La Junta tribune. (La Junta, Bent County, Colo.) 1881-1939, 1906-04-18
W AND DOWN IHE VALLEY.

As soon as road oySFSeer Is az
pointed in the Fowler district the
new county road grader viii be put
TO work there
The Arkansas Valley Odd Fellows
Anniversary association is making
every preparation TO celebrate at
Manzanola April 26th, the annivers-
AIRY of the order.
Ole Sorenson. of Fowler. has re-
received patent on beet cultiva-
tor The cultivator is so construct
ed that it can be attached to a sui
ky to be drawn by one horse. The
cultivator is light. adjustable and
durable. Its construction can be rap
idly understood.
The contracted and leased acreage
for the factory at Sugar City,
amounts now to 6.405 aeres-the
largest acreage in the history Of the
company. From five to ten per cent
Of the acreage contracted for. usual
ly fails TO reach the harvest stage.
allowing even so large a reduction
as ten per cent. the factory will have
from 55. 900 to $1,000 tons Of beets
TO handle.
A Rocky Ford dealer has just re-
ceived carload of gasoline engines,
the first carload ever brought to the
Valley. Think of it, A whole car
load, What a superabundance of
profanity those gasoline engines will
engender upon the ambient air here
abouts, besides veNation of spirit
and useless misery. If you have ever
had any experience with a gasoline
engine no further explanation or
comment is necessary.
All indications are that the Arkan-
sas Valley Railroad is to be pushed
rapidly. Ties and bridge timbers
are on hand in great quantities and
more are coming. The first work of
tracklaying will begin at the factory
that the line may be completed to
the river for the delivery Of timbers
for the bridge across the Arkansas
river. Steel for the track is expect
ed within three weeks. when track
laying will Rocky Ford En-
terprise.
oklahoma exchanges are unani-
mously agreed that the Denver. Enid
& Gulf road is being extended to a
junction with the Santa Fe at La
mar. Their information is gained
from the engineers in charge of the
extension, who are supposed to know
what they are talking about.-La-
mar Sparks. Joe skipped just one
week on new railroads. but as will
be seen from the above is right in
line again. 1t is bad news for La
Junta.
\ About June Isl three engines are
expected to arrive here for the Holly
& Swink road. The fifty new steel
dump cars that required so much
strategy TO secure for this years
use will arrive here before Septem-
Der lst. These steel dump cars are
said 10 be of a superior quality as
compared with those ia use by the
Santa Fe system. This should allay
any feeling on the part of the skep-
tics that this will be ''jerkwater'
line. Holly Chieftain.
Rocky Ford is having Inflicted
upon Il, z Carnival" show which
far surpasses anything in bum
ness that has ever appeared in
Rocky Ford. Even the heavens know
of its quality and seek to drown
them out. About their only attrac-
tion is big snake. deformed ne
gra. a moving picture machine or
two and a great amount of CAB and
noise. Most of the company are
low down negroes from the Sunny
South, who seem out of their
element in a law-abiding community
like this. After bleeding Rocky
Ford people the rest of the week
they will go to La Junta to work
their wiIes Rocky Ford Gazette