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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 24, 1911)
Tin: omaiia. tuksday. .iaxitakv ji. A ( err can l.rt... -..j ( 1 V.tT, rU'f P 1. I. 0 n ") a"") 4 U I K " A r1 vmic it tie aid C7 tit, . n -o nv r ii Tk 1 ! . ii 11M ITC it JiStal Glt will show you the results of farming, fruit raising and flower growing in the OiniECDini IPaiceflfincc C . nn irii tt ip s Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, California, Oregon and Washington. There are also exhibits of good roads, fish hatcheries, insect pests, irrigation projects. Lectures Iby promineet speakers IV2otioo Pictures Electrical Experiments Hawaiian Singers Band Music For literature aril information relative to western states and their resources, call at booth of UNION PACIFIC Standard Road of the West. Western Land- IProdhicts Exhibit AifldlitoiriiLiiinni 01M.A.1HLA., JMEI3IF2.AKA, eJAIMLJAElf 1S-2S, IS11 FARMING WITHLITTLE RAIN One Section of Colorado Exhibit ii Typical of Keiulti. OLD-TIJHS FROJI HUGO BOOSTS M. K. shalta, k lias PUw Maay ettlera a l.aad, KataaBlastlo Over th Prsaet" af "I remember when eastern Colorado had Jit a few people raising cattle and sheep. That was In 1H69. when I crossed the Colo rado plains, coming from Iowa In prairie rhoor.er," remarked H. K. Bhutli ot Huso, Colo.. In remlnlscenc yesterday. "I followed the famous Kit Carson trail to Fueblo, Colo. In those daya eastern Colo rado certainly lived up to Ha name of 'dtaert-' I stayed sis montha and then went back to Iowa: but I decided that I would make Colorado my home some day, nd thirty-six years later I did 0 back to the Centennial state. I arueaa everybody wants to live In Colorado once they aee It." Mr. Shulta la a booster of dry farming lands In Uncoln county. Colorado. His exhibit of corns, grains and grasae at the Land ahow Is Instructive In the rapid strides being made In "farming with little ruin.' "No." he said, when asked for aome ot his experiences while crossing a country which was then Infested with outlaws, Inolans and wild animal, to say nothing of warring cowmen and heep herders, Tn afraid I don't remember anything special. You see." he explained apologeti cally, "we had narrow escapes from In diana, but at the time I didn't take any aotlc of them, for such things weren't Unusual. "An amusing incident I do recollect. Going back to Iowa, wa had camped just west of the Nebraska-Colorado line. We had grob ready, and were Just sitting down when we thought we heard thunder. That wu out of the ordinary, for thunder storm came about once every two years thr. We were young. Inexperienced chaps and eaaily scared. We got up and listened. Suddenly one of the boys let out a whoop 'Buffalo stampede,' he yelled. The hair upon my head, and we stood with knee shaking for a couple ot minutes. We had heard of buffalo stampeding and mashing everything In their rath Into the dur So we set fire to the prairie grass and tried to heed the buffalo off. Well, the Joke of It was that the turd waa about a mils or two east of us- The pounding of their hoofs made such a roar that It was hard for green young fellows like us to 111 Just where they were." . Dry Karaalasr Brlaga Results. 1,1 r. rihults predicts for eastern Calaroda "dry farming" counties, ' and Uncoln county in particular, a gradual but big In 'nuf In land value. He is the man who settled up the Hugo district with over sua middle west farmers and their families. The first land tn LUncoln county was broken by John Lieber of Hugo, who came frora South Dakota to try cattle raising. At the aame time he broke up soma farm ing laud. At the end of two years he found farn.ing more profitable than rattle rais ing, and so turned over UO acres of land. "A good many years ago I operated In fuuih Dakota." aaod Mr. Shulta. "and I iivve t-a the time when that country waa eiiied tip In the big rueh for government Ui'il. ai.J tutsa d.-popuUtcd because crops .uJ be grown there. Now dry land in that state la worth S0 to tlOO an acrn., cultivation and setlllug up of the land brought more rainfall and better condi tions. ' , "The same thing Is happening In eastern Colorado. This section has seventeen Inches ot rainfall annually on an' average,. Lt year was very dry we had only about eight Inches of rain yet forty and forty-five bushels of corn an acre were raised. "Wheat, oats- and corn grow well In pur country. Drouth-resistant forages like sorghum cane, milo malxe and alfalfa grow sure crops every year. "Kd Rlckenberg Is one of our farmers who raised forty-seven and a halt bushels of corn an aore on his land. He fed three carloads of steers that topped the market at Denver, fattened a carload of hogs and still had I.fcOO bushels ot corn left In the crib. All this was grown on 120 acrea of