Connecticut western news., 1873-03-07
COlOradO-Our Future Source of Beef.

beef supply ready for us in the territory on the eastern face of the Rocky Noun talns, and one, too, whence we may draw far better quality of meat than has ever been sent us by Texas. MT. Fred. J. Stanton, speaking of North ern Colorado, says
 Colorado is divided from north to south by strong line, AT miles of which is on the east, and comprising the plains, and the remainder the noun tain region. This is again divided by what is known as The Divide," Spur of the Sierras which runs from west to east, thus forming Q natural division known as Northern and South ern Colorado, the south fork of the Platte River, forming the great artery of the northern portion, as the Arkansas forms the great artery of the southern portion. The great Platte River and its affiuents is the great source from which we gain our magnificent system of irri- gation canals and ditches. The great Platte basin, in Northern Colorado, is one of the most grand areas which the world can contemplate. The grass region extends from the boundary of Nebraska and Colorado on the east, and from'the Divide through Wyoming on to the Laramie plains on the north. These grassy parterres-for they are so -rivaling the wavy and brilliant colors on the prairies of Iowa and Illinois, have from time immemorial sustained countless herds of the buffalo and the roaming nomads of the plains. The grass is green and beautiful in Sum- mer, but in mid-winter has the appear ance, as well as more than the nutri- ment, of well stacked and cured Eartern hay. Perennial and never-dying, 1t forms the food of the animal as we'll in midwinter as it does in midsummer. There is no necessity for cutting and curing and stacking; the hay-making of the East Is scarcely known here. The ine of demarcation between the dead and rotten grasses of the older states and the live, ready-cured hay of Northern Colorado, is plainly to be dis cerned as you travel on the Kansas Pacific Railway. As soon as you step beyond the Colorado eastern boundary, you step beyond the etherial atmosphere of the savannas into the more humid one of the continental, and then as you approach the Atlantic sea-board, the ocean atmosphere. Over this line of demarcation, the humidity of the atmos- phere rots the grass, and, unless cut, cured, and properly taken care of, 1t is valueless for feed.
 For our water we rely, like our neigh bors in Southern Colorado, mainly on the waters of the streams for our irriga- tion. Northern Colorado has more rain than south of the Divide. Here, the sod of grass is thicker, it grows higher, and is equal in nutrition to the most highly-favored portion of the known world. The shelter for our cattle is ample, and the great stock-men choose our northern plains in preference to any other portion of Colorado. Go to the Estes Bark beneath the shadow of that old primeval monarch of the ages, Longs Peak; there George w. Brown, Esq.,, our former banker, is wintering his 1, ,6OO head of fine cattle. without the cost and trouble of cutting and cur ing hay from thence through Boulder, Weld, and Arrapahoe Counties, are countless herds in the. valleys of the Platte, Cherry, Box Elder, Kiowa, the three Bijous, and Beaver Creek, down to the head-waters of the Republican River. Stretching along that distance we hear incidentally of the following herds, most of which here to-day have their representatives: John Hitson, A., COG; Major George, 1000; J. W. lief, 5000; Brown & Lathrop, 1,600; J. s. Maynard, 1,20O; l.. H. Cole, 1000 Samuel Hartzell, 700; w. w. Roberts, 700; J. l.. Brush, 1,500; Wilson Bros, $500; Bartels X Co.,, 1000; J. M. Will son, 600 Hughes & Kerr, 1000; E. w. Whitcomb, 2,O00; w. H. Cranmer, 1,4OO; James Hart, 1900; Capt. May, 1,2OO, besides the hundreds of smaller herds ranging from 100 to 400.
 There has not been day since last April when our countless heards of cat tie could not, on the native hills, pre- serve their full weight and excellent condition. The grass now is much more nutritious than the new young grass in early Spring. Here, with us, there is distinction between the up land and bottom grass. The upland is l. finer and more nutritious, and runs to coarser, and fetches less price in the market. The latter is like the Kentucky blue-ioint the former composed of the l euualed for nutrition among the most cultivated clovers and grasses of the older-settled portions of the globe. The price of hay in the envermarket varies from $15 to $20 per ton. The Colorado stock man scarcely cuts pound of hay, even if he has five thousand head, unless he has Q pony or horse which he houses and keeps continually in use.
 Northern Colorado has the advantage over any other portion of this section of country in her magnificent railroad system, and the easy access to market and for shipment to the far east. We havethe Kansas Pacific Railway, through to the Missouri the Denver Pacific Railway, connecting us with the Union Pacific Railway; the Colorado Central Railway, connecting us with the Central gold and silver region the Boulder Valley Railroad, opening the coal-fields of that region to us the Rio Grande and New-Mexico Railway, bringing the products of Southern Colorado to the markets here in our midst, and three others in course of construction, all making focal distributing point at Denver, the metropolis of Colorado.
 And, MT. President and gentlemen of the Stock growers Association of Col orado, you have country and range superior to the far-famed grazing grounds of patriarchs of old; and the natural resources, wealth, and natural advantages excel any and every one of those older-settledS States of our glorious
 Union, whose pre-eminence is only the result of the accident of birth. If we are in ourinfancy, if we are in our swad- dling-clothes, those swaddling- clothes envelop the form of an infant Hercules.
 HORACE GREE1EY's PRoPERTY.-The appraisers of Horace Greeley's estate are at their labors. It is safe to esti- mate that his personal property will foot up about $12O, 900. There are about S1O0. 900 of bad debts and worthless se-