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THE CITIZEN, TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1913.
WAYNE COUNTY !
I BEATS THE WEST
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Soon."
Editor of The Citizen:
IN your valued paper of March
14 th thero appeared an ar
ticle under this head, "The
Last Great Land Opening
to Take Place in Montana
I do not know what prompt
ed the writing of this article unless
the author is the owner of some rail
way stopk, and thought if he got a
whole lot of people here at a given
time to draw on some land scheme,
the lucky ones would come again,
and of course thero would bo a
double haul. Well, we must all
boost our own business. It made
good reading, too; and that is why
you printed it I suppose business
again. Tho transcontinental roads
are the only ones that ever made any
money out of land drawings. It is
the old spirit of( gamble that pre
vad.es the human breast that makes
us all gamblers, all want to take a
chance. Some of us even say we
want a "gambler's chance." Some
play any game that comes along, the
old Louisiana lottery, for Instance,
which ran until the Government put
a stop to it. Those same people
who played the lottery took up the
game again with the Indian lands,
made a gambling feature of it, and
the whole country seemed to fall for
It. I have been 35 years in tho west
this month, have seen sovoral draw
ings, have seen people killed for
reservation land when there were
thousands of acres right off tho res
ervation Just as good.
A Little Gnmo of
Tho Railroads.
Take the drawing of tho Flathead
reservation, three years ago. The
government required a man in the
state of Maine, or any other eastern
state, to come here to file on this
land, and then told him to go back
homo and wait until thoy shook his
name in a "goose" from some old dis
carded Keno game that the gov
ernment had put out of use because
It was a gambling device and if he
was lucky and his name got out soon
enough, he was called back from his
Eastern home and allow.ed to file on
the land. See the point? Another
haul for the railroad. There were
certain conditions under which he
could take up this land, too, if he
was lucky enough in the drawing.
Hundreds of people with whom I
talked told me they either knew be
fore they left homo that they could
not take up a piece of land under
the requirements, or found it out af
ter they got hero, as Missoula was
designated as tho place to come to
find out. These people when ques
tioned as to why they did it, under
the circumstances, said they Just
wanted to take a chance once and
see if they were lucky.
Now it is Just as easy to stay at
home and send your namo in to tho
land office here, or in Washington,
D. C, tell tho official you are eligible
to take up a homestead, and then if
you are lucky you can make your
preparations, close up your business
and within a certain time come on
and settle in your new homo. You
can see the land on tho Flathead res
servatlon Just as well from tho dome
of the capitol at Harrlsburg or down
In your own front yard as you can
see It from Missoula,, for this land is
twenty miles away and on the other
side of a mountain..
Tho Truth About
Montana Homesteads.
But the real meat of this land nut:
There are millions of acres of land
in Montana open to settlement now
no drawing; all that Is necessary
is to have your homestead rights. If
you do not know what these are I
will tell you. You must be a citizen
of the United States, 21 years old,
man or woman, black or white. You
can come hero and got a home cheap
er than you could by a drawing. It
would bo well to correspond with
some one familiar with this land and
find out Just where the kind of land
is that you want. If you are coming
out get a guide from that locality,
when you want to settle. Thero are
plenty of old settlers who will only
charge you ?125 or ?150, and you
will find the money well spent both
as a time saver and for horso hire.
This guide you will find on the
square, and he can give you more
Information while out with him than
you would learn in a year by your
self. If you aro sure you will lo
cate, put your money in the bank
nearest to tho land you aro planning
i.ei mm araw tne actual expen
ses until you find something that
suns you. u you fail there, then
try some other place. You can find
all this out before putting down tfny
actual monoy, and when you find
your land you can have It without
taking any chances.
Wnjno Land and Markets
Best in tho World.
The land in Wayne county where I
visited last year Is good enough for
anybody. All that is necessary is to
study the conditions, learn what the
land Is best adapted for and what
the market is calling for. Wayne
county has tho best niarket In tho
world, and no three thousand-mile
haul to dispose of the produce,
either.
Would You Llko a La Grande Fruit
Farm? Head This, and Think!
Last fall on my return home from
tho East I made a trip to the Pacific
coast, passed through tho great fruit
belts of Washington, around Yakama
and Walla Walla, and back through
Oregon and Idaho. At La Grande,
Oregon, I went through the Grand
'Itund valley, a piece of land perfect
ly flat, 2G miles long and 18 miles
wide. The soil is a volcanic ash, the
moat fertile on earth. This Is one of
the oldest settled places in Oregon.
