The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-09-07

80Al4G AONEkY tOWh& @AGEOuMnN1 Nv
as fine farms as there are In the
world with plenty of water to irri-
gate them, and these lands are
worth from so to 500 per acre and
thousands of them are not for sale
at all. We left Denver after break
| fast and reached Greeley at twelve
| o'clock. This is where nearly all
the Irish potatoes which we buy
and eat in Texas come from. 1t is
a pretty town of some 5000 or COCO
inhabitants. 1t is located some if
| ty or sixty miles from the noun
.ains in the midst of the finest farm
ing section IN Colorado, and from
here is shipped out every year to
| help feed the world, 5000 carloads of
| Irish potatoes. / told the citizens
there that / felt that [ was partly
made out of this Greedy dirt as /
| had been eating their potatoes now
| for twenty-five years and part of
| this bone and muscle of mine was
formed from Greeley potatoes. / am
| fond of them. Here we spent the
night and next morning my wife
was too near worn out from our
| long run to go further, so she stop
| ped over. | bought a ticket for
| Cheyenne, in the heart Of the wild
and woody west. Leaving Greeley
we passed some beautiful towns
with bitches of water running
| through them and all over the
country. Very few oats up here
are yet cut and corn is just In the
roasting ear, They cut alfalfa up
here four and five times year, and
! it is worth in Greeley only 81 per ton,
there is SO much of it raised, They
also use it to enrich their lands.
| After leaving Greeley We saw hun
| dreds of acres Of sugar beets. This
lis comparatively a new industry
here and IN Greeley they have a beet
sugar factory, costing one million
dollars, where they make these beets
into sugar aud these farmers say
they make from $50 to sl25 per acre
on beets. After getting forty miles
from Greeley towards Cheyenne We
begin TO reach high ground, cross
ing the divide or mountain range,
too high to get water on the ground
and 1t looks poor indeed without
water. 4 san y, gravoNy land. but
when they put water on this desert
soil IL grows vegetation to phrfcC.
/. tioH.
We arrived at Cheyenne at twelve
O'Clock and twas on "a boom. About
Ii. 900 people were there from Colo.
RADIO. Nebraska, Montana, New
Mextco, Texas and Wyoming. be
sldes tourists from every section col
1.-THE United states, and cowboys
from all the states named. Chey
eune, thirty-five years ago, was one
Of the greatest cattle markets ia the
world All the beeyes from Texas
and New Mexico were driven from
there to this place and sold, and al
one time, | am told, one was hardly
out OF sight OF "A drove Of cattle from
Texas to that city, and many q
brave Texas cowboy lies hu risd Ia
Cheyenne, killed by Indians ON the
trail. After selling has herd, the
cowboy would get hts pay, dress
himself mp, plunge into n saloon, all
himself on mean whiskey and then
he went to the dance halls and gam
bling dens and there thousands 81
them, first and last, died with their
boots on. And on this Frontier
Day" they call II up here, il look ed
something like IL did thirty five
years ago. Cowboys with their An
CORA leggings and COW girls, most OF
them riding astTide, are riding in q
EA1lbl al nan EFffi all tNtL AAF
town, and there are nearly one hun
dred Indians, brought here from the
reserv atoms, in this state ind Mon.
tana, and they too some OF them
clothed in nothing but a breech
clout, are riding here and there all
over the town. Once in while an
uneartbly veil goes up from both COW
boy and Indian. Wild and woody :
Well, reckon 1t carried me bach
to Arizona where / lived for five
years, and where | have before wit
messed such scenes as | am now gag.
ing on again. Occasionally COW
boy who never saw me before looks
at me and calls me Texas and in
vites me TO irrigate with him, The
frontier show grounds are "a mile
out from the city aud there | was
permitted to take "A seat with the
judges, right ia among the riders
and ropers and they all cal me
Texas as soon as they put eyes on
me. A royal welcome | got when
they had time 10 notice me. The
riding and roping was the most eK'
/ citing ] ever witnessed and the In
dian racing and war dance was be-
, yOud description,
More next time. This letter IL
already getting TOO long.
My wife aue I are both improving
/ believe | am shaking the grip In
/ this magnificent climate.