Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 4, 1890, Page 19

e THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, THE FARMER WILL PROSPER Natural Oonditions are Solving the Problem of Over Production, PRICES HAVE REACHED THE BOTTOM An Interesting Array of Facts and Fignres Full of Enconrage- ment for the Tiller of the Soil. The Farmer Will Be Prosperous, The absence of prosperity among farmers, writes C. Wood Davis in the Forum for May, i largely due to excessive production of nearly all farm products. Such being the cause of the dificulties that beset the farmer, it is desirable to ascertain whether the condi- tions essentiul to prosperity can be restored, cither by government intervention or by the opegation of natural laws. A measure of relief would be had were a #top put to the dealing in options for farm products, were the rates for transportation always just and onable, and were all combinations deprived of any control over s of cattle aad other tarm products. at time will readjust the disturbed rela- tions between production and consumption, 15 as cortain as that population will continue 10 incre he farmer can hope for pros- when domestic consumption shall rly all his product but in order how how and when this will be brought to ¢ abeut, it must first be known how much present production is in excess of home re- quircments, Assuming the population to be now 65,000, 000. with the area in cereals producing aver- age crops and current consumption 15 per cont greater per capita than in the five years ending in 1874, present supplies are in excess of population as follows: Corn for 5,500,000 people, wheat for 14,000,000, cattle for 6,000, 000 and swine for 11,000,000. Should popula- tion continue to increase as herotofore, and production notincrease more than seems prob- able, home requirements will absorb all the food products before the end of the century. During the last five years population has increased 117 per cent, the area in corn 12 310, that in oats 20, cattle 20 and swine 14, with a decrease of 3 4-10 per cent in the wheat ares. Seven-tenth of such increase in the coru urea occurred in the first two years, in- dicating that the'expansion in corn growing is nearing its end. That such is the case will De seen when an inquiry is made into the present sources of supply, and we compare the present rate of increase and distribution of areas with those obtaining in preceding periods as set forth in the following table: ACHEAGE OF CORN AND ITS GEOGRAPHICAL IN- CREASE. Groups l corn | corn | corn [ com of Acreaye [Acrenge | Actoage | Acreage 187, | 1879, | 1884. | 1880, ates. North Atlantic.| Lake... Missouri valley Southern....... I Arkansask Mountain and Corn-growing i its limit, the in censed in the coast Maine to Ma apparently approaching wse of acreage having region, extending from id, and in the lake group, which includes such states as Ohio, Indiana, Tllinois, Michigan, Wisccnsin and Minnesot: 1n the statesof the Missouri valley—Towa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and the Dakotas —the areiy of - corn mnearly doubled in the five years ending in 1879, and the reduction in the rato of increase shows that the quantity of new land -voted to this crop is le: is the scene of the exc pansion in corn growing which flooded the murkets, depressing prices to the present un- precedented level; 3 this district the corn acreage has nearly reached its limit, set- tlement having passed beyond the corn area and partially overrun the arid plains where corn culture is impracticable, t upon such limito n be irrigated. The process of converting corn flelds _into dairy furms, orchards and meadows, is here in ac- tive operation, and we may conclude that the corn fields of this district will not in this century, if ever, exceed 80,000,000 acres, South of the Potomac and Ohio, corn grow- ing made great strides from 1874 to 1879, but uavanced much less rapidly from 1579 to 1586, Since 1556 there has been but little increase. in Arkansas and Texas the increase has been better custained than elsewhere, and shows less signs of an early halt, although there ening in the rate. moderate in be looked for in these states, e acreago emploved, i cor-growing in the vast reglons extenliing from the 102d meridian to the Pacific, does not equul that of the corn fields of two counties in Kansas; and this entire area, being but. poorly udapted to the production of this staple, will ever remain an unimportant factor in de- termining the extent of the supply. F'vom this survey of the sources of supply it uppears that any material ine an_encourn, slack- se may ) corn uereage must be looked for in- the states of the Missouri valley, in Arkansas and A T