Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 17, 1910, Page 18

bl Vast Trade Opportunities in Idaho Overlooked by Omaha Dealers UHL, Idaho, Correspondence This Is Sunday hers in Idaho In Omaha late sleepers are being roused by the raucous voice of vocif- €fous newshoys; early risers groomed And brushed, hatted and feathered, are On thelr way to church. But the odor of the city is over all; the smoke of the stacks, the steam of wet sireets and the close, fetid smell of the town, fills the alr, frets the nostril and the morrow's work in stuffy offics flaunts its shape. Penned, prisoned, held bstween walls of stesl and brick and granite, with an fil- Pald task for one's keepor—that is the life, the fate of the city dweller. But I am in Idaho. An April gale sighs and whisties and sings musically about the corners of the tent. The fly rises and falls tugging at its guys and flapping, with @harp bass note, the major chords in the diapason the wind creates, hurrying across this vast plane of earth, on its way from the waves of the Bruneau hills to the snow clothed peaks of the Caribou. From the little window in the tent gable I can ®eo for thirty miles; a vista of smiling green: with bars of silver, where the laterals of the irrigation canals reflect the light of the sun. Above the sky Is tur- quolse, mottled with cream; for the clouds in Idaho are not white; that glaring white of the middle west, but cream, as gough somo light of the golden west had tipped the very clouds with its subdved glow. The Bruneau hills ift thelr lofty peaks, pierc Ingly sharp, silhoutted against the blue;, vtho, clear, high atmosphers allowing a steredptigon brightness. Thirty miles away the Caribou. hills, & range of the Rockies, Serrate their saw-tooth tops against the same blue dome, half hidden behind their purple foothills, As a group of pretty high #chool misses modestly shrink from too fres & gaze, 5o thede eaw-tooth mountains are half iiidden by the gentle rise of the 1 foothills; now blue, now green, now pur. Ple, as morning, noon and night come on and pass, leaving only the memory of €xauisite beauty, 1 am in almost the exact center of the South 8tde Project; a Carey act segregation, promoted and financed by Frank H. Buhl, | of Sharon, Penn, and Archilbala Milner, i of Balt Lake City, Utah. It comprises 0000 acres of land; worthless without Water; sold, in point of fact, for 50 cents per were. The Milner dam of the Snake river put in at a cost of over $1,000,000, April 3.—(Special of The Hee.) morning out THIS HOME HAS BEEN CREATED OUT OoF LAND LIKF, THAT SHOWIN IN THE, PICTURE. JUST NEXT 10 THIS ONE,IN SIX YEARS. supplies It all with water, and today, five years later, its value has been appraised at not less than $60 and up to $2% per acro for each and every acre of this 240,000 acre tract. “Archie’ Milner is well known at Charles City, Ia. A cousin of his lives here now, and this effort has added just a little better than $500,000 to his already $1,000,000 Wealth. Buhl, a Pennsylvania capitalist of note, has added 32,260,000 to his ‘“needle’s eye” handicap; a city has been bullt, or- chards are in bloom, and will bear this year, and happy, contented, prosperous homes have driven the lean coyote and the call of the jackal to the far away can- yons of the green and white hills. I want you to realize what this means. Here are 12 square miles of desert land; miles and miles, hundreds of miles of rolling sage brugh; with not one single vestige of life; not a single blade of green 8rass, not anything but the leaping grey of the coyote; melting into the green grey of the sage brush; the cry of a hungry jackal; a moving sagetick, the call of a meadow lark, hastenlng on its way to people and life and crumbs; for the rest; silence, amidst which the call of a human voice sounds as the boom of a cannon; so unusual is it, sky, air, earth and silence. Almost 400 miies of it, a fair, grey plain, stretching from mountains to mountains, a paradise in embryo, lying here with the soft zephyrs of southern Idaho sweeping over #t since primum tempus first began. This is what Frank Buhl found here soven years ago, next August, when he first rode over it on the back of a pinto pony, musing at the waste and dreaming his great dream. It was what “Archie” Milner had known for years and years. And to Milner it presented The Possibility, for he knew