The Greeley tribune., 1907-05-16

potatoes. THIS ranch has one Of the
best residences and corresponding
sets Of buildings. 10 this part Of the
country. Improvements are being
m ade in the irrigation and drainage
facilities.
Jesse Smith. formerly a reporter
on the stan of . Philadelphia daily,
Is In charge Of the half-section
owned by w. W. Brown. He will
have seventy five acres OF potatoes
and about 200 of alfalfa to care for
this season. Later the place will be
utilized for sheep feeding.
NJ. L. King. just east Of Ault,
who has owned land In this part of
the country for some time but has
had his place In the hands of renters,
has taken the active management Of
affairs this year and Is making farm
affairs "go some" He owns l2o
acres and has leased forty-Hve acres
more of the o. G. White ranch.
The farm crops are hay, wheat,
potatoes and thirty.five acres Of
beets. The ranch is being developed
into stock farm. At present there
are 100 head of hogs on the place and
$500 worth have been marketed since
the first Of April. there are eighty
five head of cattle and thirty one Of
horses. Twelve Of these are three
vear-0lds. The standard of stock Is
being gradually improved.
B. W. Lacey is in his second year
on the place east owned by G. B.
Van Dyne. This Is 2O0-acre tract.
This year Mr.. Lacey will have fifteen
acres Of beets, oats, wheat, potatoes
and pasture land.
Andrew J. Eaton Is one Of the
tenants of the Wyatt Bros, who own
q large scope OF farming land east Of
Ault that but q few years ago was
range, utilized only for their big
herds of cattle. Mr.. Eaton cares for
2lO acres, sixty OF this Is In grain,
sixty In potatoes and l2O In hay.
This place has been improved by =
new barn and corral
Ole Blystone and r. s. Dunlap
have portion of the WYATT holdings
under their charge, the former To-
Gated to the south. Mr.. Blystone
located here this spsiug white M
DunlAp hAa hean nuAths C0rth piace
sincs 1904. Potatoes, grain and
alfalfa arc the main crops Some
tiling ID being done on the south
farm that will add to the value Of
the place.
w. L. Murray farms the quarter
section owned by A. Fl. Myers. Mr.
Murray will have thirty acres Of
beets, grain and alfalfa. Fifteen
acres OF onions are In charge of the
Japs on the place. who will care for
the beets also.
d. Higgins, who has been here
three years. 10 the tenant OF the
ranch owned BY r. NJ. Hutchinson Of
Eaton. The crops this year will be
ten acres OF stock beets, thirty Of
wheat, thfrty-five of potatoes and
twenty OF barley. Later the ranch
may go into cattle feeding.
J. NJ. Washington is tenant OH one
OF the Farr places owned In Eaton.
This place will grow this year eighty
acres OF wheat and ffty-tive of pota-
toes. j. ID. Ashby, farther east,
has charge of another of the Farr
ranches.
W. o. Cozad: who farms the R. 7.
Mainey quarter this year, Is not new
to this part OF the country as he has
farmed for Mr.. Eaton the past five
years. He has this season seventy
four acres of wheat, twenty Of oats,
thirty three Of potatoes and some
alfalfa
j. H. Fowler of Olive Branch
farm was the original settler In this
now famous valley, coming in here
as homesteader In 1891. He has
not been a continuous resident since
that time but had the Judgment to
see the possibilities OF the country
and to stick to his homestead prop
erty. Twelve years ago the only
place to be seen from the Fowler
homestead was the Wyatt ranch.
nearly four miles south. Now the
Olive Branch district Is famous for
its waving fields of grain and hay,
for its prosperous looking farm places
and is already getting up a repnta-
tion as a stock country. The Lari-
mer County ditch came into the
country few years ago furnishing
at present steady service for irri-
CATION from May to September.
Mr.. Fowler has this year crops of
wheat, rape, Jerusalem corn, Indian
corn. manpel wurzel and alfalfa.