Richest Soil On Earth In Sherman County.
Jacob Trachsel’s Orchard"Four Miles^l ast of Gnmliami.
TWENTY YEANS
EXPERIENCE.
I arrived in ^Sherman county
in 1887, was uie possessor of two
horse* and two cows; homesteaded
one quarter section. I have not
in my twenty years’ experience
failed to raise sufficient crops to
maintain my family. During the
year 1892, I sold my original
homestead and purchased my
present location, consisting of 480
acres.
I came herewith approximately
$400, was on homestead five years
making a good living. During
that time, I paid $2,100 for the
new place, which now speaks for
itself. Farming like all other
enterprises, is a study, and should
be conducted on business princi
ples; my place is open to inspec
tion to anyone who desires to call
and 1 will be pleased to give any
prospective settler my knowledge
ol the conditions and experiences
for the past twenty years. As to
successful fruit raising without
irrigation, my orchard was started
12 years ago, ami i would Lu
willing to compare my apples or
cherries for quality or quantity
with the average orchard of the
United States. Fruit can be suc
cessively raised in Sherman
county. In making this state
ment, I have the evidence to show.
Jacob Tkachskl.
KIVEKS.
Two streams, the Smoky and
the Beaver are the only rivers
found in the county. The Smoky
river has running water in it dur
ing the greater part of the year,
and at times is almost impassable,
and has very treacherous currents.
The Beaver is not as large as the
Smoky, and has running water
only during a portion of the year.
The smoky river is a tributary to
the Kansas river, and the valley
through which it passes has a
great many springs.
MONEY RAISING WHEAT.
It costs $1.31 to raise an acre of
In‘at, first and last; 20 bushels at 60
»'* iit» is a profit tif almost $12.69 an
acre. Many fields produce 35 bushels.
Multiply it by 500, a common acreage,
and see where you are. You, too,
I would enjoy life.
The farmer’s wife comes in for her
share—and she deserves it. She has
learned a great deal about the best
modes of living in the past six years.
“You look lonesome:” remarked a
traveler to a farmer who stood by the
Highway leaning di scon tented ly on a
tork. ”1 am lonesome—my wife has
gone cast to put the girls in college
and things are rather slow. ”
'“Why didn’t you go along?”
■t ouldn't. The folks made me put
. water all over the house, pump it
with a windmill or me gasoline engine,
and 1 have got to stay here and w atch
the plumbers. The wheat was so good
we had to spend the money somehow,
anu the women folks wanted this.”
ONE CROP PAID ALL HIS
DEBTS.
I catne here from Galesburg,
111., in 1879. I first made a livi ng
by picking up buffalo and other
bones which I hauled to Grinell,
Kansas. Later when settlers be
gan coming in, I made some mon
ey locating homesteaders, anti
took up a claim myself. In 1895
I offered the cashier of the Sher
man County Bank everything I
had if he would take it and settle:
my debt to the bank and let me
walk out. He persuaded me \o
stick, and gave me seed wheat on
credit again. That year my
wheat crop paid all my debts. I
still own my original claim nine
miles north of Brewster. I hrave
1,120 acres in one piece, and 400
in another, worth iri/ all $20„OO0,
also, $3,500 worth of 2«cattle:„ 10
head of horses, besides'• my farm
machinery. My personal prop
erty is worth $5,000 and 1 have a
$2,900 home in Brewster.
R. T. Hkming,
Goodland, Kan.s.
Improved farm five miles southeast of Goodland, Kansas.
SCHOOLS.
The homeBeeker of now is a man who
wants a good school for his children
and good society for his family as
much as he does productive land. To
iiim this district would appeal very
strongly. There are no better schools
or teachers to be fonnd in the east,
while the church spire is on every
side. The High school system in this
county provides the best of education
al facilities. The school is free and
eligible to pupils who can pass the
examination. We have a college pre
paratory course and their diploma ad
mi ts to the freshman year in any col
lege’ in the state and also to the State
University. Graduates from the Nor
mal course receive a certificate valid
for two years; and a complete business
college course including commercial
law.
D. C. Dcr by of Goodland had twelve
young cherry trees that averaged a
bushel of chorries to the tree last sea
son of as fine fruit as can be found
anywhere in ithe State. This ought to
convince any skeptical person that
good fruit cam be raised here if prop
er care is giv en the trees.
If you wish to buy or sell lands or
property, call on or write The T. V,
Lowe Realty Co., Goodland, Kansas,
as we have automobiles ready to take
customers out to see the property and
are always ready to do so. If you
want a farm or horns, now is the time
investigate this country, as land is
steadily on the advance inmrices, and
lands are selling and changing hands
rapidly and you will have to pay two
or three times as much for land in the
near future as you can buy our snap
bargains for today.
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MARKETS.
The markets are unexcelled. This
country is enviably situated in that
regard. Denver, Colorado Springs
Pueblo and the Rocky Mountain trade
with its army of miners and of hungry,
money spending tourists, takes all ths
produce at high prices on a short haul
and cries for more; and the trucker is
not here subject to the caprice or hon
esty of the commission man either.
