La Junta tribune. (La Junta, Bent County, Colo.) 1881-1939, 1906-05-23
UP AND DOWN TINE VALLEY.

Sl5, 600 temple this year.
The United States land office at
Lamar viii be removed to Pueblo
July lst.
Measles have been prevalent in
Rocky Ford for several weeks and
have been doing a big business.
Twenty-seven Japs direct from
Japan arrived in Rocky Ford last
week for work in the beet fields.
The school census at Rocky Ford,
just completed. shows a population
of ,294, an increase over last year
of nearly 200.
Ordway has raised 81. 200 to build
new Catholic church. Work has
already been commenced on a par
ochial building.
Syracuse has organized new cor
net band with which to swell the
sounding trump of fame and make
that town notorious.
S. Harrison White. of Pueblo. will
deliver an address at the high school
commencement exercises in Sugar
City on the evening of May oath.
1t is estimated that between !. 800
and 1850 more acres have been
planted in cantaloupes in the valley
this year than last. Cantaloupes
will probably be a glut on the mar
ket this fall.
w. A. Mattox has purchased 225
acres of land in the Holbrook coun-
try and will put in a So 600 pumping
plant in short time. The land will
be put in wheat the first year.
Rocky Ford Gazette.
Hauck 4 McKelvv report the larg-
est deal in horses ever made in Otero
county. A few days since they sold
to Tull 4 Graham. of Oklahoma. l49
head. But they are not yet entirely
out of the horse business. Rocky
Ferd Enterprise.
Two new doors have been placed
in the waiting room of the depot and
the roof Of the section house has
been shinRled at Las Animas. The
Leader arises to remark that these
Improvements place quietus upon
all hopes for new depot at that
burg.
The closing sheep sales of the sea-
son scared TO an altitude most graft
flying to feeders. On Tuesday W. N.
Randall sold 1000 :lambs for $3.50.
weight "A pounds. On Wednesday
J. l.. Bennett d Son, of HOlbrook.
got yet better price. selling $50
lambs. weighing 72 pounds, at $7.6O
The central battery" system is
now being installed in Rocky Ford.
II enables a subscriber to call up
Central by merely lifting his re-
ceiver from the hook on which it
hangs when not in service, and is a
duplicate of the system which has
been in use in La Junta for two
years.
Work on the Arkansas Valley Rail-
road is making good progress. The
grading to Horse creek will be COM
pleted by June 1st, when similar
work will begin at Las Animas. The
work on the river bridge is going
ahead rapidly. Track laying will
begin within two weeks. Material
continues to arrive and the work is
being pushed as fast as practicable.
We are indebted to Agriculturist
Spencer for the following informa-
ton concerning last years sugar beet
crop in this immediate section: One
grower received more than $40 per
acre. four more than 500. one more
than $50, nine more than $50, fifteen
more than S75, fifteen more than $40,
twenty-three more than $50, fifteen
more than $50. The present season
there is a larger acreage than last.
and prospects are more than good
for q bumper crop. -Manzanola Sun.
G. L. Knight. representing the
Colorado Spencer Seedless Apple Co..
Of Grand Junction, is circulating
among the orchard people in this
vicinity. One popularity about this
apple is it never blooms. The fruit
is said to keep well under ordinary
conditions. and being seedless is full
of meat. Mr.. Knight did a large
business in the Fowler district, and