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The New Hospital
(The Lumberton Sanatarium.)
My New Hospital is now ready and open
for the reception of all nou-contaerious dis
eases. I' have a Corps of Competent
Nurses and a Well-Equipped Hospital
in all Respects. Am also prepared
to give
se ELTECTRICAL TREATMENT. ae
Any information as to prices, etc., will be
furnished on application to me.
Dr. N. A. Thompson,
PROPRIETOR,
Lumberton, : : : : NC,
Ideal Beauty.
Faces naturally beautiful don't need millinery to bring out their attractiveness, but
Ideal Beauties inu-t have Hats suited to their feature. We create Hats that are
Fashionable and become you to best advantage. Our Combination of Ribbons,
Feathers, Lace and Taste, will produce a Hat that will be just what you want. Our
Milliner,' Miss Aunie I.indsk-v, has been in -Baltimore looking after this depart
ment. She is an experienced Trimmer.
DRY GOODS.
The Autumn Goods are here in Beautiful Colors. You get here choice Dress
Patterns. , .
FURS.
PURS.
Nothing adds so much Grace and Refinement to a well-gowned woman as a hand
some set of Furs.
We Invite Inspection of the above lines. Also Shoes and Notions
E. W.
Ashpole, :::::::: N. C.
Will pay Best Trices for Cotton Seed for Southern Cotton Oil Company.
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I; ; ! i( Jit 1 iVitit Trip.
-Mr. A. W. "i'(-Lrin ivturru'd
Tuesday i'rott, u ! rij lo .!;iii'tii.i,
lnci;;m Ter ri:.ry, 'S-.: '''''--,''jy
and Texas, vitere lie s)'nt st v
era! days- Mr. McLean t- icd
interestingly ti a I 'oUesen'uui re
porter of ids trip and 'he c,untry :
where he went. j
"On my trip," sail Mr. Me-j
Lean, "I saw South Carolina, I
Georgia, Aiahatna, Mississippi, i
Tennessee. A rlcansas, Indian Ter- J
ritory, Oklahonm, New Mexico j
and Texas. The principal cities
through which I passed were
Atlanta, Birmingham, Memphis,
Little Kock. South AlcAlester,
Oklahoma City, Amarillo, Fort
Worth and Dennison, Texas.
'The cotton crop in tha States
through which I passed was,
upon the whole, very good much
better than the crop in Robeson
county. In Arkansas, Indian
Territory, Oklahoma and Texas,
the cotton crop is especially good.
It is far better titan the crop
here. I talked with farmers
merchants and cotton buyers in
these States and they estimated
the crop at NJ to W per cent, of a
perfect crop. They are having
great trouble about getting it
picked. Many of the fields in
Oklahoma- and Texas have not
been picked over.
"By the way, when Oklahoma
and Texas become fully settled
up with cotton farmers and the
labor conditions there become
good, I believe our section will
have to give up cotton raising be
cause we can not compete with
these States. I saw cotton in
Texas and Oklahoma that would
make from one bale to a bale and
a-half per acre without one par
ticle of fertilizers- In fact, fer
tilizer is not used out there at all.
They laugh at you when you
mention fertilizer. Besides they
can cultivate their lands so much
easier and cheaper than we do.
They have no stumps and can
use improved plows, cultivators
and other farm machinery. There
is one county in Oklahoma, with
only two per cent, of its cotton
land in cultivation, which raises
twice as much cotton as Robeson
county.
'Why, almost every crop you
can think of is successfully raised
there. Among those I saw and
now recall were Indian corn,
Kaffir corn, milo-maize, alfalfa,
wheat sugar cane, potatoes, water
melons and all garden products
and fruits. They make from
forty to sixty bushel of, Indian
corn and from fifty to seventy
five bushels of Kaffir corn to the
acre, with about half the cultiva
tion we give to our crops. Kaffir
corn is one of their principal
crops and is the finest kind of
feed for horses, cattle and hogs.
They make 4,000 pounds of al
falfa to the acre and it is the
finest stock feed in the world.
