TTTT; REE: OMAHA. SATTTJDAY. ATOTTi P. 1011.
UTAH PIONEER h IRRIGATION :
First Successful Americsu Ljstcm of
Watr Service Evolved There.
COUNTRY OF SMiLL I ARMS
erns;e Trrl (omprliiri Forl terra
"f Vrll Drrrlfiprd mul llluhly
lraprnN) Land licet
i rrp lirnnn,
View in Idaho Orchard Country
Apples on E.YSteed'S'
. . V ii, the
l.: t-ar.;. settlers
r '- (,., ii," having
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i , ;t v e accounts
si i. . i:;;.it. they
.bui.o;, nnd orig
in c.jverii water
iil excellence Hnd
An i HMD Irricai'nn
"ait. I,nke va ley. r' I'
of l.'tah must bp even i
Introduced that nr: ir. o
nothing tr guide tl-!-.i 1
f the methods of S:m!
laid nut a (.Inn of ti; :;
itiatcd Impartial iu,.'
takers that rcrr tr.odi !.
have brn adepted wnrn vrr the riinul and
tho lateral are nfi ilfiil t agriculture . The
I rivatiini arid siur.'-int; 1:-y eti'turcd In
the ear'y da: n o: - ..j ;Ti:.t 'on gue
to I'tah an a'.;: i, .. .; .. ... ,..t . nu ll rank
.'uuong iho pii.t . t, t i : i'H urilve in
the m .il.
In no (initio., ii.' ii.. in Km iriikja-
tioti hecn brought 1 1 ;n'n n i Hi ; nti as In
I'tah, anil nowhein are the f;irmrw
tnom prosperous and oo.ileiu. Vhn Miei-ess
of the I 'tah people In nut Icult inr is to he
attributed to their Industry ut'.d their halilt
of doing things well; to the fact that their
land holding are small the averace farm
being only forty acres In sly.e; to the com
mon lioneaty that characterizes their use
of water, and tly . presence of a market
for their products at home and in sur
rounding states.
It was Hiigham Young's Idea thai a
man should not own more land than he
could cultivate, and that In the use of the
public waters no one should receive more
than his rightful share. Most of the farm
era In I'tah huvo snuK sums laid away for
a rainy day and all of them have good
homes. Improved farming machinery nnd
graded stock.
oil Wnnderfull) Fertile.
The wonderful fertility of the soil In
sures large yields, which, under the
genial climate, are repeated from year to
year. There are few Insect pests to fear.
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'concrete for fence posts
Cement Proves the Best Material for
Long Hard Service.
USE BY THE RAILROADS
llnnrtrrria f Mllesa of Hlakt-of-Way
l ined with ew Helaforeed !np
IMirts K i iierlmen ts Oenion-
strate Kcnnomy.
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"5teeis IavDrite7-ibtle
Jropotfoted at Hooper. Idaho.
z2Tvit,i:v:xoZ I Lutherans forming colony
other i
the Ind
Hre erected. The hinhest average yield
per acre on a slnsle farm durlnit I!)!! win
Iwanlv.fnnr flin thfl t.pM (tlstrtct t R l I n IT
the lead with an average yield of 14.7 tons ! Lead Flock to California
The total refined siiKa- product for )"
waa 9!.5U1.000 pounds, valued otv $4.4TT..'0O
In the I.ehl district, where beet culture
has been carried on for nineteen years,
there has been but two failures and thes
were due to attacks of hllght and the white
fly, both of which dangers, experience has
taught, may be largely guarded against.
During 119. the state statistician reports
bushels of oats, valued at fl.52l.flX:
530.000 bushels of barley, valued at $464.
000; 4rt!.fl00 bushels of corn, valued at $.167.-
Rev. John E. Hummon of Omaha Will
MINISTERS ENDORSE THE PROJECT
Letter from Hondreda of nerr""""
olee Sympathy rrlth "Back to
the Land" Movrnent
Started Here.
700; WVX bushels of rye. valued at $4S.1C0.
and never any doubt of a ready market at Bnd ufnf, valued at $.UU.W.
good price for the farm output
In Cache, the extreme northern county,
the hardier grains, vegetables and fruits
are raised, and In Washington, the farth
est south, cotton, figs, almonds, walnuts
and pomegranates are grown, and a va
riety of grape from which a wine Is made
at once delicious and potent. Between
these two extremes are cultivated all of
the (rains, grasses and fruits common to
the temperate zone.
Utah la a mountainous region, but the
elaima are Irregular and the mountains
rlaa abruptly. At the base of every moun
tain there Is a valley, and these valleys
wind In and out among the broken ranges
and moat of them are rich, productive
area.
