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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (March 7, 1884)
?.i mS W-S'Hyj.av -SmT"" T v r ;' jiTi . U r. ' IT v fc gSi It J- 4 r' i'f J? f n a Lk . T t ;r- ft- E 3 vj-J V' It t -. - . BMaaa FaoalBg. The story of the Dalrymple farms has Deen told too often to bear repetition. Mr. Dalrymple cultivates, for several owners, about 27,000 acres, the farm alto gether containing 75,000 acres. He con ducts his agricultural operations on .buswess methods. Over each 6,000 'acres is a superintendent, who has a book-keeper. There is a headquarters building and a storehouse for the em ployes the farms. Each 6.000-acre division is made up of three farms of 2,000 acres each, and a foreman is placed in charge of the inclosure and of its complete set of necessary farm build in ". The great business is managed on a wholesale principle. The stores for feeding and clothing the laborers are purchased in large quantities, and sold to the customers at retail. Every advantage is taken of the markets, every favorable or unfavorable turn in the financial world is watched by the in telligent men, who are not diverted from their business of raiting the largest possible crops at the smallest possible ;ost, and selling them for the largest possible price, by the wearying labors -of the lield that are necessarily imposed upon the smaller farmers. It is'e.stimnted that the bonanza farmers make one dol lar more prolit per acre than the ordi nary wheat growers by reason of the advantages derived from their larger transactions in buying and selling, and the greater attention they are enabled to pay to the commercial side of their business. On the Dalrymple farms, it is stated that the cost of raising the wheat and delivering it at the railroad is about thirty-five cents a bushel; that the net prolitis never less than forty cents; that the average yield is twenty lnjshels to the acre, so that the net profit on an acre of land is eight dollars, and and on the 27,000 acres $216,000. There is no thorough cultivation in ' the Red River country. In opening the Iirairie the soil is broken to a depth of hree inches, aftenvards the sod is "back-set, anil, finally, the ground is cross-ploughed. On this scratched sur face the wheat is raised year after year. The oldest land of the Dalrymple farms has been cultivated for eight years, and :is yet there has been no summer fal lowing. Signals of distress mast have been flung out, however, for it is ex pected that a rest must soon be given to the generous but weary soil. The question is: Can a small farmer, work ing his own land and raising wheat ex clusively after the fashion of the country, make a large profit? He must buy evervthinjr, it must be recollected, and transport it to his home. stock and for himself, all his machinery and all his household goods must be paid for at high prices. If he has a three hundred and twenty-acre farm and raises twenty bushels to the acre, and makes the Dalrymple profit, less the one dollar which must be deducted for lack of business capacity or the lack of op portunity to make the most of it, he will make two thousand two hundred and forty dollars a year. But twenty bushels is not the average crop. In 1879, the census" year, the wheat crop was unusually large, and the average product of the whole country was sixteen bushels to the acre. Dakota produced about eleven bushels to the acre in this year, and in 18S2 ihc average yield was fifteen and nine-tenths bushels. Given sixteeu bushels to the acre, and the profit, still taking the Dalrymple figures and de ducting the one dollar, aud the farmer of three hundred and twenty acres will make a profit of about one thou sand seven hundred dollars. If he has homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres, and bought the other one hun dred and sixty acres at, say.thrce dollars an acre (four hundred and eighty dol lars), his profit will representa very large interest in his investment. But it must bo borne in mind that a very large interest is essential in so precarious a business as the raising of a special crop. A late, wet spring, or a summer without show ers, ma' make the wheat crop almost worthless, and in Dakota there is no other cereal grown to that extent that the farmers can fall back on it in a year that has been disastrous to their wheat, There must certainly come a time when this exclusive growing of wheat farmin snake skins for ladies' belts. Almost every village in Sullivan and Ulster counties is a summer resort for city people, and hundreds of New York ladies spend the heated term there. One day last summer the wife of a well known chemist of New York, who was stopping in Sullivan County, attended a fucmc, and while walking Vith another adyin the woods, was confronted by an enormous rattlesnake, which lay di rectly in front of her in the mountain path. The lady who was with her screamed and ran away, but the chemist's wife picked up a cudgel and killed the snake. She brought it to the picnic ground. It was