Texas, and in_that portion of the itory lying east of the 4sth m that the Indian Ter v W consider- for years produce any able “surplus, but will, by the end of the century, have two or three million acres employed in growing corn, which will no more than compensate for Iosses in area east of the Mississippi ho tendency of the present very low peice will be to contract the area ed—at the south, for instanc duction of cotton—and some expansion of cat fields may result from a decrease ‘orn area iu tiorthern localities. This review of the area of corn production leads to the conclusion that the screage de- ed to this staple will not exceed 53,000,000, il timo s fur higher prices shall profitable the cultivation of soils of very low fertility; and it is not likely to ex- cced 80,000,000 acres within five years. Care- ful computation of the extent of the exporta- tion of animals and animal products, now and tifteen ince, shows the incroase in ears such oxports to be 'equal to au addition of one bushel of corn por capita; and what With the increased exportation of corn in this form and its smployment in the manufacture of vi ws of glucose and A5 & substitute for Canadian and home- £rown birley, a woderate estimate would put the poc capita requirements at least 15 per cent ubove the mmount consumed prior to 197 With consumption at the ru eight bushels per capita, an o from 83,000,000 would supply 000,000, Which we may exject s as the year 1505 T AAPICYIR 1os 0 S0 In the North Atlantic gro in acreage was constant until 1850, thepe giving place to a material diminution. Lo udditions to tho ucreage in the luke states was very great up to 1800, when & rapid de- wuse bogan, the loss now Amounting to : 1,708 acres. In the states of the Missouri vall exclusive of the Dakotas, the en- largement of the area was very great up to 1551, when a sharp corner was turned, tho wheet fields of this dist having sine shranken 3, " The southern states, incl wsas and Texas, show “ modera e from 1875 to 1534, but a £ in the lwst five years, tou fields > occurred o ropid incr wheat urea of the the Pucific 1o I8N, since which i the boen less thau forest growth, cover the best soilsof Ore. gom and Washington, will preclude any rapid facrease in'those stutes. Doring the, ninth decade the Dakotas witnessed the most couversion of wild lands into taal the world has ever own ; and these flelds now furnish a large part of the export able suralus, and tend te ) prices near the population of e in the s prior st neraso has 1 per evut; and an imme BRIDGEPOR] Land HALF FARE RAILROAD RATES by mountains. the Tenessee river. Chattanooga. Look at the profitable investments for manufacturers.--We have the best coking coal in the surrounding country. Our 80,000 acres of mineral, coal and iron lands are covered with large si riety, in oalk, hickory, ash, poplar, pine, walnut, dog wood, red elm, red birch, sour wood, gum, soft maple and persimmon. We defy comparison in the above variety of timber.--Limestone for building easily quarried, and of good quality. fire clay and brick making; water power for manufactures. track in Bridgeport at about 90 a ton. electric light plant. Keep Your Eve SUNDAY. MAY 4, 1890.-TWENTY PAGES. on Bridgepor, GRAND PUBLIC SALE of BUSINESS and RESIDENCE LOTS BY ‘We submit report of Major J. W. Kelley, mineral expert and engineer on our mineral lands. THE an It is the key to the Sequatchet Valley. Free wharfage. Plans are being executed for a $78,000 hotel, office building, water works and Sale Tuesday, May 8, countinuing until Saturday, May 10, 1890. For full particulars, plats, maps, etc., address BRIDGEPORT LAND & IMPROVEMENT CO,,’ starvation point. The Dakotas and the moun- tain and Paciflc regions include the only arcas where the wheat acreage does not show @ diminut andi1 these districts the gain is not likely to equal the losses elsewhere, as the wheat™ flelds have already invaded the arid regions where crop failure is the rule. Indeed, competent authorities declare that profitable wheat culture is impossible with- out irrigation in the Dalkotas, or in the British possessions between the 100th meri- dian and the western slopes of the Cas- cade mountains. Notwithstanding the great additions to the area in the Dakotas, the wheat fields of 1889 covered 1,352,026 acres less than did those of 1884, and were but 1 142 acres greater than those of nine years be- A ere are no more Dakotas to be ex- t-growing has evidently reached limit, and exportation will grow ss until domestic requireme: our entire product of this c 11 soon be the case follow the complete occupation of the winter wh area, where other crops are constantly croaching upon wheat ficlds, as in the spring wheat regions east of