La Junta tribune. (La Junta, Bent County, Colo.) 1881-1939, 1906-05-16
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. The land office at Lamar IS to be
moved 10 Pueblo at a very early
date
Oriway IS trying To raise money
by subscription to build a Catholic
church.
An artificial ice plant wi'h a capac-
iry Of ten tons per day Is now being
erected al Rocky Ford
Rocky Ford doesn't license saloons
and as a result the water revenues
have increased from :. 1900 20 81 go
during the past three years. Holly
Chieftain
Lamar Odd Fellows have organ
lied a Temple Association and will
soon commence the erection Of a
large block with lodge rooms above
and two storerooms below.
The dry and boom in western
Kansas Is beginning 10 slop over into
Colorado now. and a few advance
stragglers are coming in looking for
cheap lands above the bitches around
Lamar.
/ Dry farming will be- experimental
with on a very extensive scale in
western Kansas this year. 1t is re-
ported that nearly the entire western
section Of the state has already been
planted in wheat.
I Lamar has had plans drawn for a
new school building which will con-
tain eight rooms. George W. Roe.
of Pueblo. is the architect. and bids
for the erection of the structure will
be called for this week.
A Rocky Ford grower has figured
up the cost of raising and harvesting
five acres Of beets. He received
s}93.65 for his crop. and the total
expense Of growing was sl62 81,
leaving a net gain Of s23l. d. or
si6.25 per acre.
A Lamar groceryman Is advertis-
ing sugar at a cheaper price than
that supplied by Montgomery. Ward
a Co. What do you think of that?
The price of the mail order house is
s5.42 per 100 pounds. while that of
the Lamar groceryman is s5.25.
Ordway on June sth will vote upon
the question of mourning a bonded
Indebtedness Of So. .OoO for the pur-
pose of purchasing Thompson Springs
and Mock Springs and constructing
water works system. The land
upon which the springs are located
will cost Sl0. $50.
The Las Animas high school boys
went To La Junta Saturday and beat
the high school base ball team of
that place 10 TO 9. The TRIBUNE
will please sit up and take notice that
they We're shown" and give due
credit. Las Animas Leader. Don't
crow too loud or long; there is a
hereafter.
The board of education at Las
Animas has decided to charge %
cents for reserved seats and II cents
for general admission to the high
school commencement exercises this
year. In previous years there has
been a great deal of dissatisfaction
over the seating arrangements and
the change IS made in the hope that
the new plan will prove more salts
factory.
Dr. W. w Bullette. of Pueblo. is
planning for a $500. 900 sanitarium
at Canon City in Fremont county.
provided the citizens will donate
forty acres of land upon which to
erect the necessary buildings. DR..
Bullette is the representative of an
association of medical men in the
east which proposes to build chain
of sanitariums extending from the
Mississippi river to the Pacific coast.
Field and Farm.
B. F. Powell has surveyed a canal
three miles long and one hundred
feet wide from Adobe creek to the
Blue Lake reservoir site. which will
be eNcavated Immediately and the
flood waters of the creek impounded.
The reservoir will hold 1900 acre
feet of water. and viii be returned
to Adobe creek through short canal
when needed and run down to the
Fort Lyon canal during times of
scarcity.-LasA Animas Leader.