La Junta tribune. (La Junta, Bent County, Colo.) 1881-1939, 1906-09-22

| Work was commenced last week
on the new Santa Fe depot at Rocky
Ford.
Geo. w. Swink captured all Of the
firs. prizes for apiary exhibits at the
state fair.
The total receipts of the four days
at the Rocky Ford fair aggregated
50, ,449. .53-the best ever.
The thirteenth annual exhibition
Of the Finney County Agricultural
Society will be held at Garden City.
Kan. September 26th. 27tn and
2Sth.
During the first seven days OF
open saloons in Rocky Ford there
were seventeen arrests for drunken
ness. This beats the record Of the
preceding seven months.
On tsmily in Las Animas is sorely
afflicted, having had three deaths in
two weeks from typhoid fever. Four
other members of the same family
are i'll with the same malady.
The Fowler canning plant COM
menced operations last week on
tomatoes, with fourteen hands en-
ployed. Contracts for furnishing
tomatoes aggregate about 100 acres.
For SALE-25O Hampshire ram
lambs; they will weigh from 80 to
l25 pounds by December lst; one-
half $40 per head. and the other
half s. per head; ranch eight miles
northwest Of Las Animas: telephone
973 red.-P. H. Sweetman.
The Lamar Brick and Stone Com
pany, recently organized with an
authorized capital stock Of $50. .OOC
will make cement brick blocks
drainage tile. roofing tile. fence posts
door steps, and everything in that
line. About twenty-five men will be
employed regularly.
Since the Arkansas Valley is Sc
rapidly growing in population and
wealth it would seem to be abou,
time to revive. the electric railwa,
proposition. 1t is believed by a gooc
many people that such an enterpris,
would have plenty of business righ'
now.-Fowler Tribune.
On his trip to Routt county re
Gently Colonel Lockhart purchased {
big bunch Of cattle from Jack Ellis
the deal involving between SIS. .0Ot
and SO. 900. The cattle are to b.
delivered in two punches. half il
September and the remainder il
October.-Rocky Ford Tribune,
Il The state fair 1t Pueblo this yeal
seems to have eclipsed al formes
records both Is to attendance and q
to exhibits. The agricultural and
stock display were never larger Of
finer. Horses, hogs. cattle and
poultry were especially fine and thu
horticultural exhibits were splendid
The Lamar beet sugar factory
opened the sugar making campaign
this week. From this time on un.
til January the sugar beet will be
king in the Arkansas Valley, and
Pfowers county with two large fac.
tories and an immense acreage Of
beets will be right on top of the
prosperity wave.
This week the Arkansas VALLEY
railroad commenced hauling freight
. shipments daily from north side
stations to Lamar. The road vii
not be turned over to the operating
department until the latter part ol
this month, and no regular schedule
|, Of freight and passenger service vii
be made until about about October
lst.
At the Rocky Ford fair a crate oI
. Van Buskirk's Melted Rocks
scored 96 per cent. its nearest com
petitor scoring % per cent. Acrate
of Melted Rocks weighed 70 pounds
nearest competitor 81 pounds. Ths
single Melted Rock cantaloups
scored 9s per cent, nearest com
petitor 20 per cent. The Nettet
Rocks made their high score On III,
solid white netting. thickness Of nesl
and the large percentage of sugal
they contained. One car of Ties,
Melted Rocks was shipped to . New
) York commission house and sold To-