four feet in length, and had a splendid set of fourteen rattles. The markings of a rattlesnake are very beautiful, but the skin of this one was particularly perfect and brilliant in color. The chemist's wife caused a shudder of horror to run through the assemblage of her fair companions by saying that if she could by any means have the snake's skin prepared she would wear it as a girdle. She con sulted her husband, and he consented to experiment with the skin. It was removed from the snake the next day and stretched on a board. The chemist treated it with some preparation of arsenic and sweet oil. The preparation was applied daily, and in a few days the skin was cured with all its freshness, brilliance, and plia bility preserved. The rattles and head were left on the skin. The husband took it to New York, where it was fitted with a handsome 'silver clasp and his wife appeared among the other guests with a girdle that$2.0 would pot induce her to part with. That set the fashion, and there was at once a big demand for rattlesnake skins among the ladies, not only in that particular place, but at scores of other places, for the news of Mrs. 's girdle spread rapidly from one resort to another. Dainty damsels, who a week before woidd have fainted almost at the mention of rattlesnakes, suddenly be came deeply interested in the beauty and dimensions of the deadly reptile, and lost no time in having "its many htied epidermis encircle their slender waists. Rattlesnakes quickly went up in the market, until it was a yen modest mountaineer indeed who hadn't the heart to ask five dollars for a skm with perfect rattles, a sound head, and clear spots. Kiiigston (X. Y.J Freeman. w - The Argentine Republic. Within the last score of years the Ar gentine Confederation has taken the front seat anion? the South American Food for his Republics, and of late begins to chal- to diversified lenge the respect and confidence of mankind. The States (fourteen in number) composing this Republic were nearly all colon ieu either from Spaiu or Portugal a century before Plymouth Rock was heard of. Buenos Ayres is more than four hundred and fifty years older than Philadelphia. But from the elanting of the colonies to the end of the araguayan war, a few years ago, they were periodically rent and torn, pil laged and plundered by the Gauchos, so that enduring Governments, save by the hard hand of dictators like Rosas," Dr. Francia, Lopez, and outlaws like Quiroga, were impossible. There is hardly a town from the mouth of La Plata to the Andes, and from the Pata gonian line to Brazil that has not been many times sacked. All that seems to be now at an end. The inlluence of Buenos Ayres' civilization stretches from that city to Mendoza, and is felt all over the one million, two hundred and fifty thousand square miles of territory which the Republic embraces. Its natural ad vantages bear a very striking resem blance to those of the United States. Its climate is tropical in parts.semi-tropical in other parts, and moderately cool else where. Its rivers are on a seale of grand eur equal to the Mississippi, Missouri, and Ohio, and about as far back from its sea frontage as our Rocky Mountains are from Atlantic ports, the majestic Andes from its western boundary, an impassable line of military defense in that quarter and a perpetual regulator of tenmerntiirfi in the vallevs and fampas. The soil and productions are ikn niirs. Wliwit. ooni. nnd nil f lio at m,l!s cereals and most of the temperate zone g. J. 118 . oTiil tiYinwil -fruits rrrmv in sumo -nnrfa B -I i J p ri- T ii ii V and tropical fruits grow in some parts au" V4 "" V"" ""Ul ". ' Him ku, of the country. And since 1870 the in anu is macKcncd by the decayed vege- , nt nnn. table matter which enters very largely . - into composition. Of course the fruit- fulness of these lands will be exhausted in time, nnd the enormous wheat field will be succeeded by smaller enclosures, devoted to a rotation of crops. Cor. Boston Herald. m a The Rattlesnake Industry. For many years different persons liv ing in the mountains of Sullivan and Ulster Counties have made very snu sums even- year in the sale of rattle snake oil, which is believed to possess wonderful curative powers by a largo proportion of the inhabitants of not only those, but of adjoining counties. Many snakes arc killed duringthe summer 'sea son, but the grand gathering of the crop is in the fall, when they have returned to their tlens and wintering places. These retreats are well known to the snake huuters, and they choose sunny days in October -and November for raid ing them. On such days the reptiles crawl out of their dens in the rocks and huddle together by the score, different varieties frequently being found massed together. The snakes are dull and slug gish at that time of the year and come ont to bask in the sun. The hunters arm themselves with the old-fashioned flails, and when they come upon a pile of the snakes proceed at once to thresh the life out of them. But few escape. The rattlesnakes are assorted from the other species and carried home, where the oil is tried ont as lard is from pork. No treatment of the oil is necessary. . It is bottled up and is ready for the market As high as one dollar an ounce has been paid for it by believers in its value as a liniment for rheumatism and all kindred ills.