La Junta tribune., 1906-01-07

ready signed 10 the amount of 425
acres and had been promised about
100 acres more. making total of
525 acres in the La Junta district.
As the company requires guar
antee Of 1000 acres there yet
remained nearly 500 acres to be Sc
cured. After some discussion Fred
L. Sabin took the floor and in a
speech, brief but TO the point, said
while he was not in the business of
raising beets, and knew very little
about beet culture. he was willing
and anxious for the good of the
community to pledge himself for
twenty acres. This was the right
spirit to show and brought forth a
round of applause. 1t started the
ball rolling and pledges of five, ten,
fifteen and twenty acres followed in
rapid succession, coming chiefly
from the leading business men and
merchants of the city, until the total
reached 9l9 acres. This leaves less
than 100 acres to be pledged in the
La Junta district. and this will prob
ably be obtained this morning.
b. F. Gleasman. w. f. Stanton
and +. l.. Estep made short talks
on the success of the canvass in the
Holbrook country. 1t developed
that contracts had been secured for
between 300 and 2400 acres, and the
rest Of the required 300 acres was
in sight, but that there was string
attached to about 500 acres, the con-
tracts for which were in the hands
of A. W. Shelton. Mr.. Shelton was
not present at the meeting but ii
was announced that the conditions
insisted upon by him We're legiti-
mate and Mr.. Wiley. the agent for
the Holly Sugar Company, stated
that they would be complied with
in every particular. He added that
as soon as the required number of
acre contracts We're delivered
into the hands of reputable citizen
of La Junta, he would telegraph the
company agent i'm New York City TO
place the order for the new machin-
cry required for the proposed fac
tory and work on the buildings will
be begun at once. The company has
secured rooms in the Draper build
ing and La Junta office and head
quarters will be established as soon
as possible.
r 4. Steen then announced that
Mr.. shelton was ready to deliver
the contracts in his hands this morn
/ ing. or as soon as he was assured
tina, the proposed railroad would
| follow the present survey and that
the sugar company would establish
a beet dump at certain named
point. As Mr. Wiley had previous
ly pledged his company to do these
things there now seems TO be
nothing at all in the way of the
movement, all the contracts. ac-
cording to the arrangements, will
be delivered into the hands of Mr..
Steen this morning. and il will be up
to the Holly people to carry out
their part of the agreement. In
brief they agree to build a beet
sugar factory at Swink and have il
ready to handle the beet crop of
1896, run a railroad from Holly to
Swink through the rich agricultural
districts north of the Arkansas
river and including Holbrook.
/ Contracts for 5000 acres of beets
were required bv the promoters
before the venture would be under
taking. and the Swink vicinity has
already pledged $500 acres.
The meeting concluded with the
serving of Refreshments and a
general discussion of what had been
accomplished. Everybody was very
enthusiastic over the prospect and
il was the consensus of opinion that
a big stride had been made towards
increasing the prosperity of a
big scope of farming territory. and
that it would add materially to the
advancement of La Junta.