW ONE MAN
' SOLD HIS FARM
A Minnesota Farmer success
fully tries new long-distance
plan of selling.
FOURTEEN MEN IN SIX DIFFER.
ENT STATES WANT HIS PLACE.
Mkt tftlt without aid e! real estate Rgenl
aai ietn't pay a cent commission.
F?8 rrS0', Minnesota. (Special Correspond.
once) -Thai farmers la this section aro intensolr
Interested In , a recent experienco of one of their
neighbors. Mr. H. St John, vho owned a farm
in Cass County, has succeeded in uollinfr it at hit
own price, 'without the help of a real estate aeent
and without paying, cent In commission. He
could have sold the farm fourteen timos over as
he had that number of men after It. In tho courso
g cnversatlonwithyottrfccorrospondent, Mr.
ot, John said:
" xes, i sold my farm without any trouble
ana tor the bonofit of others who desire to sell, I
?penea. l
py advertising in tho local papers andlhrouch
don t mind telling you lust how It hardened
had tried all the usual methods of selling, that la
local real estate men, and nad about given up
hope of being able to sell, when I happened to
come across the advertisement of a concern
known as Leonard Darby shire, Incorporated, of
Rochester, N. Y., who make a business of find
ing buyers for anything ono wants to sell. I
wrote to these people for their plan and I re
ceived a letter from, Mr. Derbyshire, tho Presi
dent of the Corporation, together witha copy of
their booklet, fully describing a now and up-to-dato
method of bringing buyer and seller to
gether. Their plan looked good to mo and I sent
them a description of my farm which they must
have, sent to prospective buyers all over tho
country .because I reeeivedno less than fourteen
letters from men who wanted my place, and
these letters cama. from Iowa, Illinois, Missis
sippi, Wisconsin aadNebraska, and other States
outside of Minnesota. You. can Imagine that
with such a demand I had no trouble in makinsr
a sale and I sold my farm to a man in Iowa at
5JF" own price, and what's more to the point, I
didn'thave,to pay acentoommission to anyone
I cannot say too much in favor of the Rochester
concern and I am deliehted with tho treatment
they gave me. They did everything for mo that
they agreed to do and I never would have been
ablo to sell bo Quickly without their assistance
becausoitis hard to sell through on acent, and
even if an agent does find a buyer, you have to
pay a largo amount In commission. The system
of bringing buyer and seller together originated
by Mr. Leonard Derbyshire, is tho best I over
heard of, and he seems to be able to find buyers
tor all kinds of properties, no matter where they
are located."
Mr. St. John's success"in selling his f arm!wa3
due to reading a booklet issued by Leonard
parbyshiro, Inc., of Rochester, N. Y. This
booklet tolls of a new and successful method of
flndlng buyers for farms and real estate, busi
ness properties, automobiles, patents and in fact
almost anything salable. The Corporation issu
ing this book are not real estate agents and do
not accept apenny in commission on sales mado
by their assistance. Their plan of cutting out
tne real, estataagonts has motwlth romarkablo
?uccessrand .owners throughout tho country aro
FUckly availing themselves of this opportunity
to sell quickly places which for a long timo re
mainedln the hands of real estate agents, who
lauea to sell, for tho reason that the commission
th i aff0nt Pteced upon tho property killed
JL'.il sldtka.t Mr Ionard Darbyshiro, tho
president of this concorn, Is doing more to nBSist
Hty owners to sell than alf the realestato
??2 America combined, and anyone wish
fnl 3pi)S,0 of .anything anywhere at any
P& KPiS do well to wka to Leonard Darby
SiS&i?5rti Dept..365.D Rochester. N. Y.,
fSlnLfcbt1?? de,8crTptWof tho property for
b&nJ?knF hiB to send a froo copy. o bl
Booklet e3rjlainlng his new method of selling.
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