- The snake hunters of tHe Shawangunk -mountains receive many orders from the showmen for live rattlesnakes, for which they receive from fifty cents to two dollars'each, ac--cording to size and condition; but dur ing the past summer an industry in snakes sprung up which is entirely new and novel and bids fair to become the most profitable of any of the branches nf the trade, for it has its foundation in n nw fashion in female adornment. Thi industry Is the supplying of rattle- crease of population, like ours, has been much assisted 03- immigration from the vital races of Europe. For the six years from 1871 to 1876 this immigration has reached 275,000, and for- the six years ended 1882 the estimate is 350,000 a total of 625.000 in twelve years. The population in 1882 was just about equal to that of the thirteen American colonies one century ago. But the resources of the country, are immeasurably greater than ours then were. It . has 60.000,000 sheep, 14.000,000 cattle, ,1,800,000 horses, a capital city of 800,000 people, whose exports are valued at over 855,- 000,000 a 3'ear. with corresponding im ports both rapidly increasing. It has nearly 1,800' miles of railway and o.uou ot telegraph in opera tion and many new lines in course of construction. It has an admirable system of public schools, supported by taxation. And, though tie national debt is comparatively great, the interest absorbing half the revenues, still the receipts, which in 1880 aggre gated 818,700,000, were considerably more than the expenditures, interest in cluded. The Argentines have but a standing army of 7,500. Like the United States, "they trust the defense of the country to an enrolled militia, which in 1881 numbered 300,000. Now here is the South American Re public of the future in embryo. With a sensible constitution, a Congress of two Houses like ours, a President salaricd'at 820,000 a year, Vice-President 810,000, Cabinet " Ministers 89,000 each, free schools, free religions worship, every port open to immigration, which is flowing in at the rate of fifty thousand a year, lands at the lowest prices, sufficient in extent for a population of 100,000, 000, and. resources in cattle, sheep, horses, wool, wheat, corn and fruit on the grandest scale, the Argentine "Re public bids fair in time to reach as high a figure among the nations of the earth 8 the United btates touches now; and when that time comes, the great Repub lic of the North and the great Republic of the South, with an equally great one in the far-off South Seas, ought to exer cise together a- contrblUng influence In the politics of the whole world. San Francisco Cftrofiiclc Tie Oia&a Eernrjlican Prospectus for 1884. The Omaha Republican, under irdividnal f management and dependirjrfor its success en tirely upon the people and itself I roposes dar ing thecming year to materially improve. To day in point f quality and quantity of reading matter it is far ahead of its local conteraporurie and in advance of any paper in the Unitwl States publih-d in a town .the fire of Omaha. Tho Kepablican guarantee durin? the coming sea son not nnly to keep 'abreast of western enter prise, hut to excel it. A mnRnifieent new build ing and other costly improvements will jriye ns sureriora vantage which will be fully utilized The Republican will aim to be the paper of the people. Its column will be open to therr on any subject. No idea will be rejected be cause it doe not happen to agree with the opin ion of tho editor. Kspoci-illy in the mntterof railway recul tion by tat I.iw (a subject which the next legislature will be callet upon to de cide) do we invite coircpondence. Our corps o te'egraphic c- rrcspondcts in Nebraska ami in th wefern stafs is large nnd will be materi illy inexened. The present yea will bo most interesting in the point of politic. The presidential emi paign. in ail its ramifications, will receive ade quate attention and di.ii:-sion bv The Repub lican: together with other political hviH'ts of i moro local niture. For 'he .uccc.-" ol repub licanism. wh:ch is m nopynuu with pr cress, lus'ice. hnnnty and u.icral trocd m. tho He publican will labor with all possible energy and arn-s!ncs. To the weikiy edition of the Republic n ninny nrw eature will be :iilde du'ins tV present year. V ilh in ferial story, its ablv , nriniireii. pgricintunil un'ariiiicnt. its cnoico litcary selection, its inrzle department, it' l.isifien'ii)n of in.itler rltcnu. dramatic anil social, its well fi I Ird t-uto ittp.irttnont. and its ' count in complete eiitori il tl'ocu'M in r current events the weekly Repub-icm is f -ioy a paper whose onspici ms success i bae.l up'in genuine merit Ihe improvements intomlci) will m ke it a ne-ce.