Nick Carter Stories No. 11, November 23, 1912: Nick Carter Strikes Oil; or, Uncovering More Than a MurderCarter, Nicholas (House name)
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Nick Carter Stories No. 11, November 23, 1912: Nick Carter Strikes Oil; or, Uncovering More Than a Murder
Carter, Nicholas (House name)
Detective and mystery stories, American -- Periodicals; Popular literature -- Periodicals
No doubt many of them a few years ago were solicited by land men to
invest in some of these fertile acres at from $1.25 to $3 an acre, but
thinking that the real-estate men were working some wildcat scheme on
them, they turned the proposition down. But those who have had the
opportunity to view the fields in Logan County this year have no doubt
wished a hundred times over that they had taken advantage of the
investments offered them, for they could have reaped a harvest in one
season that would pay for the land twenty times at the price offered
them.
The Sterling district alone this year planted 28,000 acres of sugar
beets that will produce as many tons to the acre as any beet crop that
has ever been harvested in the State. The farmers of Logan County are
just completing the harvesting of 41,000 acres of wheat and hundreds of
acres of rye, millet, barley, and flax, thousands of acres of alfalfa
and wild hay, to say nothing of the corn, potatoes, melons, pumpkins,
and every other kind of farm products that the Eastern farmer values so
highly.
It is estimated by reliable authorities, basing their estimations on the
yield of fields already threshed, that the wheat production in Logan
County this year will average twenty bushels to the acre. This will give
Logan County farmers more than 800,000 bushels of wheat. The beet crop
this year will produce 400,000 tons of beets which will bring better
than $5 a ton.
The alfalfa crop is larger this year than ever before, two cuttings
having already been harvested, and the third cutting is almost ready.
Hundreds of Eastern people, who visited the Logan County Fair, which has
just closed, were astonished at the exhibition in the Agriculture
Building. It is safe to say that every one of those who viewed the grand
display will be a booster for Logan County. They will tell that they saw
cabbage raised in Logan County that measured 48 inches in circumference
and corn that is equal to any they ever saw raised in the Missouri
Valley or any of the corn States. They will also tell that they saw
potatoes that would make Eugene Grubb, the expert in the Grand Valley,
go into ecstasies. They also will tell that they saw pumpkins,
watermelons, and other garden and field vegetables that would be a
credit to a tropical country.
While Logan County does not make claims of being a fruit country, the
visitors will describe to their friends a splendid showing of apples,
crabapples, plums, and berries. And even the sunflowers that they saw
are over 14 feet high.
Arkansas Has 10,175 School-teachers.
State Superintendent George B. Cook, of Arkansas, gave out a statement
showing the condition of Arkansas schools, from which the following
extracts are taken:
Number of teachers--white, 8,227; colored, 1,948. Total, 10,175.
Increase over last year, 341.
Average length of term, 117.9 days; increase over last year, 4 days.
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