Writer and engraver's picture of Graham County's progress since it s organization . local markets are great and there is easy access to Kansas City and Denvermarkets. Mr. Seltzer ships in car load lots to the city markets, onions,potatoes and cabbage. He raises some live stock, and for ten years has averaged marketingfifty head of cattle and the same number of hogs each year. At presenthe has sixty head of cattle forty-five head of hogs and 13 head of valley farm is well improved. The residence is a story and a halfstructure of 8 rooms, with a good cellar and a 12x16 milk house. Th
Writer and engraver's picture of Graham County's progress since it s organization . local markets are great and there is easy access to Kansas City and Denvermarkets. Mr. Seltzer ships in car load lots to the city markets, onions,potatoes and cabbage. He raises some live stock, and for ten years has averaged marketingfifty head of cattle and the same number of hogs each year. At presenthe has sixty head of cattle forty-five head of hogs and 13 head of valley farm is well improved. The residence is a story and a halfstructure of 8 rooms, with a good cellar and a 12x16 milk house. Thereare ten acres of fine forest trees on the place. Mr. Seltzer moved to Graham county from Missouri and homestead-ed near Lenora in 1885. Two years later he was married to Miss DeliaM. Brooks of this county. In 1895 Mr. and Mrs. Seltzer moved to theirpresent home. ^Ir. Seltzer is one of Graham countys most reliable andenergetic farmers who has made the most of her possibilities of beauty (88) and wealth. His farm is not only remarkable for its utility hut for itsbeautv as George Albertsons—Spring Grove Stock x\lbertson a native of Denmark, came to America, emigratedin 1872, and located in Harlan, Iowa. In 1881 he was married to Miss Sarali Hanson of that place and in 1885, Mr. and Mrs. Albertson came toGraham county and homesteaded. They brought with them some moneywith which they improved and stocked their farm, but in 1886 suffereda severe loss in the decline in the price of cattle. Mr. Albertson did notlet failure discourage him, but began at once to win back what he hadlost. He prospered and was able to add acres to his acres, adding a quar-ter section in 1890, another in 1898 and another in 1901. 420 acres of this land is pasture under fence. It is supplied withwater from several creeks fed by 12 living springs. Mr. Albertson has 200 acres of his splendid farm under cultivation,the greater part of it being planted in corn. In 1905 he raised 1,000bushe
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