-sitv to every intellig'nt fimily in the w est The liberal premiums whi. h we are offering, in .ill thi year amounting to 510 OK), ren-ier a sub scription a cood financial investment, even Icaviog out ot cr.nsidtrati n the sterling quIi lics of the newsp.iper it.-elf. The premiums v iry in value from ;1000 down. The fourth dis tribution will take place April 10. 18S4 from which date there wiil be no postpono cnt for ny reason whatsoever. Sample copies sent free. Write on a postal card tor one. Kvery subscriber who pays SI 50 per year in advance will receive a premium. Remit money by potal note, money order, registerea letter, bank draf' by express trust money F. NEWHOUSE. RED CLOUD, - NEBRASKA Jerhn Zephyrs, Midnight Zephyrs, Saxony wool, Shetland wool, Shet land Floss, Germantown wool And woolen Knitin Yarn Hoods. Mittens, Children's Coats &c, &c, A full lme of HOSIERv, DRY GOODS, AND NOTIONS. MONEY! MOrEY! Xcneytolcan on inprcvei em Nebraska at tho rates of intere: farms in soata very fcest Wt desirin" we call the attention of all such accommodations, to the tarm loan department of our lmsiuess, in which we are still ollering the best iu-ducejiicut.- to th public. There is absolutely no cost to our customers. No fees for abstract title: no fees lor recording uinrtystge.: no fees lor taking acknowledgments, no i loans nam in cnecics or drafts unon which the borrower mu.-t nay a dis order to tret the money, but all loans paid in actual cash, over our counters without any deduction whatever. In placing our loans there is no te dious delay in submitting applications to eastern parties, as our facilities are such that we can close all good loans on short notice. we are prepared to fill desirable oans at nine percent, straight, with no charge of any nature whatever. All payments of interest and prim-ina may be made at our bank, and will be for Infants and Children. Caatorlaissowelladaptedtochildrenthatl Castorla ..tvu.u.l;iujta38upenortoanj-pruscrintion four Stomach known to me." H. a. Arches, sr. n I Kiu Worms,, " - I 111 So. Oxford Sr,, Brooklyn, K. Y. I "Wli cures Colic. Constipation. . Diarrhipa. Eructation, gives sleep, and oroitiotoa dV gesition. thout injurious medication. E An absolute core for Rheumatism, Sprains. Pain in 1 f' tho Back, Burns, Galls. &c. An TnntaiirAfin..a . 01 yy; i m Jrmnms'cmmxm r-; t relieving and Healing Remedy. rttfrftiisa bboula be ablressed to or through ymr ptstmaster Do roc I c,r, ;i, ..:. -..,, V i i loosely in the mails. A.l latere .6eilt ine l"tes tree of charge am! The Kupcnt.iCAX. Omaha Neb. BROWN'S IRON BITTERS will cure dyspepsia.heartbum, mala ria, kidney disease, liver complaint, and other wasting diseases. BROWN'S IRON BITTERS enriches the blood and purifies the system; cures weakness, lack of energy, etc. Try a bottle. E2Z2EE2BI BROWN'S IRON BITTERS is the only Iron preparation that does not eolorthe teeth, and will not cause headache or conti;ation, as other Iron preparations will. BROWN'S IRON BITTERS Ladies and all sufferers from neu ralgia, hysteria, and kindred com plaints, will fiad it without an equaL interest notes returned to our custom mcrs. As to our promptness and fair deal ing: we refer to those with whom we have placed loans (numbering at pres ent nearly six hundred.) Call at our oilicc, or address us through the .mail. 1 tf Simpson ifc Swee.y. B.'ne Hill, Nebras Maryatt & Cc, DEALERS IN Shop 5 Harness BY J. L. MILLER. DEALER IN HARNESS' COLLARS, SADDLES, HORSE-BLANKETS. wHIPS. COMBS. BRUSHES. HARNESS OIL And everything usnally kept in a first class shop. Two doors north of 1st Nat. Bank- RED CLOUD, NEB. Trunks & Valises, Jewelry PfQTPfflQ Al a wvuiuigui uiyu Silver and Plated Ware, Eta We keep the largest and best selected line of goods in the Repub lican Valley, which we propose to sell at such reasonable prices, that you will be convinced at once that our store is the place to get your money's worth in good goods. Call and see us before you buy. PIiATT tfEIIij THE CITY TTio Emperor Louis Napoleon smoked only the finest cigars the world could pro duce. Prof. Horsford says the Emperor s titran wcro made specially for him in Ha vana from leaf tobacco t--rown !:i the Golden Belt of North Carolina, this being the finest leaf trroivu. Blackwcil's Boll Durham Smokiii'.' Tobacco U made from the eame leaf xirci In Uis Emperor's cigar, la abso lutely pure and is unquestionably tee beet tobacco ever offered. Thackeray's Rifted danchter. Anne, in her sketch of Alfred Tennj sou, in Harper1 Monthly, tells of her visit to the preat poet. 8he found hlci smokinir Blackwell's Bull Durham Tobacco! Bent him by Hon. James BcsFell Lowell, American Minister to the Court of St James. In these days of adulteratlon.ittaacom. fort to smokers to know that the Bull Dur ham brand is absolutely pure, and made from the beet tobacco the world produces. Blackwell's Bull Durham Smokmir To bacco la the httt and purest made. All dealers bam it None genuine without the trade-mark of the Bull. res Mere R. R. Sherer, Prop. OILS AND DRUGS. 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