land. Mr. Klckenberg came from Boone, la. He has been offered as high as (40 an acre tor hla farm. Moms Meltable Saeeuea. "And here's a Missouri farmer, Isaac retltt, who rame to Uncoln county and took up a homestead. Wlten he arrived lit only had a team and wagon and a tew hundred dollars. That waa tour years ago. Now he has as pretty a home as a man could want, has 1ft) acrea of land and has $1,000 or C.000 tn the bank. "The farmer who ralaed the ben oats in Uncoln county this year was Willis Kice, who came from Montana and bought a relinquishment. He has succtcUcU very well." Homesteads are found thirty miles from the railway In Uncoln county. Relinquish ments of homesteads nearer towns can be bought lor from 11,000 to f3,0utt per quarter section. Carl Martin of Lincoln county ralaed one-quarter acre of cabbage that brought htm One farmer ralaed one acre of garden truck that netted him tSOO, Thee two patches were Irrigated from wells. Water Is found at a ilepth of five to fifty feet In Lincoln county. Pump Irrigation will be tried , out this year. "Hoaever." staled Mr. Shulta, "not many of our farmers believe pump Irriga tion will be worth what It costs, as the iana. at me price it can be. bought, pays good money on the Investment. If com mon sense metheds' of dry. farming are ueed." In 16 land was worth SI. 26 to t! an acre, now It la selling for 110 to 125 an acre. Thee are the last cheap lands of Colo rado. That the rise In values has not reached Its height la conceded by all who have watched the devlopmnt bf the re gion for the pant five or ten years. KIPERTl TEH. OS TUB KILO Profs. Haerker aad Meltek Leetar oa PreaerTta Fodder. The silo exhibit at the Land show waa put up yesterday by Profs. A. L. Hearker, 8. C. Clark and C. W. Mcllck. all of the I'nlverslty of Nebraska. Literature oa the silo and dairying will be distributed at this booth during the week. Prof. Mellck ill give a lecture at 1:30 o'clock this af ternoon on "Dairy Sanitation. Ha will use about 100 lantern alldea, showing san itary and unsanitary conditions of the dalrlea of Nebraaka and vicinity. Ha is a resident of Omaha, but at present teaching In the state agricultural col leg a Prof. Haecaer will lecture on the silo and tha value of silage for feeding llvs stocM oa the Nebraska farm every after Boon during the week. A Guarantee of Business Prosperity The Bee Advertising Columns, SHOW A MANY-SIDED BENEFIT Cold Storage Flan for Resource ii Not Liked fcy All. SOUTH DAK0TAN TALKS BLUNTLY Ople 1 ha tubers Inelsts Xtrlct Conserva tionists Arc as Uangeroaa la Taelr War as I ntrrup nloua Capitalists. "If the Omaha Land show accomplished nothing more than an expreattton of senti ment against the radical policy of Roone elt, Pirichol and the other conservation eccentrics. It would be giving the western country a blessed favor." This was the declaration ot Ople Chamber ot the West ern Townslte company, representing South Dakota land. Mr. Chambers made the assertion In an Interview on the proposed meeting of western land dealers Tuesday morning to discuss conservation. "I believe In the protection of great nat ural resources from wholesale deatructlon and waste." said Mr. Chambers, "but I am emphatically orpoeed to having the re sources figuratively placed In an Ice box for that protection. There are hundreds of other thinking people of the west, anxious to develop the country and accomplish the good of the nation, who also hold those beliefs. If Roosevelt. Plnchot and mem bers of the recent conservation congress had their way we westerners would be forever throttled. "Of course. If the Ouggenhetms and Rothschilds controlled the lands, forest and water rights of the country, the nation ee aentially would be under a yoke. To con serve resource from th wholesale grab bing by thes money giant by a system of limitation would advance the Interest of the country. But th conservationist are tying a harmful a chain on the land a the capitalist would, when they propose to withhold the national resource absolutely from th field of large development. West tl iiti a t kaace. Krom all I have been atl to learn the west wants th land and power rights thrown open to development and It Is not rabidly particular whether th Guggen helms, Rothschilds or Mr. Sam Jones doe the developing. We want the men who are able to exploit our resource and turn them Into really productive force, to go ahead and do so. W absolutely do not want the government holding all th right ot th western empire In safety deposit to be withdrawn piecemeal, an Inch at a time. The latter policy. If carried out, would ar rest tbe growth of our western state for thirty or fifty year. Fifty year la a long, long time In this age of dynamic when a town 1 built In a day." Mr. Chamber declared he would attend the meeting