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Show I -v t . SOMETHING WE KNOW. ' 1 How many mn n this Sixth Judi- a cial district (receive $100 per month , salary? One can almost count them '- on the digits of his two hands. They are looked up on as men who stand j among the favored few. A's a matter v of fact, there are more than a score of farmers in Sevier county who have made more money the last twelve months than any merchant, lawyer, doctor or editor between Gunnison and Kauab. Wc know of one farmer who recently re-cently was paid for one month's butter but-ter fat $226; of another whose regular regu-lar income from his cows is $125 month; of another who never get less than $100 a month from the same source, and yet of another whose monthly check is $90. And so wc could go on, for a whole day, telling of farmers whose income from cows alone is more than any professional profes-sional man of our acquaintance airl wc know nearly all of them. "Yes," you say, "but those arc farmers who have large farms and plenty of money to employ help." Not so. In this you are mistaken. To convince you what men with small farms arc doing in this valley, wc will present a few figures. Here is what a friend of the editor did last season with only forty acres of? land and a nice little home in town. Fifty dollars covers all the hired help: Product .from sugar bectsv $860.00 Cows, $30 per month 360.00 Product from boas...................2oo.oo Sold wheat. ..., 60.00 Sold hogs- M....w 50.00 Sold iotatocs......M.w 25,05 Sold Gggs... , 75,00 Sold sundry products ... 25.00 Ttal $1,65500 Wc claim that theno. is no business or professional man in the Sevier valley who can boast of an income of $1,655.00 per year with the following follow-ing items thrown in for good cas-urc: House rent, garden ground, fruit H and berries, team, buggy, horses and ,H horsefced, all the family can use of H milk, butter cggs, flour, potatoes. 'M pork, roast ohicken, fuel and lighi, M Christmas and Thanksgiving turkey M free, every Sunday off and as ninny ;H other holidays as ho desires and five H months in the year with nothing to M do at all but gather eggs and milk M the cows. No pay docked bQQause H of sick day or lazy days, and, best JM of aW, no boss to keep time on a jH fellow. Yet our people insist that H land is not worth $100 an acre! The H man referred .to in the preceding H paragraph owns a tract actually worth H more to him than $500 per acre.- - H Sevier Valley Sun. H |