Oklahoma State Register. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 12, 1907 Page: 2 of 8
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"Mr. C. D. Robins jn, a promi-
nent merchant at Pawnee Cuv,
Nebraska, has completed a very
interesting experiment in the
growingjof hardy Catalpas, in 1889
he purchased a small tract ihr^e
miles notheast of Pawnee City,
and immediately put plans under
way to plant twenty acres to cat-
alpas.
The land is of the rolling-prai-
rit type. The soil is sandy loam,
with a small admixture of gravel,
and underlain with a clay subsoil.
Seven acres was very much run
down. The remaining thirteen
acres had been in virgin prairie
sod until the spring of 1889, when
it was broke out and allowed to
stand idle until the following
year. The ground was put in a
thorough state of cultixatiou im-
mediately before the trees wort
planted. The trees, which wert
one year old when set out, were
spaced four by four feet, thus re-
ijuiring 2722 trees per acre. 1 he
plantation was cultivated the
same as corn the first two years.
After that no further care was
given them, except that a few
acres were pruned several years
later. The plantation was always
protected against fire and live
stock.
The entire plantation was har-
verted in January and February,
1906. The average of the grove
was approximately sixteen and
one-third years. The owner has
kept a strict account of all ex-
penses incurred in establishing,
maintaining and harvesting tnis
plantation, as well as of all pro-
ceeds, and the figures following
are taken from his records;
EXPENDITURES PER ACRE.
Interest on S-1.57 for sixteen
and one-third years at 5 per cent
compounded. $26.34
Cutting and marketing 61.90
Total expense for groining and
harvesting the plantation per
acre, S109.S3.
RECEIPTS FROM THE TWENTY ACRES
The actual material sold and
receipts from the same was:
For posts and poles $4,114,60
214 cords wood, at S5 25 1,123,50
Total income, $5,238 10
The total of 85,238,10 as the
proceeds from twenty acres is
equal to S26I.VO per acre for
growing, etc., and if the cost of
$109,83 per acre for growing and
marketing is deducted, we have
$15207 as the net proceeds per
acre. Allowing 5 per cent, com-
pounds interest for deferred pay-
ment, the S152.07 as the net in-
come at the end of 16 1-3 years
is equivalent to an annual net in-
come of $6 24 uer acre. In other
words, if the land had been rent-
ed, it would have had to bring an
annual cash rental of $6 24 per
acre for this period to equal the
income derived from the planta-
tion. Any one acquainted with
the conditions that have prevail-
ed in Eastern Nebraska, and the
reverses farming has suffered for
the period included in the life of
this plantation, knows that this
would be a splendid showing for
any sort of crop. It should be
remembered that one third of this
grove was on poor land.
The old stumps have sent up a
vigorous growth of sprouts the
past summer, and the owner ex-
pects to harvest a second crop in
ten years. Duting the past sum-
mer the sprouts were thinned out
to the one, or in a few cases to
the two, most promising sprouts
at each stump. These have made
a growth of from four to nine
feet the past summer.
Mr. Robinson, writing in regard
to his grove, says: 'I am well
pleased with the result. It has
been a source of a great deal of
pleasure and very little bother or
worry. If I had it to do over I
could realize quite a little more
from the same timber. I should
have had fifteen cents for the
posts which I sold for twelve and
one-half cents. They were a fine
post and would have sold readily
at fifteen cent,s. I also found a
good sale for ten foot posts for
stables and sheds, and could have
sold several thousand fourteen
and sixteen-foot poles for sheds
and cross country telephone
poles.''
You will note that this plant-
ing was for fence posts and cord
wood, two of the lowest grades of
wood products, the treec being
only 4 feet apart. If the trees
had been planted 8 feet apart,
and every other tree cut out for
fence posts in 6 or 8 years, each
tree in 16 years would undoubt-
edly have been large enough for
telegraph poles and cross-ties in-
stead of fence posts. In this way
the tract should have produced a
gross income of 1332° cross-ties
having a value of 75 cents net,
bringing $10,000, nearly double.