of what had occurred in Iowa; of how the worthless land there had grown and grown in value. And to Buhl, Milner said: “If it only had the water’ And a few miles away the Snake, the seventh largest river on the continent, wound its Serpentine way to the Columbla. And the solution was there, and the land, and the dream and the dreamers. Money, alone, was needed. And money has never, in all the history of the world withstood the as- saults of the man determined to make his dream came true. A woman at Lisbon pawned her jewels once for a dreamer, And once 100000 men starved at Valley Forge, and lent their credit and brains and brawn for a dreamer. The world stands back and gapes for a dreamer. The world cheerfully shoulders nis burdens and bears them to his home. = And so Milner and Buh! dreamed. And so almost 400 square miles this Sunday morning are in blossom, and the sun slants on the irrigation canals, filled with water, and children play, church bells ring out, and the silken frocks of women rustle along the paved streets where Miiner's horse startled the affrighted coyote; where Frank Buhl paused and listened to the hurrylng meadowlark. It s an empire reclaimed and brought to clvilization; homes for the homeless; labor for those who only waited, and wealth for the men with dare, who knew what they saw when Oppportunity held out her open palms. Sometimes figures are tiresome. Wil these prove so to you? I hope not, for I am anxious to ask a question, and I waat it answered. First I want you to know that it Is not all planted to apbles, but if it were you must know that on this tract of land there is room for 1580,00 apple trees. A tree in bearing for six vears will yield elght boxes of apples to the tree, so that this tract, of apples alone, will add to the world's markets the astonishing total of 126,720,000 boxes of apples, or 21,120,000 presenting the trifling transportation problem of how to Unlon Paclffc car loads, move 528,000 tralns of forty cars each. A box car is forty feet long, 8o that a freight train to move apples, it is possible to grow on the desert Archie Milner and Frank Buhl made to bloom, will require one freight train 126,000 miles long, from engine head- light to caboose hind drawbar. This is equal to forty-tive solid frelght trains, each one of them extending from Smith's Cov Beattle, to the Cunarder docks at Brooklyn; in other words, a strip 3,00 miles long by two miles wide from the Atlamtic to the Pacific would not quite hold in storage the freight cars awalting the demand of the apple growers on this tract of land seven years from now when all the trees are in bearing. The value of this frelght ship- ment amounts to $253,440,000—$47,063,000 more that the total weaith of the entire state of Nebraska. This is what an Towa b and & Pennsylvania capitalist the wealth of the west. This Is what ths produce when It “made to bloom as & rose.”” It Is what two dreamers. astride cowponles, Saw seven years ago, when they, %8 I do now, sat here and looked away to the purpled foot hills, the snow peaks of the Caribou. And what I want to know fs: the matter with Omaha?" Where are the Omaha capitallsts who had a hand in his rejuvenation of Mother Barth? In what bank In Omaha do the Nebraska men who have helped such a thing along keep thefr millions? JLan ¥ get an Omaha made shoe, smoke an Omaha cigar, wear an Omaha hat, or get an Omaha shirt out here, where all this ex- pansion s golng on? Not on your life From behind his counter the unction clothing salesman comes and explains that he has something just as good from Kan sas City. He shows me a St. Louls shoe, tries to sell me a Phlladeiphia hat and tears the tiesue from a New York shirt Why is this? Has Omaha no dreamers? Are there no men there who can sco the trade of this country developing, growing like & hop vine, and all of it going other- where? 1 tried to get a draft on Omaha the other day for some money I wanted to send to The Bee and the banker looked from his cage long enough to tell me ho kept his reserve in Kansas City. Like Togo, I rise to inquire, “What's the mat- ter with Omaha?"’ The trade s here. And the state Is filled with Nebraska, Kansas and lowa men. They have come to this new land to share in the second expansion of the west. Their families are here and they wers accus tomed to doing business with Omaha, back where they came from—"back home,” they say. And they would go on dolng business with Omaha; wearing Omaha clothing, keeping their money in Omaha banks and visiting Omaha shops, theaters and walking up and down Omaha streets, to drop, now and then, Into Omaha ocafes. The very suitcase I carry bears a Chicago trade- mark. I had to buy one out here, and the one I bought had to come through Omaha, the primary hide market of the world, and 1 had to pay the freight on it for a thou sand miles farther away. Hashimura Togo would s “I set up to make question,” and “I set up to make question,” gay L What's the matter with Omaha? FOWLER, added to desert will is “What's THIS IS THE MOST POPULAR BREED OF DAIRY COWS IN NEBRASKA. HE milk supply of the ocouutry has always been an important factor in the feeding of wvur Ppeople, though it has only been in recent years that this prod- uot has commanded special at- tention from all classes of consumers and producers. Formerly the family cow had & place in almost every home, The vil- lager, the townsman and even the city man Of means prided himself in keeping the fanilly cow and providing his family with real milk and cream. This was esteemed Balf the living with thess people. Conditions have changed greatly within the last dozen years with families and the family cow. No longer do we see the town herd-belng gathered up and driven out to the suburbs of the city or large town to pasture. The milk supply has settled down to a business all over the country. The town and city dairyman have taken the business that the family cow formerly was employed to carry on. Large dairy herds &re kept close o the town and from these and the shipped-in product the milk suppiy for the people is provided, delivered from the milk wagon once & day to the home at 80 much per quart. This method has been Tegarded- as a great convenlence, though not always as satisfactory in quality as that which the famlly cow was in the habit of supplying. New Habits of Living. The farm idea of the old-time towns- People has been educated out of them, and their posterity are coming In under new habits of living. The family cow, the family driving horse, the few poultry kept for ©gEs, the garden, the fruit on the back part of the town lot, are all gone, because it is 0o countryfied to have such things., They &re no longer recognized as luxuries, it is Detter taste to- use doctored-up milk, cold + storage egxs and the stale and long dis- tance fruits, the automoblle, than not to @dhere to present-day customs. These things meem to be the inevitable and he Who wills otherwise must move to the farm. The milk cow has suffered an abuse and & degeneracy in her kind, by having any- thing in the line of she cattle added to the dairy cow stock of the town and city, plek- ' ‘ups, culls shipped into the central stock yards, just to get rid of them. In the general dalry business of the country, there has recently been @ reform In sentiment, | Which seems to have struck the foot hille | Of ascension in dairy cow quality. There | now seems 10 be u prevailing opinion among | Aalrymen, persons familiar with cows, that for the class of cows to be used for milk Purposes, there must be more attention to quality and quantity of production, e not enough that a cow freshens once was and produces & feirly good quality quantity of milk, but she must be a producer as & money maker. High priced bizh priced T and general tend- o cost, it imperative that the coW 10 bo used must be a large pro- O | Of thess facts the up-to-date the man's frisnds sald, Dut he'll make dalrymen all over the country, are ex- erting every effort to increase quality in their breeding. A very good illustration of these facts is observed in‘the Milk Pro- ducers’ assoclation, recently formed among the enterprising farmers of a locality In Douglas county, Nebraska, near Omaha. Milk Prod Organising. This association is largely composed of Germans, a Highly prosperous community of fanmers who are representative men fif business intelligence and farm management, farmers who have taken up the idea of Wholesale milk production. The plan being to contract & certain amount of milk per year to the city of Omaha. Mémbership re- Quires that the person be a producer and Wholesaler of milk, The membership fee is $2 per year. This association has all of its products handled through its organization, thus making it an