CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1899-01-26
Harrie e. Gordon, Succumbe to Consumption After
Tedious Years Of Patient Suffering.
WARDEN cLEGHoRN's GOOD RECORD
Writer in the Denver Times Pays John Deserved Tribute
Which His Retention in Office is UrgedCahons Basket
Ball Team is InvincibIe- .RemodeIing Block

His Good Record.
A writer to the Denver Times makes
the following complimentary allusion
to Warden John Cleghorn:
If Governor Thomas takes the
trouble to investigate the conduct
and condition of the Canon City peni-
tentiary before he appoints a new
warden, he will find it in the very best
shape possible when he considers the
situation which has confronted the
retiring warden ever since he took
charge of that institution. II the
governor is disposed to be fair he will
say Of John Cleghorn that If ever a
public official was deserving Of the
Biblical commendation, We'll done,
thou good and faithful servant" he
is the man. 1t is fact patent to all
who take the trouble to investigate
the condition and conduct Of the in
stitution that no man could have done
better with the resources at his COM
mand and that very few would have
done as well. 1t is only necessary to
recount bare facts CLEANED from OBJ
servation and official records TO prove
all this"
A Straight TIP.
G. B. Aarkle, who carries on
ranch on small scale at the southern
boundary Of town, and who supplies
the citizens Of Moutrose with fresh
eggs and choice celery during the
fall and winter months, says he sold
eggs TO the amount of $227.35 from
his hens alone during 1898. He
started on the first of that year with
l75 Brown Leghorn hens and closed
tn, year with 224. He fed the chick
ems on wheat raised on II acres of
ground and figures that he realized
$l36 on his wheat. This looks as
though the chicken business could be
made to pay. and as the people of
this valley still eat stale Kansas hen
fruit at various times Of The ..hhs year or
go without, we hope Mr.. Markle's
figures will prove incentive to some
Of our ranchmen TO 60 into the hen
fruit brsiness more extensively in
future. Montroee Press.
The sub-editor Of the RECORD has
been personally acquainted with Mr..
Markle for nine years and knows him
to be . conservative man. A per-
sonal knowledge of the climate and
soil conditions of the Uncompaghre
valley. as well as those existing in
this portion Of the Arkansas valley,
admits the statement that the poultry
business can be carried on to much
better advantage and with more profit
here than in the higher and less
favored attitudes Of Montrose county.
A shortage Of water for irrigating
purposes and less warm weather are
two great disadvantages which the
poultryman of the Uncompaghre val
ley has to contend against. that would
not affect the occupation here. Yet,
Mr.. Markle has made his hens and
ground both pay. A statement pub
lished in the RECORD last week shows
that LESS THAN FIVE PER CENT
Of the poultry and eggs consumed by
the people Of Colorado is produced
in the State. This leaves con-
sumption Of SO per cent to be sup
piled from other sources. At the
present writing fresh ranch eggs are
bringing 25 and 80 cents q dozen in
the home market. with the demand
very meagrely met. All winter fresh
eggs have retailed at 80 cents, and
in competition with shipped eggs. are
not liable to drop below 10 cent? dur
ing the summer. With chicken feed
raised on ones own land there ID
profit in eggs even at the extremely
low price Of 8 cents q dozen But
the time will never come in Colorado
whom the price Of hsn-fruit win d.
soend 70 this rsdiculous figure. Re-
liable egGR like good goods Of any
character. are bound to command . fair
price, for they will naturally shut ont
foreign competition. holding . hsld
peculiarly tAslr own.
2le psizs nsaas ESQ 400 snd
eAoo 49, hEphsn sinas = ol.96L