Durango semi-weekly herald., 1903-06-15

Arapahoe: Melvln-Frost on the
lat; frequent showers during the
week
Eastern Section.
Logan: Sterling-Benefcial rains.
crops doing well; alfalfa will be late,
gardens much improved; apples prom
Use large yield; fair crop cherries and
small fruits; range good and stock i'm.
proving; river still very low.
Phillips: Holyoke-Grass and
small grain doing well; potatoes max
ing rapid growth; gardens and corn
| improving slowly; strawberries ripen-
| ing and promise average yield. but
| small berries.
Yuma: Fox-Cool, cloudy and dry
until close OF week, when good rains
fell: small grain poor; corn retarded
| by cool weather and much damaged
by rodents; planting sorghum for for
age.
| Adams: Harrisburg grow
ing slowly; good rains range improv-
ed: too cold for grain. Thurman
Too cold for corn; small grain looks
good grass improved and stock thriy-
ing; gardens growing slowly. but po-
tatoes doing well; fruit trees back
ward; good showers.
Baca: Blaine-Weather cool and
crops backward.
The Divide.
Douglas: Castle Rock-Cloudy and
wet: ground soaked; pastures and
grain doing well; streams filing and
| 10 all
I'll Paso: Husted-Rains of the
week great benefit to all crops and
grass: cold weather causes slow
growth; stand of corn good: some
oats being sown and millet yet to
SOW Pike View Seeding of millet in
progress; frequent showers.
Ebert: Elizabeth-Ample rains
last week. and with warmth crops
VIII be fine: dams and waterholes
filled.
Arkansas Valley.
Prowers: Carlton-Rains benef-
cial to all crops and range. but growth
slow because Of cold; alfalfa blooming
very snort: very little water for irri-
CATION Lama-Flrst cutting of alfal-
ia poor on account of early freeze and
cold weather. wheat fine and other
crops doing well. considering cold
weather.
Pueblo: Pueblo-Cool and cloudy
with rains. which will benefit all
crops. especially range; beets and
corn growing slowly; strawberries be
ing marketed-short crop, good quail
ity.
| Otero: Rocky Ford-Soil moist
good rains; beet thinning in progress
cutting of slfalfa begun; cold weather
has retarded growth.
South Central Section.
Las Animas: Hastings-Cool and
cloudy. with light showers; no grass
ON range and no water for stock; pros
, pect not favorable. Weston-Good
rain; crops look good; fruit trees
blooming about thirty days late.
, Custer: llse-Still dry and cold
vegetation making slow growth
some grain not germinated and othel
fields badly damaged by wind; range
) grass backward and cattle make bu
little Improvement Westcliffe-
, Heavy rain, some hail; most favorable
, week this spring; vegetation back
I ward. Wetmore-Showers, crops i'm
proved: more corn being planted
cool nights.
Huerfano: Rouse-Good rains ant
vegetation much improved; seed viii
now germinate.
= San Luis Park.
. Saguache: La Garita-Warn
, weather with light showers grail
E backward; alfalfa good. and native
grass fine: potatoes coming up plen
ty OF water.
Grand and Uncompahgre Valleys
Mesa: Colbran-Showery and cool
crops growing finely. Grand junction
More favorable, but higher temper
4 atures needed apples, apricots, pear!
+ and peaches in good condition, latte
! being thinned In locality; first alfalf;
3 cutting viii give good yield. cuttin.
= begun; marked Improvement in gar
e dens; wheat continues good.
d Garfield: Warm week
e with good rain, fruit growing finely
/ first spraying over; corn and pota
toes growing rapidly; first cutting o
/ alfalfa will be short; range excellent
. soil in good condition, irrigation jus
i begun, abundance of water.
n Northwes stern.
$ Rio Blanco: Meeker-Favorabl,
d week. all crops growing nicely; ditch
8 a pest.
3 Jefferson: Lamb-Oats look good
l. grass growing finely; abundant rains
f. II. BRANDENBURG,