the Dakotas: and even there the fields longest cropped show clear signs of exhaustion, and must been be recup- erated by a system of rotation that will pre- \'-l'ut any material addition to the wheat sup- P peculators in Canadian lands and politics ‘have reiterated the wildest statements about an area unlimited in extent and fertility and capable of supplying the world with wheat, lying fallow just north of the national bound- and pas less and geographical distribution of cattle in the years 1350, 1835 and 18 ied and that for years the annual additions ave been less than three million acres. If the computation of the area requived per capita be correct, and if the department of agriculture has not underestimated the area employed in growing the staplo crops, domes- tic consumption will absorb the entire pro- duct of cereals, potatoes and hay within five years from January, 1500, and thereafter ag- ricultural exports Will consist almost wholly of tobacco, cotton and animal products, the volume of which will shrink as constantly, if not in the same degree, as home consumption increases. An equalization of the supply of the various staples will readily follow from the application of corn and wheat fields to the growth of such products as nay, from_time to time, bo in most urgent demand. Meantime prices will steadily ad- vance. To most people it would probably appear absurd to suggest that well within ten years it may be found necessary to import large quantities of wheat to feed the ever-increas- ing population; but such will be the logical sequence of the necessity of emploving wheat fields in the growth of other staples, and of the exhaustion of the material from which ms are developed. Assuming the substantial correctness of the estimates of area by the department of agriculture, and that home requirements will be such as to employ .15 acres per capita, the answer to the question, When will the farmer be prosperous? resolves itself into a calcula- tion as simple as the Tollowing: Groups of Stau North Aulantio M Southern Arkansas, dlan Territory Mountain areas. . Pacific Coast.. [ Twat | aear [ ndiin Territory not rted by the department of agriculture. "hat cattle are too cheap and the numbers tly in excess of requirements, is incon- rtible; and it is cqually true that the has, of late years, been almost wholly in the Missouri valléy and the range regions, where cattle subsist, winter and summer, upon the untaxed grass of the public domain, 1t is the cattle from these free pastures and the new farms of the Missour have so overstocked the market and depressed prices. Much can be found inithe tablo to indicate that the increase has become very slow if it, has not virtually ceased, especially in the Atlantic, lake and southern groups: and | this becomes the more apparent when it is Jnown that of the increase shown in these three districts, amounting to 641,677 animals, no less than 552,200 were cows kept for dairy ary. Itis now well established that the area | purposes. In Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, and Acrenlil "ACres: where profitable wheat culture is possible, in | Nebraska the increase in all grades of cattle, | January, 1904, a population Manitoba and the Assiniboine —region,’ is 000000 will require ‘in / included in a tract less than 800 | were milch cows; and the net increase in 'the | \Staplc crops w of.. 22,800,000 miles from east to west and | Pacific states, since 1880, is but 119,757, | A58 FON G extending morth less than ome hundred | Practically the only increase, since 1885, in | affitions o b mmade (o miles, This Canadian wheat region has been | cattle othier than such as. are kept for dairy | “such urea in four years.. 12,000,000 2,000,000 settled many years, yet the produots is still very limited, as is shown in the following ex- tract from the Montreal Star, of January 9, 189 W. W. Oglivie is on his way back from Man- itobn and the northwest, after huving pur- chased prac 1y all the western Cana i securing of the crop b ny was not sucl j ught. It took but 81,5 o work the de hich was for There is ung onably o i rth of the state of Washington, ears must be occupied in remc T rest growths before much wheat o produced. When our population is such as to require more wheat, limited additions to the area can be made by subjecting to cultivation so much of plain and mountain as i sceptible of irrigation; but increase from such irrigated lands will be slow, even if the national government unwisely commits itself to costly irrigation schemes. We must not wait, however, till complete equilibration of production and do- mestic consumption for a return of fair prices, as Great Britain alone re- quires 150,000,000 bushels of wheat