The Greeley tribune., 1905-05-18

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pleted 4 new dwelling and has had
good success raising 'spuds.
Jesse Pierce lives on the John
| Vose rhirtv-acre ranch in the Delta
country. He is formerly from Iowa
takes the Tribune and will have a
big crop OF beets this year. what
more does a man need?
The Alex Mead ranch, two and a
half miles east Of town, is one OF the
good ones and under the care OF
James S. Smith is growing better.
1t consists of eighty acres. \ large
acreage of beets and potatoes will be
planted, also barley, oats. onions
and alfalfa will be grown.
d. r. Anderson and wife are a
pleasant family who have good
ranch east of town. They came
from Pennsylvania few years ago.
Their ranch will be devoted mostly
to beets and a good acreage OF pota-
toes will also be raised. He is re-
painting his dwelling.
j. W. Golden will plant large
part of his forty acre ranch to pota-
toes. He bought his ranch about a
year ago and his dwelling is nearly
new and is quite good one. Mr..
Golden came from Cheyenne where
he lived sixteen years, where he
flied the office of sheriff several
years.
A. E. Ereckson resides on part
of the ranch owned by L. E. Burge
east of town. and is raising five acres
of onions. His family enjoys the
weekly visits of the Tribune.
II. II. Shrader, who was building
cottage for Albert Lawrence when
the writer was calling on the people
of the Delta, showed us device just
patented by himself and James
Thompson. that is known as the
safety shingle bracket. 1t is used
to hold the scatfolding when neces-
sary to work on the roof of a build
ing. 1t is said to be safer than
mailing scantling to the shingles.
does not injure the roof by having
the scatfolding nailed to it and is
quickly and easily adjusted.
L. E. Burge has one of the good
ranches in the valley Of the Platte
that is growing in value both in the
productiveness of the soil and the
Improvements. His land is nice and
level and produces thirty tons Of
beets per acre. He expects to move
his dwelling on an elevated spot in
one corner of his land and combine
it with new building.
Herman Stone is young ranch
man on rural route four, living on
the Fred Dresser ranch of forty
acres. 1t is rich valley land and
will no doubt yield we'll under the
management of Mr.. Stone. He will
raise good many onions and pota-
toes.
Albert Lawrence thinks onions pay
we'll at 5000 per acre. That was
the value of his crop few seasons
ago. 1t is a paying crop nearly
every season though the average
value per acre is under 5000.
Cyrus Neal of near Kersey has no
doubt about the Tribune being the
real article in a newspaper way.
He SAYS a big bunch of them comes
to Kersey.
Chas. Lawrence is a prosperous
ranchman in the Platte valley and
has sixty acres of good land with
good Improvements. He has a nice
crop of onions which he has given
the first plowing. He says 335 sacks
is good average crop of onions but
100 sacks is often realized. He has
lived in Colorado many years and is
doing well.
S. S. Wiley has 800 acre ranch
in the valley of the Platte and gem
orally keeps about 200 head of cattle
on the range. Onions will be his
big root crop this season He has
seventy acres under cultivation.
j. NJ. Smith is a busy ranchman
and owns forty acres of Platte valley
soil. His crops will consist of
onions, beets and potatoes for root
crop and he will have dozen acres
of alfalfa. He very kindly enter
tained the Tribune man with a
square meal and not only would not
take pay for it but to show he was
the right stuff. subscribed for the
Tribune and paid for it in advance.
Homer Manchester, who was form.
erly in business is Denver, owns a
good forty acre ranch in the valley
and has reason to remember the flood
OF last spring. He is improving his
place and has set out a nice orchard
this spring. He has rented eight