| 88IN A MORE HOPEFUL VEIN
——————
Mr. Peattie's Sixth Drouth Letter
Tells of an Oasis in the
Desert.
——————
A Part of the County Where There
Was Plenty Water and Where
Things Are Better.
——————
Just a Little Flash of Light in the Gloom Which
Hovers Over the Starving Sand
Hills Country,
—————
(The World-Herald's special envoy into
the drouth country, Mr Robert B Peattie,
writes more hopefully today, he having
apparently struck an oasis in the desert
This is Mr Peattie's sixth letter A better
idea of the actual situation which exists in
the land of poverty cannot be obtained
than that given by a perusal of his pre-
vious correspondence)
———
Chappel, Deuel Couty, Neb, Dec
19—For the first time in my wander-
ings I have come upon a county where
the destitution is not general This
county is not generally stricken, al-
though but few crops were raised, none
at all on the table lands The valley
along the Platte river, where irriga-
tion is being practiced to some extent,
raised some corn, a little wheat and
a small quantity of alfalfa Here and
there small patches of potatoes and
other vegetables were grown where
wind-mill pumps were utilized, and on
these articles the farmers will subsist
during the winter months Seed will
have to be generally distributed in the
spring The farmers out her are bet-
ter able to stand the present pinching
circumstances than some people, for
the very good reason that they have
never known much better times, | 88IN A MORE HOPEFUL VEIN
——————
Mr. Peattie's Sixth Drouth Letter
Tells of an Oasis in the
Desert.
——————
A Part of the County Where There
Was Plenty Water and Where
Things Are Better.
——————
Just a Little Flash of Light in the Gloom Which
Hovers Over the Starving Sand
Hills Country,
—————
(The World-Herald's special envoy into
the drouth country, Mr Robert B Peattie,
writes more hopefully today, he having
apparently struck an oasis in the desert
This is Mr Peattie's sixth letter A better
idea of the actual situation which exists in
the land of poverty cannot be obtained
than that given by a perusal of his pre-
vious correspondence)
———
Chappel, Deuel Couty, Neb, Dec
19—For the first time in my wander-
ings I have come upon a county where
the destitution is not general This
county is not generally stricken, al-
though but few crops were raised, none
at all on the table lands The valley
along the Platte river, where irriga-
tion is being practiced to some extent,
raised some corn, a little wheat and
a small quantity of alfalfa Here and
there small patches of potatoes and
other vegetables were grown where
wind-mill pumps were utilized, and on
these articles the farmers will subsist
during the winter months Seed will
have to be generally distributed in the
spring The farmers out her are bet-
ter able to stand the present pinching
circumstances than some people, for
the very good reason that they have
never known much better times, |
