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Show PROGRESS BEING MADE IN BEAVER VALLEY There was a smart young fellow dropped in on us the other day. He wore natty clothes and had an up-to-date manner, but he wasn't fresh. He was one of those modern young fellows who get on because they use a lot of good common sense, and he's been successful in business. There was a vision in his eyes. He had been observing development in the valley. "Well," he said, weighing his words, "there are wonderful opportunities oppor-tunities here. In a few years, this valley will be a stretch of smiling acres that will laugh a harvest or bumper crops every fall. The rid elements of production are in the soil. The water is underneath it. And with such a favored climate, what more could a man wish?" The smart young fellow was Hi-There Hi-There are opportunities here which honest development will realize. No where is there a land blessed with finer natural resources. "Water's the miracle," he resumed, resum-ed, "and it will turn the desert intc a rose garden. Dry farming can bf made a successful thing, but what': the use of dry farming when you'' got water practically at your finger' end? Bigger crops, bigger money, and bigger opportunities is wha-water wha-water means. I was out looking over the new developments. Charley Sloan's been going it pretty brisk ant; is getting the flow. His well proves what can be done, and the" water i good and plentiful. He's got 'em busy on his land and, taking it alto ' gether, with the horses, the well-rir and the cultivated acres, that plat-, has got a prosperity sign hung over it. "Speaking of well-rigs, our friend J. F. Berkhimer has a rig thai any man in the valley would like to get for a Christmas present, even though you couldn't put it in Jim Gibson's stocking. It's a fine riband rib-and should keep busier than the ka;-' ka;-' ser's royal liar, now that water's holding interest at fever heat. "Walter Cook's got a plant that's a little different. It's a water elevator ele-vator and the buckets are getting fuller every day. If the flow continues, con-tinues, and there are good prospects he will have enough water to put o'" a Chicago fire. '"Frank Wallin and Charley Baxter Bax-ter put in pumping plants, and they are as sure of crops as a husband t of a faithful wife. Tom Martin's got both hands in hi hip pockets and is struttin' arounc like a turkey gobbler. Tom's plant don't work on union time. It's n the water, and there's more right c the nose of it than every bath tub Ir the country could use on a Saturday night. "Sometime, when you have an hour off 'from the pressing duties of arguing argu-ing when the war will end. just rur down to Henry Bowen's and see what he's got gushln' out of the ground That artesian well is flowing miracles mira-cles all over his place, and the supply sup-ply would make a city spout wiggle through its hole In the wall. "Water, water everywhere, and every drop brimful of life-giving good for both the farm and farmer. "There's no limit to the prospects in this valley. The folks are ambitions, ambi-tions, and when ambition gets itchy look out for some scratchin'." Clarence CHne, who has more Jazz thau a circus poster, has always had the interests of this valley close to his heart. Development Is a hohb with him. What do you think he's gone and done now? He has organized the Black Kock Land, Livestock & Oil company for the purpose of boosting the land hereabouts, getting It under the plow and making it produce big. And he's going to breed livestock. Sounds like real money, doesn't it? And it is The way meat prices are going, th-' cow surely jumped over the moon. And Clarence Is going after water He's ready to move bis well rig down to the Bottoms, where some of the company's rich land Is located. put the bloomin' thing to work: and there Isn't any more doubt than a saint has of heaven that he'll strike enough of the Adam's ale to soak this part of the county. Maybe you've heard of the oil possibilities. pos-sibilities. If you haven't, just crook your neck and lean a listening ear this way. The old timers of the val ! ley. who were grown men when we licked Spain, are as confident as r-j r-j high school graduate that there ! oil under the soil, and they've seen evidences that are more convincinc Mhan a blonde hair on the shoulder of a dark-eyed man. It's a fact that : the Black Rock Land. Livestock ' Oil Co.. which Clarence has nursed j into being is after oil. and it's a sa' bet that they'll strike it. ; Anyhow, the company's objects have more merit than a virtuous life 'and it's going to win big. ! If I get a chance. I'll drop in nex I week and get some more ofT my chest. This valley has got me gnire 'strong and I'll have to air my feelings feel-ings somewhere and a newspaper office of-fice ia. better than most places. i |