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Wheat "o
Oats r3
Rye 32
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The Cost of Raising Wheat.
The Tribune some weeks since print
ed a number of voluntary statements
from farmers of Red Willow county , of
crops raised by them in 1897 ; among the
number none attracted so much atten
tion and called for thso much criticism as
the one given b > C. P. Underwood of
Danbury. So we have thought it better
to give the figures upon which Mr. Un
derwood based his statement :
Danbury , Neb. , Feb. 1st , 1898.
As requested I append herewith the
cost of raising 4,627 bushels of wheat and
300 bushels of rye on the northwest
quarter of section 7-1-27 , located two
miles north of Danbury , Nebraska :
SOWING.
176 bushels of wheat at 45c $29.20
16 bushels rye at20c 3.20
2 men drilling 13 days 18.00
Board of men at $1.50 per week. . 6.00
Feed of teams 3 50
$109 90
BREAKING STALKS.
Breaking stalks 1 man 8 days 6.00
Board 1.50
Feed of team 75
HARVESTING.
Heading $ 80.00
6 men 8 days 550
Boarding men 10.50
Feeding teams 5.00
$146.00
THRESHING.
Machine $105.00
10 men 5 days 50.00
1 man 3 days 3 00
5 teams 5 days 37.50
Board men 5 days 20.25
Feeding teams 4.00
$219-73
Interest on cost of land $ See at 10
per cent $ 80.00
Taxes 13.00
$ 93-QQ
Grand total $576.90
Net cost per bushel , 11 i-S cents.
I had two men working for me by the
month at $18 per month and board.
After seeding was over I figured these
men at $1 per day , the same as I paid
other hands in the harvest field and for
threshing.
C. P. Underwood.
These are remarkable figures and
doubtless come under extraordinary cir
cumstances , and cannot safely be taken
as fixing the average price at which
wheat can be produced in this or any
other country , but they do show what
has been and what can be done in this
country under certain circumstances.
School Business.
During the month of February I will
be in McCook as follows : Friday , the
4th , and Saturday , the 12th , 19th , and
26th. Any one desiring to see me will
find me at my office in the court house.
Special examination the 12th. I will
hold examination in the school house in
Indianola , Saturday , the 5th.
LlI/MAN WELBORN ,
County Superintendent.
Good House for Sale.
I offer my five-room dwelling for sale
on easy terms. If } 'Ou mean business call
at my store. J. H. Bennett.
FARM FOR RENT.
Inquire of J. V. Wharton at the hard
ware store of S. M. Cochran & Co. 3ts
EGGS FOR SALE.
S. C. Brown Leghorn eggs at 25 cents a
dozen after March 1. M. C. Maxwell.
The Tribune and Demorest's Family
Magazine for $1.75 a year , strictly in
advance.
McConnell's Balsam cures coughs.
McMillen's Cough Cure ; 25c.
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LINCOLN , DENVER ,
OMAHA , HELENA ,
CHICAGO. BUTTE ,
ST. JOSEPH , PORTLAND.
KANSAS CITY , SALT LAKE CITY ,
ST. LOUIS and am. SAN FRANCISCO ,
POINTS EAST AND AND ALL POINTS
SOUTH. WKS'l.
TRAINS LEAVE AS FOLLOWS :
CENTRAL TIME.
No. 2. Vestibuled Express , daily ,
Lincoln , Omaha , St , Joe ,
Kansas City , St. Louis.Chi-
cn o , and all points south
and east 6:00 a. m.
No. 4. Local Express , daily , Hast
ings 3:20 r. m.
No. 6. Chicago Flyer 5:22 i . m.
N0.148. Freight , daily , ex. Sunday ,
. Hastings and intermediate
stations 5:00 A. M.
No. 76. Freight , daily , Oxford , Hol-
drege , Hastings 6:45 A.M.
No. 80 , Freight , daily , Hastings and
intermediate stations 7:27 A. M.
No. 64. Freight , daily , Oxford , Red
Cloud , St. Joe , Kansas City 4:00 A. M.
No. 5. J.ocal Express , daily , ar
rives at 8:40 p. M.
MOUNTAIN TIME.