annually to supplement a home product steadily dimin- ishing while the requirementsas steadily aug- ment. Buta few years since it was widely predicted that the unlimited capacity of India to produce cheap wheat would deprive us of a market for our surplus, but_these predictions have failed as completély as the assurances that India would furnish the world with all the cotton required. Neither the area, nor the product, nor the average annual shipment of Indian wheat has increased during the last six years—an outcome entirely consonant with the character of & people whose modes of hus- bandry and whose intelligence bear the im- press of many centurics of mental torpor. In Australia there has been no increase of the exportable surplus of wheat since 1883; and it will be muny years before the Argentine Re- public can send abroad a large volume of this cereal, the estimates of the 1590 surplus (for export) in that country ranging from 3,000,000 7,000,000 bushels, and the entive product’ in 1880 being but 11,850,000 bushels. With constantly augmenting population Great Britain and’ western Europe will soon require much more wheat than the expo countries will furnish while prices remain near the present lovel. Meautime, our re- quirements increasing annually at the rate of 10,000,000 bushels, and our demand being made against_a constantly diminishing sup- ply, prices will tend to rise rapidly at home and abroad. That our supplies of wheat will ily diminish- is clearly indicated by the o scof acr in all districts other than those of the Dakotas, mountain areas and Pac uch diminution > years being at the rate of 12.1 per cent and awountiug to 4,514,231 , which is 1,352,020 acves more than the incrense, in the same period_in the Dakotas, and in the mountain and Pacific regions. The question arises: Will contraction of the wheat area in the older districts continue at v rate, and how much of the loss thus sus- tained will be offset by the increase in the Dakotas and in the mountain and Pacific dis- tricts! Much light is thrown on this subject by the following table, showing the area in wll staple crops, and, separ- ately the acreage in corn, wheat, oats, and hay in Ohio, Michigan, 1 ndiana, Ilinois, and Wisconsin, in the years 1880, 1884 and 1887: i ) ns might 1 | Acres | Acres H Percentages This oxhibit shows Lhat in séven ycurs 000 ucres of the corn fields and 2,206,240 > wheat fielas of the states named rted into meadows, as were 52,065 land brought into cultiva- nainddr of the new land, amount- acres, being employed in the production’ of rye, oats, barl wheat, potatoes | and | tobs conversions of old flelds and etuploym new oues are continuously occurring districts, outside of the Dakota mountains and Pacitic areas, and must ¢ reduce the production of wheat; aud such action is likely to be gre tensified, as tho quantity of new lan { being brought under cultfvation ‘is rapidly diminishing, us will be shown further on, The following table shows the number aud purposes, has been in toe range count: there the increnso hns been great, and stal tics fail to show that it has ceased. Throughout the greater part of the range country, the valleys are being occupied by rarmers, thus forcing the cattle men and their herds away from the water and compeliing removal to other pastures. This crowding- out process has been going on for years, and ans has greatly oestricted the available pas- turage. Moreover, many ranges have been s0 overstocked as to destroy the grass, whicn his been replaced by a worthless growth of weeds. The severe storms of the winter of 1856-87 were disastrous to the herds on the northern Acreage deficit, Jan., 1804.. 800,000 This deficit should be sufticient to neutralize possible underestimate of the area now in cultivation. Does not the evidence ndduced show that before this decade is half spent all the pro- ducts of the farm will be required at good ices, that lands will appreciate greatly in value, and that the American farmer will en- ter upon an era of prosperity, the unlimited continuance of which is assuted by the ex- haustion of arable arcas? T WE HEARD PATTI. vinges, destroying great mumbers of cows ' and younger animuls; and | Teon Mead in the Epoch: Though a such losses ‘will now be felt in | ..t : ; ; a diminishing supply of steers from these dis- | Fesident of Philadelphia, T pride myself upon being a somewhat lively, go-ahead chap. But that is not what I intended to say. A fortnight ago I was regretting, as T had been doing for many years, two doleful actualitie hat I had nev been to the metropolis and I had never heard Patti. Ina spasm of impulsive self-reproach, I resolved tosee New York and hear the ‘‘diva.” Thereupon I went to my club to have