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EIGHTH YEAB.
STATE FORESTRY.
A correspondent in our horticultural
department, this week, refers to a matter
of great importance State forestry
The Kansas Farmer has presented the
same subject at different times, and now
we make the communication of our corres
pondent a text for further observations
on the subject. Trees are needed every
where on the prairies; every farm ought
to have a good supply of forest trees.
That amounts to a great work, so great,
that unless the state takes hold of the
matter, it will never be accomplished, nor
anything approaching it. A great many
persons would set out trees if they could
obtain them readily and at little expense.
The state could furnish them at a cost so
trifling that every land owner could
afford to put one-tenth of his land into
forest.
A state agency could grow the trees
from seed and furnish young trees by the
hundred or thousand to all persons that
would apply for them and pay the ex
pense of transportation and agree to set
them out and take care of them. The
agents would send to the persons order
ing trees printed suggestions and instruc
tions concerning the nature of the trees,
and trie work necessary in transplanting
them and taking care of them after
wards. One, two or three forestry farms
might be established in different parts of
the state so as to be close to the people.
The agents would study the soil and cli
matic characteristics, growing such trees
only as would do well in that division of
the state. Their experience and observa
tions from year to year as to growth,
culture, insect enemies, etc., would be of
great benefit to the farmers, of the state.
A very small outlay of money would suf
fice. The additional tax would be insig
nificant. The farmers pay most of the
taxes anyway, and as this would be for
their benefit, the whole state would be
enriched by the proceeding. The subject
is well worth careful consideration by the
legislature. The money unlawfully -authorized
to be expended at every session
of the legislature would run two large,
well equipped forestry farms continuous
ly. Kansas Farmer.
The Farmer takes its text from a com
munication in that journal from Mrs.
Clara F. Smith, of Pottawatomie county,
Kansas. Between Pottawatomie county
and the Missouri river are only three
counties. Mrs. Smith can not fail to do
the eastern portion of the state a great
service by showing to its people that they
ure in need of a much more general growth
of timber. We shall not try to finish
this article without copying liberally
froni Mrs. Smith's contribution. She
cays:
"Studying over the moderating effect
of forests and their power in breaking the
wind, I thought, what would Kansas be
if all the waste places were covered with
trees? Very little has been done by the
oldest " inhabitant in the way of forest
tree planting, probably from the fact that
nearly all of them took claims on which
P-wiis already plenty of timber; so, instead
I it "setting out trees, they have been cut
r iihwD? them down. Therefore, on the 'poor
KAwjF.homesteader' as heavily the task of re
r. claiming the 'Great American Desert'
?. i'lfc .will be slow work. I am afraid, as most
SsC Ipf them need their time and money for
i ' Yrcher rmmoses.
fi "UouldJ. possess .tne magic power by
vwhich the genii of the Arabian Nights
lw. rvrirfrirnr!i1 fTiAir r?fw?R. T wnnld Tint,. HIta
ffy , $bey did, build splendid palaces studded
Jft.'V'witn diamonds and dazzling gems, but
si t would plant a Deautirui lorescot an Rinas
Kin'Snf tnona nn on nil firvmPGfAJlf? r'fif nil tVilQ
?r ' . 1 v a ; t 1
3ft 'vanf. rvrinn. Thifi wonld not onlv ben-
M$t efit individuals, but everybody.
"It really seemB as tnougn tne state
rksnisrht furnish these settlers with trees,
pV-f -they will take care of them. Appropri-
g a mouB nave ueoxi iuuuo tin tut iooo juipui-
r - tant things. .Nothing else will make a
perfect wind-break on these unprotected
h prairies. A stone fence and sheds only
serve to catch the snow, as we found out
to our sorrow often when the stock had
flto be shoveled out after a, severe snow-
afcdrm.
si' "Four years ago last spring we planted
f . about an acre to trees box, elder, soft
maple alanthus, catalpa, and wild black
.Vjoherry -n thenorth of our improve-
tmwitSt and with-very, little cultivation,
:" -they had grown so that- last winter tney
;lield the enow and kept it from drifting
ia. nponis, and were also some protec
' tiMi from the wind."
flin. Smith, we happen to know, has
fniadm in eastern Kansaswho coincide in
l. - karriews on the question of state fores-
J tnaa. ia genueman wno uves m joney
1 obonty stated to us last summer that
oeaatern Kansas needed the advantages to
ba dived from these state forestries.
3ax our judgement united effort on the
, Stffc of people throughout the state, who
already pronounced in ,their views in j
" faibr. cf the establishment of state for-
4fltiM, will secure the passage of a bill
tbe coming winter,'6 whose effects will be j
;40Rgkwbiii compared with the jlrag- '
mnjr developments in nmoer -growing
Jkryt ik TTila? heretofore .- l.