A chain of larger valleys extenda from
north to south through the state. These
were once portions of the bed of an ancient
sea and were fertilised by the deposition
for ages) of enriching materials. The Mor
mon found them alkalled and sage-covered;
but under Irrigation they have be
come garden spots among the mountains.
The Cache valley on the extreme north
ia ona of the largest and most fruitful In
tho chain. This has an average altitude
of about 4,600 fuet and presents one of the
moat beautiful paatoral spectacles In t'ne
state. The valley proper la about thirty
miles long and In many placea ten miles
wide. Ijogan, the principal town, hits a
population of about 8,000 and la the home
of the State Agricultural college and the
location of ono of tha, four great templea
of tha Mormons. The valley la dotted with
villages and checkered with little farms,
around .which are hedges and rows of
Lombard y poplars, and the fields carry
colors from tha green of luccrn to the
gold of ripening grain.
Development by Irrigation.
South of the Cache valley are the fertile
lands along the bores of the Bear River I
bay, famous for fruit growing, and then
cornea the shore lands about Ogden. and
then the Salt La.k valley, and so proceed
ing southward, tha chain extends through
the Utah, Sanpete, fcJevler, Parowan and
Hush Lake valleys to the valleys of the
Hants. Clara and Rio Virgin near the south
ern borders of tha state. After the Salt
Iaka and Utah valleys are passed on the
way south, tha . links In the valley chain
grow smaller, until tha limits of the state
are reached. Collateral to the main chain
i are many lesser valleys which creep around
among the scattered, mountains, and In
then the fax nut are lung and narrow.
Nverywfcttre to tha limit of tha water sup
ply, tha irrigation ditch baa made Its way
to the fertile fields, aid from one end of
Utah to the other are paatoral scenes as
beautiful aa any In tha world,
Tha principal agricultural products ' of
I'tah. named m the order of their Import
ance, are bay, wheat, sugar beets, oats.
potatoes, barley, alfalfa seed, corn and rye.
the aggregated value of which, in 1909.
according to the state statistician, was
$3.S4MS0. Tha financial results from the
dairies and creameries, from the sale of
poultry, eggs, and small fruits are given
by him, for 1309, at $17,US,000. So that the
grand total from the farms, dairies, cream
eriea, poultry houses, vegetable Hardens.
vines and buahes, for 19UH, aggregated ID,
IP7ti.uO. Adding to this figure the statisti
cian's report of $20,si0,0ij) received from the
sales of live stock and wool, bilnxs the
total Jncome of the farmers and stock
growers of 1'lah, during l'JOS, to $.'.!). 77ti.Sio.
Over Two Million Acres Cultivated.
A recent reliable entlmale fUed the culti
vated srea of L'lah at 2.n.',iM acres. The
crop yield per acre averages are, of wheat,
butties aa against 10 Im.shels in Illinois
mid 13 bushels In Minnesota; of corn, 25 5
bushels; of potatoes, lM buahes; of sugar
Im;, 1-3 tons; and of hay, A tons. These
averages are regarded as conservative and
upplUahle from ear to year.
The I'tah hay crop represents more In
gloss revuins man any oinei. -becoming
to the reports of the state statlatlrians fur
l!t. the tons cut were l.Ovvoou, and the
value p.'.l i). There is always a demand
In I'tah for hay at good prices, and every
farmer has a patch of li.cern or a field of
timothy.
Wheat sold In the sprint; of I!" as high
us $1.& Pr bushel, and the total yield of
the state for that year was t.i.n.0ii bushels."
valued lv the Hiate statistician at 16.341.
The entire t Top was marketed in I'tah
for home consumption. There are twenty
gtuin elevators in the Mate, with a storage
capacity of 1 ao0.i bu.-tiels, and aevetuy-
elKbl flour mills with an average annual
output of 10.WO barrels. Moth apring and
v inter wheat is grown the upring la pre
dominating. In IK, one-fourth of the rr.
turns wore from the winter variety. I'tah
v.he.41 la famous for the perfection of Its
development and Its flo jr-maWIng qualities,
and is lamed In both irrigation and dr
farming me: hods M
The cultivation of the saar beet began
In I'tah shorn twenty ars ago and has
continued with fncrcuaiug acreage from
ear to ear. The acr. age for lii a ,s
S1.7C and the total tonnage lk t0. The
number of farnieis who raised beets dur
ing that car was 4.:iM, and thitr total re
ceipts fron. the crop were $-'.o.'C.Ouo.
t ill l eads la Berts.