a consultation with my faithful comrade, Rodney Chumplet. He said he would like to take in Patti, but he had been to New York often and didn’t care to ex- tend his explorations in that cosmopoli- tan settlement. We, therefore, agreed that I should precede him to New York on Monday, March 81, in order to be in time to get scats for the matinee per- formance of “*Martha” on April 5. He assuredme that he would join me in New York on Friday, April 4. Well, I reached New York on the Mon- day in question and two hours after my arrival. I purchased two ticketsfor Patti at the news stand of the hotel where I stopped. They cost me $6 apiece. But that was nothing, I had plenty of money and I wanted to hear Patti, Meanwhile, before that ambition couid be gratified, there were several days allowed me to see New York—to paint it red in wat colors, as it were—I being a votary total abstinenc I saw in those sove days and if I should have been obliged to see more I should have had to do so sitting down—as I was quite tived. I didn’t ex- tricts. Financial distress among the owners of ranze cattle has been extreme, forcing the marketing of every possible animal, old or young, male or female: and this has greatly reduced the rate of increasein such herds, Indeed, many entire herds have been shipped to market as fast as_transportation could be had, This is especially true of the cattle held in the Indian Territory. Such excessive mar- keting has made the supply appear even more awindant than it is. During the last four years, cattle increasod 16.4 per cent, an average of 4.1 per cent per annum; but most of this increase was in the first two years of the four,the rate of increase in the last two years being but 2.4 per cent per annum, Here we see, for the first time in many years, a lower rate of increase than is shown by cattle. Of the late increase of cattle, an unusual proportion are milch cows. Swine being, in large measure, the product, of the corn field, and capable of being in- creased at will, do not call for separate treat- ment; nor does the oat crop, which is used v as animal food and can be very from 1885 to 1389, was 546,433, of which 421,308 l Possussing, as we do, & virtual monopoly of the world’s supply of cotton, the demand, at fair prices, has been sufiicient to absorb the entire product; and the demand being likely to increase more rapidly thun the supply, in consequenco of the near exhaustion of the arable areas, it is not probable that the Amer- ican cotton grower will have to coutend with a troublesome surplus until the remote day when equatorial Africa shall enter the kets with abundant suppl It is imprac- ticable, however, to determine from the con- ditions accompanying the production and marketing of o portion of the staple farm crops, when or how the desired ill come to the farm but we can doubt- less do so when we review, as a whole, the field wherein all the great agriculturalsta- ples are grown. If the present increase in acreage were in thesame ration to population as in the five years previous to 1850, the annual additons to the area under plow would exceed 12,000,000 acres. . al all of Gotham that I could stand, Upon the assumption that the requirements | Pect it of Rodney, but he did it. On are o i g 15 aoee nement | April' Fool's ‘duy “he telegraphed mo ita to_produce tho cereals, potatoes, hay, to- | that unavoidable business called him west at once. He wasto start for Omaha within an hour. There 1 was left with 8$6 worth of Patti’s voice to dispose of. I didn’t know a soul in New York. I thought it wasa shame that Rodney was not going to be with me, but I found consolation in the possibility that before the matinee day came I might manufacture a friend to whom I could, withacasual and fascinat- ing manner, offen .the other seat. I realized, however, that I could not safely trust chance to fish up a proper compan- ion for my 50, ' with my usual un- erring ingenuity, Ihit upon the gallant scheme of adveriising for a female to chaperon an unprotected young man to hear Patti—for the first time. But the personal which appeared in a New York daily the next morning read like this: bacco and cotton consumed at home, and the tobacco, cotton, and animal products exported, the preceding table shows that the troubles of the farmer may be attributed to the bringing of 100 man; es into cultivation in the fourteen years euding in 1584; and that the rocess of readjusting the disturbed relations between production and consumption has been in operation several years, us is clear from the rapidly dimiuishing quantity of new land being employed in the production of staple crops. During the fourte rs prior to 1885, the increase in cultivated Wis S0 great that, after