No. 1. Denver Flyer 6:32 A.M.
No. 3. Vestibuled Express , daily ,
Denver and all points in
Colo.Utah and California , 11:40 P.M.
N0.149. Freight , daily , ex. Sunday ,
Akron and intermediatesta-
tions 6:00 a. M.
No. 77. Freight , daiIyStratton,15en
kelnian , Ilaigler , Wray and
Akron 1:30 P. M.
No. 63. Freight , dailyStrattonBen- *
kelman , Ilaigler , Wray and
Akron 4:20 : p. m.
N0.175. Accommodation , Mondays ,
Wednesdays and Fridays ,
Imperial and intermediate
stations 7:00 A. M.
Sleeping , dining and reclining chair cars
( seats free ) on through trains. Tickets sold
and baggage checked to any point in the
United States or Canada.
For information , time tables , maps and
tickets , call on or write A.P.Thomson , Agent ,
McCook , Nebraska , or J. Francis , General
Passenger Agent , Omaha , Nebraska.
RAILROAD NEWS ITEMS.
S. Wilburn is now making his home in
Denver instead of Roggen , Colo.
Thirty loads of stock were hauled off
the Orleans-St. Francis line , last week.
Mrs. J. E. Robison returned home to
Wauneta , Monday morning , on the Im
perial train.
J. R. Mowbray of Lincoln , was the
guest of his sister , Mrs. C. E. Pope , part
of last week.
The government lien on the Kansas
Pacific was wiped out recently by the
sale of the road.
The shop and office hands were given
a holiday on Tuesday , the birthday of
the father of his country.
Mrs. Dennis Cullen and Mrs. B. V.
Haley returned , last Friday evening ,
from a short visit to Omaha.
Operator Hall of Oxford has been trans
ferred from that place to Red Cloud and
Operator Young of Red Cloud to Oxford.
Switchman J.R. VanHorn was up from
Red Cloud , Wednesday , consulting Dr.
E. H. Waters of the Burlington Relief.
R. L Harris and wife returned , this
week , from McCook , where they have
been visiting for the past two weeks.
Alliance Grip.
Trainmaster J. C. Birdsell came down
from Alliance , Wednesday night , being
called here by the serious illness of
Father Bonnot.
Conductor L. M. Ferrier and wife left
Monday night , for Culbertson and Be
atrice , where they will visit friends for
the next two weeks.
Conductor A. P. Bonnet has been
laying off part of the week , on account
of the illness of his father. Conductor
V. H. Solliday has been on his run mean
while.
The new blacksmith shop adds two
fires more to the capacity of the shop
and provides for space for additional
fires as they may be needed , all of which
is pleasing to the old veteran of that de
partment , John Roxby.
Dennis Cullen has just received a
White Plymouth Rock cock which scores
94 1-4 points from Squthwick & Bartley ,
Friend , of the Hawkins strain , which he
will n-iate with a half dozen pullets that
score 93 points , and he expects to have
some fine birds in due time.
A traveling man by the name of Cran-
dell , who travels for a Lincoln jewelry
house , fell over a spittoon in a way car ,
close of last week , and quite badly
sprained his ankle. He did not wait un
til the train had stopped before getting
up to go out of the car and when it did
stop with a sudden bump he was thrown
over the spittoon with the result above
described. He left for Lincoln , Sunday
afternoon , on No. 6
The largest locomotive in the world
has recently been built for the Great
Northern railroad for use on the moun
tain division of the road in hauling heavy
trains. Its proportions and dimensions
are far and away beyond anything in the
line of locomotives ever constructed. A
few of its dimensions are : Cylinders
21x34 inches , giving the longest stroke
ever used on a locomotive ; the steam
pressure is 210 pounds ; the weight of the
engine is 212,750 pounds , and with the
tender is 308,750 pounds ; horse power is
2,640 ; drawbar pull is 23 tons ; hauling
capacity is 7,700 tons on a level , although
in a recent test the engine hauled 1.070
tons up a grade of 87 feet to the mile ,
upon which was a 4 degree curve ; the
boiler is of immense size and capacity.
Its outside diameter is 78 inches in the
smallest ring and 87 1-8 inches at the
largest part.