"Of the portion of the country
that I saw, the part that inter
ested and impressed me most
was Oklahoma, Western Texas
and Neyv' Mexico, mainly because
the conditions there were so un
like what-I expected. In Okla
homa I saw tine farms of cotton
and every other crop including
wheat, which produces thirty to
sixty bushels per acre. The best
farming lands near railroads sell
for tifty to one hundred and fifty
dollars per acre. The towns are
rich and prosperous. Take Okla
homa city, for example; about
17 years ago the land upon which
die town is situated was given
by the United States govern
ment as a homestead to a setUer.
Now it is a thriving city of forty
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In Western Texas
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ago, was considered only a stock
racing rountry, with its large
ranches, containing in many cases
on" to three million aeres of
prairie land each- The chief in
dustry and practically the only
industry was cattle raising, and
lallit:
the lands could be bought at j System I can't explain fully be
twenty cents to one dollar per j t.nU!iC jt wij lajt. too i,)n, but
tie re- The native land
owners j
churned that it was useless to
try to raise any crops except
grass. About three years ago
the United States government
opened up the public lands in
Eastern New Mexico adjoining
the Texas Ppnhandle to settlers,
each being entitled under cejtain
conditions to a quarter section,
or one hundred and sixty acres.
With the general intlux of set
tlers to these public lands came
many farmers from Illinois, Iowa,
Indiana, Minnesota, Missouri,
Kansas aud the Dakotas- They
soon discovered that these lands
were just as good as the lands
which they had left at home, and
that they could, by intelligent
cultivation, raise any crops which
could be raised in their own
States. These settlers are now
raising the finest kind of Indian
corn, koffie corn, wheat, oats,
milo-maize, alfalfa, potatoes, fruit,
melons and vegetables. The coun
try is entirely transformed. All
the valuable public lands have
been taken up, and for the past
twelve to eighteen months farm
ers from the middle Western
States are coming in by the
train load and buying these lands
in the Texas Panhandle at prices
ranging from eight to twenty five
dollars per acre. I heard a ranch
owner say that lands which he
purchased several years ago at
twenty cents an acre, he was now
selling readily at two dollars an
acre. The immigrant and colo
nization agents are making con
tracts to settle the lands and are
succeeding wonderfully. One
large concern from Chicago set
tled sixty-five thousand acres
with three train loads of immi
grants. The settlers are a fine
class of people from the middle
Western States, and will succeed
anywhere. I talked with a great
many of these people, and found
them all contented and enthusi
astic over the future prospect of
their new homes. They say that
the soil is just as rich as that in
their own States and that the
climate is much better.
As to the raiafall in that sec
tion, it used to be considered a
semi arid section, but for the
past four or five years they have
had plenty of rain in Oklahoma
and the Panhandle of Texas- At
Amarillo, Texas, the chief town
of the Panhandle, the United
States Weather Bureau records
show an average of about 24
inches of rainfall annually for
the past ten years and then too,
all the rains come in the summer
months when the crops most
need them. But I found many
farmers who said they could
make got I crops with one or two
rains a year, and they did not
seem at, all concerned about
rains. I-inquired into this, and
i learned that the farmers living
in the semi-arid belt ot the mid
dle West, where there would be
only one. or tvvo rains a year, had
discovered a system which made
average crop a ivrtatnty, in fact
much more so than in the humid
section v here .ve live, and where
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as transformed Kan
the middle
vears and
sas, Nebraska an'd Colorada from
a drouth-stricken se .n to a
rich tanning country. I saw an
experiment farm near Texico,
New Mexico, which is being op
erated according to the "Camp
bell System."
"The nature of the Campbell
tjie m!lin principle is to conserve
the moisture in the land from
one period to another by a sys
tem of soil culture following cer
tain well known scientific princi
ples. I purchased a book fully
describing the system, which
you may read if you are further
interested.
"Have they given up cotton
raising since they learned that
these lands were good for agri
cultural purposes?"
"Oh! No. On the contrary,
they can raise cattle- more suc
cessfully than ever, for instead
of allowing the cattle to live en
tirely on native grass, they are
now able to feed them on a.falfa,
Kaffir corn, milo-maize and other
farm products and thereby pro
duce much finer beef. Another
industry which the North West
ern farmer has brought with him
is hog raising and this bids fair
to become far more lucrative and
successful than cattle raisintr. I
saw the finest cattle and hogs I
ever saw in my life in the same
section where I saw the fine
crops.