assigning the requived 3,15 acres to each unit of population, there remained A surplus Of 20,248,000 ucres, which was employed in growing products to glut home and foreign markets. Fortunately the arable lands to be occu- pied bad become so very limited that the wdditions to the avea in - cultivation, during the next four years, were reduced to 4 yoarly 40,6 average of 2, highly aristocraticyoung gentleman, un- in the ten quainted with either sex in New York, | to diminis purchased two 8 seals for Patti in *Martha Saturday’s matinee and desire noeds from 20,243,000 acres Lo 12,850,000 at the end of 1888; and @ decrease, rather than an increase, of such additions of new land will not, from 1888 to 1864, exceed a yearly age of 8,000,000 acres, while population will augment uf & rate oOf not less that 2.7 per cent per annum. This will, at the end of 1594, leave but three a nish so much of the ag may then use or export. No doubt the average American could sub- sist upon the product of less than three acres, (a blonde preferred) to at- co with him. Noue bup sle and handsome young ladios need to R. W. T, —= hotel. res por capita to fur- Aitiral Staples us o | Advertising ‘pa That is to say, it gives a fellow an opportunity to get his money back if he is moderately shrewd Atabout 10 o'clock of the morning a8 he did prior to 1874, but it is very certain | that my notice to the whiskerless pi he does not, uor will ho until prices are much | appeared, the applicants to hear higher: neitber is it probable that the aver- | under my auspices began to arrive at age yicld per acro of the staple crops will hotel, 'They kept three or four hall crease until a deficit supply shall necessitate improved modes of culture. Should the American people continue to roquire the pro- duct of 3.15 ucres each, that will, after 1393, necessitate yearly additions of 6,000,000 acres | ¥ t0 the area employed i growing staple crops us great quantitios of land to furnish litional dairy, orchard and minor pro. duets required by the growing population Where cen be found available arable lands, f oven moderate fortility, to moet these evs creasing requirements! It seems wh improbable that there can be any such future increase of cultivated area when we rememw- boys busy bringing up their cards to my suite, Really 1 pectablo had no idea that so man and protty young ladies heard Patti. 1 upon my attention blo proof, I became rather ew York had ne fol his fact was with unmistaka bewildered, The first young lady shown up was Miss Winnifred Willfamson of Hobok She was a % cotta type beyond measure, with u New gracious P86y COY- ber how~thoroughly the arable soils ave occn- I 5 of demeanor that was truly refresh- sire a young lady to accom- pany you to hear Patti.” she remarked very simply and in well modulated tones as she seated herself on the crash-cov- ered divan *Ye that surpassed oven her own. you ever heard her “No,” she answered in a warmer voice. “Papa was going to take me when she was on her former f: visit, but he was killed on the rai and 8o was obliged to gi **Are you fond of musi “Oh, I should smil Miss Willinmson responded gaily, *I play on the melodeon myself,” That settled Winifred in my estima- tion and I told her I would let her know if I decided to take her. She smirked quite joyfully. left me her address and then left herself. The next applicant was much taller and more rotund. Had her cheeks been as deeply bronzed as was her hair she would have been taken for an Egyptian le. She opened the conversation by say- ing: “I never seen Patti, but I want ter just the same. If you want me to go with you I can saymy folks won’t object. They're buried over in the Glen Cove cemeter, “Thanks, lack of culture. T replied, with a simplicity “Have said T, secing at once her S have just made a selection. You have comé a trifle too subsequently.” She bit her lip, called me something ath and ppointed terrible under her onion b shuffled out of the room, a d wretch. Then came a different type of woman- hood—a woman fully forty ye: She was a brunette, by no m with eyes gleaming like sta “T know you prefer blond does not detér me from coming. Ishould love to hear Patti, but my gentlemen friends can only afford {o take me to Miner’s and Worth's. Will you be so kind as to favor me—this once?” A slight nausea seized upon me. I told her to wend her way homeward and leave me to my fate. She did. A vory benutiful girl then came in. She was daintily dressed and her face was as doll-like as Lillian Russell’s She never had heard Patti, but she was not o o doing so. Where do you liv d but that 27 I breathl ked. On Fifth avenue.” nd yet you have never seen Patti?” he said honestly. id I, “overwhelmed by her