WA
subject at different times." What we
want is results. The praise can be relied
upon to lodge where it belongs. It is a
fact well known to all who have cared to
read this paper that the idea of any thing
like a comprehensive system of state for
estries in Kansas originated with the
World in January, 1881. Ever since
then, at intervals Very short, we have
kept up the discussion. Last September,
as a delegate to the National Forestry
Congress in Denver, we introduced the
thirteenth resolution, which, after some
discussion; was adopted. This resolution
reads:
Thirteenth That it is the sense of this
Forestry congress that the legislature of
the state should provide for the establish
ment and maintainance of experimental
timber culture stations, to the end that
there may Jbe secured a knowledge of the
highest adaptability of different varieties
of timber to the different soils, and that
the taxable wealth of the state may be
increased, to the material lessening of the
rate of taxation. .
In the course of his remarks in favor of
state legislation in assisting the early and
general planting of timber on our Kansas
plains, Mr. Tilton said, in substance: He
would have the legislature establish and
maintain two experimental stations one
on the K. D. of the U. P. railway the
other on the Santa Fe both to be on or
very near the one hundredth meridian;
he would have the management
of these stations purely scientific;
he would aim. to have at least three strata
of ground in each of the stations valley,
bench land and up land; he would have
each of these strata planted in the class
es of timber which naturally flourish
there better than in any other stratum;
he would have the prdducts of these sta
tions free to every Kansan;
he would have the applicant answer a set
of properly-prepared questions concern
ning the stratum of ground in which he
wishes to plant the trees, the cultivation
he has given the ground, and then the
manager of the nursery should dictate
what trees, if any, he should have,
and the applicant's abusing his pledge in
any event should prevent his sharing
further the gratuity of the station. Mr.
Tilton claimed that by the inteligent,
business-like co-operation of the state
with the people of the plains in the direc
tion of growing timber, more groves
could be shown in western Kansas within
five years than can be shown in twenty-
I five years under the present lack of sys
tem, and that the people of central and
eastern Kansas would be re-imbursed ten
fold by the increased taxable value of
these lands for the taxes which they
would pay in the operating of these sta
tions. We shall introduce a bill at the coming
session of the legislature for the estab
lishment of these forestries. We shall
be glad to incorporate in its provisions
that one or more be located in central or
eastern Kansas, if the sentiment of the
members from those sections warrants
the step. We make the modest claim
that a measure of this kind will do more
.toward dotting the homesteads of Kansas
with timber within the next five years
than the present lack of system will bring
about in twenty-five years. Back of all
this will be the well-supported proposi
tion that the increase in the value of
real estate will result in western Kansas
paying more than enough extra taxes to
recompense the central and eastern por
tions for their share of the taxes in sus
taining these forestries.
Last week's .Kansas Farmer has
an editorial which, as nearly as we can
make out, supposes the Kansas legislature
to have been in session twenty-one days,
having accomplished the passage of four
bills and a resolution to congress, and
being entitled to sit for pay only nine
days more. It may not refer to the Kan
sas legislature; it does not say. The
Kansas legislature, we believe, would, with
the twenty-one-days-spent contingency as
a basis, be entitled to pay for twenty-nine
days more. Just the point the Farmer
would make in this article does not in
trude itself with much force. It is
safe to say that very many of its readers
will see the point in .the intimation ,that
more than two-thirds of the legislative
session has actually been spent.
The legislature of Vermont has
rjasS6a a w Dninshinffwith fine and im-
prfsonment any one weariMflr a.G.'ILBL-
uaage wno -is jnoc enuuear ioj&m aw-
tinctiotf. hPAimkmrjr - -'AftrpM;
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stock: -A-znninsTG- the
- KEE1STET, KA1STSAS, SATURDAY, JA1STUABY 8,
DON'T GET SCAEED!
The matter of moving the United States
land office from Wa-Keoney to Wallace
is being agitated, and it is claimed that
the representative in congress from that
district, Hon. E. J. Turner, is pledged to
use his influence to that end. Such a
removal at this time would work a great
hardship to the people of Ness and Rush
counties. It will not be many years
until the land in this county will be taken
and proved up 'on, but in the meantime
the office, where it is, accommodates more
people than it would if moved to Wal
lace. We think it would be much better
to make an effort to secure a new office
there, as the Wa-Keeney office has more
business than it can conveniently attend
to. Ness City News.
