The Schulenburg Sticker (Schulenburg, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 1, 1901 Page: 1 of 4

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VOLUME VII.
SCHULENBURG, FAYETTE COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 190j1.
NUMBER 52.
BERMUDA VALLEY
Stock Farm,
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DR. I. E. CLARK, Proprietor.
xt.B. -SCHULENBURG. TEXAS
and Breeder of Standard and
HORSES
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Art of Registered Red Pellet end Registered Holsteln
SHEEP.
ioua standard bred Stallion J B, and
rated thoroughbred stallion Panmure
now permanently located at my Farm.
of either $25.00 cash with return privilege
n, in case of failure to foal. Corres-
puuucuue with prospective purchasers of Fine
Stock or Cattle is respect-fully solicited
PANMURE
opened, and am still opening the pretties line %
of
Goods, Embroideries
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Laces, Shoes, Etc.; Etc.
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I also have a well Selected and Fresh Line of the
choicest
FAHILY GROCERIES,
can buy Cheaper than anywhere else, as*I
BUY and SELL FOR CASH
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and Rum are of the best brands,
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j Will make the greatest
mistake of your life if
I you fail to put a Dandy
I on you farm.
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A CONSERVATIVE BUSINESS PROPO-
SITION.
„ Electric Xight Co.
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W. H. McKINNON, Manager. .
the Schulenbnrg Electric Light Co. Electric lights in business
iflidences are preferable to the oil lamp for a number of reasons;
, afford a better light, are neater and more convenient. Our
, .asoaable, and every effort is put fortlf to give good service,
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CHEAPNESS. EFFICIENCY.
j Electric L'ghts, we would be glad to have you become
and are quite sure you wopld be well pleased with the service.
Orleans Brewing Association.
mw-
per keg
a Pale, 41
ibacher, "
$2.75
3.00
2.75
2.75
2.75
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LOUISIANA EXPORT, PIljsENER and UNION
>ons in Schulenburg sell the New Orleans Beer.
Sigmund Schaefer, Palace Saloon,
G. Ebeling, Zum Kuehlem Grunde
JOHN OLTMANNS.
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Mr Chris. Bamngarten, sr.,
president of the Caballo Mountain
Mining and Leaching Co. of Seir-
ra County, New Mexico, desires to
invite the attention of the public
to what he and the gentlemen as-
sociated with him conscienciously
believe is an attractive proposition,
providing an opportunity forjudic-
ious investments upon which a
legitimate return is promised. In
speaking of the subject to a Sticker
reporter, Mr. Baumgarten said:
"While I wish to bring the subject
before those who may be interest
ed, I do not desire, in referring to
the proposition, that there shall
be, any exaggeration in regard to
the value of property, or the pro-
bable returns Upon funds invested
in the stock of the company.
"Personally my faith in the suc-
cess of its affairs is implicit, this
statement I think is verified by the
fact of my having purchashed, to-
gether with my sou, Mr. Chris.
Baumgarten, jr., and Prof. Carrera
of New Mexico, the property abso-
lutely, which it is our desire to
immediately develop.
"The Caballo Mountain Mining
and Leaching Co. is chartered in
accordance with the laws of New
Mexico, its capital stock is $1,000,-
000, which is represented by 100,-
000 shares of stock, the par valua-
tion of which is $10.00. Its pro-
perty consists of 175 acre^of min-
eral land, in Sierra County, New
Mexico, comprising nine mining
claims known as 'Rainbow'
'Spring,' 'Mountaiu Chief,' 'Jack
Pot,' 'Copper Queen,' 'Sligo,'
'Alice,' all of which are deposits of
copper ore, the surface indication*
of several of which run from 5 to
35 per cent copper ore, and 'Black
Bear^ and Cliff,'lead deposits, in
each of which some surface indi-
cations of copper are also fourid,
all of which are held by the right
of legal po'ssession, the assessment
work having* been performed and
and the claim having been survey-
ed, monumented and recorded in
the recorder's office at Hillsboro,
Seirra County, New Mexico.
These claims are situated ten
miles due west from the station of
Upham, on the A. T. & S. F. R.
R., about one hundred miles a lit-
tle west of north from El Paso,
Texas, and orily 5 miles east of the
Rio Grande river which at this
point has nearly always running
water. The last payment upon
this property was made last week
and it is now owned, in fee simple,
by myself and associates, who, in
order to rais^ the neccessary mon-
ey with which to develop it, have
concluded to dispose of $100,000
worth of the company's stock at
5 cents on the dollar, the sale of
which-will give us $5000 which is
ample with which to make such
primary developments as are esse -
to our future success.