loveliness, *‘you shall go with me.” We soon arranged matters. I was to call for her at the address she gave me. The other names and cards that came up tome that day, and for the thre following days, I paid no attention to I wondered how it could be that a girl living on Fifth Avenue had never heard of Patti, but she was too Juncesque to be suspicious about. It afforded me ple ure to think that I was to be her f escort to the Patti performanc Half an hour before the mati “Then,” 06 W announced to begin, Irang the bell at —Fifth aveune. A butler in gray v appeured. ss Treebolyn is ready,” he suid knew who I was and what I had come for. Miss Treebloyn apeared immediately with he ps on. We went to “*Marth companion talked be- tween the acts and showed that she wa well educated. We enjoyed **Martha” immensely When the curtain droppsd on the finale she said, “*You need not go home with me, My mistress and her husband who went out of town this morning will have returned by this time. chuimbermaid I dare not ride ba the house in a carriage with such a swell as you are. Thanks for your opera seat, ] Auf Wie " was all T could Then like a scraphic vision she floated away and I sadly marched out into the fresh air and inquired the way to Bloomingdale, e s County Ancestry. th the recent anniv nation of Pre résting to ol s1l- authenticated Lincoln’s ancest went from I county, this state, to Virginia, p th settling in Kentucky, W. Fell, who remov ing county of Lancast became one of Lin Lincoln's Ber In connection sary of the nsse Lincoln it “while it is a w friends and advisers, says ling (Pa’) Times. It was at Fell's request that Lincoln penned his only autobiography in which this sentenc ancestors of my | Abraham Lincoln, who went to Virginia from Berks county, Pennsylvania.” Abraham Lincoln, a direet descendant of this family, is now a prosper Laneaster county farmer, living in Carnarvon township, which adjoinsthe Berks county district, whenc the martyr p ancestors hail Jesse W, Fell, to whom the world is in- debted fc Lincoln, lived dying within a y '8 he andfather, Qualkers, s he brief autoblogruphy « o be or a very old wan two at Normal, ited te the Fell family of IIl. 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YROPOSALS for Indian Supplies and Trans) portation rtment of the Interior, Oftlea of Indian Affairs, Washington, April 1o, CALIFORNIA [B i THEF LAND OF for Reef, (hids 1 DISCOVERIES, ot and direeted (o the € nirs, Nos. ind 67 ¥ soster street, New York. will be received until 1 p. m. of Tuesday, May 18w, for furnishing for the Indian service 1s \Dout 900,000 pounds Bucon, 54,001,000 pou of on the hoof, 1,000,000 pounds net B unds Beans, 64000 pounds Baling 500,000 pouuds Corn, 43 500000 pounds Flour, 5 100 pounds Hard 13 000 pounds Oults, 10,000 po Sugar, and Also, Rl (consisting Standard 18 Sult. 250,000 e 70,000 pounds Whent. ukets, Woolen and’ Cotton Goods, Ticking, 15000 yards: Drilling, 14,000 24,0 T frée from i yards; 000 : Clothing, Medical & long list of ‘such us Harness, Plows, Rakos, Forks, &e.. an for about 860 Wagons roquired for the seryice, to be delivered at Chioa, 1 Also for s Ny IS SE OAT ] RS Gl H 'Send for ul-cul.lv':.sl.’"‘fldl.] o TRAOE MAR 0, THEON L GUARANTEED 3 " & CATARRR WALETINE MED- GO ROVILLE, 1+ Santa : Abie :-and : Cat : R : Cure transportation f gouds and supplies t) for to be delivered ut BIDS MUST BE MADE OUT ¢ dules showin neesupplie a the ki ds and ¢ unnt v artic] o8, L to f delivery. uADOrtiL Sary Instruc- tions will be furnished upon application to the Indinn Offic or Nos. 65 and 67 Wooster streel Commissuries of istence, 'U. 8, A., at Cheyenne, Chleago. wvenworth, Omahi, Safnt Louls, Saint Puul 1 Sun fostiasters Sloux 8. Dakotn: Arks It and Wichits, Kansas, it 5 reservid by the ( nd all bids, or any p: proposals ppropriatio by Congress vernment to rt of any bid, nder proviso for the sup- s invitod shall be made Pl Blds” wi pened at the hour and day above stated, and bidders are nvited to be "SR E" | Present ut the opening. ¥ CERTIFIED CHECKS W | AL bids st b acoompaniud by certifed checks or drafts upon sou "nited Bt Jo- m,%wmg: pository or the l'x{-,l atlonal Bank of San 7 Bod runciseo, Cal., five per cent of thy B vhu_{,};‘,#:;,’f:g wmount of tho'j Tully Heouls e {1 T H sposal J MORGAN, Comuissioner VADKTELOPED ORUANS, A prINSL-T Bas ieutly i 6 Biaiso o ! s he DR. GLUCK, i Gl MEDIGAL ALONIY. ) i ¢ and Ear, Barker Blook, 1th and Farnam. CHICHESTER'S ENGLISH PENNYROYAL PILLS. |- RAND, Telephone 604, DR. R B d, lis bhon. Take o other, articulars a:t uliar Tar 1L Fuptr particutars for home oure. FREE of ¢ ndld medical work - hould be read by ever ervins and debilliated. 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