The prtiii ipal btet counties arc s.lt lji,e
Utah. asatch., tunpcie and tevler
The Utah potato Is widely relebrntert for
Its site and flavor and Is frequently found
on the tables of Chicago nnd New York
hotels. In 190!) the yield was 2.H90.0O0 bush
els and the returns $1.S.H.0OO.
Fruit growing, covering peaches, plums,
cherries, pears, apples and vine and bush
prndiicts. aa a separate occupation. Is dis
cussed elsewhere In these pages; but there
Is hardly a farm In Utah unon which both
large and, small fruits are not cultivated
as an Incident to the farmer's business.
The Salt Lake peach has always been fa
mous for Its delicious flavor, which Is
attributed by many to the Influence of the
lake upon its development. Utah Is full
of old orchards which, under stste laws,
are required to be annually sprayed Not
many general farmers make a specialty of
fruit culture for the market; but for the.
home, table and canning, every farm pro
duces Its own supply. Farmers have found
that popular varieties of fruit, properly
packed, find a ready sale at good prices,
and on that account are going more and
more every year Into fruit growing, par
ticularly the growing of apples and
peaches, of which the acreage Is steadily
Increasing.
The material progress of the state Is
being furthered through the agency of the
Utah Development league, an organization
fostered by the Ogden Chember of Cora,
meroe.
Saratoga Man Urges
Land Show Exhibits
MoKillip Tell Fellow Citizens of the
Display in Omaha Coming
to the Next.
The Omaha I .and show has an enthusi
astic booster In the person of M. B. Mc
Killlp of Saratoga. Wyo. He InBlsts that
his section be represented at the show to
be held October 16 to 28 at the Coliseum.
The Saratoga Sun says
Led by Rev. John E. Hummon, who re
cently feslgned the pastorate of the
Kountue Memorial church In Omaha to go
back to the soil, a colony of Lutherans will
establish themselves at Red Bluffs. Tehama
county, California.
"We expect to have not less than 160
families on our land by the end of May,"
said Mr. Hummon, discussing his project
at the offices of the Trowbrldge-Bolster
company in the City National bank build
ing. This company Is connected with the
Lutheran colony project. '
"The outlook Is most promising. We are
so located that there are ample transporta
tion facilities, which means much In the
marketing of crops. We are close to a
boat landing on the Sacramento river and
will thus get the advantage of water rates.
Hlchea In Herrlee.
"The land which we will farm will grow
most anything. For Instance, It will make
from $'60 to $.M an acre In strawberries
and will yield from six to seven crops of
alfalfa under Irrigation and three without.
"I have received letters from 360 Luth
eran pastors in all parts of the country
bearing their good will and endorsement
of "the project.
"We have secured 1,000 desirable acres
In the beautiful Sacramento valley of Cali
fornia, five and one-half miles from the
city uf Red Bluff and two and one-half
miles from Los Angeles. The land lays
along an electric railway and electric
power cables and telephone wlrea pass
right through it. The land Is level and
finely situated In the rain belt, and be
sides that, it can be easily Irrigated from
Antelope creek, a never-falling mountain
stream, should It ever become desirable to
use water fur that purpose.
"The land Is ready for occupancy at
once. ' The land la being arranged In thirty,
forty and eighty-acre tracts and Is sightly
In appearance and a crop failure, farmers
of the neighborhood told me, Is unknown."
Not an Hi perlmeat.
"This la not a new movement. It has
been tried again and again, and when
properly conducted has proven a great suc
cess. The Roman Catholic and Dunkard
people have proceeded in their missionary
endeavor, through the colonization scheme,
with the result of the success of the In
dividual and wonderful progress in build-
in n k-unr, .ho returned from Ne- , inK uu ltt,Ke communities of their faith:
braska recently. Is enthusiastic about the
lAnd show held In Omaha last January.
He spent two days and two evenings at
the show and then did not get nearly
through the exhibits. In speaking to the
Sun, Mr. McKlllip said:
" 'One who did not visit the show baa not
the remotest Idea of Its great Importance.
I spent two whole days and two evenings
until nearly midnight aad even then did
not get over all the exhibits. Wyoming
was well represented there I might say
It had as good an exhibit there as any
other state, but there was nothing from
this valley. There were grains and vege
tables from all parts of the state and
frulta from every locality that la now
growing fruit. There was an especially
fine exhibit of alfalfa, and those people
down there are craxy over alfalfa.
" "The dry farmers from the eastern
part of Laramie county were there In
force and they had a wonderful exhibit.
