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Show GRIMM ON ' KING COTTON Texas Mail Discusses Conditions Con-ditions in the; Lone Star State, r ; 9ol. George W. Grimm, who registers from San Antonio, Tex.i but lives at Corpus Crlstl, on one of the, finest cattle and cotton ranches In the Lone Star State, has been a guest of the Wilson for several days. He left for Denver last night, accompanied by Mrs. Grimm. "Planters in Texas." said the Colonel, "are busy cancelling mortgages on their places and stacking up interest on their savings. Cotton ,- did it slxtecn-cent cotton.. .At six cents cotton pays some; at seven cents it good business; at 11 it's a Standard Oil proposition, and when it was at 137 cents,. W per cent of Texas . mortgages were retired and bank accounts were created. Really, It Is safe to assert that -not 5 per cent ot the farm lands of Texas are mortgaged. Thatwas a good thing for our farmers 16-cent cotton but we have learned our lesson and all our farmers are turning turn-ing to diversified crops. "For Instance, a crop of cabbages is raised on the same land that produces later In the year an average crop of cotton". In this way Corpus Crlstl produced pro-duced 400 carloads of cabbage with no diminution of the cottoii. ' 'Cattle? The less said of cattle the better. The beef trust has killed that Industry and I am glad to say that I am not tied up to the trust; It is no lonyer. possible to produce beef, at a profit on land costing over $( an acre."t |