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...prices, however, did not deter the tycoons of southwestern wheat production from harvesting crops larger than ever. By far the biggest wheat farmer in Texas is Hickman Price, oldtime newsman (New York Sun, Nashville Democrat) who three years ago gave up a $50,000 per year job with Fox Film to apply modern industrial methods to husbandry in the Panhandle. Last year smart, efficient Mr. Price harvested 17,000 acres in Deaf Smith, Castro and Swisher counties. Last week he was getting in a 500,000-bu. crop from 23,000 acres. Next year he plans to expand...
Also last week the Commission ordered a revision of livestock freight rates. For the western trunk line territory whence come 40% of U. S. cattle, 60% of hogs, a 10% average upping was granted. Southwestern rates were cut 6%, while those in the Mountain-Pacific area were reduced...
...Training School for Boys at Washington, D. C.; the National Training School for Girls at Muirkirk, Md.; Federal Industrial Institution for Women at Alderson, W. Va. The U. S. contracts with 24 State institutions to care for young offenders. Declared Dr. Van Waters: "Some jails in the Southern and Southwestern districts are old and unfit. . . . Supervision of inmates is in the hands of trusties. . . . These jails present a situation of filth and misery impossible to convey. . . . The best . . . [reformatory] employs disciplinary measures such as silence at meals, marching, formal routine and flogging; the worst is not to be distinguished from...
...After getting control of Atlantic last year through a holding company Mr. Fitkin promptly placed it in receivership. Atlantic has $60,000,000 in assets, more than half of which will be sold to Insull. The remaining assets are in water and ice properties and the 160-mi. Cleveland Southwestern Ry. What Mr. Insull buys from Mr. Fitkin is the electric and water service of 200 communities in 13 states, most of which are along the Atlantic seaboard. Although his new acquisitions add less than 100,000 customers to the several million he already has, the deal gives Mr. Insull...
Hunting for Col. P. H. Fawcett, who disappeared in the Matto Grosso four years ago, has become almost a profession in itself. Alexander Siemel, now at the southwestern edge of the great forest, was a onetime Fawcett searcher. His onetime companions in the jungle were Mamerto Urriolagoitia. Bolivian consul general at London, and Julian Duguid (Green Hell). As soon as Consul Urriolagoitia gets his vacation from London this summer he will join Author Duguid for another search of the forest...