Kansas City, St. Louis, Omaha and
St. Joseph on the east and Denver,
Colorado Springs and Pueblo on the
west nay the diversified farmer the
same prices for his stock and his grail
that are paid the Iowa, Missouri and
Tsebraska farmers for their products.
Come
to
Goodlamd.
Money For
You In
Sherman Co.
Lana.
WHEAT. COHN AND
LIVESTOCK.
We arrived in Sherman county
in the spring of 1880. with team
wagon and harness and the neces
sary farming implements a man
would need in a prairie country,
which consists of a breaking plow,
mowing machine and a few other
farm implements, amounting in
all to about $300.
Wc have raised more than
enough grain and feed to supply
our needs every year excepting
the year 1804, since coming to
this county. For a number of
years we have been engaged in
the stock industry in connection
with our farm, and a great many
years we raised corn from 25 to
40 bu. per acre; most of the sea
sons our wheat has made from 15
to 30 bushels per acre. Oats and
barley ranging frora 40 to 70
bushels per acre.
We wish to sav to those look
ing tor a new location that we
do not know of any place where
a poor man can earn for himself
a home any quicker than in Sher
man county. We have good
schools, churches and all the ad
vantages enjoyed by the settlers
of an old settled country.
We wish to say further that
our experience in corn raising has
been that every year’s cultivation
has demonstrated that the longer
land is cultivated the better corn
we will be able to raise; this is
true in the successful raising of
many other crops. We will show
to anyone coming here that what
we have said is absolutely correct.
Herman & Earnest Grieger.
Sherman County High School, Built in 1909 at a cost of $30000
Goodland, Kansas.
FROM AN OLD SETTLER.
I came here in 1878, and took a
homestead. The first year I broke
45 acres and commenced raising
wheat and have been at f.t ever
since. The first few years I
hauled to Benkelman, Neb, (100
miles) and sold at 40 cents per
bushel and returned with a 1 oad
of lumber—that would be a big
job now. I have been riel ily
blessed and today my sons and I
own 2,860 act es of land, about om *
half of which is incultivation am f
and most all in wheat each year,
with probably an average yearly
yield of upwards <*£ 15 bushels 1
per acre. I think there are lots;
of renters and men working by j
day or night, in oureasternstates,.]
who, if they would come here a*td
get a farm while land is cheap,
would be better off than where
they are, for a matt who has push
and is willing to work can get a
start here quicker and easier than
any place I know of. Besides
wheat we raise corn, alfalfa, kaf- j
fir corn, millet, cane, cattle, hogs, !
horses and mules.
W. L. Bogakt.
TAXES ARE LOW.
Sherman county iso:ut of debt
land has money in the treasury.;
Sherman county owns its own
court house, jail and olliei’ build
ing's, including a nice p, irk. Her
people are out of debt, <>0 per cent
of the larmers in Siierrn anc'.ounty
own from 320 to 1,000 acres of
and, besides having th< ii places
1 well stocked with high- grad, cat
tle and horses, and the t est .thus
of farm buildings and improve
ment*.
RAISED GOOD CROPS.
G. W. Gattschall and son, Fred
who together have farmed the
Harms place the last year raised
good crops. The place consists
of 560 acres of which 300 acres
were put into crops. They raised
this year 30 tons of millet, 45
tons of cane, 50- bushels of cane
seed, 300 bushels of corn, 200
bushels of oats, 1,000 bushels of
wheat, and 2,7u0 bushels of bar
ley. On a conservative estimate
the crops raised > re worth $3,000.
The place was fa rmed on shares;
the owner will realize a little
over $1,000 and tb e renters a little
over $2,000._
Goodland was pl&l ted and laid out
in October, 1887. _
ELEVATION.
The highest record of elevation of
Sherman county is at Kanorado, Kan
sas, on the Rock Island, 18 miles west
of Goodland, and iB 3,600 feet above
the sea level. The air is rare and pure
and of wonderful transparency. Cy
clones have never oceured here in the
memory of the oldest inhabitant. The
nearness to the mountains is supposed
to prevent their formation.
Sherman, the finest county in the
state of Kansas. Come and see.
WESTERN KANSAS.
The reports received bv Sec
retary Coburn, of the Kansas
state board of agricultre, show
that counties along the western
border of Kansas are not only
keeping up with, but in some in
stances surpassing the rapid
growth of the rest of the state.
Money Made Raising* Wheat In
Sherman County,Kansaa.
(\ FEW SAMPLES.
Look the following descriptions
over they may interest you:
320 acres, 34 miles south of
Goodland, all smooth, 160 acres
in a fine state of cultivation, one
of the finest farms in the state,
offered at $«,000.
160 acres, one mile south of
Ruleton, all smooth, improved
with a three room sod house in
good repair, frame barn, corn
crib and granary, well of splen
did water with pump and wind
mill, fenced and cross fenced,
100 acres under plow, a very fine
farm, only $3000.
160 acres ten miles north of
Goodland, all smooth, native
grass, well located as to school
etc., $2,000.
Will be pleased to send you a
li»t of lands we have for mla
upon raqaset
