The Grit-advocate., 1902-11-07

mat purpose saturday.
George j. Bancroft has been appoint
ed consulting engineer of all the mines
of the estate of the late W. S. Stratton.
He is son of DR.. F. ]. Bancroft OF
Denver.
Next year, with the promise of an
abundant water supply and increased
acreage in beets. will bring the valua.
tion of this new Weld county product
to upward of $l.O00,0O0.
In pursuance of the provisions of the
national irrigation act about 800 home-
steads have been taken up under the
lPawnee reservoir near Sterling, and
filings steadily continue.
Sugar beet day at Greeley and Eaton
on the Goth marked an important peri
cd In Weld county's history. Thous-
ands were in attendance to view the
factories in operation at the two towns.
A number of Longmont farmers havo
organized Percheron Breeders Asso-
citation and have purchased a thor
oughbred registered Percheron stallion
direct from French importers.
The joint ticket agency of Colorado
Springs reports that between $4,000
and $1,000 tourists visited Colorado
Springs this season. This number is
about twenty-five per cent in excess oi
last years total.
Sugar making in the Poudre valley
is an enterprise which has come to
stay. This year the beet crop alone
will make the farmers richer by $270,-
600, and this in year unprecedented
for its destructive hail storms, severe
early frosts and scarcity Of water.
The Colorado Terminal Lines Asso-
citation has granted a round trip rate
of one fare plus 81 from all points in
Colorado. except the Cripple Creek dis
trict, in connection with the National
Live Stock Association, which COM
venes at Kansas City on January 18th.
Stephen ]. Donleavy of Denver, waa
presented with solid silver dinner set
by the Arapahoe county Hibernians on
Thursday night In recognition of his
services rendered during the Hiberni-
an national convention in Denver last
summer. AS county president he con-
tributed largely to its success.
The $4,000 worth of gravity pressure
water bonds lately voted by Sterling
are being negotiated and ground will
soon be broken for construction of the
water system, the preliminary work of
thorough preparation of the sources of
water supply, seven miles out of the
city. having already been begun.
Railroad men estimate that nearly
10000 homeseekers, including the bet
ter class of emigrants, have located
within the confines of Colorado and the
adjoining states during the past month.
The heavy travel on homeseekers tick
cts, which has been maintained since
the rates were put into effect, is being
greatly augmented.
N. Daughitt, live stock agent for the
Missouri Pacific road, states that the
business of the new Pueblo stock yards
since the opening has far exceeded the
expectations of the company. He
stated that if the stock business in
creased in the same ratio for another
year Pueblo would be the live stock
center of the West.
The railroads have arranged a one
and one-fifth fare for the Arkansas
Valley Teachers Association meeting
which will be held in La Junta Satur-
day, November 29th Every county in
southeastern Colorado from Canon
City to the Kansas state line, will be
represented and it is believed the asso-
cations meeting will be one of the
most largely attended in it's history.
r. w. Hawley and Shannon G. Lees
OF the state engineers Office have gone
on an overland trip to the Nebraska