Show THE OLO OLD SETTLER SEIM by albert R lyman more than half a century in san juan makes it the most interesting the most attractive country many times in thirty five years the old settler has returned from other regi regions fins far and near only to feel sure again that the world offers no better place nace to live in fifty five years there has been no season too warm too cold too wet too dry nor too windy to raise wheat and other valuable food crops in san juan the arid farm belt of the county has not in that time failed to give good returns for the trouble of proper summer fallowing following fal lowing and wise cultivation the rainfall has varied from more than twenty two inches to less than seven inches in a year but in th the drnest one of those years proper attention to san juan soil has brought encouraging results Home seekers native or from a distance need only to learn and follow the simple ethics ot of arid and farming to establish and aid maintain themselves in the most safe kind of enterprise the greatest element of security in n a home is to have it founded on a system of production by which it can go on independently ot of changing land and uncertain supply san juan has room for many thousands of people to establish themselves in about as much security as is possible anywhere under present forms of government here they can live in safety though banks and factories close arid and transportation is paralyzed the day ot of profit for the big farmer fanner may never be what it once was but the small farmer with diligent and wise attention to a few acres can live with dignity and an independence as his own boss which he can never be sure of when he is working for some one else this choice region was once eci vered by thousands of small farms the farmers had only crude methods and very primitive implements but they lived a long time and became numerous it will vill be done again the old settler after fifty five years invites you to think it over carefully |