The Greeley tribune., 1905-03-30
HOPE
rrFvILLE is NOT AT ALL
DISCOURAGED.
Fra Of Progress Expected to
p,aak Out at Almost Any
Time or Place-The
Outlook.

|,tteyilIe has Hope; brand new
,bat she will start to grow
and before many moons De-
tbe principal town In the
,oru mart of Weld county. 1t
tne air, in the soil, and In the
Of the inhabitants. For many
platteville has been standing
industrially: in fact the town
een going back, in a business
While produce shipments out
been increasing some, year after
the merchants have complained
hnsiness has rather decreased
increased.
q reason for all this as given by
Merchants themselves, Is that the
IOr tributary to Platteville has
emf up, and much of the busi-
given to country stores that have
established in various parts OF
territory. Peckham, HillsborO
lyen ,lohnstown have come In
AIKEN a good share of the busi-
that formerly, by right OF loca-
belonged to Platteville. Then
is claimed, that men of money
been buying up practically all
acant lots in town and preven-
HOwth, and now an era of de-
ment in order to make this
rty more valuable is due, and
eOple have hope that this era
but to be entered upon.
sides these speculative reasons
are several natural reasons now
|rk that must bear fruit, with
Sistance or in spite of specula-
One OF these is: There is a
.
Jaw country lying Just east OF
eyille too high for any of the
Is in the immediate vicinity OF
eyille to water. The ownership
IS land is about evenly divided
ben the L p. railroad and the
ID States government. Within
Rst few months a large amount
lroad land mas been bought up
foSpective settlers. Water is
ls is the general opinion al
|h' perhaps not one of the new
J Is could tell upon exactly what
G he bases his opinion. But.
probability, water is coming
ieh this will be one Of the most
DIE sections of Weld county.
FftiFe country, between the u.
llfoad and the Box Elder valley
Ell open to settlement. This
~ has rich clay sub-soil, and
proper irrigation the land will
'u double as much as the bench
nearer Platteville, that now has
y good water supply.
United States government has
'ea all of this section, and res
sites have been marked upon
als' Some years ago, Messrs.
'lark, George Peery and Star
H'ed upon good reservoir site
VVo location for watering the
~ and it only remains for
u construct the reservoirs.
people of Platteville believe
nv 'ine Is now near at hand
"e'elopmentS in this line may
Aea Tor. The work would prob
ave been done before now had
nv lalh so that the reservoir
" Hlied from the Platteyille
slsh bitches. But the water
:" W carried either in the Fulton
.Ahgton bitches for this country
present. the,capacity of these
will not permit.
" Oh the town no such difficulty
,u''ered, and there the rich
.'''us are doing about as well
"a lana IN the county. Almost
u" Oh crop can be grown there
~ sugar beets, grain and native
"s IN abundance. And now
e's nave also discovered that
~ a,,s gro" big crops of potatoes
n a,'' are going into this busi-
'afse scale. There will
IA sas, 800 acres of potatoes
,,' III ,he Immediate vicinity of
n' .his coming summer. Last
tkx ',',, ot little or no care crops OF
'S o' potatoes to the acre were
oeets will, however. he ths
sin ~ lnis year. About 1,OOC