The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-10-27
POTATOES AND ONIONS.


colorado Farmers Making Big Profits
Five Fhoa.asd Cars az Potatoes will be
shipped from Greeley AIOns-onlons give
Net Return OF $40 an Aers.
Denver Correspondence of the st,
fouls Globe Democrat; Imagine a single
line built Of sacks of potatoes laid end
/, end and stretching from Denver,
through Colorado, across the state of
Kansas and half way through the state
Of Missouri. II there was any need Of
such a line the farmers OF Greeley
Would be able to furnish the material
from this years crop OF tubers. II it
should be desired to extend the hne on
through Missouri, across Illinois, In
aJana and Ohio TO Pittsburgh, Pa, the
rest of The state would supply the neees-
sary potatoes TO accomplish the feat,
Conservative estimates OF the crop of
nn,airss raised at Greeley this year
make the total at 5000 car loads that
viii be shipped out At an average OF $50
sacks to the car, which is conservative,
there will be 1,25O,O00 sacks, l25, 900, 600
hounds, or $500 TONS, The rest of the
state will produce about an equal
amount, making the grand total about
10000 cars, 100000 sacks. 250,O0O,O0O
pounds or about $4,000 tons, Loaded into
standard box cars. the train would be
over sixty miles long, and would require
$50 locomotives to pull Il,
In round numbers the farmers will re-
oeive for their crop $i,5O0,Ooo, and the
railroads, commission men and the thou
sands of men who handle the crop Will
receive another s1,50O00O. Surprising
chat Colorado railroads and Colorado
business men receive half OF this
amount for handling and transporting,
the total amount brought Into the state
this year on account OF potatoes will
alone DO S2,2jo,0oO.
These seem like big figures, but they
are made upon the most conservative es-
Inmates, and the total results will be
more likely TO exceed the estimate or
course, Greeley gets the Hons share OF
the total. Never In the history OF the
state has there been such a great crop
OF potatoes raised At Greeley the crop
has been particularly large.
For several weeks now the farmers
have been shipping at the rate Of thirty
cars day. and already over 1000 cars
have been shipped, and the business has
only commenced. They go TO all the
states and territories between the Rocky
mountains and the Mississippi river,
and even beyond into Illinois, Tennessee,
Kentucky and other states ef the south.
The demand for Greeley potatoes always
exceeds the supply, and the only trouble
is to get cars enough to move the crop 70
the markets. At the price received this
year, 60c per 100 pounds, the farmers
are realizing handsome profit.
Southern California has been built up
through her orange groves. Thousands
OF people have made their homes there TO
engage in the orange industry, yet the
total crop this year will not exceed 1000
cars. Colorado, without making any
fuss about 1t has produced the humber,
but more necessary, potato in quantities
which realize within rs per cent as big a
profit as the orange growers will receive
In California
The farmers in the vicinity Of Greeley
were never SO prosperous as they are
the year. It has been phenomenal
year. Crops have been larger than ever
dreamed of before. Potatoes, onions,
wheat, cats, alfalfa, everything has
crown in abundance. While the pota-
toes are sold out this fall. sheep and cat
tie will be busy eating up the small
grain and hay, and when spring comes
they will start over again, with every
thing cleaned UP and good fat bank &C.
cunts.
One Of the latest Industries taken UT
in the vicinity of Greeley has been that
Of growing onions. A few years ago a
few farmers began experimenting with
their bottom lands, which are not sue
cessful for potatoes, and II was found
that onions would thrive there. The
acreage has been spreading at n rapid
rate, and this year II. Il. English, who
has a large farm about three miles east
of Greeley, has harvested 5000 bushels
from q ten-aci-e field. This is at the rate
OF 800 bushels 10 the acre, which at 45C
per bushel, the price now paid, returned
a profit of 327o per acre. The onions arr
nrm and white. and noted for their Eoot
keeping qualities. Mr.. English esti
mates that there will be 200 car loads o.
onions shipped out OF Greeley this year
and that there will be a large quantity
produced IN the vicinity OF Denver. Ok
iahoma, Texas, Missouri, Kansas, Ne
braska, Illinois ana Iowa are the pr1n
cipai customers at present, and there is {
steady demand for all that can b,
raised.
Over 300 car loads Of cabbage will alst
be shipped out of Greeley this fall. Thu
farmers are enthusiastic, OF course
there is occasionally farmer who doe
not manage to make both ends meet, bu
It 10 invariably his own fault. A shor
time ago one OF this kind OF farmers, be
moaning his hard luck, offered {
brother farmer. who knew his business
70 sell out his eighty acres for $4,000
Before he had time to think twice tn
other farmer had his check book out
wrote his check for 5000 and demande,
a decd to the place. He got It. and thi
year has taken his money back out q
the soil with handsome interest.
November Ladies' Homo JournNI.