"It should be understood that
the money derived from the sale
of this block of stock is to be de-
voted exclusively to the purchase
of mining machinery and the de-
velopment of the property. Not
one dollar of the sum realized from
the sale will be used for any other
purpose whatever. The company
has no salaried officers, Capt, Car-
rera, my son, Mr. Chris. Baum-
garten, jr., and myself, its sole
owners, rendering our service free
until such developments are made
as will place the company's affairs
upon a paying basis. The proper-
ty is also exempt from current tax-
ation, therefore all the money ac-
quired from the sale of the stock at
present offered will be appropriat-
ed to development purposes."
In conclusion Mr Baumgarten
stated that before purchasing this
.property he had Prof. Carrera, a
mining engineer, of Inter-national
repute, and other prominent gentle-
men, familiar with the value of
mining propeities, personally in-
spect the holdings, which after-
wards came into the possession of
the Cabollo Mountain Mining and
Leaching Co., that upon their ad-
vice relative to the great value of
the minerals of the lands he him-
self in company with a mineral ex-
pert inspected them, that he then
had the best lawyers of Texas and
New Mexico, Clark, Fall, Haw-
kins and Franklin, El Paso, Texas,
examine the title to the property,
after which the purchase was made.
$100,000 of the company's stock
for which only 5 per cent face val-
uation is asked, is now offered
prospective investors with the as-
surance that in Mr. Baumgarten's
opinion the stock will be worth
par \Vithin twelve months. Ap-
plications or communications may
be addressed either
Chris. Baumgarten, Sr. Pres.,
Chris. Baumgarten, Jr., Sec.
Schulenburg, Texas,
or Prof, J. C. Carrera,
Mining Engineer,
El Paso, Texas
How Can the Fannin; Interest of the
State Be Benefited By the Gathering
of Crop Statistics.
IA paper rca<M y Oswald Wilson, of the Unit-
ed States Department ot Agriculture, Division
of Statistics, of Washington, D. C., before the
Texas Grain Dealers Association, Dallas, Tex-
as.]
As agricultural products furnish
by far the largest percentage of our
industrial and commercial pros-
perity, any information relating to
crops—the acreage, condition and
production, is largely sought for
by all classes, and this informa-
tion is used to a large extent in de-
termining values.
All staple values are determined
J>y the law: of supply and demand.
Speculation does inflate or depress
prices temporarily, but a reaction
occurs sooner or later and values
regulate themselves. This is one
of nature's laws.
Our national prosperity depends
to a larger extent on the prosperity
of our farmers than on .any other
class. It is a well known fact that
when the farmer is prosperous,
when he makes a good crop and
receives a good price for it, evejry
allied interest feels the effect of
prosperity, the railroads, the mer-
chants, machinery men, lumber
men grain dealears and all others,
and when reverses come they feel
it as severely and quickly aax the
farmer does. We are all interested
in the growing and marketing of
crops. The publication and col-
lection of agricultural statistics is
one of the most i important func-
tions of our state and national gov-
ernment, and its beneficial influ-
ence is more far reaching than the
average citizen thinks. There are
two important phases of this
question. The first is the value of
this information as a necessity for
intelligent and successful farming.
The'^econd is its monetery value.
The time is now when it re-
quires just as much experience,
just as much education, just as
much ability to be a successful
farmer as to be a successful mer-
chant or'professional man.
No man could engage in a com-
mercial business without acquaint-
ing himself with all conditions
surrounding his location. If you
contemplate putting up a store you
ascertain how much business you
can obtain,'how much competition
you must meet. You can figure
almost your exact profits, year
after year, under normal condi-
tions. The merchant knows how
much his expenses are, how much
profit he can add and what compe-
tition he has, and can make' rea-
sonably sure calculations from one
year to the next.
The merchant's territory is cir-
cumscribed, local conditions gov-
ern them; but with the farmer it is
different. He has nearly one-
third of our entire population as a
partner and competitors. In the
absence of satisfactical information
he docs not know what the other
twenty millions are doing, wheth-
er they are increasing or decreas-
ing the acreage, diversisying their
crops or not, He can't know
whether we are over-producing or
not. He doesn't find out till too
late that there has been a demand
which should have benefited him.