Tuesday, which Is to be held at th Hotel Rome and at which It la pro posed a resolution shall be passed setting forth the wishes and Idea of th men of tl west. Scores of homesteader from th land of South Dakota, Colorado, Idaho and th Paclflo coast state wlU be present at th ineettng. Many of thos who shall attend are men who hold title to vast stretches of western oil and who are, to a coloasal extent, building a real empire. Borne, Interested In lands ahlch a few year ago wsr arid desert, baked by th sun and Inhabited by soarcaly a living creature, are prepared to tell how money and genius created a new world throuxh Irrigation projects. Other ar Interested In the territory which pos ses alt the natural rlchripMS In the giving of a good provldnnoe, but which until now through a freule pf chance has never' been generally known 'or appreciated. Mr. Chambers ta one of those who come from the region where the bounties of heaven, in rich loam, rain add sunshine are to be had without the resort to artificial tampering. He boasts that he Is an irriga tion enthusiast, but Is robbed of the chance to use that method of agriculture, owing to the fortunate nature of the South Dakota climate. , FOYES GIVES LECTURE SERIES nODY.MS tOMKH TO l.AU SHOW Secretary of ladtaaapolla. Trade A ociatloa Pay Omaha a Visit. Will J. Dobyns. secretary of the Indian apolis Trade association, will be In Omaha this week because he has heard so much of this city and Its progressive way and means that ha feel duty bond to pay Omaha a visit. Some months ago when the member of the Adsc.rtot club of IndUnapolla returned home from the national convention of ad vertising men at Omaha they reported to Mr. Dobyns that Omaha Is a city where co-operation and original Ideas are getting result in the modern game of municipal competition. Mr. Dobyns Is particularly Interested in the famous Ak-ar-Uen and the Land show, concerning which stories have spread all over the United States and which, Mr. Dobyn declares, ar th best advertising feature he ha ever seen a city promote. The organisation which Mr. Dobyn repre sent I composed of Jobbers and manu facturers, SCO being members. This organi sation la a "live wire" In th middle wei and although only eight months old has already accomplished results that com pare with the effort of similar organisa tions In Chicago. St. Louis and rival cltle. Paul P. Willi, who It will be re membered wa a prominent delegate at th advertising convention here last summer, 1 now associated with Mr. Dobyns a assistant secretary. Mr. Willi ha re signed a publicity director for the Willy Overland company In order to take charge of th municipal publicity and advertising campaign of Indianapolis. BIG MOMCV IX COLORADO I..IND A. a. lUks Tells of th Great His ta Valae la Writers U. A. Q. Hahn. promlent citizen of Foils, rt. D., who la heavily interested In Colorado land 1 attending th Land ahow, with headquarter at th Paxton hotel. About seven year ago he purchased B 000 acres of dry farming land from th Union Pacific, most of tt in Lincoln county, Colorado. Hi friend at horn thought he needed a guardian, as they consider! that class ot land little better than a cieaert. This same land la selling now for from $15 to per acre. "Land that will produce forty-five bushel ot good corn In an off year like th last one Is worth 1100 per acre based simply on its producing value," said Mr. Hahn. "Your Land ahow her will bring greater reaulu than any ahow ever held anywhere, because people who attend ar chiefly weatera people and when they see th ex hibit they appreciate them. This I not always tb caa with people In the east." Krlshtfal spasms of th stomach, Uver torpid, lam back and weak k.fney ar overcom by Electrlo f titters. Guaranteed. Wo. For sal by Beaton Drug Co. A Quarsniea ot Business Prosperity Th Perststnnt and Wise Patronage ot Th Be Advertising Column Immigration Agent Talks Interest' ingly at Land Show. TALKS ON NORTHWESTERN LAND Dry Csrmlsg, Alfalfa Halnlagr In Ycl loerstonc Valley and Beantlc of Pyramid Park Described by George W. Fores. Genrge T. Foye. traveling Immigration agent of the Northern Pacific railroad, Is giving a series of Interesting lectures at th Land Hhow. HI ar descriptive talks strengthened by tatitlc of the northwest territory. He gives a fine word-picture of thes newly developing states, at th ame time presenting th many advantage ot nortu western land. . Spoaklng of dry fanning. Mr. Foye says: "At the Dry Farming congress, which met at Billings In 1909, It waa stated that esti mate show that west of th Missouri river there are In excess ot S00.000.000 acre of unoocupled dry land whfch never can be Irritated, owing to topographical condi tion i and lack of water supply. It Is claimed that moat or all of this acreage can be