Besides their magnificent show of grains,
vegetables and hay from the dry farming
district, they had three or four men there
boosting for their part of the state. I
tell you those fellows mean business and
are a live set of men. 1 ha1 been talking
up this valley to best the band and brag
ging on our wonderful resources, and all
that we could do here and when 1 went
to the show and found there was not a
solitary thing from this locality 1 was
deeply chagrined and came In for a large
amount of good natured chaffing as a re
sult " 'This valley must wake tip. I want to
say that I regard that 1juX show held
down there In Omaha as one of the most
remarkable exhibits I ever saw, and we
must get right Into the hand wagon. It
will never do to let the next show go by
strongholds for their respective denomina
tions. The disappointments are very few.
This movement contemplates a company
of people going out on a piece of land, in
spired by the some purpose, to pursue a
similar line of work. Any one entering the
colony Is assured of the willing and ready
aid of every other member; he stands not
alone to fight his battles unusslsted.
The cry, "Back to the Farm," has been
beard recently from many sources. The
newspapers and magazines have given oat
the call; It has been sent out In clarion
tones from the pulpit and from the plat
form. But it must be more than a mere
cry. It Involves the solution of a great
sociological problem, and the happiness
and prosperity of multitudes of people. The
cry lias been forced by a condition of
poverty and destitution; the multitudes of
unemployed In our large cities, and the
employed receiving scarcely sufficient re
numeration to provide the necessities of
life; the high cost of living. These have
given rise to the pupular cry. "Back to
the Farm,'.' and It is now Inspiring men to
seek after a means through which a re
sponse to the cry may be made practical.
Conserve Lutheran Forces.
"This proposition has engaged mv atten
tion, therefore out of the twofold consld-'
eration the cry, 'Back to the Farm.' and
also the conservation of our Lutheran
strength, and its development. It Is a well
known fact that our Lutheran people are
to be found In many places In small num
bers, unable to maintain a church and pas
lor they enter Into the fellowship of other
denominations or remain outside the church
altogether.
Tired out, weary city people who long
to go to the country will find the colony
attractive, they will not only have the
fellowship of numerous neighbors, the co-
one of the largest pumping Irrigation sys
tems In the west Is now in operation in San
Joaquin county, the water supply being
the' San Joanuin river. The lower San
Joaiuin valley Is fortunate In having a
plentiful supply of underground water of
good quality and at relatively small dis
tance below the ground surface.
In the belt around Porterfteld. Lindsay.
Exeter and Lemon Cove, V. M. Cone of
this office finds It now considered profit
able to pump against a head of 4"0 to fiOO
feet for citrus trees. Outside of pumping
very little Irrigation development is being
accomplished In the lower San Joaquin val
ley, owing to exhaustion of the low water
flow of the streams and the difficulties of
utilizing the flood waters that now go
to waste for want of adequate water right
laws under which they can be acquired.
In the upper San Joaquin a steady Increase
In the Irrigated area Is being brought about
In Modesto And Turlock Irrigation districts,
and what Is perhaps the most notable ac
complishment in the entire San Joaquin
valley is the recent successful organiza
tion of the Oakdale and South San Joaquin
Irrigation districts In San Joaquin and
Stanislaus counties.
These two districts have Jointly pur
chased for $o0.O00 the old Turlock irrigation
system at Oakdale, with Its valuable water
rights in Stanislaus river, and have to
gether voted bonds to the extent of Ti.4iB,
000 for the construction of reservoirs,
canals and distributaries to irrigate 140,000
acres of land.
Nirraueato Valley.
In Sacramento valley, more backward
than any other large part of the state In
recognizing the largeat single unit la that
of the Sacramento Valley Irrigation Co.
at Willows, which as the successor of the
old Central Irrigation district formed un
ier the original Wright act is constructing
works to cover a large area of the valuable
land of this valley. At Orland the Orland
project of the United States reclamation
service, covering 14,000 - acrea In lLa first
unit, waa 77 per cent completed October 1
and ready for settlement.
Other areas' of more or less else are also
being put under Irrigation and sold to
settlers In Sacramento valley. The opening
of the Western Pacific railway over the
Sierra Nevada at a considerable distance
north of any other transcontinental line
has given a new impetus to development,
which must be largely through Irrigation,
In the northeastern counties of Plumas,
Lassen and Modoc. In the latter county
additional land la to be Irrigated by the
Klamath project of the reclamation ser
vice. Plana of the reclamation service for re
claiming and ultimately Irrigating 27,000
acre of Klamath marsh and about an
equal area of Tule lake, all in California,
haive already been approved by the secre
tary of the Interior, and bids for con
struction In connection with the latter
were opened November 1. A third sub
project Included In the plans of the re
clamation service, but not yet approved,
provides for the Irrigation of 10,400 acres
In California south and west of Clear Lake
reservoir. "
Mendocino County's
Values Are Growing
(Continued From Page Sixteen.)