Besides this the thinning would
have netted a neat sum for fence
posts when only 8 years old
Mr. J. P. Brown, editor and
publisher of "Arboriculture,"
Connersville, Ind., states that
the catalpa Speciosa tree is the
most rapidly growing tree it Am-
erica that possesses economic
value.
Uneeda
Biscuit
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A food to work on—
A food to smile on—
A food to sing on—
Energy and good - nature
every package.
The most nutritious wheat
food.
In moisture and
dust proof packages.
NATIONAL BISCUIT
COMPANY
intoxicating ether of a rare dav in win- profitable in Japm the returns vary-
ter. Suddenly, with consternation, a ing from $20 to $50 per acre. With a
group stopped in front of the Parisian. , successful cultivation of th? plant in
Horror! Was it suicide? A rare auburn British Columbia the Japanese hope to
head lay on a chaste bosom, as though j work up a big trade in bamboo furni
fallen asleep under some wonderful | ture. Willow is the best that can be
opiate. That intellectual, Mineva-like secured in this country, but bamboo is
brow, those wistful Psyche eyes, that j far superior to the willow that is now
haughty Vinus nose, those lips more : used.
tempting than they who held Endymion j Another industry which the Japanese
all a summer, those cheeks, like apples I will endeavor to work up will be the
of Hesperadis—that wondrous god- use of bamboo for water pipes. In
des8 head could not be seen, but the j Japan bamboo is largely used as water
whole form was a mute evidence of pipes, and the growers see no reason
death. A second look revealed that j why it could not be used in this coun-
the unfortunate girl's neck was broken.
The girl had been left overnight in
the window, and had fallen into a stu-
por. Mr. Baher, the proprietor left
and it is hoped that additional subscrip-
tions for these note3 will now be forth-
coming. If there is any information
which I may be able 'o furnish, do not
hesitate to write me.
4ears the
Signature
CASTOniA.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Kansas City's Sabbath
Show Folk Arrested.
try.
Bamboo stalks are very handy They
grow from seventy to 100 feet in height
straight and erect, with trunks some-
for the country Sunday, and there was ] times onefoot in diameter. The growth
no one to let down the cloth awning in j is rapid and the shoots will thrive in a
the afternoon. The western sun, shin-' dry, arid country with an elevation
ing fiercely had fairly cooked theT dy. j anywhere from sea level to 15,000 feet.
Those on the outside could do no more j -
than let down the awning and notify Hill's Business College,
the owner. As they walked away tears j Oklahoma City, Okla.
ran down their cheeks and their breasts j We have gotten settled in our new
heaved in pity for one so beautiful and ! qUal-ters on the corner of Main and
one so unfortunate. j Broadway over the Westesn National
The girl has no relatives in the city, ; |;ank. We are occupying the entire
and her body will be shipped to Plaster [ third floor and have beyond question
Paris where she came from. J the finest and best lighted rooms in
I the Southwest. Our rooms must be
A Long List I seen to be appreciated.
of Jail Makers The success of our school has been
phenominrl. We came here a little j
Statisticians have figured out that I, nine month3 without knowing a
there are 6,397 different kinds of in- | -n an(j naw we are com.
toxicating dninks made and used in pe„ed tQ mQVe jnt0 ,arger quarters on i
the world and 91,743 drinks of all kinds j account of the large attendance. Just |
including both hard an.l soft varieties. thjnk of iU we haye enrol,ed 235 stu" ,
Drastic measures were taken in Kan-
sas City to enforce the Sunday closing
law as a result of the recent campaign
begun by Judge William H. Wallace
of the criminal court. The county
grand jury indicted 228 traveling act-
ors and actresses and employees of
local theatres, charged with violating
the Missouri .law, forbidding labor on
Sundav. Of this number 141 were ar-
rested and gave bond for $200 each, j
while others evaded the officers and |
left the city without being apprehend- I
ed.
Whlla the carrot grtw tony, tin turnip
grew round.
And the carrot was proud of its far-
reaching length,
While the turnip was proud of its
soundness and strength.
So the carrot could boast in a carroty
way
Of its far-reaching roots and its
leafy display.