We are grateful to the News for its
manly declaration in behalf of letting
well enough alone
Several papers in this land district
have what might be termed land-office-removal
distemper in a harmless form
The last week's Hays Free Press informs
us that the program mapped out by the
powers that be or some such an outfit
is to have tho Salina land office removed
to Hays City, and the Wa-Keeney land
office to Wallace. This move, according
to the Free Press, and old Madam Ru
mor to boot, is to have the pitch-in-to-win
backing of Congressman-elect Tur
ner. Now, with this panorama of action in
the focus, and the fact that Wallace and
Hays City are interested up to their eyes
in this deal, the World will state whafc
appears just as good to us as a few facts
in this case, with the view of calming the
troubled waters, so to speak: In the ab
sence of a called session of congress, Mr.
-Turner will not take his seat in congress
untilextDecember. We do not believe
for a moment that Mr. Turner has com
mitted himself to the labor of seeing the
land office removed from Wa-Keeney to
Wallace. H e perhaps has signified his
willingness possibly his intention of
introducing a bill to locate a land office
at Wallace, without any reference to inter
fering with the one at Wa-Keeney. If he
has, this is quite another thing from
taking the office from Wa-Keeney to
Wallace. The centrality and accessibility
of Wa-Keeuey as the headquarters of the
land district can not be assailed with
any fairness. No one man will do all this
removing anyway! The friends of Wa
Keeney should stand together in a quiet
manner, with their perceptive faculties in
constant trim, and a determination to hold
the fort while a man remains. We ex
pect to see them hold it without a reason
able cause for calling out the reserves.
PRETTY GOOD.
The Free Press says that $15,000 have
been expended for buildings in Hays
during the past year. Ellis can go
$60,000 better and proposes to double it
next year. Ellis Review.
Boys, those figures are pretty good
considering.
Of course, up here at Wa-Keeney,
where the expenditures for improvements
have exceeded $103,000 the last year, there
may be a disposition to think that Hays
and Ellis are not very rapid towns. We
are here, however, to back the proposi
tion that they have done firstrate con
sidering. MONEY TO LOANHIIIilli
ON DEEDED LANDS
And for paying out on
Final Proof,
-A.t tli Branch 'OfHoe
v , OF THE
JAEVIS-CONELIN
Mortgage Trust Company,
Parties desiring loans will find, it to
their advantage to deal with us, as our
action is final no delay of sending east
for papers and money. Make your ap
plications in time for us to see your
land.
Office in Verbeck's building, east side
of Franklin St
WA-KEENEY,
KANSA&
c. f. Mcknight,
LaRd Attorney and Notary Public.
MONEY ON LAND at lowest rates of
interest. Makes Final Proofs, attends
to Contests, and is agent for
S. XC
lands mm
fe? 134&S.-.
QOm fir door fc of U. S. Ld 0p,
basis oie1 ott:e& nsriDTrsTisiES
y4 H. BLAIR,
Land Attorney and Real Estate Agent.
CONTESTS -A SPECIALTY.
Wa-Keeney -. - Kansas,
JOHN A. NELSON,
Attorney at law
AND
Loan Agent.
U. P. Land Agent for- Trego, Gra
ham and Ness bounties,
WA-KEENEY. - KANSAS.
Stock Banehes a Specialty.
Parties meaning business request
ed to write me.
A. J. HARLAN. SAM H. KELLEY.
HARLAN & KELLEY,
ATtOENEYS - AT - LAW.
Practice m all State & Federal Courts.
A. J. HARLAN,
Real Estate & Land Agent.
Business before the Land Olfice
Promptly Attended to.
OFFICE UP STAIKS IN WOKLD BUILDING,
WA-KEENEY, KANSAS.
HOLLISTER & BIGGER,
ATT0ENEYS - AT - LAW.
All legal business entrusfedto
care will be attended to
. promptly.
our
Office
on Russell Avenue, east of
Franklin Street.
WA-KEENEY, - KANSAS.
Frank Danford,
ATTORNEY - AT - LAW
And Real Estate Dealer.
Buys and sells Keal Estate, secures
Homesteads and Timber-claims
for those wanting gov't land.
Will practice in all State Courts and be
fore the Gov't Land Office.
Business solicited.
Office in McClaren Building,
WA.ECBElSrETr SLA. -.SAS-
J. WORD CARSON,
.NOTARY PUBLIC,
Purchasing Selling and Locating
LAND AGENT &ATTSY.
Makes Soldiers' Homestead Declaratory
.Entries, 'limber Jmings, rre-emptions,
Homesteads, Final Proofs. Attends
to Contests in all phases, etc.
Promptness and fair dealing. All work
guaranteed.
Office in Basement of eeney Block,
UNDER U. S. LkND OFFICE.
WM. SPICER
THE-
MERCHANT TAILOR,
Keeps' the choicest assortment of
FALL WINTER
GOODS
In the City. Employs only First
Class Workmen, and
Warrants a Perfect Fit or No Salt.
