Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-10-31
Notice-Fruit Growers.

Notice-Fruit Growers.
The Otero County Horticultural Socie-
ty will meet at Armory Hall, Rocky Ford,
at 2 p. m. Saturday, Nov. o. Topic for
general discussion: Handling Fruit.
Also reports of the past seasons work.
Everybody is invited to attend.
r. 0. MCCLAIN,
FRANK CROWLEY, President.
Secretary.
%. r. Buckley Of La Junta was last
week showing the Rocky Ford farming
country to party of. prospective land
buyers from Illinois.
On Dec. 8 at noon the receivership
of the Santa Fe system will have ceased
and the property becomes subject to sale
at public auction from the steps of the
court house at Topeka.
-Fifty-two visits of the Enterprise
cost you only 81 so, and it will be worth
much more to you than that. Otero
county farmers can't afford to be with
out it.
The Enterprise desires correspond
ent in every school district in Otero
county. We furnish stamps, stationery
and a copy OF the paper free to each cor
respondent.
Tho Rockford House new sample
room has just been completed and is in
almost daily use. Mr.. Atkinson reports
business 30 good that all rooms are
taken.
%. F. Kendall, La Junta's leading
dry goods merchant, this week secures
the attention of the people of the Rocky
Ford country, his broad gauge advertire-
ment being found in q prominent space
in the Enterprise.
| The Salyer-Hagen-Ga Garwood party
brought home bear killed during their
recent hunt. The report that Postmas-
ter Salyer killed the bear with the butt
of his winchester, the recoil causing his
injuries, lacks confirmation.
j. W. Cobbey, special agent OF the
Granite State Provident Association, was
in town two days las. week. When here
some weeks since he organized strong
local board and on this visit added new
members. The Granite State seems to
have plenty Of money to loan on the usu-
al building and loan terms.
| The general cattle round up, which
has been in progress for the past month,
has been completed and the cattle suited
for the butcher and for feeding have
been cut out. Considerable sales are be-
ward in few days.
C. ]. Samples has filed one corner
of our Office with sugar beet weighing
20 pounds. This beet is only cumulative
evidence OF the adaptability of our soil to
this tuber and ought to encourage their
more extensive growth.
The Ladies' Aid Society assisted by
the Y. P. 8. O. E. of the Presbyterian
| ~, 4
per on Thanksgiving day. place not yet
determined. A liberal patronage should
be given the ladies at these Thanksgiv-
ing feasts.
A party of farmers from Blooming
ton, H., were looking over the Rocky
Ford country last week, prospecting for
locations for themselves and others. As
is ever the case when an eastern farmer
inspects the garden spot of Colorado,
they were highly pleased with the coun-
try and impressed with the advantages
of farming by irrigation.
The Burbank Seeding potato seems
to be especially adapted to Rocky Ford
soil. II has been tested for several years
and has proven q surer and more prolific
bearer than any other variety. J. J.
Guthrie was our first farmer to give this
variety thorough trial and he has al
ways met with success in its cultivation.
VIM. Guthrie has left with us samples of
which are beauties-large round and
smooth-looking as if good to eat with
out cooking. Portions of Mr.. Guthrie's
field yielded at the rate of 400 bushels
per acre, and the whole area planted
averaged 800 BUSHELS per acre. Those
of our farmers who have not had good
success in growing good potatoes should
try the Burbank Seeding.
| Doyle & Co., who fed 5000 sheep at
Rocky Ford last winter, say that many
people have an exaggerated idea of the
profits they made on the venture. The
sheep were unusually large, fine and fat.
They sold them at s5 each to Nebraska
stock dealer who shipped to Chicago.
The sheep cost Doyle & Co. 90 per head.
The cost of grain, cotton=aaed meal, hay
and other expenses of feeding averaged
$50 per head, making their profit only
so cents per head. This is a small mar
bin of profit for speculation which in
volved an investment of 1000. Had
they shipped to market instead of selling
at Rocky Ford they would have suffered
a loss of about $1,000. The Nebraska
purchaser overestimated the dressed
weight Of such heavy wooled sheep and
also the estimation in which they were
held by Chicago butchers and the result
was a loss to him Of 1900.
| In the Denver News mining corres-
pondence from the Four Mile district in
Routt county We find the following:
"Chas. D. Steward and W. E. Anderson
of the Comet Mining Company of Den
yer. have Steward placer machine at
work on the Colorado Bar. in Scandina-
Wan gulch. and are working $50 yards of
gravel per day, using Is miners inches
of water and estimate the cost of working
at 10 cents Per cubic yard. The Co,ora-
do bar contains eighty acres, and will av-
erage I2 feet deep and will average -
per cubic yard This property was
owned by J. G.. Edwards, John Harden
! burgh. Frank Hinnlan and Hugh Morri-
SON. The purchase price was 5000
cash. The total value of this eighty-acre
/ bar Is not less than 100000. This is
conceded to be one OF the riches. bars in
the -Four Mile mining district Which
would indicate that Steward. Anderson
4 Goblin have things coming their way
now.