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tory cost a million dollars. It is modern., and is the 

 finest of its kind in the country. Extensive improve- 

 ments will be made the coming year. It has approxi- 

 mately a thousand tons daily capacity. It is independ- 

 ent. That is to say, it is neither allied to the Have- 

 meyer nor Oxnard trusts. 



The sugar company owns 30,000 acres of land in 

 Finney and Kearnv counties, Kansas. It has a gigantic 

 reservoir Lake McKinnie, called after the company's 

 president. This is being added to this year. In this 

 great lake are stored vast quantities of water which will 

 be let out in the spring some of it is going out over the 

 acres this winter and will flow in the various canals 

 owned and controlled by the sugar company. The 

 waters of the reservoir come during the winter from the 

 Arkansas. 



Besides this, the sugar company is now about to 

 complete, on the south side of the river, just above Gar- 

 den City, what is practically a duplication of the Garden 

 City government reclamation project. This pumping 

 fetation, with its seventeen separate wells, drawing the 

 water from the underflow by electrically-driven pumps, 

 will water about 5,000 additional acres, for beets and 

 alfalfa and truck. 



Truck, melons and the like, and cantaloupes equal 

 to the famed Kockvford of Colorado, are grown each 



.year in increasing quantities. Potatoes of the finest 

 quality are raised in this valley. Quantities of corn, 

 milo maize, wheat and other cereals come out of the 

 soil each vear. Stock of the finest kind is raised in this 

 valley, the corn and the alfalfa and the beet pulp giv- 

 ing a blend to the meat that the Kansas City markets 

 are always glad to get. 



Add to these products and the thousands and thou- 

 sands of revenue coming from them yearly, and to the 

 great governmental and private improvements of the 

 valley, the scores of hamlets, towns and small cities from 

 the one hundredth meridian westward to the Colorado 

 line, headed by Garden City, population 4,000 ; all filled 

 with comfort and happiness and prosperity, and the 

 fame of the valley is grasped at a thought and a glance. 

 Given these, in the place formerly known as the Great 

 American Desert, the Great Plains Area, west of the 

 "deadline," where the buffalo once trod and the In- 

 dians hunted, where the sands drearily blew about, 

 where the stretch seemed "monotonous" to our adven- 

 turesome lienutenant of the army of 1853, springing 

 up out of the desolation and want painted by so eminent 

 an authority as Frederick Haynes Newell but a scant 

 half-generation ago, and there is ample and convincing 

 proof that the spirit of the American and the heart and 

 mind of him can conquer all things. 



"ONE GOOD INVESTMENT IS WORTH A LIFETIME OF LABOR." 



We carefully "cruise** every forty acres in each segregation opened for entry under the Carey Act, locate settlers on choice land only, in person or by 

 t power of attorney, buy and sell Carey Act relinqutshments and cheerfully reply to all inquiries. 



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