KANSAS CROP
WINTER WHEAT
A BUMPER ONE
KANSAS CITY, Mo, Jan. 11.—A
report by Edward C. I’axton, field
agent for the federal department of
agriculture, declares that Kansas,
with 11,184,000 acres, has 22.8 per
cent of all the winter wheat area of
the United States.
A full crop on this enormous acre
age, which is 13 per cent larger than
the record acreage of last year, would
total 200,000,000 bushels, or more
than one third of the 509,304,000 bush
l els for the average annual consump
tion of the United States, the report
says.
k Such a production, with a guaran
fteed price of $2 a bushel, would bring
’Kansas $400,000,000. The December
(report states that the average condi
tion is 98 per cent.
I "Not only is this the largest acre
age of wheat ever sown in a single
state, but it is probably the largest
acreage ever devoted to a single
grain crop by any state,” says the re
port "The Texas cotton crop is pos
sibly the only state crop that ever ex
celled it in area.
"The largest acreage is reported in
eastern and central counties. Many
counties have more than doubled
their acreage, Bourbon county lead
ing with an increase of 232 per cent.”
The winter wheat aeerage in Miss
ouri is 4.243,000; Oklahoma 3,590,000
and Nebraska 5.511,000. The condi
tion in these three states for Decem
ber is given as loo per cent.
A campaign for mobilizing a great
army to harvest the 1919 crop is be
ing worked out by the Kansas City
office of A. 1,. Barkman, assistant to
the director general of the federal
employment service, in charge of
western farm labor. Last year the
federal employment offices supplied
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full half of the 40,000 men used In g
Kansas and Oklahoma harvest Helds.
It Is expected many thousand more
hands will be needed for the 1010
yield. Women, children and business
and professional men responded to
the “Wheat Won’t Walt," call and ‘
helped gather the big war crop.
A. A. Chalker, of the Kansas City f
office of the employment service, said
labor prospects were encouraging.
Release of soldiers and sailors Is ex- :
pected to greatly relieve the sltua- i
tion. A plan of properly distributing
the army of workers has been ^
mapped out. After the Kansas-Okla- ’
homa crop has been garnered, the
men will move to northern states and
later some of them will go into Can
ada. Wages in Kansas and Oklahoma
last year ranged from $4 ao $t>.G0 a
day with board.
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BANDITS RAID
RESULTED IN
MANY DEATHS
VEKA CRUZ, Mexico, Jan. 11 (by
Associated Press). More than one
hundred deaths, according to unoffi
cial estimates, resulted from the latest ]
attacks by rebels on a Mexican rail
way passenger train front the capital j
to Vera Cruz. The rebels wrecked j
the exploring train, carrying an escort 1
of eighty soldiers, but the passenger
train, which was followinig, was
warned soon enough to back out of
danger to Cammaron, near which sta
tion the attack was staged.
Reinforcements drove away the reb
els, but only after thirty federal sol
diers, eight women camp followers
and other unidentified persons had *
been killed. Seventy rebels are said
to have fallen.
The same day a band of outlaws f
under Mareelo Caraveo attacked Ja
InI>a, former capital of the state of
Vera Cruz, but were driven off. Re- , >
fore attacking Jalapa the rebels
robbed a train eti route to that city. ,
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CLEARANCE SALE ,
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In Order to Make Room For New Spring
Merchandise on the Way. We Will '
Give a Discount of From 10 to
35 Per Cent Off On
COATS, SUITS,
Hats, Sweaters and Shoes.
MAIL ORDERS GIVEN PROMPT ATTENTION
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AN OPPORTUNITY IS OFFERED YOU
To Share In the Immense Wealth Which Every Season Is Taken From Local
Waters By the Canneries.
Local Company Organized to Engage in the Salmon Industry and Keep the Profits at Home
LAY THE FOUNDATION FOR YOUR FUTURE INDEPENDENCE
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The Hinchinbrook Packing Company has been or
ganized at Cordova for the purpose of operating a two
line cannery on the site now occupied by the Ohm Fish
and Packing Company.
The new company has taken over the Ohm Fish and
Packing Company and will use the boats, gear, buildings
and other equipment of the latter company.
Gus Ohm, V. J. Swanberg and William H. King are
the organizers of the new company.
Everyone in Cordova knows of Gus Ohm. He started
at Cordova with a dory and fished for the local market.
By using sound business methods he prospered and soon
had a number of other fishermen working for him. Busi
ness men of the city became interested and he was given
capital to operate on a large scale, and finally the Ohm
Fish and Packing Company was formed, with him at
its head.
Now Mr. Ohm is convinced that although he has
made a success of the company there is more money to
be made in a salmon cannery than in fish packing, and
with the two men who have been closely identified with
him in the Ohm Fish and Packing Company he has de
cided to take over the latter plant and turn it into a
salmon cannery.
But to do this will require a large sum of money.
The new company will have a good start in possessing
the boats, buildings and equipment of the old company,
but money will be needed to buy additional machinery
and equipment.
The usual plan in such enterprises is to seek outside
capital—to go to the States and place the proposition
among men who are always on the lookout for such be
ginnings of successful industries.
But in this case the men interested have decided
that instead of going Outside for capital, and eventually
turning the largest part of the profits to people not of
the community, they will first offer people of Cordova
an opportunity to become interested.
The people here know something of canneries. They
know of the past successes of this industry in this imme
diate vicinity. They know that despite cries from the
cannerymen every year that their plants are on the verge
of ruin, yet every plant in the district is being enlarged
and improved and employs more men every season.
Fish packing is not a gamble, as is gold mining or
oil mining. The fish are in Prince William sound, and
when they are taken out they have a ready sale. The
industry yet is in its infancy.
Naturally it is impossible to guarantee a large return
on the stock, but people of Cordova who have seen the
canneries rise and prosper about the city can not doubt
the success of the new cannery.
Shares of the Hinchinbrook Packing Company have
a par value of SI.00 each, and will be placed on the mar
ket at par. All stock will share equally in the profits of
the company. Any quantity, small or large, will be sold.
No exaggerated statements about the company will
be made. A large and profitable fish-packing company
which has every assurance of continued success is being
turned into a cannery because the men in charge believe
a greater success can be made. A man will be in charge *
of the new cannery who has spent practically his entire
life in work connected with fishing and fish packing, and
who has made a success in this very community. Every
possible supply for the canneery will be purchased here
and local help and fishermen will be employed. The
profits will go to people of Cordova. Thus instead of
the largest part of the money going outside the city,
Cordova will reap the benefits in supplies purchased, sal- B
aries paid and profits distributed. I
This is an open statement of the new company and i
its aims. 6
Remember there has never been a salmon cannery B
in this district that has failed. ■
Look Into This Matter; Get In the Fish Game
For Further Information See V. J. Swanberg