That the lack of good feme posts l Mi
aggravating condit'nn is being shown by
the attitude of the railroad towards con
crete fence posts Mtnv railroads, mil'-
vldually and collectively, nre completing ;
experiment to the elul if eiiuiptiliiu tin Ir
various stems with a .! suhstlt u'e fori
the wooden post. Many of the railroads ;
have given charge of these experiments to
one of their engineers, whose sole duty'
Is to investigate anil experiment with Hie
concrete fence post. All the leading rail- I
roads have, at the present time, a certain
mileage of their tracks fenced with this I
character of posts; and Judging from the j
Increased orders Unit are being placed I
Willi the post mold conn mn'es these posts ;
are. fulfilling the requirement. It seems
hut a question of time before the entire
trackage of the steam and electric rail- '
roads will he lined with posts of this na- I
ture.
The general Interest In concrete fence
posts Is becoming stronger each day. At
the Chicago Cement show, held in Febru
ary, there seemed to be as much Interest
taken In the exhibit of the various post
n:old companies there as in any other ex
hibit of concrete machinery, says the Ce
ment Era. The concrete dealer is fast
realizing ,that the farmer must, and will,
have a relief from the troubles caused by
using wooden fence posts. The scarcity
of timber Is being felt more keenly each
year. Wooden posts, it is estimated, de
crease from one-half to one-third of their
original strength in three years, and, more
over, are becoming more expensive each
year.
Stronger Than Wood.
Very naturally the solution of this diffi
culty seems to be concrete. Concrete fence
posts possess many advantages over
wooden posts. Concrete owns the valuable
feature of gaining strength with age,
while, as above stated, wooden posts rap
idly deteriorate. In comparative strength
a new six-Inch wooden port Is about thirty
times as strong as the concrete fence post,
of the same size, reinforced proportion
ately at thirty 'days of age; but on ac
count of wood weakening, so rapidly and
concrete slowly gaining strength. It can be
seen that this advantage In favor of
wooden posts Is only momentary. Concrete
posts are Impervious to the little grass
fires that spring up after a Beige of dry
weather, while wooden posts are Just
burned ' enough at the bottom to break!
when brushed by stock. The reinforced
concrete post also has the asset of con
ductivity. Quite often we read of light
ning running along the fence wire and
killing stock at the fence. This Is Im
possible when a concrete post is used, for
the wire In the post acts as a conductor
and the lightning Is harmlessly carried to
the ground.
In appearance the concrete posts far ex
ceed the wooden posts. They stand straight
In the ground and are uniform in size and
color, if a poet is cracked by running
stock It does not break off and let down the
fence, for the reinforcement in the post
holds It together. If a wooden post cracks
It Is easily broken and soon the stock is
wandering down the railroad tracks, caus
ing more work for the claim department of
that railroad.
Ultimately Mara Cheaper.
The comparison of the cost of the con
crete posts and wooden posts Is rather
difficult to determine In exact figures. The
cost of concrete material, cement, sand,
gravel and crushed stone will vary accord
ing to the locality. In some places proper
sand to use Is almost Impossible to ob
tain without paying a high frelg-ht rate,
but in these places It Is a general rule that
wood Is also high. At an average, the
Initial cost of concrete posts Is a trifle
higher than wooden posts; however, there
are one or two commercial poBt molds on
the market that will make a concrete post
for about the same as cost of wood. This
Is accomplished by making the shape of the
post such that It will give the greatest
strength with the least amount of material.
The ultimate cost of the concrete post la
far less than the cost of the wooden post.
This Is due to the fact that the concrete
posts are never replaced and the first cost
Is the last cost. p
Every building material dealer, or cement
block manufacturer, can make concrete
posts very profitably. The cost of the
molds Is very small and a larger profit can
be consistently made on a post than on a
concrete block. There Is always a con
stant demand In all localities for fence
posts of some kind and It should be no
difficult task to convince a prospect that
the cement post Is more economical and
desirable than the wooden post. Then,
APPLE LAND
in the
Famous Big Horn Basin, Wyo.
Tho (.if-atcM rriilt Hlslrirt of the Northwest (on th new Burl-
itiKlou Kotttp's Tariff to tho Gulf main line, nearly completed now,
front Hillitifis to Denver.)
