La Junta tribune., 1906-12-22
W Ase eevs yus va..sy.

! We have just received . bill of
lCAristmas goods that we will sell At
very near cost. Call and be your
Own judge.-Martin 4 Lamb.
Patterson Valley has good reasons
for boasting of their beet crop John
Caasatt will have over 100 tons. and
Bob Allison has even a better crop
than Cassatt.
The question is where to locate the
new sugar factory on the north
side. Ordway wants it but Olney
hes the best site. Five thousand
acres have been secured for next
seasons beet crop.
The corner stone of the new Pres
byterian church at Rocky Ford was
laid last Tuesday. DR.. E. w. Work.
Of Colorado Springs. president-elect
OF the new Presbyterian College.
delivered the address.
At the recent annual meeting Of
the Manzanola Orchard Association.
the secretary's report showed total
receipts for all shipments Of can
taloupes last season Of $7.s75.9 .96. An
average of $50 cents was received
for standard crates, and 40 cents for
ponies.
ID. V. Burrell is putting in a power
pumping plant in the Box Springs
country that will equal anything in
the west when completed. The pres
ent well upon which they are now
working. is sixteen feet wide. twen-
tv-two feet keep. and 100 feet long.
From this he expects to irrigate
eighty acres at least.
Water was turned into the Besse-
mer Ditch this week from the Ar
kansas River, it having been shut of
Tor the past month while a siphon
was being constructed across Bear
Creek, six miles west of Pueblo. The
length Of the siphon is It's feet and
is nine feet in diameter and cost
between 5,0Oe and 5000.
A most unusual funeral service
was witnessed in the Methodist
church in Rocky Ford one day last
week. The caskets containing the
bodies Of Mrs. j. W. Leeching and
her sister Miss Alice Crouch were
placed in front Of the altar. they
having died Of tuberculosis within
less than two days Of each other.
Eecent assessment figures in Otero
county show that Manzanola de,
! creased several thousond dollars in
&essed valuation. while Fowler is
b the front with a big increase
! Both towns have equally good farm
ing fand in their trade territory. bu
ManzanOla is . one-man busines.
place while Fowler has open trade
competition. The moral is obvious
Lamar Sparks.
The Arkansas Valley Railroad. o,
the north side. has about sixty mile
of.road finished, out of Holly. La
mar. Sxink and Eocky Ford. ans
the road is now rapidly approachin;
the country north of Las Anima
from both sides Work on th,
witch fror, the Santa Fe to th'
factory site is progressing. and con
nection will lie made with the nortl
i lie road by a bridge across the Ar
Kansas. Las Atlas Leader.
Rocky Ford has not coal famine
but that point is so nearly reached
that the outlook borders on the ser
ious. Monday not one of our Goa
dealers had a pound of coal. Som,
came in Tuesday. but if you ordered
ton the amount was cut down ts
100 pounds Our dealers have ex
tensive orders out and many cars or
the road somewhere. And. to add
to the difficulties. il is said that the
mines arc short of miners.-Enter.
prise.
Thursday marked the beginning
Of new era for Syracuse. On that
day train and engine crews began
cutting out here. and the town now
is q full freight division. Two
switch engines and crews have ar
rived and all trains. both east and
west, will be made up here. A little
more than fourteen miles of new
traek has been ordered put down in