1 siooa one aay wnero irom every
direction I could look on orchards.
Rows and rows of apple trees passed
into the dim haze of the distance
unbroken. This whole valley was
one grand orchard, and yet, tho
fruit lay under the trees ungathered
beautiful apples, large and red and
smooth and free from Infection or
insects. The cause? No market.
That condition would never happen
In Wayne, not if every available foot
of ground in the wholo country was
planted to apples. Thero was a rea
son for this stagnation of the apple
market here, and as these fellows are
a Wise set I doubt its happening
again.
Who Should Get
Homes in tho West.
There are, no doubt, a thousand
people in your midst who could take
advantage of the homestead laws and
get a Montana home and better their
condition. To the wage earner I ap
peal, you who have to get up and go
at the clang of a bell or the toot of
a whistle, whose ears aro trained 10
catch tho foreman's step. You
slaves of the twentieth century civi
lization, you who have never been
your own boss, or done your own
thinking, to you whom the Declara
tion of Independence has no real
meaning, I say, Come out west and
get a home, a real homo of your own.
It may be lonesome at first. Your
children may have to ride horseback
to school, your wife may have to take
tho same conveyance, to make an af
ternoon call on a neighbor or to go
to church, yet tho bloom of health
on their faces, and the fearless
expression of their eyes will well e
pay you, even though your children
are not allowed the privilege of
mingling with the crowds in tho busy
marts of the world. They will not be
shy like hlrlings. Should a stranger
come to your gate and ask who owns
the land, they will look him straight
in the eye, not brazen, but still un
abashed, and say "My Dad."
Neighbors Getting Close.
Safety in Montana.
The country is settling up. Neigh
bors are getting closer. Thero are
people living within ono mile of each
other in Montana now. Still, you do
not have to lock your granary door
at night, or your house door, either.
You do not have to send a bodyguard
with your wife and daughter if they
have to make a long trip either in
the day time or at night.
Bright Prospects for
Montana Surveyors.
" The last grand opening to take
place in Montana soon!" Why, all
the land in Montana will not be sur
veyed for ten years to come. Mon
tana is the third largest state in the
Union wlh a population of 375,053 in
1910, a little more than half that of
Rhode Island, with an area as large
as Rhode Island, Delaware, Connecti
cut, New Jersey, Massachusetts, New
Hampshire, Vermont, Maryland,
West Virginia, and South Carolina
combined. The state is rich enough
to provide for tho millions of people
who inhabit those states. Tho fastest
train crossing tho state, coming into
the eastern boundary at 3:00 p. m.
does not leave it until 7:00 p. m. tho
following day, and will travel 780
miles. For 25 years three transcon
tinental roads, the Union Pacific, the
Northern Pacific and the Great
Northern sold tickets to tourists and
home seekers In a vain attempt to fill
up the state of Washington. During
all that tlmo and until the Chicago,
Milwaukee and Puget Sound came
in the state stop-over privileges
could not be obtained. The railroads
wanted to settle the long haul first.
Pullman Tourists Can't
Give Much Information.
You need not bo afraid that the
land will be all gobbled up in Mon
tana this year. Dut, you are Retting
(older each -year and if you ever in-
tena to come west, now is tho time.
Find out where this vacant land Is.
Don't ask some ono who has crossed
the state in a Pullman car. You can
see by the figures he was part of the
time in a berth asleep, of if awake
it was too dark for him to see any
thing. Then again, the roadbed fol
lows the streams to get the grade,
so the tourist sees a long stretch of
mountains and timber. When he
has crossed tho State ho will prob-
auiy asi: wnere tne hundreds of
thousands of Buffalo found grass
and pasture before the white man
came. This grew on the great
plains of tho west you read about
in your youth. Tho Indians did not
cut off grass, nor cut down trees
and plant alfalfa for these Buffalo to
winter on. Then after the Buffalo
there were millions of sheep, and
hundreds of thousands of horses and
cattle that ranged over tho state.
These had to be fed, and the feed
grew on these same plains. These
wild ranges are now being surveyed
Into IGO-acre parcels to bo given
away to boni fide citizens of this
The state is a hunter's paradise.
