The Holly chieftain., 1898-11-18
posToFFICB Houns.
Wet bound nalf closes q r. N.
East bound nzll closes r, n.
Sunday opens to 10A. n. aud 10 80 r. u,
Q. AcPHKns0N, r. n.
CUNDAY sCHO0IEvERY SUNDAY AT
y 1890 A. n. 4 the school house.
"a. HAMMER. Supt.
PRowHRs COUNTY, prRRCroRy
FARMING sY,aa.oAr,os-
by L. N. Campbell

ny L. NJ OAHlpDell.-
To new comeTs to the great Arkan
sas valley OF Coloradp, by way Of intro
duction, it might be well for the writer
to give short sketch Of bis life and Il
inform the reader ofhis object in view
I have reached tho list. mile stone in
life, born upon . fasa and my entire
life has been devned to the farm
The last twenty yeaf4I haye been farm
Ing in Colorado. and this great valley
entirely by irrigstiot1 1t will be use
less for me to tell OILY limited educa
ton. as grammatical ierrors will SPEAK
for themselves. Ny bbject in view IL
that the new conner ny profit by my
mistakes. and that experience will
assist the inexperisNh In making the
valley secondto ned in the known
world, and that MI prophecy made
twenty years ago rneSbe hastensd. and
If such strides ~ hde in The neg,
twenty yeas ~ have zen mads IN the
past twenty, s9ssls Y ! 81 ~ glll hsvs
besh rtse1sd Is Hing be1brs y6u.
let me assufs you tb& am not the hir-
ed tool of ~ eorpoIttisn, click or clan:
1t is mot ~ fntsntiob ! deceive any
one or trampls upo1th rights Of any
one Yeiigiously, potthlly, or other
wise. being : strong eliever in that
noble clause Of our @ntitution. allow
ing every man : ris4 y worship God
under bis own vine 3peRg tree, when
and where hs please iccording to the
dictates Of his own @naencs. Ny pro.
phecy made twenty iers ago. Of this
valley, has 20 far hbes exceiled. aud
twenty more. should live to see IT,.
will 90 far exceed III, that believe
today. I will be as5ansd Of my pro-
phecy.
But let that be % twill; let NJ see
what ! found here ffety years ago. l
landed in what was tho known a. West
Las Animas, now LIS Inimas, the pre-
sent county seat Of 1et county, West
Las Animas was The cdnty seat Of Bent
county. At thst time Bnt county's west
line was Otero cotnt1 present west
line, and the state IN. Of Kansas and
Colorado was her eestline. . distance Of
ITO miles. From her,orthern 70 her
southern boundry y ~ 100. The pre-
sent Las Animas W. he only town be-
tween Dodge City Itnl Pueblo, and to
say It was wild, wplvapd powder burn
ed, is but pastins ibmid: We had less
than 500 votss. wobs,S rights mot be-
ing in vogue. and w had been the
vote would not hs y Ven increased ma
terially. ~ they WIRES scarce commodi-
ty at that time. Hirah Holly was all
Of the present ely u Holly. Jimmy
Graham sll Of Grhaie, 4. B. Black al
Of Lamar. Dan Nsss all Of Prowers
station, Ahs PsSHbn all Of Caddos.
Humphry Best Aba Armentrout
sll Of L. Junta eorge Swipk and
Beatty Brothers 3 4 Rocky Ford and
Manssnola and bgy Fosdick all of
Nepesta. A nvef lar horse, eighty
dollAv saddle and fidle, forty dollar
spars and fifty dl r six shooter was
all the 60. while Of resent fertile farms
wers covered with ousands of cattle.
The buffalo had Appeared and one
thousand troups - stationed at Fort
Lyon. To cross tl Arkansas river. at
that day, meant ID HIM, bog down or
cross on the Ice. re was fsw little
irrigatins ditches- y Animas had one,
Abe Armentrout one near L. Jun
Ia. whore the pm h Fort Lyon canal
lsayes the river, q Geo. Swipk Of
Rocky Ford. had The INT irYieat-
Ing ditch sysr II valley was cab
lished in 1855, VI onsl Bsnk st the
present noted 70 psnk midway bs.
twesa La Anins " II Junta, near
Robinson, and n y of The vritsr's
homA Ths I'D tlsn 4 viaibls Il
present. Though I sBot been used for
pears mot Ia ~ oilecsion. 1 don't
know The votine nlstscn y present,
Of vld' Bent coun( 4 could b ascst-
talnod s6pn u ~ out5ntv, aiarks.