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settler to help him get started. This matter of building up an 

 agreeable community life is by no means the least important in 

 this connection. In this manner I believe you will be able in 

 the long run not only to realize a fair price for the land, but 

 you would be contributing a great thing to the upbuilding of the 

 state and the United States. 



Gentlemen, the leading thought I have tried to leave with 

 you this afternoon is that it seems to me that we have passed 

 the point, we have answered the question of whether or not 

 the proposition you have presented to you here is worth while. 

 I think there can be no doubt about it. 



Lumbermen's Activities, 

 Past, Present and Future 



By J. Lewis Thompson 



I have been requested to tell you a little something about 

 what we have done ourselves in development, what progress 

 we are making in our cut-over land's. I can't say it in any boast- 

 ful spirit, because I have fought the opposition of our stock- 

 holders, and I have spent money which is considerable for us, 

 and it has been spent just because I took the bull by the horns 

 and went ahead with it. Some of our stockholders think I know 

 naught of what I am doing, and the future may answer that 

 question ; but for the present we have done this : We have 

 already fenced 60,000 acres. In that 60,000 acres we have some 

 10,000 Acres six pastures. We have five different ranches. In these differ- 

 o e Fasture ^^^ pastures we are using native cattle as far as we can — getting 

 in good bulls. On one of our ranches we have a registered herd 

 of Herefords with which we propose to raise our Hereford 

 bulls, and on another ranch the Shorthorns. We have been 

 going at the thing in a systematic way, but we have been 

 groping a little bit in the dark. Last year we had 300 acres 

 in cultivation. We built thirteen 100-ton silos, with sorghum 

 silage. We find that sorghum gives twice as much ensilage 

 per acre as corn does. We may not know how to take care 

 of the corn, but we have found that sorghum produces twelve 



