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inc farm and two others of 320 each, with 
r0od houses and barns, and over three-quarters 
'if the land in alfalfa, and he and his three sons 
.vere fattening 15.000 sheep for market on the 
dfalfa hay and corn raised on his farms. I 
found each farm had better buildings and or¬ 
chards than mine had. and John had over $15,000 
on deposit in the Jewell City banks, and all 
made from the soil of which, after he home¬ 
steaded his 160 acres in 1865. not an acre was 
broke and all he had in the world was an old 
team and wagon, a breaking plow, a cow. a 
sod-house and $8 in money to make a home 
with. , , 
“After a week at John s, he and I went down to 
Tim’s in Neosho county, and he met us in a 
motor car and took us out to his two-section 
farm, mostly Neosho River bottom land, with 
fine orchard, houses and barns and other build¬ 
ings. and we found that while his farm was very 
profitable, he was on easy street, as his land is 
underlaid with oil and gas. The oil and gas 
companies are paving him over $5,000 a month 
as his royalties from the oil and gas wells on 
his land. , 
“After a week at Jim’s home, he and John 
and I went out to George’s home in Reno 
county, where he met us at Hutchinson in his 
car and took us out to his 1600-acre farm which 
is all an orchard of bearing apple trees. He told 
us that he used to raise from 35 to 50 bushels 
of wheat to the acre, but when the Hutchinson 
Salt plants got in operation, the royalty paid 
him for the salt under his land, gave him so 
much idle money that for an investment he 
planted his farm to an orchard, and that he 
now sold his apple crop on the trees for $18,000 
to $25,000 a year. I tell you. men. when I went 
to bed that night. I did some tall thinking. As 
1 got a big bounty when I enlisted, I had money 
enough to buy a farm in the best part of Iowa 
' and my brothers had to go to Kansas and take 
up homsteads, and for success in life I was not 
in it with either one of them. 
“Gentlemen, my mind is made up. I am go¬ 
ing back to Iowa to sell out everything I have 
there, and I am coming back to make my home 
in Kansas.” Whereupon each of the others said 
that was what he had made up his mind to do 
on reaching home. 
With the mild climate, the wonderful crops, 
telephones in nearly every farmhouse, mral 
mail routes and daily papers delivered at the 
farms each morning, a dozen or more motor 
cars in every rural township, the lot of the 
Kansas farmer is one to be envied by the city- 
dweller, be he a wage earner of any class of 
trade or profession. Only in some parts 
settled by a direct foreign immigration to 
Kansas could such conditions be found as 
written about which appealed to the pity of the 
writer aforesaid. W. F. Rightmire. 
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