A FINE COUNTRY. 645 



GEORGE A. HOBSON, 



BEAVER CITY, FURNAS COUNTY. 



A Fertile Section — Limestone Abundant — Mixed Husbandry 

 — Orchard — Cost of Crops — Method of Planting — Short- 

 Horns — Hogs — Bees — Poultry. 



Furnas county contains an area of seven hundred and 

 twenty square miles, through which pass from west to east, in 

 a parallel direction, three water courses, with their fertile val- 

 leys ; the Republican river on the north side, the Beaver near 

 the center, and the Sappo on the south side, thus affording 

 abundant water power for manufacturing purposes and giving 

 the county a greater amount of timber and valley land than 

 other counties in the State. As it is situated on the southern 

 border of the $tate, this fact gives it a decided advantage in 

 respect of climate. It possesses as fine Magnesian limestone 

 for building purposes as can be found anywhere. The com- 

 mon limestone is also abundant. 



THE FARM. 



My farm is beautifully situated, and lies one and a half 

 miles west and half a mile north of Beaver City, in the Beaver 

 "Valle3% near the center of the county. It is the east half of 

 section twelve, township two, range twenty-three west of the 

 principal meridian, and has an area of nearly four hundred 

 acres. The northeast quarter I have devoted to timber cul- 

 ture at present. The southeast quarter contains the home- 

 stead, and is given to mixed farming. I have a neat frame 

 dwelling with a basement, near the east line, and about the 

 center north and south. Northeast from my dwelling is my 

 post and board corral, with stabling and stock shed fourteen 

 feet wide, and one hundred and forty feet long. 