And the turnip would tell in a turnipy
style,
Its circumference would equal a fourth
of a mile.
And the carrot would smile in a satis-
fied way,
When it saw how much it had grown in
a day.
And the turnip could see without any
eyes
It was growing to be of a monstrous
size.
Thus they lived and they boasted the
whole summer through,
\nd the while they kept boasting they
grew and they grew.
Then the autumn came on with the
great county fair;
And the gardener then pulled this poor
foolish pair.
He put them in sight in the vegetable
hall,
Where they were both praised and not-
iced by all.
They were both of fine shape and of
very large size;
And were labeled alike with a card of
first prize;
Then he carried them home with a
smile of delight,
And into the cellar they were put out
of sight.
But there in the cellar, so dark and so
cold,
They kept up their boasting the same
as of old.
But the wife of the gardener had com-
pany one day,
And the poor foolish pair were put out
of the way;
For the deacon and pastor had come
there to eat,
And they wanted some soup, and they
wanted some meat,
So the turnip and carrot from the
cellar were brought,
And shared the same fate in a soup
boiling-pot.
Thus the moral to this, if any you see,
Is: Don't flatter yourselves wherever
you be;
But watch for your faults and many
you'll find;
And boasting forever keep out of your
mind
Alice Lewis Richard.
CASTOR IA
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
3ears the
signature of
Chicago Gets the
National Convention.
Republicans of Oklahoma and the
Southwest will feel the disappointment
that Kansas did not secure the repub-
lican national convention, for conven-
ience if for nothing else. It would have
helped the republicanism of the whole
Southwest to have had the convention
within the radius of its influence.
Roosevelt administration, or, rather,
the avowed enemies of the administra-
tion, were not in a majoriiy on the
committee, but when to this reaction-
ary.vote was added the insincere third-
term boomers, who from the very first
have been using Roosevelt's name to
defeat his policies, for the genuine re-
actionaries became possible.
It has all along been insisted by a ma-
jority of those who have always sup
Of the vast number beer takes the
lead as the most used. In the figures
presented the United States ranks
high as a consumer, yet leads the list
of alcohol and that an alarming
ber of so-called soft drinks
dents in a little over nine months. Can
any other school show such a record?
We have been able to do this by giving
our students the very best of every-
for temperance and for low percentage | thjng conse()Uentiyi we are making a
ot drunkenness. It has also been dis- aucce9S uU3iness men appreciate our
covered that pract.cally every km 1 of st.jdrnt8 and constantly calling on us
food consumed contains a percentage j
| We are making a special rate and a
contain st;ecjai 0fjer an(j jf you are interested j
deadly poison in greater quantities in this matter, write us at once.
than is found in ordinary alcoholic bev- , gend ua the nameg anJ addreg3es of
erages. j any young people that are thinking of
1 hese figures offer an interesting sub lending a business college and we will
ject for study. In order to present to ; giye y(JU one.half dozen cards with
the public in the most easily under- j your nam0 written on them by the
stood manner the precautions the gov- j bgst penman in the Southwest.
ernment takes to protect it? people in* i _
jury from beverages an extensive ex- Froni Wichita
position will take place in the Chicago o I 13*
Coliseum, December 10 to 21. Here I ® ® KCu IvlVCT.
will oe gathered together as m iny of The Orient road will be completed
_ _ i the 91,743 varieties as it is possible to ; and run trains from Wichita to Red
sas City been selected, the date of the I for the Republican national convention i get under one roof, and in addition to 1 Kiver by January, as shown by the fol-
convention would have been fixed for can now be discussed in full understand- j exposing all the various harmful kinds lowing letter from E. H. Shaufler, an
June 2. It was the understanding that ing of all that has gone on in Washing- j the government will conduct a testing official of the road in Kansas Citv, to
Chicago secured the convention, and ' ported the administration that the men
the Washington correspondent of the ! who were shouting third term were do-
Kansas City Star says the reactionaries I ing so with the sole end in view of ac-
are responsible for the defeat. He i complishing the President s dafeat in
says: Chicago owes its selection as the i his etTort to compel the Republican
Republican national convention city to I party to stand in its next convention
the solid vote cast for it bv the com- for progressive rather than for reac-
mitteemen from the South. Had Kan-1 tionary policies. The story of the fight
if the convention went to Chicago it ton.
should be held June 16. The Dead Model.