All the world will visit the rich and fertile Oig Horn Mastn when
the limited trains are running, but the shrewd investor and home
seeker t;oKN NOW. WI11I.K THK'VAM'KS are low.
Irrigated Fruit and Farm land, with perpetual water rights, $50
to $T.r. per acre. Terms as low aa ten equal annual payment.
We offer choice selections in the following, wonderful districts:
t'Mlj.leview Project 8,000 acres on the Cody road to tht
Yellowstone.
Itjisin-tJieytmll Wstilrt 20,000 acres In the new natural gas and
oil zone of the llasin.
Tuesday, April lStli,
Is the net excursion date. Cheap homeseekers" fares Ma nurlington
Route and connecting lines. Come with us. .Tust write or phone.
Dept. B, SHEDD-SIZER CO.,
II Til IT.OOC. ItA.MtiV, HUM.;. OMAHA. N KIHLishA.
IMi. lies: Hell, 42.Y4 Ikouglas; Auto.. .T-MVi-A.
LAND
IN THE OZARKS
The best place for dairying, stock farming, poultry and
fruit raising.
The cheapest land In the country today will raise any
thing grown In a temperate climate.
The climate ciinnot be beaten mild In winter and not 1oo hrtt
In summer. Abundance of water and wild grass, and the oak tlmhet
furnlsheH the best feed for hogs.
An Investment In this country Is a sure money maker.
2H5 acres. 6R In cultivation, good bottom land, b'fn,'e'n ,,n:r; .f4,r.
franie house, ten.int house and barn; dally mall and telephone .fine
stock proposition
3,000.00
. ...... i i .i i - i n-htta and bLack oak and will
i.vuv acres, iiniiw ihiki. - aa oo
cut 2,600 to .1,500 feet per acre; per acre.
Cut-over lands for sheep and mule ranches, dose to railroad; In
to suit; at. per acre wo-w
..... ll .nnrn trnA ,aU tlinher. 7 O IIAr 1'Bftt tlllshle.
lu acres. iimw ji.mh i.. ... n""" ' ' ' ma nt
balance good pasture land; plenty of good water, per acre. . . uw
160 acres. 2V, miles from town. 85 seres n c"lmatij m .to in
mwdow, 100 under fence; small fruit of all kinds; 300 bearing
fruit trees; 5-r. frame house, all other necessary buildings.
abundance of Uprlng w ater; per acre "
For further Information, call or write .
Hawkeye Land & Orchards Co.
209 Brandeis Theater Bldff., il
n-mnVin. Neh.
WW
per cent, and this rise Is merely an ad
Justment of real value.
The splendid shipping facilities, no Irrt
gallon, together with Its easy access to
Ban Kranclsco, and close proximity to the again, there are always certain times of
rarme ocean, makes the district an Ideal the year when trade Is slack, and It Is a
i'e Have
M . i mi m m mw
as good Lan
ere in Nebraska as can be found Anywhere
THERE IB MOJTET TK THESE TAJUKS FOB TOV
MH kihmkr STuT KMAN". DAIRYMAN OR INVESTOR: Do you
wish to make niormy ofi sn investment? If so, here we are.
150-ac.re farm, within less than miles of Souua Oniaaa. market
and within miles of Millard, ImuiIm oounty. Good road from this,
farm to Omaha, macadamized almost the entire distance.
This Is well Improved, with good T-room house, large rooms, nay
window. g'Kd cellar tbrlckedi, plenty of cloaets, pantry, ate, two
porches, barn 3;!x44. room for 12 head besides hay mow for 40 tons,
coin crib, granary, wlili machine sited alongside and numerous other
buildings extra good orchard, etc.
This land lays well and the soil is good.
This Is not a $160 arce farm, but it has the making eventually or
a tl'OO per acre farm the price Is 100 per acre. It will take from
$:.Ouo to .7,000 cash tc swing this, balance time. Good reason for
elllng. .
liememher. tha Improvement are In good shape, worth quite a
few thousand dollars, and the soli Is good. If you wl?h something of
this nature and etui swing It, It Is well worthy Investigation.
J0 XT AT OHCB
We have numerous ethers. A lew bargains, but see the above.
AI
GOOD, PKODUCT1VK 20 ACKK8, level, near good small town, 17'
miles of Omaha, handy to depot ami High school of twelve grade.
A mighty good market for your produce.
It Is Improved with a six-room house, benldeti hath room.
