The Greeley tribune., 1907-04-18
One on Dry
Farming

We notice, especially in the last
wear, the unscrupulous. not to say
dishonest inclination OF many OF
Colorado's so-called land agents aided
by railroads and perhaps other cor
porations advertised by them and by
some dishonest sheets printed in
Denver to lure people from their
homes In the east. They want TO
palm of on them the lands aoand-
oned by the old pioneers of twenty
wears ago as worthless for homes on
which to make living because OF
their arid nature, as we'll as to coax
them by gross Misrepresentation to
homestead lands which by their very
nature are practically unit for
homes for agricultural people-at
least of honest ones. The world has
always had its gold brick dealers and
perhaps always will and likewise It's
unsuspecting suckers, and Colorado
surely has her share of both as some
of the printed matter handed out
promisculously and ravenously con-
sumed plainly shows.
We of course have had three or
four favorable seasons of late when
under irrigation we have noticed that
patches here and there on which we
failed to get water yielded consider
able crops. Instead of these thieves
for this they certainly are In Its
broadcast sense -ascribing these favor
able crops to that kind Of season
they credit the Campbell system
with it. If the chumps Of new set
tiers could open their prejudiced, de-
luded eyes they could see the remains
of the attempts of the homestead and
pre-emption Of quarter of CEN
tury ago, in the way Of cellars, cis-
terms, breaking, bones Of dead cattle
and horses and other domestic ami
mails starved to death by the seasons
following those of '9l-'s2. If they
knew enough to search the county
records of the various dry land
counties made since then, they would
discover that our efforts to live by
farming on dry land in eastern Colo
RADIO produced not crop Of grain but
crops Of several other things, the
| first of which was discomfort, fol-
lowed by those of mortgages, usury.
trust deeds. of supplications for OUT
side aid, Of suffering for the neces-
stiles of life, the closing of trust
deeds by public trustees and finally
by the refusal of those owning the
land to pay taxes on 1t.
Even the town lots of our preten-
oned and after becoming public
burden they were absorbed into
quarter sections and vent to pasture
fields of individuals. These Incl
dents were followed by crops OF
bankrupt cases, of absolute abandon.
ment after people had lost their all
on these barren acres even to theil
last horse and COW as we'll as theil
faith in everything both earthly and
celestial. And these are the crops
which will be raised by those who
ara settling in the dry, unirrigatec
sections where water is too deep OF
too scant for irrigation in the years
to come. Unless our old earth ha.
changed her whims all the crop.
mentioned will be growing vigor
ously again. If those who are look
ing for home In the west would
only hunt up the old settlers o.
twenty and twenty-five years age
they will find them most all located
under irrigating systems of one kinc
or another-some of them the best
in the known world and all trying tx
make them better still.
They would find these old codger.
who refused to longer pay taxes OF
the dry land offered the new settler.
living on land now worth from SIO'
to 81 200 an acre and still spending
$50 or more the acre to bring tn,
land nearer to perfection an already
perfect irrigating system. Does thi.
not speak volumes? Does not thi.
point the way to the newcomer,
, We live In Colorado. We have thu
| states best interest at heart. w,
perhaps will die here and we wish tt
say here and now that our chief de
sire-aside from bettering our owl
, condition-is that we could speal
loud enough that our voice could b,
heard from one side to the other O
arid America. Be careful, new Set
tiers! Investigate thoroughly before
Iyou settle on the dry land.-Fielt
and Farm.
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