The Glenwood post., 1907-10-19
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Frowers county is rapidly coming to
.ne front in the production of a splen-
ulu grade of draft horses and mules.
Cattle shipments from Routt county
are greater this year than ever before
IN The history of that section of the
state.
a Longmont man claims the best
seNehty-acre wheat field in the state
ms crop runs about eighty bushels to
| the acre.
For the first time in great many
years Custer county finds itself entirely
out of debt and with snug balance in
| the treasury.
More fall wheat than ever before in
lle history of the district has been
planted this year in the Cache La Pou-
ore and Boxelder valleys.
Two Canon City men think that the
town of Radiate is properly named
lhey have just made big strike of a
fich coal find in that place.
iampa is confident that the first
train into the town will be seen by
June l, 1908. Scarcity of labor is de-
laying work on the Moffat road.
Pueblo is banking largely on the ben
etits that the proposed mammoth car
SHOPS of the Gould system will be 20
that thriving manufacturing center
A South Platte valley farmer last
year cleared $62 per acre on his beets
without handling the beet himself, and
expects to duplicate this record this
year.
Yampa is now a thriving town of
hi, =
they expect to have population of
@,ooo and are making preparations
along this line.
Cache La Poudre sheep feeders are
taking of forming a company and of
buying big tract of land in eastern
Colorado where they plan TO start
big sheep ranch.
Good progress is being made on the
new Cripple Creek tunnel and over 500
feet have already been bored. Contrac
tors say that progress will be much
faster from this time on
The right of way for the proposed
new interurban electric line has been
secured almost the entire distance
from Canon City to La Junta. Work is
soon to begin on the project.
Confident that the opening of Routt
county by the railroads will be followed
by great boom and rush of settlers,
Iempa is figuring on putting in its own
water plant and electric lighting sys-
tenn
Three big discoveries of a fine
quality of coal have been made in the
Florence field within the last few days
The coal is of commercial quality and
big forces of men will be put at work
mining it.
Twenty-Five thousand acres of sugar
beets were grown in the Greeley. Eaton
and Windsor districts this year, and
the yield will be about 100000 tons
The beet will average about fifteen tons
to the acre.
Representative business men of Sa-
| Ida and Chaffee county have sub
scribed $500O0 to the capital stock of
new banking system institution
which will open in Salida about No
vember 1st
Eugene II. Grubb of Carbondale,
Known the length and breadth of the
state of Colorado. Is wearing the
smile that won't come off" His po-
tato crop alone netted him about Sl0,-
600 this year.
The last spike in the new Denver and
Great Western railroad, which CON
meets Windsor and Loveland Johns
town and Longmont. has been driven
and trains are now running regularly
over the road.
Experiments in Fremont county have
shown that the Spanish peanut can be
grown very successfully in that vicin-
ity. If we could only grow lemons
what a place Colorado would be tor
the circus man.
Conejos county farmer living near
AlamCsa this year harvested 500 large
shocks of pea hay from four acres Of
land. He grew the hay without irriga-
ton and this crop alone paid nice
profit on his original investment.
Potato growers in and around Glen
wood springs are gazing at their bank
books with a great deal of satisfaction
these days. A number of them are fig
uring on European trips in order to get
rio of some of the surplus cash.
John w Springer has just purchased
new 16-ton. 25-horse power engine, a
gang plow of is plows, and is busily en-
gagged in turning over 1000 acres on his
Jefferson county ranch all of which
will be under cultivation next year.
Encouraged by the splendid profits
made in potatoes this year, the farmers
of Roaring Fork section near Glen
wood Springs will materially increase
their acreage next year. Yields of $50
sacks to the acre have been made in
that vicinity.
The manufacture of white paper out
Of sugar beet pulp is one of the new
industries that may be expected to de-
velop in Colorado within the next few
years. Experiments have shown that
very good quality of paper can be
made out of the pulp.
To prevent waste of water by seep-
age, a number of northern Colorado men
are building cement bitches and dikes.
These are only the fore-runners OF
thousands of more bitches of the same
kind that will be constructed in Colo