In this connection I am glad to
say that a greater interest in statis-
tical information on agrioulture is
being manifested, not only among
farmers, but all allied interests.
They are beginning to see the
value and necessity of this infor-
mation; as an instance, see to
what expense and labor the hand-
(r of farm products goes to obtain
his information and how it affects
speculative values.
llJ/iai it 77?sans to farmers and
Uheir jflh'ed Snforests.
An increase of a few cents in the
price per bushel of corn or wheat
meaus a great deal to the farmers
of the country. The wheat crop
of the United States in 1900 was
522,229,505 bushels, a falling off
from the crop of 1899 of 25,074,341
bushels; but the average farm
price of wheat in 1900 was 3.5
cents per bushel higher than in
1899. This made the smaller
crop of 1900 worth nearly $4,000,-
000 more than the larger crop* of
1899.
The corn crop of 1900 was one
of the four largest ever gathered,
2,105,102,516 bushels. The price
was 5.4 cents per bushel more
than in 1899, and the aggregate
value of the corn crop was $122,-
000,000 more last year than in the
previous year. The oat crop of
1900 was one of the largest on rec-
ord, being estimated at 809,125,-
989 bushels. The barley crop
was 58,925,833 bushels, rye 23,-
995,927 bushels, potatoes 310,-
926,897 bushels and hay 50,110-
906.
The hay crop was the smallest,
with one exception, since 1888,
but the average price was $8.89
per ton, as .compared with $7.27
per ton in 1899. so that the value
of the hay crop in 1900 was £445,-
538,878, or $83,600,000 more than
the larger crop of 1899. The total
value of the eight staple farm pro-
ducts in 1800 waSs. $1,861,466,582
an increase of $248,430,298 over
the value of the same eight pro-
ducts in 1899.
Our exports of wheat in 1900
where about 10,000,000 bushels
less than in 1899, and less in value
by about $11,000,000. But in
whoat flour there was a gain in
value of oyer $2,000,000, and the
gain in export of corn was over
$2,500,000. There is increased in-
terest in American corn in nearly
all European countries, and there
certainly is increased use of corn
-in this country' as an article of
food. The corn belt is constantly
enlarging, and, while the average
yield in the country at large is
only twenty-seven bushels per
acre, it has been increased in many
localities, thorough study of and
method of agriculture, to more
than eighty bushels per acre.
This difference is even more
marked in the cotton crop. In
1899 we exported 7,402,000 bales,
valued at $210,089,576; in 1900
6,141,429 bales, value, $242,988,-
978, showing a decrease of 1,360,-
571 in quantity, but an increase of
$32,899,402 in value. One cent
per pound would mean $50,000,-
000 to the farmer while even a lit-
tle, paltry 1-32 of a cent would,
add $1,500,000 to the farmer's ac-
count,
Prosperity demands intelligent,,
conservative business methods and
not speculation. We believe the
collection and publication of statis-
tics on agricultral products, in
their valufc to the farmer, the
grain dealer, the merchant and the
allied interests, cannot be meas-
ured in dollars and cents.
While absolute accuracy may
never be attained, we do not be-
'
lieve that the important work can
be undertaken by any one but our
state and national governments.
For the object of collecting aud
publishing statistics is to give to
the public, to the farmer and mar-
keting farm products the informa-
tion necessary for determining or
knowing their true values.
y These values are not determin-
ed locally but by the markets of
the world.
Hence the necessity of knowing
what the crops are aud what the
market demands. The value and
importance'of this was recognized
by congress when it made the first
appropriation for the farmers by
setting aside in 1839, 81000 for the
oollection and publication of agri-
cultural statistics. As our country
grew appropriations were increased
and new work undertaken until
from this small beginning of a
clerk a small appropriation in
1839, we today have one of the
grandest and most beneficial scien-
tific institutions in the world in
our U. S. Agricultural department,
whose chief has a place in the
President's cabinet, aud whose in-
fluence for good is only measured
by the ?
Statistics is one of the largest
and most important divisions of
this department. It has an army
ot nearly a quarter of a million
voluntary correspondents, who are
reporting upon crop conditions
from every part of this country.
It has a number of state and spec-
ial agents and no effort is being
spared to bring this division to the
highest degree of efficiency and to
this end we invite the hearty co-
operation of the farmers and every
allied iuterest.