Who Should Remain East.
Who Should Go West.
Conditions aro good in tho. East,
and if you aro satisfied to be a
wage earner the factories aro there.
We make no shoes, no fabrics, no
machinery here. Wo produce the raw
materials. Every year sees thous
ands more people added to our Bide,
but overy timo we get a recruit it
calls for ono more in tho East to
make' up the stuff he wants. We
want some of all the necessities of
life, and nearly all of the luxuries.
As long as somo of you stay in tho
East to use our beef, wheat, pork,
etc., and work up our wools and
hides, wo will be satisfied. We
don't want all of you to come, as I
said before, but wo could use a lot
of you to fill up this big, rich State.
Once here you will soon adopt tho
cow-boys song as your own "Let me
live in old Montana where there's
lots of room and air, Cotton-woods
and pino trees, Bitter Root and
Prlckley Pear."
A. M. STEVENS.
SCALE SPRAYING
DEMONSTRATIONS TO END.
Tho demonstrations for spraying
dormant trees for San Jose scale,
Blister Mite, Peach-Leaf Curl, and
other pests that would be reached
during this dormant season will come
to a close in the Northeastern por
tion of Pennsylvania this week. The
earlier demonstrations were arrang
ed for the Southern or lower portions
of tho State, and were given before
the buds burst. Those which are
now scheduled and announced are in
that portion of the State where the
spring is slow in advancing, and the
dormant spraying can yet be done
successfully.
These demonstrations have been
unusually "successful, having been
attended by over 30,000 persons,
who are intensely interested. By
this means State Zoologist H. A. Sur
face has succeeded in carrying to the
horticultural citizens of this Com
monwealth the very latest and the
best information upon the first essen
tial steps in securing good fruit.
Thousands of persons have seen the
work done, and after understanding
the methods they have returned to
their own premises to undertake It in
the same manner and insure such
good results this year as in years
past where this work has been thor
oughly and properly done.
Tho next public demonstrations by
the Division of Zoology of the State
Department of Agriculture will be for
tho Codling Moth and other pests and
plant diseases, just after the blos
soms fall. It must be remembered
that the expert demonstrator will be
present rain or shine, and the public
meeting will be held at one o'clock
on tho afternoon of the date an
nounced. Tho schedule for the last
week of demonstrations on dormant
trees is as follows:
Carbon county Monday, April 7,
S. W. Gangwer, Rockport.
Elk county Monday, April 7, Jos.
Lanzel, Mt. Marys.
Fayette county Monday, April 7,
Geo. L. Denny, East Millsboro.
Forest county Wednesday, April
9, Miss Mary M. Mays, Hottelville.
McKean county Monday, April 7.
R. J. Gates, Mt. Alton.
Pike county Thursday, April 10,
W. F. Simons, Greentown.
Wayno county Tuesday, April 8,
F. W. Osgood, Ariel.
RAILWAYS SCORE VICTORY.
Washington, April ::. The Inter
state Commerce Commission on Mon
day handed down a decision which'
is a notable victory for tho railroads
on Transcontinental rates to the Pa
cific. Advanced rates which were
suspended some tlmo ago have been
allowed by the commission.
Commissioner Clements, in the in
terests of shipper and carrier, pro
vailed upon the carriers to meet with
the shippers in informal conference
at the close of tho hearings in an en
deavor to amicably adjust at least a
part of their differences.
As a result of these conferences,
first between the parties themselves
and later with Commissioner Cle
ments, most of the disputed items
were in that way adjusted satisfac
torily to tho shippers, who withdrew
their protests. This decision con
demns certain of the proposed ad
vances, and tho few remaining ones
are permitted to become effective.
It is to bo hoped that the manner
in which this Inquiry was conducted
may serve as a valued precedent In
the procedure of the Commission.