Shop third door1 south of Westebk
Kansas Wobjjd Office.
niTY DELIVERY.
Headquarters at Verbeck's Store.
DAVID AURUCKLE.
DINING- HALL,
By BAKER & BUSH,
At the old Bcker frtrnni
A SQUARE MEAL FOR 25 CTS.
WsilsslniTSoa hand all kiadsrof Oo-
7 ; wwiwmiT. iiwn, aa,xoamoK
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C. O. BESTOB,
Deeded, Railroad,:
S School Lands,
Homesteads, Pre-emptions and
Timber Claims.
GENERAL REAL ESTATE BUSINESS.
Money Loaned on Deeded Property.
ITo. 1SB 2ri.axiiJ.lxx Street,
Wa-Keeney, Kansas.
B. J. F. HANNA.
D.B. KETiliEY.
Hanna & Kelley,
LAND ATTORNEYS,
Wa-Keeney, - Kansas.
Prompt and careful attention given to
any and all business before the
United States Land Office.
S. R. CCTWTCK,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
All legal business entrusted to my care will receive
prompt and careful attention.
Office with Wheeler Bros. WA-KEENEY, KAN
CO WICK & WHEELER BROS, will
give special attention to final proofs and
contests.
JOHN RONNQTJIST,
PAINTER,
Sign Writer,
Grainer, Kalsominer, Paper Hanger.
. WA-KEENEY, SAN.
GEO. BARRETT,
CARPENTER, ' BUILDER
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And Contractor.
Plans and Specifications
PEEPAKED TO ORDER.
Shop on north aide of Russell avenue,
second building west of Opera' House.
COME TO
KERSHAW'S
NEW FEED & BOARDING STABLE,
f JUST WEST OF OPEEA BLOCK,
-7WREH
You Want your Horses Fed & Boarded.
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Special care given to Animals entrusted
to my keeping. .
COOK BOOM AND TEED MTXiIi ATTACHED.
Corn, Oats, & Ground Feed
FOB SAX'S,
IN
LAEGE OE SMALL QUANTITIES
AT
LOWEST CASH PRICES.
I have lately put in a Horse Power Feed
Mill and will do
Custom -:- Grinding.
H. S. DAVIS,
At Kershaw's Livery Stable
M. H. FARMER,
PHYSICIAN&SURGEON,
DISEASES
Of the Ep, Ear iti Ttrtit i Specialty.
A full line of Spectacles on hand.
OfteeiQlteria'aDng Store,
WA-KEENEY, - - KANSAS.
D& H, E. WIL00X,
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S. M. HUTZElt, '
Attorney at Law, U. S. Land Attsrnty
AND SEAL ESTATE AQINT.
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Special Attention given to Contests and
Final Proofa,
Office west side Franklin 8treet,
WA-KEENEY, - - KANSAS.
A. E. MICKBL,
Dri
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-ALSO AGENT TOR'THE ""
PERKINS WINBSrfLL,
All work and mills guaranteed satisftc.
tory. Mills and pumps always "
on hand.
. WA-KEENEY, KANSAS.
INSURE YOUR
LIVE STOCK
Against Death from any cause what
ever, and against Theft, in the
Atchison Livt Stock Insurance Gi,,.
OF ATCHISON, KANSAS. ,
W.'S. McGlNNIS, Agt Wa-Ketaey, Ks,.
Office with John A. Nelson.
J. R. WILSON,
COUNTY SURVEYOR
AND LAND LOCATOR,
WA-KEEHEY, - - - KAKIA1,
FRICK'SLrVERX.
Opposite the Oakes House,
WA-KEElfET,
XAVMf
LIVERY, FEED & SALE STABLE.
Best of Bigs at the Most Reasonable Rates,
A. C FBICE, Prop.
A. E. SIGLER.
Carpenter iKfflfc Builder
Special attention given to buildings
of modern styles.
Shop north of Keeney Block,
WA-KEENEY, ... KANSAS.
0, D. STEWART,
Proprietors of
rn 1 sjimim; parlor.
First doorpouth of Lille's drugstore.
Everything in First Class Stylt.
WA-KJSENEY, KANSAS. r
CITY BAKEBY.
'seduction IX
BREAD; CAKES;
And all kinds. of Goods.'
Stores at Lawrence &-Hall's; also
in south room of Sawtelle
Auction Block; also at
41 Washington St.,
Wa-K jsiotbt, - k - Kaxsai; "
373 J- HEGKBNBlL
HOTEL !
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WHITE -:- HOTJM
WALIiACZ, KANSAS,
Always ready to, attend to tb
ACCOMMODATIONS GOOD
PRICES. Only $1.00 Pw Bty.
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