Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-12-15
GREELEY, COLORADO.

Oreeley, In COlOrauO, is JOINT
stock settlement, share emitting
the holder to SO many acres of land
and water from the irrigating ditch
Greeley has its Tribune also, a copy
of which is before us. A ditch nine
miles in length and of sufficient ca.
pacity to bring water to every house
and garden in the place, also to irri.
gate five thousand acres, has been
dug. Another ditch thirty miles in
length, capable of irrigating fifty
thousand acres, is in process Of con-
struction. Irrigation seems to have
won a victory over nature in the
minds of the Greeleyites, for the
Tribune says: "All our people think
it makes farming a scientific instead
of an uncertain pursuit" Perhaps
under few years experience the
scientific farmers of Greeley may
have something more to say of what
they "know about farming" Science
may delight in bitches and food
gates, but practical farmers we fancy
will prefer the windows of Heaven
as irrigators to any ditch that can
be dug.
The Tribune plumes itself upon
the character of the people. 1t says:
Greeley undoubtedly possesses
more educated men and women than
any other town of its size west of
the Mississippi. You can almost
any hour of the day, see men W. !,
collegiate educations drivip> .sl o
teams, showing the plane ;a; & oa
irrigating bitches, de-" oui''''ns
From the remarkr 80 .,o n.,
# snot q fs1 Greeley, we infel
a;as A. % noO . -nale paradise, for "the
hDr Jie condition in which they
~ na ,een placed for want of com.
~ liable homes has given to many o
sad cast of countenance, and some
have scarcely appeared in public.
Of late, and since houses have been
plastered conveniences have been
multiplied, a change for the better
in the appearance of the women has
been apparent, and the congregation
at church is much more elegant and
cheerful than it was two months
ago."
The Tribune says "as to intellect,
the women are fully equal to the
men and they only lack drill" We
have an idea that the women will
have all the "drill'' necessary to de-
velop their intellect, if they depend
for livelihood on the college edu-
Gated who are driving oxen, digging
irrigating bitches, and showing the
jack plane.
We learn from the Tribune, how
ever, that no place shows better
dressed ladies, which it says is not
matter of surprise as those ladies
came from eastern cities, Cleveland
being included in the number. If the
colony of Greeley is made up of
college educated men and city bred
ladies, the experiment is at least
doubtful One but it has our best
wishes.
OF children, the Tribune has little
information; the editor, Mr.. Meek
er, probably is bachelor. He says
boys seem scarce for there is no vel
ling at night, neither are church ser
vices disturbed by cracking of nuts.
Yet there is hope for Greeley in this
respect, for there really are a good
many boys, and the editor declares
there will be more" 1t is possible,
in view of the emergency, that the
people of Greeley have accepted the
advice of Macbeth to "bring forth
men children only" Ifso the streets
Of Greeley may in course of time re-
sounds with the "yellings" and
'whoopings, ".and "unseemly noises"
Of young irrigators. - Cleveland
Esrald.