The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-05-02
Vim. Donelson has
Purchased Engine
and Gang-Plow
Will be used to grub and
break large areas of
North Park lands.

This spring VIM. Donelson, of RI nd
done more that shows the mans conf :
dence in his farm and market and is an
exhibition of enterprising nerve seldom
seen in as little developed a country,
from an industrial standpoint, as the
Park. Mr.. Donelson has bought for
this years blowing on his ranch, Reeves
Cross Compound double cylinder steam
blowing engine with capacity of 20
horse power.
To complete the outfit he has provid
ed himself with - bottom disc gang
pillow that turns over swath feet wide
and disc harrow to follow. The pillow
will cut from / ! to II inches deep as ad-
justed and the frame is so flexible and
well set together that the depth for the
whole width of the swath is maintained
uniforms. The plows are hung in pairs
so that only part of the entire swath
can be cut at all as desired.
Each pair of bottoms is hung on a
pair of wheels somewhat like a sulky
horse plow The whole gang is hung on
an all steel frame with pivotal hitch
of the plows to the frames in connect
ion with q leveling gear that allows each
pair to be set to the wanted depth and
adjusted sidewise until each cuts its
proper amount of land. We are infor-
med the plows should be adjusted after
each sharpening if good uniform pillow
ing is to be secured. The gang of plows
are coupled to the engine with univer
sal joint connection :. making the pillow
independent of any winding or twisting
movements of the engine; for instance,
if the drive wheels chuck into hole or
ride over hump the plows will not be
twisted or the frame strained. This
same coupling allows for turning corn
ers with the plows dragging free and
not binding the front wheels either way.
Mr.. Donelson's engine has large
water tank and coal boxes and is geared
to roll 2 12 miles par hour, and will
pull most anything that is loose.
If the railroad people do not get into
action before Bill demonstrates all the
virtues Of his machine we will be freight
ing with these traction engines and
won't need railroad Down in Fort
Collins they are moving houses with one
of these engines. the same make as
Mr.. Donelsons, and the man who
owns the outfit is getting rich. He
will set your brick house up on rollers
in the morning and in the afternoon
you can move to new part of town,
less trouble to move your house to a
new location than it is to change houses.
AS just illustrated, the engine will do
all kinds of work, besides blowing,
1t will run your thrashing machine,
haul your crops to town, draw your drag
harrow, and,seeder all in one time over
the land, AS Mr.. Donelson estimates fur
nish power that will take the place of
10 men and 40 horses in the way of doing
work, is a good deal more likely to stay
with the job than the men costs less in
the first place than the horses and is a
whole lot cheaper to operate than 1-2
Vic NUMBER Oh ulen ana nOTSeS III VIII
replace.
These engines are coming more and
more into use as greater tracts of land
are brought under cultivation.
In MINNESOTA, the Dakotas, Montana.
in fact, the entire North west and in Cali
fornia they are in general use and are
constantly profitable. In Colorado they
are just beginning to be employed to
any extent and then principly in dis
tricts just being opened to agriculture.
In Wyoming the gang plows are be-
ing used more than horses to pillow, it
having been shown that land in large
tracts and fairly level, such as the Lara
mic Plains can be cultivated much cheap
or with engines and gang plows that
will cover 90 to 40 acres day than with
men and horses. Take our own situa
ton in North Park. 1t is practically i'm
possible to hire men to do that kind of
work. Mr.. Donelson grew 20 tons of sug
az beets which test 1S percent in sugar;