Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-08-08

Don't forget the meeting next
Saturday afternoon to make ar
for Watermelon Day.
If you have the Russian
thistle on your place and are not
them you are making one
of the mistakes of your life.
The La Junta Times last week
entered upon its second year.
The Times is a lively yearling and
one of tho best papers on our ex-
change list.
We note that our exchanges
throughout the valley are giving
our approaching fair highly COM
plimentary notices. And it prom
ises to measure up to the good
words said of it.
The entire Office force has
been SO engrossed during the past
week in rushing the completion of
the Premium List as to cause the
news columns of the Enterprise to
be neglected. .
The citizens of Catlin are not
pleased with the name of their
town and propose to change it to
Manzanola, which is the Spanish
for red apple. The new name has
the merit of greater euphony as
well as being suggestive of Catlin's
future great speciality.
-Four weeks from to-day the
Fair vii! be in session-Sept 4th,
5th and 9th. If Sec. Hall has not
sent You a copy of the Premium
List write him for one. He is
now distributing $500 copies of
the list to those interested in
the most successful Fair in the
state.
Last Saturday A. l.. Kellogg
sent to the agricultural college,
Fort Collins, a jug of the water Of
our artesian well for analysis.
Whatever the chemical constitu-
ents of the water may be, we OF
Rocky Ford vouch for it being a
good thing. In "The Hoosier
Schoolmaster," Mrs. Means told
her husband to 'git q plenty OF
Flat Greek land while he was q
gittin." We are going to follow
this advice in regard to artesian
water.
"A few days since the water
from our artesian we'll was turned
into the pipes of the towns water
work and the finest of pure water
now flows through the pipes in.
stead of the ditch water of the
past. This connection of the we'll
with the water works was effected
in very simple manner by using
the Fire Co.'S. hose between the
mouth of the well and the nearest
fire plug. Thus connected there
is no danger of injury to the we'll
by excessive pressure as the hose
would burst before any damage
could result to the casing of the
we'll. This arrangement gives
Rocky Ford water supply not
ezcelled by any town in the state.
Dodge Hale, general road
overseer, drove down to Nine Mile
on Monday to superintend the re.
pairs of the roads in that portion
Of the county which were
we're badly washed by the recent
rains. Mr.. Hale was accompanied
by Water Commissioner Cressy
who went to establish a gaugine
station on the Purgatoire. Mr.
Hale says that work is progressing
on the La Junta bridge and that
the bridge over Dry creek will be
repaired as soon as piling is re-.
ceived SO that access may be had
to the cedars. The road north oi
Catlin has been repaired SO that il
is passible. Elsewhere through.
out the county the roads and
bridges are in good condition.
No person shall kill, ensnare
net or trap, within this state, any
robin, lark, whippoorwill, finch,
sparrow, thrush, wren, martin
swallow, snowbird, bobolink, red.
winged blackbird, crow, raven
turkey-buzzard, oriole, kingbird,
mocking bird, song sparrow, OF
other insectivorous bird or birds
or any Mongolian pheasant, quail,
ptarmigan, partridge or dove al
any time. So says the game Law
Of Colorado. Only one exception
is made to the above, i. 9. Doves
may be shot from July 18th to Oct
1st. Boys and men should keep
tho above law in mind if they
would avoid paying fines of from
S25 to $500. All fruit growers
should interest themselves in Sc
curing the enforcement of this