! Good cellar tbricked.), cement walk, wood house 10x14, barn
16x20, and other small buildings, j nere are irun irw",
mainly apples, and plenty or grapes; aieo a i
shade trees around the house.
A person can make more money orr or
this twenty acrea than on a great num
ber of larger farms. The price Is 1150
per acre, and It la worm it, too. neine.ni
lier, PO88K88ION GIVKN and audi pro
positions aa this does not last long.
r-vl II IN l f W v
a -n- ttn' I nvmrir
0RINS.MERRILLCO.
12131 CITY NATL BARK BL'
OMAHA, NEB.
one for residential purposes, and cherries,
fruits and vegetables thrive here as in
few other places in the west.
Mendocino coast country has a great and
near future, and there have been no flur
ries In Its rise, but a steady advance, and
the Incoming of fruit growers and farmers
Is Increasing every month.
LAND NEAR OMAHA CHEAPER
(Continued From Page Sixteen.)
i operation and avmnathv nf manv frlannlv
without a very strong exhibit of what we farmers, but also the benefit of the skill
can do here In this valley. ; ot a ,ralned agriculturist. The onlv real
our fair commissioners Fhould make j essential to sucess sortition, i i. ..- '.km...
! and willingness to work."
some arrangements for permanently ar
ranging the great exhIMts of grains, grasses
and vegetables that will be on exhibition
next September, and sending them to
Omaha to the Land show next October,
and the exhibits should be In the hands nf
some good man who knows this valley and
Its possibilities like a book, 1 am sure
If eierybody who reads the Him knew of
the great Importance uf this matter they
would he only too glad to chip In some
thing to help show up the resources of this
alley.' "
weeks sold It the third time. It brought
$4,900 cash and while that was only a
trifle over a year ago it Is worth ap
proximately $15,000 today. It was acreage
west of the city. Nothing happened to
artificially stimulate the price. It was the
resell of general advancement only. While
that was somewhat out of the ordinary It
shows the general trend.
Buyers of lands this last year have
been people from all sections. While a
great share of them who have bought
farms In this locality are Omaha people.
I have sold several farms to people from
Bouth Dakota, Iowa. Kansas and other
points who are locating In this vicinity."
RECLAIMING CALIFORNIA LAND I PRODUCTS SHOW IN OCTOBER
Continued From Psgs Sixteen )
(.Continued From Page Sixteen.)
Landseeker Specials
Through Omaha Gate
ago acquired the property of the Hear
Valley Irrigation company, from which
thpy hail therefore been purchasing water,
but which they have now mutuallzed. In
San Diego county the matter of chief in
terest from the
(lie six I
of Sweet
The rapid Irrigation development now
taking place In southern California Is the
" ' i-uiri .11- ,
on. the standpoint of Irrigation 1. 1 ' UUm Wl"
log by, fifteen feet of ,h. height l?" d"',li,y
twater dam. making ma.hl.teri
of many thousands of square feet for the
accommodation of land show visitors and
exhibitors. In this building will be housed
the land product exhibits.
Temporary structures erected adtacent tn
the Coliseum will give exhlhlr eon, r..
of farming and road-
ry and let'ira htiis.
The charting of the buildings for exhlb.'t
l'ce nas Deen so accomplished
problem for the dealer to keep his men
busy. This Is the time of the year when
a stock of concrete posts ran be replen
ished and the men kept busy Instead of
idling their time. It requires no great
amount of skill to make a neat post. but.
to be successful the elementary rules of
mixing concrete must be observed.
Rein ford Qa; Most Important.
The reinforcing Is one of the Important
factors In making a good post Care should
be taken by the maker to see that the
reinforcing Is placed as near the surface
as possible, for it Is here that the strain
first falls. Another essential is the adding
of enough water to the concrete. When
experiments were first made with the con
crete post there were many failures, caus
ing the post to be regarded with suspicion.
In nearly every case these failures were
caused by using damp concrete and tamp
ing Instead of using a wet mixture. The
srystalllzatlon of the concrete was not com
plete and, moreover, when one end nf the
post was being tamped, the bond between
the reinforcing at the concrete and the
other end was being broken. Kveryone
who is at all familiar with the forking
of concrete knows that to get the full
value of the reinforcing a permanent bond
must be established between the concrete
and the reinforcing. At the Colorado Kx.
perlment station of the t'nlted States De
partment of Agriculture tests were made
between fence posts made of tamped con
crete and poured concrete. It was found
that the poured concrete posts were a
little over 25 per cent stronger than the
tamped posts of the same size, mixture and
reinforcement. They were also found
better able to withstand the actions of
frost and alkali. Another Important factor
in making a good post is the curing. Posts
should be carefully cured. They should be
made and kept in a shadyplaa from sixty
A STOP-OVER AT
M
RIO LINDA
COLONY...