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Conductor Tim Foley has Conductor
Bonnot's run for the present.
Mrs. O. D. Keith went down to Hast
ings , Wednesday , on a visit to friends.
Brakeman Mack Wayson is on the
sick-list with a painfully ulcerated tooth.
C. J. Snell returned home , first of the
week , after a short absence from the city
on a visit.
Brakeman George Pearce is now in
charge of a crew on the western end of
this division.
Mrs. W. H. Brown went down to
Hastings , Saturday last , on a short visit
to her mother.
Oscar Yarger expects to be able to re
sume the agency at Heartwell.next week ,
as his health is quite restored.
Conductor and Mrs. Frank Kendlen
were in Hastings , Wednesday , and at
tended a blow-out of the Elks.
Miss Minnie Green , daughter of Agent
Green at Culbertson , was down on Mon
day evening to hear the concert.
Brakeman G. C. Mason has been promoted
meted to a conductorship on the Chey
enne line , and left for there on No. 4 ,
Wednesday.
Conductor George Willetts went up to
Denver , last night , to bring the wife and
family down. They will occupy ' the J.
H. Bennett house.
Brakeman Emil Farmen of the Hast-
ings-Oberlin run is on the sick-list , and
Brakeman L. M. Best of McCook is down
there now in his place.
Assist. Supt. Highland came down
from Denver , Thursday afternoon , to
confer with headquarters officials over
some prospective changes in the time
card of the division.
L. E. Gilcrest , Mose Carmony , B. L.
McCarl , G. W. Connor , Albert O'Neil ,
G. R. Johnson and H. P. Sutton were
duck-hunting in the neighborhood of
Bartley , Wednesday , and succeeded in
bagging some game.
Brakeman B. C Monpleasure accom
panied Mrs. Monpleasure to Denver ,
Monday night , where she will enter a
hospital. Brakeman F. D. Griffith went
down to the Hastiugs-Oberlin line from
here to take his place in the meanwhile.
Attention , Sportsmen !
The Nebraska game laws provide , in
section five , as follows :
It shall be unlawful for any person , at
any time of the 3Tear , by the aid or use
of any swivel-gun , punt-gun , big gun , or
any other than the common shoulder
gun , or by the aid or use or any raft ,
punt boat , sneak boat or other boat , to
catch , kill or destroy , or to pursue after
with intent to catch , kill , wound , or de-
stroj' , upon any waters , bays , rivers ,
marshes , mud flats , or any cover to which
wild fowl resort within the state of Ne
braska , any wild goose or brant , wild
mallard duck , wood duck , teal duck ,
shoveller or spoon-bill duck , blue-bill or
scaup duck , canvass-back duck , red-head
duck , wigeon or bald-pate duck , gadwall
orgray duck , dusky or black duck , buffle-
headed or butter-ball duck , pin or sprigtail -
tail duck , ruddy or turkey-tail duck , or
other wild duck , or to destroy or disturb
the eggs of any of the birds above named ,
and it shall also be unlawful for any per
son at any time of the year to dig , build ,
or construct any blind , hiding place , or
structure in the bed of any river , stream ,
or lake with intent to catch , kill , wound ,
or destroy any of said birds , or at any
time of the year to shoot or shoot at any
of said birds by wading in any river ,
stream , or lake , or by standing in the
bed thereof , or to shoot or shoot at any
of said birds from any such blind , hiding
place , or structure , and any person violating
lating any of the provisions of this sec
tion shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor
meaner , and on conviction shall be fined
in any sum not less than twenty-five (25) )
dollars , nor more than fifty (50) ( ) dollars
for each offense.
Pay Your Delinquency.
In view of the better times , and higher
prices for grain etc. , the publisher ex
pects those indebted to The Tribune
for subscription to make good their de
linquencies at once. During the con
tinued hard times and failures no effort
was made to force the collection of sub
scription accounts , but now that the con
ditions have changed greatly for the bet
ter it is expected that these delinquencies
will be promptly paid up. Statements
will be sent out to all in arrears and with
the expectation that all will appreciate
our past indulgence and respond at once.
The Publisher.
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