farmed successfully under the metlioda of moisture conservation and cul tivation advocated by th ao-called dry farmer. It was proven that with an an nual rainfall of only aeven and a half Incites profitable crop have been raised by di"y farming. At a conservative estimate thes 00,000,000 acrea of arid lands should be capable of supporting 1,000.000 families, or S.000,000 people." While giving an immense fund of valu able Information, Mr. Foye ha many thing to say of th scenery along th rout of th Northern Paclflo. Describe Pyramid Park. Concerning picturesque Pyramid park, he says: "At Medora we ar In tha heart of the famous Pyramid park. Petrified tre stump dot th landscape and an army ot spires, bluffs, hills, buttea and castled cliffs rise from the plain, garbed In strik ing colors that attract th eye. Red and pink ar the predominant color, but coal black, gray and drab are blended with them, causing fantastic effects. These hills, washed by the eternal rains, have teen eroded Into cone, pyramids and squares, which ar circumscribed by rugged, twisting ravines, gouged out by the torrential floods. Ancient coal beds hav burned out, or In place ar tlll burning. Thes plalna and draw ar cov. ered With a moat uolent graaa that fur nishes feed for thousands of cattle, and the gulchea provide them with shelter." . Alfalfa and sugar beet are raised ex tcnslvsly in th Tellowstone valley. Alfalfa Thrive la Valley. Concerning the crop he says: "On of th principal crop In th Yellowstone valley Is alfalfa. Three and four crops of alfalfa ar ralaed In th sam year. It averages from lx to eight ton per acre and nets th farmer on an average of tit per ton in th taA, or from 30 to t0 per acre. A th land coat not to much exceed $M per acre. It la evident that till 1 a better return than eastern farm er ordinarily obtain. "Th beet ugar Industry In th Yellow stcne valley Is auto assuming larg pro portion. A beet sugar plant of 1.2U0 tons daily capacity Is In operation at Billings, Mont., and the aortag given to sugar beet I yearly Increasing." Mr. Koe's lectures sre made especially iutlv UU slersoptiuua views Syrian Introduces New Crop that May 'Prove Very Valuable Variety of Pea Known as Hamus is Grown in South Dakota with Good Results. PIERRE. S. D.. Jan. When Stanley county wa being settled up several year ago, a colony of ; yrlans cam out from Cedar Rapids. Ia., and took a larg tract of land among them as homesteads. Most of them "proved up" and went back to Iowa and their peddling as soon as they could get title. But Ella Risk, one of the part v. was a fim.r i. Syria, and remained with hi land. On tnat he ha Introduced a new crop for this country from seed hn hl unt him Syria, where the crop conditions are simiimr to mis country. It Is a species of 'Hamus" in its natlv are used for human pea. which Is called country. The peas food as are beans In tills country, and th plant makes excellent forage for live stock, as they are said to eat it as cleanly as they do alfalfa. With the dry weather of laoi. j r i ue raisuu lorty Dusnei 01 Pea "u . laiso amount ui lurage to .ine acr with thl crop, and It Is attracting a grea deal of atttention in that section. The crop la claimed to mature more quickly and In bettor Shape In a dry season than In a wet one, and If the claim of himself and neighbors as to what the new crop In a wet one, and If the claim of himself will do, are realised, he has Introduced something of great value to the country west of the Missouri river. Kuprrmr Court Take Ttecess. WASHINGTON. Jan. 23. The supreme court of the United States, after announc ing opinions next Monday, will tak a recess until February 20. It is believed much of the recess will be spent consider ing the arguments and preparing decision in the Standard Oil, American Tobacco nd corporation tax cane. The Mussellsheil Country In south central Montana bor dering the Musselshell River favr abut 100 miles is a rich agricul tural region, recently opened by the construction of the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Railway. The soil of this district is a loam of goo.l depth and fertility. It produces from UO to 45 bushels of winter wheat per acre, 50 to 80 bushels of oats, 35 to 40 bushels of bar ley, 25 to 30 bushels of rye, and 10 to 18 bushels of flax. The local market for grain ia excellent. Coal and wood are abnndant and cheap. The climate la mild and healthful and the drinking water ia good. Good deeded lands sell from $15 to $25 per acre. There is also government land that may be home ateaded. ' The Musselshell Country i deacrlbed fully in an illustrated booklet that will be aent free on request. CHICAGO Milwaukee and St. Paul 3 RAILWAY K. A. M1LLKB General Pauenger Agent U CHICAGO GKO. II. HAVXKS, Immigration Ageut 730 Marquette liuildinK CHICAGO r