Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-02-28

are WOFUn from 9l0U TO @oUu per acre.
They said How can this be, how can
you give ten times for your land what
land is worth here?' / replied, I know
a small fruit gardener at FIT. Collins
who has received from $500 to $500
per acre annually from his red rasp-
berries and strawberries A man in
Boulder county received $500 an
nually, per acre, from his vegetables.
There Is wheat farm in Conejos
county which has produced 60 bushels
of wheat to the acre. and the farm
comprises several hundred acres
Beet Sugar Factories.
There are ten beet sugar factories
in Colorado, established at Greeley,
Fit. Collins, Grand Junction, Windsor,
Eaton, and other points. Our farmers
raise from 20 to 80 tons of sugar beets
per acre, in Boulder, Weld. Larimer
and Mesa counties and are paid by
the factories $500 per ton for their
beets.
"Our state Auricultuarl college at Ft.
Collins has succeeded in its expert
ments to reduce the carbon in brewing
barley and it's increase OF protein mat
ter, so that barley may prove the
finest grain for the fattening of stock.
When fed on this grain cattle fatten
quickly but by reducing the carbon in
barley we shall have a fattener which
will intersperse fat with the lean and
make the finest beef in the world.
seedless and CoreIess Apple.
"a few months ago had the novel
experience to eat a seedless and core
less apple, which was grown in Grand
junction. The seedless apple is a
success and saves one-fourth the APP
pie from waste.
"The new industry which is now be-
ing proven practically, at ex-
pertinent stations and factories
is the rubber industry. A factory has
been established at Salida and one at
Buena Vista. Rubber of fine quality
has been extracted from a bush which
grows wild all over our plains and Is
known as the rabbit brush The rub.
Der is secured from the roots and bark
The process is simple. Matured plants
have been grown from the seeds in
three years and experts say the plants
may be improved by irrigation
I'm Iowa, find that Colorado is
famed chiefly as a mining state. 1t is
a fact, however, that from field and
farm Colorado produced $70,000,00C
worth of products while her yield from
mines was only $50,000,000.
Mines of Colorado.
First and last and all the time from
Colorado-go gold! The Portland mine
from it's thirty-one miles of under
ground workings has declared divi
E.dends in its twelve years of life oil
about five and one-half millions of dol
lars. Cripple Creek has some 500 pro
ducing mines and in twelve years has
yielded one hundred and sixty-five mil
lions of dollars.
Telluride is famous gold ant
silver camp hemmed in by rugged
mountains. Here are the Smuggler
| Tom Boy, Liberty Bell and other vel
known mines. Only four tons Of Tel
luride ores, last year, yielded 8 ,20t
ounces Of silver and seyenty-twt
ounces Of gold.
when gold was first discovered il
Jefferson Territory, since known a!
the Territory Of Colorado, this region
was 700 miles west of the nearest rail
road. but now there are 5000 miles
of railroad in the state and more ar,
being constructed.
Denver has a population Of one hun
dred and sixty-fve thousand Ameri
cans. New railroads are entering Den
yer which is pulsating with newly
awakened vigor, rejecting the genera
Improvement and development Of TIL,
state. Retaining the arid land
through irrigation proceeds rapidly
and the agricultural crop during tn,
past year has increased 20 per cent.
| "You have all heard of Leadville, ii
many respects the greatest mining
camp in the world. 1t has afforded
production of a million dollars montl
ever since its discovery, a grand tota
of over three hundred million dollar
brought forth from the mountains"