"About one hundred miles west
of the Texas line in New Mexico,
near Raswell, irrigation is re
sorted to with the greatest suc
cess. They have artesian wells
foJ private irrigation and then
the United States government is
spending a great deal of money
lor public irrigation. In this
section they have no rains and
depend entirely upon irrigation.
This is the richest land in the
United States, and when irri
gated produces twice as much as
any other land- It sells, near
the railroad, for two hundred to
tiye hundred dollars per acre,
after being irrigated and im
proved. It is in this section that
the finest apples, pears and other
fruits are raised, besides all
kinds of grain.
"This is admitted one of the
most healthful climates in the
country. In the particular sec
tions of Texas and New Mexico
to which I refer, the altitude
ranges from two thousand to
three thousand six hundred feet
above sea level and the air is
dry and invigorating. I saw doz
ens of people who had gone there
from all sections of the United
States, for consumption, asthma,
hay-fever and throat diseases,
and they all had been cured. Of
course some who go there when
the disease is too far advanced,
die. The most disagreeable part
of the weather out there is the
winds. They don't have cyclones,
but occasionally they have strong
winds, which blow the dust ev
erywhere. "There are two kinds
of this
rich soil, one called the "black"
and the other "chocolate," the
names having been given on ac
count of the color. In the Pan
handle of Texas and Has tern New'
Mexico and Oklahoma the choc -late
soil is most common. It is
usually two to four feet in depth,
aud the land is smooth prairie
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(Continued on page eight.)
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
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KcLEAH, MCLEAN & MCCORMICK,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
r.MMP.KRTON'. - N C.
Offices on 2nri floor of Bank of Lam
bortoa RaildinK, Rooms 1, 2, 8, & 4
'Tomit attention given to all bcsiues.
CHAS. B. SKIPPER,
Attorney at Law,
LUMBKRTON, - - - N. C.
All business entrusted to him will receive-prompt
and careful attention.
Office in Firat National Bank Building
rfver Post Offio
E. M. BRITT,
Attorney mt Law,
Lumhertom, N. C.
Office upstairs in Argus Building
All busine-s protupily transacted.
Mclntyre & Lawrence
Attorneys and Counselors at Law
LUMBERTON, : : N. C.
E. J. BRITT,
Attoknkv at Law,
Lumberton, N. C.
Office over Pope's Drug Store.
R. C. PARVIN,
Contractor and Builder.
Lumberton, N. C,,
Plans, Specifications and Prices furn
ished on application.
McLean & Black,
Attorneys at Law,
MAXTON, N. C.
Office on 2nd floor McCaskill Building,
Rooms 6-8.
Dr. N. A. Thompson,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
Lumberton, : : : : N. 0.
Office at Hospital. Phone No. AU
Down town office at Dr. McMillan's
Drui; Store. Phone No. 75.
K. T AU.w F. D. Cahtlibi-RY
Drs. Allen & Castlebury,
Dentists,
LUMBERTON, N C.
jffice over Dr. McJdillaa's Drug Store.
DR. J. D. REGAN,
DENTIST,
LOMBEBTON, - - N. 0.
Office In Shaw building, over Pope't
drug more.
Dr. F. H. PITMAN,
DENTIST.
Ashpole, - n. c
Dr7 R. B. BECKWITH,
Physician and Surgeon,
Offers his services to the people of Lum
berton and surrounding country.
Office i-p McLeod Building, Phott
No. 6. Can be found at night at residence
former ly occupied by Mr. George M.
Whitfield.
JOHNSON & BRITT,
Real Estate and Insurance Agents,
LUMBERTON, N- C.
Office over Argus Buil ling.
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ASHPOLE, N. C.
Contractor and Builder and Dealer in
Builders' Supplies.
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LUMBERTONJART STUDIO,
Over Po e's Drug Stor.
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Physiclaa and Surgeon,
Ashpolf, V C.
Office Phone. No. 5. Re. Phone No.
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