Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-04-11
w. E. Doyle will probably ship thu
balance Of his 5000 fat sheep this week

w. T.. Doyle Will probably ship the
balance Of his 5000 fat sheep this week.
The Star livery stable has flung a
new sign to the breeze.
Work on the High Line flume is
making satisfactory progress and its COM
pletion il hoped for in a few days.
The alfalfa fields are already assum-
ing n rich, green color and promise the
usual abundant returns.
-Undersherif Gemmill is going into
the onion business on a large scale, hav-
ing this spring planted Is acres.
-Ellingwood L Hauck shipped ear
load of corn to Canon City Tuesday.
Thus does the Rocky Ford country feed
less fortunate portions of the state.
In order to have more space for
business cards to the first page where
they show up in good style. Note them.
Both the Swink hotel and the Rock
ford house, fotmerly Hotel De Seely)
are enjoying an excellent patronage.
Which is good indication Of the general
business OF the town.
On Tuesday Frank Bingham shipped
two car loads Of fat cattle to Kansas City.
Figuratively speaking, "they were dai-
Sizes" having been luxuriating on rich
alfalfa and the best of corn all winter.
Geo. Gross will be absent east for a
couple Of weeks and his shop will be run
by Jake Scott The latter, by the way,
is making splendid start for farm IL
miles southeast of town. He will this
year grow largely Of tomatoes and canta-
loupes and is setting out fine orchard
under the High Line canal.
Hon. Plat Wicks OF Pueblo has for
some years been the owner of fine ranch
in Grand Valley. The investment has
proved such good one that he has in
creased its size by the purchase of the
Tom Hendricks 160-acre farm which ad-
joins him. Mr.. Wioks is arranging to
have rs acres of the new purchase seeded
to alfalfa this spring.
Hon. W. A. Colt, of Las Animas, is
a successful grower of cabbage plants.
He had samples with him in Rocky Ford
yesterday which were remarkably large
for the season. To secure this size he
sows in cold frames in the fall and finds
that he can have plants one month earlier
than those who do not follow the same
plan. By means of large plants for use
in the earliest spring, market gardeners
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compete with California shipments.
Prominent among the many eastern
men who have been and are Investigating
the Rocky Ford country are J. Q. JEFF
ferries and F. r. Dieckman Of Clinton,
Iowa. The latter is now county auditor
and the former ex-county superintendent
Of schools at their Iowa home. They
were being shown around the country on
Tuesday by E. J. Smith and Steele &
Beall. A very extensive drive was taken
over the country. in the vicinity of Rocky
Ford and the visitors were most favor
ably impressed with the evidences of ag-
r,cultural prosperity under the influence
of irrigation.
Charley Rocker is rejoicing over a
real estate bargain made this week. He
purchased Of w. E. Walton of Butler,
Mo, the store buildings occupied by
Mrs. Webster's notion store and E. l..
Robb's harness shop. The lots have a
frontage of SO feet on Main street. The
price paid was S1,5OO-very cheap for
such property. Mr.. Rocker will at once
repair and paint the buildings and make
them presentable to the public gaze. His
plans for the summer also include the
building of an addition to his present
store building, as the space he now oc.
o"Pieo 10 nucn too smali Ior dis trade.
w. E. Alexander, of the Colorado
Orchard Co., which is doing much work
to bring Arkansas valley fruit lands into
extended public notice, is an enthusiastic
believer in printers ink. In past years
he has devised some of the most tasty
advertising matter we have ever seeil,
and he now has in press booklet of the
same sort. The title page will show one
OF the fine apples which we grow in the
Rocky Ford country, in connection with
the following matter: 1.-The Arkansas ]
valley, the Home OF the Big Red Apple"
The pamphlet will contain many hand
some half-tone pictures Of orchards,
!arm scenes, school houses and churches
in various parts Of the valley.