May Dc Had by AsXIng the Station
Agent or the Conduotor
Only 20 minutes rid from Sacramento, Cal., on the famous Itanrho
del Pano of the James Ben All HagRin Stock Karra. Contains Bev
eral thousand acres of California's most fertile land.
Perfect Cli
mate
(Continued From Tage Sixteen )
,.-1,1,1 mil a,, avauaiii.i ai.r uu
long ago utilised that kectlon of the
late. Au account of it ia submitted to
show the great value attached to water
forth as the cause for . great part of the 1 l1'"' 'nd lhe ""r"' being put
movement. From many ,H.lnts In Nebraska i '"r,h l" "ulre ! reascd supply,
and Iowa, tai nie.s, nie hauii s. clerks ami Nrh nf 1aachal.
(eople of all occuilions attended the '. Turning north of Tvraul.apl, in some sea
omaha Land ahow and became InterrMeil. I tlons development is not unlike that of N.e
A part of the spoils! starting fron. here 1 south. Pumping for water Is being Incrt-aa-will
he made up from u.l of i.iui1m rv- I Ingly resorted to Hi the foothill sections
of Kern, Frctno and Tulare counties, and
is to
iii.tu .,,rrlMln. ln ,.i. . .... , ""minute me Visiting thrnn. 1 ' v.,. ,u, uuv. ,
i ... ui inn ooiiuiar i ... .
i , ,ii,ig I,,., uiMpisv. Man:
terest have been
ty centers of In
created to ibvln r
far as possible the concentration of the
clouds at a single point.
but ' cruiltd In Chicago
t .
Testing Knldlers' Preference Law.
TOPF.KA. Kan.. April 7.-W. p. Camp
bell filed suit In the state supreme court
today to oust Thornton W. Sargent from
the position of district judge at Wichita.
Campbell claims that he himself is en
titled to the place under the old soldier
preference law. Sargcut was appointed
by Governor fctubba ,
day of the concrete fence pout Is Just
dawning and It promises another use of
concrete to relieve a lon felt want.
WYOMING STOCK GROWERS
TO MEET AT SHERIDAN
(Continued From I'sge Sixteen.)
Wyoming's representatives In congress to
do everything In their pouer to d.f.at the
aatua. Keaoiutluua favoring noma dliosi-
No Droughts
No Frost
No Snow
No Extreme Heat
Fresh vegetables every day in the year. All kinds of fruit, grain
and vegetables grow irof tisely. Ten acres produced $440 eaih in
oranges alone.
A Country Home Almost in tho City
Suitable for either a farmer or mechanic or clerk or professional
man, because it is close to Sacramento, ono of the mont beautiful .
cities in the I'nited States. Population doubled in the last ten years;
poHtoffiee, receipts doubled in the last five years; bank deposits in
creased 150 per cent in the last five years.
Rio Linda Colony
Is well watered and every foot .can be cultivated. State Agricultural
ColIrK is only 12 miles away, which testifies to the quality of the
soil. Ideal location for lovers of the eountry who must work tn the
city. ;km1 school convenient. Splendid climate for growing chil
dren and invalids. Prices lower than for any other similarly located
land of equal quality. A safe and certain investment. Write for
full particulars to
A. C. ROEBUCK
The Koebuck whose name lias been made famous tn the mall order bnslnesa.
American Trust Building
Chicago
tion of the public range, either by !as:nx
or Kale, were also adopted. The associa
tion went on record as favoring the enact
merit of a law emismenng the Inte.sla'.e
Commerce co!iuiia.-tiou to regulate the
speed of traJns carrying live stock, so
that better time can be made ami the
shippers faied heavy lossna through
khriiikatif .
Addresses were delivered by State Vet
erinarian Lavu. J. C. Luderwood, picai-
I dent Irvine, Fred Hesse of Buffalo. Itnbert
I Carey of Cheyenne, Senator Keridrlck of
Sheridan and others. The new officers
I are: President. W. C. Irvine, re-elected;
I vice president, 'John H. Kendtick of Sheri
Idan. secretary, Mi.-s Alice Smith of IV.ey.
; e.uie; treasurer. J. 1. Kreaborn of Chey
enne. Kotiert tarey retire 1 as vice presi
dent In favor of Mr. Kendrtca that north
ern Wyoming might be reprrsciittd ua the
rosier of official