The Elbert County tribune., 1899-05-18
GOD WORDS FOR
THE DIVIDE COUNTRY
Great Agricultural Resources are Beginning to
be Known and Appreciated

the minds most people it firmly conviction that
OO will grow in Colorado without irrigation While this
true nearly the entire state there section which annu
oucng large crops by the aid of the rainfall onv
y the Divide AS the farmers find what splendid farm
country this they do not hesitate in settling here and long
he land will under cultivation. comes here pre-
m and who knows how to farm, almost making
uss Nearly all the farmers here doing well making
v Ten years from this be much more wealthy
that farther north the heavy imposed
one is something which farmers not have to labor
- Mr. g. R. CALDWELL of the Rocky Mountain News was in
ert recently and wrote to his paper as follows
ELBERT Coo May 11-Elber ffty-two miles south of Dem
On Colorado Southern railroad is civic and
su centers the famous region which producing
e without irrigation, has not had crop failure thirty years.
bers tributary grain this year will approximate
res increase of at least onehd acreage last
O this area 900 will be wheat which will return
present indications, of at least twenty-five
acre. aggregate reaching between cars The
grain hrvests will comprise OATS barley and rye,
@ $50 and 200 being the grain being alike prolific
and weight the plant itself growing height seven
Corn culture has long been Divide profitable
bile alfalfa here finds welcome home and with alfalfa
Western hog always be counted in all his pride and per-
The potato acreage and harvest will be equal that of
car and in all probability heavier in yield
"As realty sale point Elhert excellent F. N. LaVe veteran
quoting unmproved lands from So SIS per acre. and i'm
farms and stock ranches from 81 TO s12 per The Rus
Gates Mercantile company lately purchased sevenysix
t and will erect and open mammoth mercantile
% extending its business and Among the towns
business houses be mentioned the Aux livery the
aeksuith and woodwork place of j. F. Neely
Eversman Co. of Denver have purchased remodeed the
ert creamery building with e. Hutchins local manager.
'r the dpensation the principal business will be that of
manufacture 5000 pounds of milk being daily turned into
600 to 800 pounds of cheese the milk being paid for at from
cents 81 90 100 pounds and the cheese being distributed in
from Denver at estimated average of 90 per pound
bis business will steadily grow the Ebert vicinity excellent
expansive dairy region while Denver exhustivey absorb
Pit cheese market.
Eer annually adding her handling record the
rmers are constantly increasing their punches OF cattle"
The above article bound influence many people to here
investigate for hemselveswhich will result in their becoming
ents of the Divide and additional producers of wealth.
Inc Denver Sunday Post also prints haterng article on the
potato which holds its with any in the State Every
large quantities of seed potatoes shipped from here to
y and other northern Colorado The Post article
Follows:
n the early days. before Greeley potato had made national
unon the supply from the Divide country where farmers
settled with the first Pixies Peak gold excitement and remained
% ranches after the first furry of the gold fever had subsidized
uozen and longer the Divide the natural base of
W and in the fall and winter long the roads passabe the
nmn drove into town and their products found ready market
Even late the Divide potatoes sold here at
3 and cents mound
Later on the Greeley product captured The Market but the po
M still prefers the Divide that irrigation is
necessary there because daily rainfall during the summer
months
0-'iuo
was settled To be sure the country hereabous has changed
since it was first brought under cultivation but the change is
e better To-day varied crop to be found there and what
y ~ raise is OF the first quality.
% greater part of the longer into Denver as he
nmn have found home Some, however, hold
ner old customers here and regular supplies coming down
e divide every week The country is now well under cult
and every the acreage increased Some 10000 or
acres have been planted in grain alone this season. while corn
a are cultivated for hog feed The Divide is probably tne
part OF tie state where hogs raised regularly and as well