object for the milk trade of the city to control its output. This association has & complete form of organization, a board of superyisors who do the contracting of a certatn amount of milk to the creameries to be furnished by its members. Bach member estimates ‘the amaunt of milk he will himself be responsi- ble for in the contracted supply. This as- soclation is-also organizsd for the purpose of furthing the interests of the community, in breeding up the quality of dairy cattle, patis £tk Novel Dairy Cow Test. This association has introduced as an auxiliary in the bullding up of its inter- DAIRYMEN AT WORK ATIOWA-STATE COLLEGE. GUESS WORK MEANS FAILURE IN DAIRYING. ests, the conducting of a dairy cow test. This feature of instruction has been taken up by twenty-tive of its sixty-elght mem- bers. There is an expert employ®d by these persons to handle this work. He visits each of these twenty-five herds one day in each month. The owner of the herd pays $1 Pper cow for the cows tested. The owner of the cows tested welghs all feeds that the cow consumes, the butter fat is weighed by the expert one day in each month, and, an average thus had. The dairyman does not know the day that the expert is to call on him, untll he drops in, thus giving him no chance to have an extra large yield fixed up ready, in case he was so in- clined. There is a committee appointed that fixes prices on the feeds: consumed by the cows in these tests. The expert also keeps breed- Ing dates of these cows, a kind of pedigree. 1s kept, In fact, of each calf produced. He directs each dairyman as to how the cows should be fed, how. to care for his cows in a general way, how to breed, otc. It is a dairy school on wheels, a practical train- Ing of how to get results and how to judge the dairy cow. The testing of these cows on the farm and In the hands of their owners has the effect of encouraging the keeping of a better class of cows. The cows in these herds are full bloods, high grades and cross breds, generally a pretty €004 class of cows for the common milk dairy, The expert tester and dairy Instructor Snappy Short Stories Selected fro Holding Their Own. WO tired tourists were tramping In Switzerland. They were on the way to Interlaken, where they proposed to dine and pass the night. Late in the after- noon, when hunger and fatigue began to make walking unpleasant, they accosted a farmer, “How far is It,”" they asked, “to Inter- laken?" “Two miles,” Was the reply. They walked hopefully on. A half hour Passed. Interlaken was not yet in sight. 5o, seelng another farmer in a field, they shouted to him; “Are we near Interlaken?' “Keep stralght forward,” the shouted back, “I's just two miles. The tired, hungry tourists trudged on again. Another half hour passed, and still no sign of Interlaken, “Is Interlaken very far from here® they asked another farmer. "No, gentlemen,” sald the farmer, “it s only two miles." Then the tourists looked at one another and the younger one sighed and exclaimed: ""Well, thank goodness, we're holding our own, anyhow."—Cleveland Leader. farmer Lo B Dodging the Twenty-Five, Alderman Bauler of Chicago was dis- cussing his famous anti-hatpin resolution. “Some women," he sald, smiling, “object to my resolution. They want to carry hat Pins as a defense when they walk homa late at night from the office or the the- ater. But that plea, if these women will forgive me, dodges the real issue. “Yes, it dodges the real lssue, as Scher- merhorn dodged it Schermerhorn, poor fellow, got dyspepaia and suffered for seven years, though he tried every remedy under the sun. “Finally he was advised to Visit Dr. Deer, the great dyspepsia specialist, ‘Deer will cure you, Scljermerhorn,' You pay, by jingo! Yes' he'll make you Pay 3% for the first visit and $2.50 for every subsequent visit.’ “ “Terrible!' groaned Schermerhorn. ‘I'll die first!’ and.in a paroxysm of heartburn he gulped and shuddered, “But & week or ‘two later Schermer- horn's dyspepsia became acute and intol- erable, and he set out for Dr. Deer's after all. He was ushered into the consulting room and in due course the physician ap- Ppeared. “Schermerhorn at his entry gave a glad £ry and jumped up and seized him by both hands. ‘Well, doctor, here we are again..’ h cried. ‘Here we are agaln!’ “~Chicago Journal, —ire Two Great Men of Kausas. Secretary Coburn and Dave Leahy were Visiting the other day and Leahy mentioned the ten-story skyscraper which some farmer Was ereoling in Wichita. Do you know, Dave,” sald’ Coburn, with- out batting an eye, “that until 1 bedame secretary of the State Board of Agriculture You never heard of a farmer having enough money to bulld a skyscraper? “Well,"” said Dave, “‘when I was a young- ster, over in Illinols, I worked on & see- tion, and then got & promotion, handling baggage at a station, I was the chautfeur of & truck. I felt pretty blg about it Though 1 thought 1 was getting a good pay oheck, I wanted more. But the boss didn’t raise me any. He always kept tell- Jing me how poor the road was. So I Just Quit. And do you know that the next year that road bullt 700 miles of track?'—Topeka Capital. . e Grilled. Richard Croker at a luncheon at Palm Beach was reminded by a course of grilled sardines of a story: £ “You kmow, of course,” he sald, “the Horse Guards at Whiteball, in Londen. They are the finest English regiment. Rvery man is over alx feet, from the col- o TR LR Gy onel down, and on guard before Whitehall, Wwith their Jackboots, their snowy buckskin breeches, their enormous shakos and their brass breastplates, ‘they make, on their tine horses, an inposing sight. “Once as I motored past Whitehall I saw a little strest urchin leaping tp and down before one of the stately guards in his bright, bulging breastplate and shout- ing: * ‘Now, you with Traveler. then, old tin jacket, I'm after & sardine opener!' "—Boston UL R Where the Scripture Was Silent, An elderly man of the northwestern part of Philadelphia, who is noted for his plety, was accosted the other evening at a lonely £pot on Allegheny avenue &8 he was re- turning from services and grossly insulted with respect to his religious bellef. At first he pald no attention to the insults and tried to pass on. The other man would not permit It, however, and grew more abusive, concluding by giving the old man & stinging slap in the face. The old man Patience gave way at this and he spoke angrily to the fellow. This seemed to be what the ruffian de- #ired, and he retorted by saying that in- stead of getting angry the old man, accord- ing to the scriptural injunction, should have turned the other cheek. He was promptly rewarded by another stnging blow. “Now,"” sald the injured man, “the scrip- ture does not tell us what to do next, but 1 will show you. With that he suddenly soized the rowdy by the collar and beat him ully with the heavy cane that he and then went.on his way.—Philg- delphia Ledger. 2 U Father and Son. ‘There is a striking contrast in one par- toular lnfincmof!aullufl;:‘m Alaxander Agassiz, his son, who died st - s ago. Louls Agassiz often ne tme to make money; Bo lived and died & comparatively poor man. Alexander Agassiz was several times & milllonaire, and was president of the Calumet and Hecla Mining company, es- tablished to develop the rich deposits of natlve copper he had discovered on the southern shores of Lake Superlor. Searcely does the career of Thomas A. Edison af- ford a more remarkable example of the Pprofit accruing to an individual through the commerclal application of sclence, says the Philadeiphia Ledger. All that Alexander Agussiz knew of chemistry, geology and engineering was used by him in his capa- clty as superintendent of the initlal mining operations which eventually enriched him and his assocjates. But Alexander Agassiz speut only a small part of his great fortunt on himself. He gave more than $1,00,000 to further the study of the natural sclences at Harvard and elsewhere and to_enlarge the great museum that bears the family name. He never retained a penny of his salary as university professor. The fact that he Was a rich man did not prevent him from working hard all his life long for the ad- vangément of sclence, along lines of inquiry that could not enrich the investigator. He was perhaps the foremost authority on the subject of marine z00logy, and in his ex- ploration of the deep soas he had visited all parts of the globe. Louls Agassls, at the age of 22 years, had indicated the goal of his ambition, It Was not wealth, nor was it the unworthy %ort of fame that some men have sought most eagerly. He sald: 1 wish it may be sald of Louls Agassiz that he was the first naturalist of his time, a good citizen and * ¢ ¢ beloved of those who knew Mm." These ideals were realised