Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-04-25
TWENTY-ONE YEARS OLD.
Interesting Letter
Henry c. Newman Of Loveland, Colo.
RADIO, Writes Very Interestingly
Of the Western Country
Loveland, Colorado,

EOlIOL JOuIudl-
Ithas been something over a
year since we left Audubon county
and thinking possibly it would be
of some interest to the Journal
readers to read a few lines from
one who has sojourned in grand
old Iowa for twenty seven years.
To be cure our fond recollections
recall! us back to the school boy
days when going to school to v. B.
Hellyer as teacher, who in the past
has been connected with the Jour
nal Office.
With as much as we have seen of
Colorado, am sure we are more
than pleased. Before coming here,
we had heard of Colorado having a
dry and healthful climate but we
can vouch for the truthfulness of it
now as for myself l have been, I
think, permantly cured of malady
that was very annoying in the win
ter, being afflicted with bronchial
affections of chronic nature, which
in the past winter / have not been
troubled with. Mrs. Newman's
health is somewhat improved also.
Consumptives coming here in it's
earlier stages are most sure to be
ben Gifted and in many cases perma-
nently cured, providing the patient
does not tarry too long. The eli
mate generally speaking ia fine,
while there are come windy days,
yet we have found that most of the
time it is calm and sunny. The
past two winters were warm and
dry in general. People going about
ohief al ox af
ming bicycles and automobiles, the
roads being dry.
Ofcourse this country is subject
to heavy snows in fall and spring
but it does not seem to lay long or
drift into drifte. Old settlers cay
that the past year has been unusu-
ally wet here up to the first of
January last, since that time there
has been but little snow and no
rainfall up to the present day. We
are having heavy snowfall which
in Iowa would be little out of
place at this season of the year, yet
we have seen few heavy SHOWS
late in the spring in Iowa.
This snowfall today is heartily
welcomed here, more especially by
farmers, as there has been COM
plant of planted sugar beets not
up until moisture came.
A sugar beet field cannot be irri-
gated until they are up and grow
ing. The average farmer in the
portion of this country is
engaged in sugar beet and alfalfa
and a goodly number of
farmers do we'll at feeding sheep
which are purchased from Wyo.
ming ranch men and brought here
in the winter season and fed up on
beet pulp hauled from the sugar
mile, with some corn to finish up
on for marketing. Some farmers
feed several hundred of them at
one place and even more than that.
Now while the chief product here
is sugar beets, the country abounds
in the production of various other
crops in the vicinity of Loveland,
wheat, oats besides some other
small grains, are raised. In an
early day, good bit of corn was
raised before sugar beets and al
falfa was introduced, which, as a
paying crop, was so far ahead of
beets took the place of corn as a
PlOdoSl. uC WHICH 10
thresh wheat last fall that yielded
fifty bushels per acre of fine quail
ity and rumors of heavier yields
were heard of; oats yielded from
forty to eighty bushels to the acre.
In the immediate vicinity of
Love]and there are many fruit
tracts ranging from two to ten
acres in size. On these tracts va.
rious kinds of fruit for market pur-
poses is grown, most any kind of
small fruit besides. Apples, plums
and cherries are raised for market.
In 1905, thirty-two carloads of red
raspberries were shipped out of
that being the chief
of the small fruits grown. While
the above are the principle pro.
ducts around Loveland, there are
other localities that seem to be
adapted to somewhat different
products. Greedy, Colorado, twen-
ty miles east of Loveland, produces
potatoes, cabbage, tomatoes and
other vegetables.
Mr.. Editor, we hope we have not
taken up too much of your valuable
time and space in giving to your
patrons some of the news from this
particular part of Colorado. We
will turn our attention to describe
a few other things which we think
will be of some interest to Journal
readers.
Loveland is city of about FIVE
Thousand Inhabitants which has
enjoyed very rapid growth since
the establishment of the sugar
plant. 1t is represented religious
ly by fourteen churches. 1t has
two schools with another on foot:
it lies sixty miles north of Denver
on the big Thompson river valley
on the Colorado & Southern rail-
road; it lies in plain sight of the
snow capped Rockies. One of the
best things for tourists to enjoy is
the Big Thompson canon, twelve
miles from this city, with it's many
evergreens and the rapid declining
mountain stream with the water
splashing, ripping and bounding
over the rocks in it's course down
the gulch of the big Thompson.
Beyond this lies Estes Park, which
is also said to be fine resort but
which as yet have not seen; it lies