The compact as to the date was the
only understanding which was carried '^'le was beautiful, with golde.i hair
out by the national committee. The
victory for Chicago and the defeat for
Kansas City only can be interpreted
one way. Three days ago Kansas City
had the fight won. With practically
the solid support at that time of the ;
states west of it enough votes favor-
that circled her head like an oreol.
Though her station was simple, she was
richly appareled in silks and laces, and
you could not have told her from a
princes 90 unconsciously and with such
chaste grace she wore her finary. It
was her fate to be born poor but beau-
able to Kansas City could be counted in '^u' am' society made her pay the fate
the East and in the South to give it
the necessary majority.
HOW THE REACTIONARIES WON.
The campaign wnich was inaugurat-
ed in Srnator Dick's committee room
Wednesday afternoon was primarily
the cause of Kansas City's defeats. It
would easily have been possible to have
defeated the reactionary influences op-
enly at work. The enemies of the
of those whom nature makes regal and
condition menial, it sought her for its
own delectation and spurned her for
her own. She had to work, ami beauty
being her only asset the world would
recognize, she laid that gift of the
gods on the alter of necessesity, and
stood as a dress model in the window
of a lady's paradise.
Sunday afternoon the street were
full of gay people drinking the helio-
station and give analyses of every- a citizen of Altus, Oklahoma: Recall-
thing that is presented. Our purpose | ing my recent trip to Altus and the
of this show will be to teach the Am- j several subscriptions which were hand- I
erican public the folly of intemperance ed me for Mexico & Orient Townsite |
and show by example and actual test notes.
the harm th t is worked by imbibing I am referring the several subserip-j
too freely of dangerous concoctions on j tionc which were received to the U. S. |
the market today. In addition to the & Mexico Trust Company, and notices j
actual wet goods, all sorts of applian- will be mailed to the various parties. I
Removal Sale
■NOW ON-
We can and will save you money on your purchases
Of Wall Paper,
Holiday Goods
Hand Bags, Dolls
Mirrors, Drugs
Druggist Sundries
Stationery, etc,
After January 1, we will be located in the
Building next to Oklahoma State Bank
Gray
Gray s Drug Store
120 E. Oklahoma Avenue
A. E. <Jray, Prop.
ces and machinery used in their
duction also will be exhibited.
pro-
am very much pleased to say to you at i
this time that the Orient Company
placed its order several days ago for a
large quantity of rails, and by January j
next, the gap north of Altus vill be
closed and the Orient line will be in
of British Columbia operation from Wichita to the Red
un the cultivation of river. The rail people advise that im-
mediate shipment will be made, and it
is expected that rails will commence j
arriving at Wichita Kansas, in the
next ten days. I shall be very glad in- j
deed, if you will make known these
facts to the vBrious parties interested,
To Cultivate Bamboo
In America.
The Japanese
have recentls be
bamboo on a large scale The experi-
ment is proving quite successful. Bam-
boo roots are being brought in large
quantities from Japan an 1 transplanted
in British soil.
The cultivation of ba-nboo is very
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They contain more and bi tter rubber than any other make ha c t' Id*
filt non-rUfting metal part* and strong cord end« that cannot weal
through. The new back free action permit! ease and comfort u<
matter what position the body may assume
They oalwtar three ordinary kinds, which means
three time.* the service ol usunl fiO cent sorts.
The «t Comfortable Sunpender Ma.In for Man. Youth or Boy
In Light. Heavy or Extra H avy Weights. Extra Long 'N' > Extra Cost)
They make inexpeniiro jnft« every man. youth or boy will gladly rccei?#
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Golobie, John. Oklahoma State Register. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 12, 1907, newspaper, December 12, 1907; Guthrie, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc112576/m1/2/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.