Next to the farmers you are as
vitally interested in crop statistics
and we feel that you can tender
valuable assistance.
Coming to our own state we find
that we have in Texas the greatest
and grandest agricultural empire
in the world, and with as great a
variety of climate, soil and produc-
tion, Texas produces some ©£ all
the great staple crops produced in
any section, both food and cloth-
ing, and many crops that other
sections cannot.
What is our area?
167,865,600 acr«3. Do you re-
alize what this iB?
It requires 30,000,000 acres to
produce the cotton crop of the
United States, 43,519,125 acres to
give us wheat, 52,627,562.acres for
corn, and 20,228,149 acres to yield
our oat crop.
Texas could give all this acreage
and still have 20,228,149 acres
leftj, a territory larger than Mass-
achusetts, New Hampshire, Con-
necutt, Delaware, New Jersey and
Rhode Island. In other words,
Texas could produce all the cotton
all the wheat, all the corn, all the
oats afkd?yet -have
larger than the New
States
Texas is in her infancy so far as
agricultural development is con-
cerned. We have a vast domain
undeveloped and unproductive.
We believe that the next ten years
will show the greatest progress Qf
any stale in the union.
N We are in the lead in cotton pro-
duction, \ we are 7th In winter
wheat producing countries and we
are coming to the front in a great
many others. AVe must have state
statistics on our agriculture.
The U. S. Department 0f iagri-
culture will continue to collect and
publish crsp statistics nationally,
but its effort should be supplement-
ed and carried further by our state
authorities. It is a business prop-
osition of vital importance. It is
as necessary as for the merchant to
know what his business ia doing.
We must know what our state is
doing.
In conclusion I take a short ex-
tract from the annual report of
Hon. Jefferson Johnson, Commis-
sioner of Agriculture, Insurance
and History of Texas to the 27th
legislature as to our own state.
jfgricuiiural Department.
1 regard this as one of the most
valuable departments of the State,
and have heretofore (earnestly call-
ed attention -to its value to the
people; but for some reason the
legislature has entirely ignored the
very existence of the department.
Texas is essentially an agricul-
tural State, and her unoccupied
domain is so vast and so inviting
to "home seekers'" of the world
that I am surprised that the legis-
lature has not been able to realize
the fact that an agricultural de-
partment well equipped and con-
ducted, would be one of the great-
est advertising mediums to induce
immigration ttaat could be inaugu-
rated, for the great need of Texas
today is more population and cap-
ital. The cost of bringing immi-
gration and capital to the state
ought not to be questioned, but
the money should be appropriated
and properly used. Other states
are liberal in their appropriations
upon these lines and the people
are receiving the benefit of up to
date information upon this and
kindred matters, while Texas with-
holds such valuable information
from her people, simply on the
USE THE
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To all poinlf.
We have conncc-
lion for
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PERLITZ BROS.
GO
SENGEIMAHN BIOS
SALOON
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Old Edgewood, Mt. Vernon,
Old Forester. Also for Old
Country Apple Brandy like
grandfather used to make,
and for Pure Jamaca Rum.
EMIL SCHULZ,
BLACKSMITH IMG
and Horse-Shoeing.
"Manufacturer of Wagon's, Buggies, Carriages
and Farming Implements. The Celebrated
John Deere Plows.
Always in stock.
First-Class W«rt
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Sunny South Saloon.
JOHN OL.'rMANNS & CO..
PROPRIETORS.
H. BENIKER, - MANAGER.
Imported Port Wine.
Whiskey. Puritan Rye.
Waldorf Club. Old V "
Penland Whiskey.
White Weat. Hollandish _
Jamacia Rum. Beneditiener.
Pepsin. O. P. B. W " "
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patrons to inspect his stock.
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grounds of economy, when •
it is the very reverse: for in
instances it has been
that farmers have been abl;
double the products of their a
from information received from
their State bureau of agriculture.
Statistics that could and ought to
be collected and published, with
area of land planted to each pro-
duct, would prove of immense
value to every citizen interested in
such matters; and this includes
every citizen of the State, for all
depends upon the agricultural pros-
perity of the people engaged in
that pursuit, as their failure, or
even partial failure, the business
of all the people of the State is
affected to the extent of the failure
or success of the agriculturalist.
Realizing the importance of this
subject, though ignored by the
legislature, I cannot refrain from
again calling your excellency's at-
tention to this all important mat-,
ter, Respectfully submitted.
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