Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-06-21
THURSDAY. JUNE 81, 1894.
Tho coal strike is settled and the coal
strike is not settled. Which is it?

Mrs. Helen NJ. Gouger will speak at
Rocky Ford July 9th. Mrs. q. is pro-
and a very strong speaker.
Many portions of the plains are now
aflame with the brilliant red bloom OF the
cactus.
The Denver News in an editorial Of
two columns and q half in length gives
it's reasons why governor Waite should
not be renominated by the Populists.
Tho country is now a thing OF
beauty and will be joy to the farmers
when the harvest from the fields and
begin to bring in the much
wished -for-dollars.
All the rioting and destruction Of
attendant upon he great coal
pauper laborers imported by the mine
owners to displace American working
men.
Tho Fort Collins Courier. one Of the
best weekly papers in the state, closed
its sixteenth year last week. And six
teen years. Of newspaper life is old age
for Colorado journalism.
The music OF the mower in tho al
falfa fields is heard on every hand. And
it is melody which promises to continue
all summer, thanks to the rapid growing
qualities of this remarkable grass.
The reorganization committee of the
Topeka, l. Santa Fe railroad,
now in session in New York, is expected
to announce its plan next week. It is
thought that it will receive the endorse
ment Of the European creditors.
AT the regular meeting Of the Rocky
Ford Republican League last evening
the following delegates were elected to
the Colorado State League meeting at
Denver next Tuesday: q. M. Hall, @.
". Fenlason, G. @. Washburn and VIM.
Green.
Never since the panic and distressing
hard times Of 1S37-4O has there been SO
many strikes, and such disturbances in
labor circles in the United States as
at present. That period OF distress and
trouble passed away, as others also have
done, and the present financial depres-
sion will also disappear after a season.
The State 8. s. Convention has been
postponed from June 1920 to September
on account Of the great damage done to
rail roads and to Pueblo by the recent
foods. The speakers and all delegates
will hold over. Still greater Preparations
will be made to entertain the delegates
royalty in September.
While q newspaper may print column
after column sulogistic Of town, its.Hery
brightest sayings will be received with
q grain of doubt, if its advertising col
umns do not bear the impression of en-
terprise. A newspaper to be a real ben
eft to a town in the way Of attracting
investors must be the joint production
Of the publisher and the local business
mon
In the County court, on Tuesday,
says the Watermelon, a ranchman named
was discharged from GUS
tody. He was accused Of breaking head
gate on the High Line canal, for the pur-
pose Of procuring water, against the
express orders Of the superintendent.
The information was faulty. in that the
proper title of the company was not
given.
The Houston Narcotic Cure Insti-
ute, DR.. w. E. Fenton, manager, has
ust graduated a class of five and sent
hem out into the world free from the
appetite for stimulants. One of the
,ured seemed to appreciate his rescue
md said that he would not take another
1rink for one million dollars. Now let
he graduates keep out Of sight of their
'ormer great enemy and all will be well.
The strawberry season is about over.
This suggests good opening for some
to make q fortune. Let
him produce several new varieties of
strawberry plants which will bloom in
series during the summer, and
hus give us this prince of the berry
amily from May until October. The
suggestion is pleasant and easy one to
make, but it is doubtless blocking out q
arge contract for the man who shall at
empt it.
Senator Swink is in as close touch
With the farming interests of the valley
ss any man within its fertile boundaries,
md be says that the general outlook for
arm products was never 80 good as just
low. During much Of the past week the
weather has been splendid for cutting
md curing alfalfa and an immense
mount has been stacked in fine condi-
ion. The growing crops Of all kinds are
and the farmer is the busiest
nan in the community.
One evening last week we spent a few
minutes in Crowley & Sons Fairview
,rchard and found the fruit prospect
most promising. The strawberry crop
was about gone but the yield had been
EXCELLENT and the berries of superior quail
ty. Some cherry trees had already fur
1ished their annual harvest of fine fruit
md others were almost in shape for the
oickers. Mulberries were abundant, al
70 gooseberries that promise to attain a
,ize which will enable Mr.. Crowley, Sr.
% palm of for cantaloupes. A curiosit,
n apple culture was pointed out--an
apple tree not two feet high on which
ire now growing seven large, healthy
,pples. Many other trees were seen Of
7ery small size heavily laden with fruit.
The older and larger trees have all the
'ruit that the most grasping horticultur-
st could desire. Many peach trees were
pending under their load of growing
ruit.
Last week we published three sets Of
igures giving the cost of growing wheat
n Colorado. One estimate was made
~ Nj Wot Grange to antagonize q re-
,ort Of F. A. Huntley, Supt Of the Ark
,nsas Valley Experiment Station, Rocky
Ford. The Nj Wot Grangers seemed to
hink that Mr.. Huntley's figures were
Inaccurate. But, in fact, where o careful
ecord is kept of time, cost Of labor, etc,
Is is done at the Experiment Station, the
igures are more reliable than where es-
imates are given, which are not based
N actual farm work. Such being the
'ase MIR. Huntley's figures are more
trustworthy than those Of farmers who
10 not pretend to keep careful and ac-