in hiy Iife, and Alexander Agassiz was the worthy s0n of such & father. s The Editor's Paradise. Froderick C. Beyer, & well known Cleve- land editor, told at a recent press banquet & newspaper story. “A Medioe editor dled;” he said, “and m Several Sources for Sunday was, of course, directed to mscend to the adobe of the just. But during the ascent the editor's journalistic curlosity asserted itself and he sald: ' ‘Is it permitted for one to have a ‘look at-er-the other place? ** ‘Certainly,’ was the gracious reply, and accordingly a descent to the other place was made. Here the editor found much to interest him. He scurried about and was soon lost to view. “His angelic escort got worried at last and began a systematic search for his charge. He found him at last seated be- fore a furnace, fanning himself and gazing &t the people in the fire. On the door of the furnace was a plate, saying: ‘De- linquent subscribers." **‘Come,’ sald the angel to the editor, ‘we must'be going.' *‘You go on,' the editor answered, with- out lifting his eyes. ‘I'm not coming. This is heaven ehough for me.' "—Loulsville Times. Senator La Follstte said of a notorious tinancier the other day: ‘e got rather a setback in a talk he had last session with one of our men. “‘Money? he said. ‘Bah! There thousands of ways of making money. “‘Yes, but ouly one honest way, ked hat way's that?' ‘I thought you wouldn't know it,' was the reply,” Scoteh Highlanders, who still speak the Gaelio at times, settied much of the coun- try north of Toronto. One day Dr. Ruth- erford, locally famous, was looking for some men to do some work for him. He went to & vilage blacksmith shop and found several of these Scotchmen standing about. “Are you & mechanic? them. “Noy," he replled. “I'm w MeCulg. Baturday Evening Post, are our he asked one of gets a salary of $400 per month. This Iy guaranteed by the dairymen who make up the club for testing cows in their herds, Sixteen cows each at §$L per head for a olub of twenty-five dairymen pays the salary of $400. There has been a great re- vival in this locality in the matter of own- ing better dairy cows. The tendency is to buy good, pure-bred cows’ and the best bulls that can be bad. In this class ¢ twenty-five dairymen there are four breed ‘ ers of pure-bred cattle, Many have pure- bred bulls. The Holstein breed scems to have the ascendancy in this locality. It is only & matter of a very short time ungil the herds in this assoclation will be on & pure-bred basis, at' least very high grades. The expert {s recommending the tests of different rations. This is golng to result in furnishing a great amount of data, in feed ration for the milk cow, for producing best results, that will be very valuable. All records of pure-bred cows in these tests @re authenticated by the dalry department of the Nebraska State university, which &ives them & standing with their breed as #oclation in point of production. This s due to the fact that the head of the dairy department, Prof. A. L. Haeck r, has as- sumed supervision of the work of this club, That is, he has taken supervisory direction of its work. A Community of Breeders. One of the greatest developments prob- able from this dalry cow enterprise is the establishing of & community of dalry cow breeders. In other words, if this club and assoclation goes Into the raising of dairy cattle, which seems most probable now, this district of Nebraska will become fa- mous for Its cows and heifers of high milk- ing quality. The lests of the mother stock at once glves character to the progeny that cannot be disputed. The high standard of the sires as Mne-bred milking stock is also a backing which brings the price of these helfers above the ordinary vow price. This assoclation holds regular monthly meetings is officered by a live set of pro- gressive men. Willlam Jensen is president and H. C. Glissman, jr., secretary, The sixty-elght members represent 1,00 milch cows, producing approximately 500,000 gal- lons of milk per year. At these meetings there 13 usually an invited dairyman of some notorfety as an educator, who ad- dresses the members on some featurs of dalry husbandry. The breeding of dairy cattle, the selcotion of the dairy cow, dairy type, the sllo as & daiycadjunct, varie- tiors in butter fat cont:'As, etc., are some Of the toples that have been discussed dure ing the last winter season.