The Colorado statesman., 1907-10-19
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

mayor +. +. Hunt OF Delta, killed
himself on account of domestic trou
BILE.
Prowers county is rapidly coming to
The front in the production of a splen
did 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
seventy-acre wheat field in the state
HIS crop runs about eighty bushels tc
the acre
For the first time in a great many
years Custer county finds itself entirely
out OF debt and with snug balance il
the treasury.
More fall wheat than ever before in
the 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.
They have just made big strike Sf q
rich coal find in that place.
Yampa 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.
efits that the proposed mammoth car
shops of the Gould system will be &C
that thriving manufacturing center
A South Platte valley farmer last
year cleared $62 per acre on his beets
without handling the beet himself, ant
expects to duplicate this record this
year.
Yampa is now a thriving town OF
some 400 people. At this time next year
they expect to have population OF
1000 and are making preparations
along this line.
Cache La Poudre sheep feeders are
talking of forming company and OF
buying a 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
Yempa is figuring on putting in its own
water plant and electric lighting sys
tenn.
Three big discoveries of 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 WEI crown 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 $50,000 to the capital stock of
a new banking system institution
which will open in Salda about No.
| vember list.
Eugene II. Grubb of CarDondaie,
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,-
| 900 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 for
the circus man.
A Conejos county farmer living near
Alamosa this year harvested 800 large
| shocks of pea hay from four acres of
land. He grew the hay without irriga-
| tion 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 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.