The Greeley tribune., 1907-06-06

Anrust Molander is one OF the
hs,yy land owners northwest OF
Anti. Lunberg is on one eighty
having lived here for three years.
us has tfty.tive acres Of 'spuds'
and the balance is In small grain.
CIyde and Claude Rhodes are
Managing the NJ. ID. Rhodes eighty
mis- YEAR and have also rented some
,rreape of the Moander property.
The Rhodes ranch is well-improved
eighty which Is being developed into
A hog ranch. Grain, mainlV wheaI
and alfalfa, are the crops on the
Mace. OF the Molander place the
Rhodes brothers cultivate about 100
acres as irrigated land. They have
a big patch of potatoes, fifty'hVe
acres.
J. Fl. Braucher Of this vicinity IS
expected to move soon to Mitchell,
Neb.
1t is worth the trip any day to go
out to the G. II. Weber ranch ana
see his fine horse stock. Stock OF
the bluest blood direct from Ken
tucky and Tennessee and with an
cestry records that would make the
D. A. r. turn green with envy.
Mr., Weber has the finest bunch OF
horses we have found yet on the
road. "Herodiade," the star OF the
stables, is a chestnut eight years old,
bred in Old Kentucky who has
record of five races won at two years
old and two at three years old and Is
son of Hanover, 1.-THE best race
horse of his day. Winner of thirty
two races and sl2O,9l2. " MIR.
Weber's stables at present comprise
of thoroughbred stock six registered
mares. one four-year-old, one three
year-old, one yearling and four this
years stock. One Of the racers from
this place, "Nika." is in training
now on the Greeley track. The
animals are beauties, tall, trim,
graceful and thoroughbred in every
point Mr.. Weber has fine barn
fitted with box stalls, double and
single stalls, four Of each, an office
and above is big loft. Corrals are
of heavy woven wire. The Weber
ranch is half-section. Mr.. Weber
came into the country twenty-three
years ago and is about the only one
of the homesteaders of that time to
hold the land originally claimed.
Among the crops Of this year are
ninety-tive acres wheat, forty Of
potatoes, ten of oats and twenty-five
of alfalfa.
j. E. Shank, who has been in the
country six years, has rented seventy
acres Of the Weber rapch and has
thirty-hve acres of potatoes, twenty
five of alfalfa, aud ten Of oats. He
also has sixty acres Of the Beadle dry
farm, to the north, put into wheat.
The latter looks fine and II there Is
no bad luck between now and har.
vest, will make valuable corp.
Mr.. Shank raises few hogs, and has
sold already this year twenty-five
head.
4 f. Zinn bought an eighty acre
tract of bare land south of the
Weber ranch nve years ago. He has
made great change in the land
scape, has neat house and outbuild-
iDgs, has trees that are already valu-
able for protection and shade, and
has orchard trees and small fruit In
a thrifty condition. a small part of
this ranch is above the ditch. Ten
acres of potatoes, six Of oats, fifteen
of wheat, twenty of alfalfa consti-
tute the crops.
q. ...Kinsey is farming ITO acres be
longing to r. A. Perry, west of
Ault, almost all being under the
ditch. This is Mr.. Kinsey's second
year ON the place. He has thirty
acres OF spuds, and this is great
country for spuds out In this section,
fifty of wheat and nineteen of oats
and barley.
q. 2. Veden. two and one-half
miles west of AMT, has compare
lively new place. A neat house
has recently been built. Wheat,
barley, hay, and eighteen acres of
potatoes are cultured this year.
w. j. Tormey, who is living on an
eighty OF school section, Is not
farming this year. His neighbors
on the ranch, Stewart Brothers, are
managing the eighty this year. Mr..
Iormey expects to take a trip to
the Yellowstone country this sum.
mer.
Stewart Brothers, W. W. and A.
b., In addition to the Tormey
eighty, are farming an eighty be.
longing to Mr.. Dahlgreen. They
Will put In forty-fye acres of snnde