THE PHILADELPHIA RECORD
is promoting an attractive and valu
able book proposition for six consec
utive coupons clipped from the Daily
and Sunday Record, and a small cash
payment. It will send to any one a
copy of the New Modern English Dic
tionary, as follows:
Tho $4.00 volume, of full limp
leather, flexible, stamped in gold on
back and sides, printed on Bible pa
per, with red edges and corners
rounded, beautiful, strong and dur
able, for G coupons and $1.20, Includ
ing postage Besides the general
contents, thero are maps and over
600 subler.ts heaiitlfullv llliiRtrntflil
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great Republic. What kind of land Y three-color plates, numerous sub-
do you want some timber and somo
open or somo of the rich bottom
land? flat? or hilly? with, or with
out rocks? Would you llko It un
derlain with coal, with a top soil of
one to 1.05 per cent, lime, with one
tenth of one per cent, nitrogen,
where you can raise the biggest
wheat crops grown in the world, or
any other kind of grain for that mat
ter, with a rich sub-soil of clay so
the moisture can not leak out; or,
would you like tho other extreme, a
decomposed granite, warm earth
where fruits of all kinds grow at
their best? Now is the time to de
cide, and Montana is tho place to
doclde on. If scenic beauty is de
sired, there Is the Yellowstone and
Glacier Parks, If you nre a hunter
and aspire to big game, the Rocky
mountains bavo an abundance of
bear, deer, elk and mountain sheep
rooming through them. If you aro
a scatter-gun artist tbore is the
jects by monotones, 16 pages of edu
catlonal charts and the latest United
States Census.
The $3.00 book, precisely the
same as the $4.00 book except In the
style of binding, which is in half-
leather, with olive edges and squara,
corners, will be mailed for the six
coupons and $1.03, including post-
ago.
Tho $2.00 book, In plain cloth
binding, stamped in gold and black,
which has tho same paper and lllus
tratlons, but with the color plates
and charts omitted, will be sent for
six coupons and 70 cents,
Tho Record is to be commended In
its promotion of the offer, presenting
every one with a valuable adjunct
to their educational opportunities at
a minimum of cost
Those desiring these books should
send coupons and remittance direct
to The Philadelphia Record, Diction
ary Department, 910 Chestnut St.,
Philadelphia.
MASTER'S SALE
of
Vnlunblo Heavily Timbered
REAL ESTATE
In Partition.
Tho undersigned, a Master ap
pointed by tho Court of Common
Pleas of Susquehanna county to
mako sale of tho real estate In par
tition proceedings botween William
Main et al. plaintiffs, and Robert H.
Rose et al., defendants, will expose
to public sale and venduo at the
Court House In Montrose, Pa., on
Thursday, tho 15th day of May, 1013
at two o'clock p. m., tne following
described real estate:
FIRST PIECE: Comprising 284
1-4 acres, more or less.
This pleco is covered with heavy
timber chiefly hemlock, original
growth and also a portion of tho wa
ters and ground thereunder of "Sil
ver Lake," one of the most beautiful
fresh water lakes in northeastern
Pennsylvania, and shoro lino thereof
about three-quarters of a mile, mak
ing a very attractive spot for cot
tagers, Ashing and boating; in the
center of the hill country of Penn
sylvania about 1800 feet above sea
level.
SECOND PIECE Comprising
805 3-4 acres more or less.
This piece consists almost entirely
of very heavy virgin hemlock Inter
spersed with .some plno and hard
wood; ono of the most valuable tim
ber tracts of Its size in the state of
Pennsylvania. Within easy reach of
railroad and shipping facilities, being
within ten miles of D., L. & W. R. R.
and L. V. R. R.
Any further information desired
concerning either tract' will be fur
nished by the Master, together with
map of the tract.
JOHN S. COURTRIGHT, Master.
Montrose, Susq'a Co., Pa.
A. B. SMITH, Attorney.
Montrose, Pa.
NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION,
Estate of
W. Francis Decker, D. D., or William
Francis Decker, Jr., Deceased.
All persons indebted to said estate
are notified to make immediate pay
ment to tho undersigned; and those
having claims against said estato are
notified to present them, duly attest
ed, for settlement.
LAURA M. DECKER, Admin'x.
Newfoundland, Wayno county, Pa.
Or to her attorney, Furman,Shoppard
Phillips, 707 Betz Bldg., Philadelphia.
EXECUTOR'S NOTICE.
Estate of
MARIA P. KESLER,
Late of Honesdale.
All persons Indebted to said es
tate are notified to make immediate
payment to the undersigned; and
those having claims against the said
estato are notified to present them
duly attested, for settlement.
FRANK E. SHERWOOD,
MILLARD F. SHERWOOD,
ALONZO T. SEARLE,
Executors.
Honesdale, Pa., March 24, 1913.
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