The Colorado statesman., 1907-10-19
REPORTS FROM EVERY CORNER
GIVE GOOD NEWS OF COLO
RADIOS PROGRESS.
FACTORIES COMING
FARMERS ARE DOING WELL
THEIR PART TO BRING THE
STATE TO THE FRONT.

enthusiastically James B. Young
OF the State Commercial Association
yesterday compiled the reports for the
past week which have come to him
from the various local civic organiza-
tons around the state, and the com
pilation shows remarkable progress in
every part Of the state.
The Commercial association now has
chance to locate in Colorado a manu-
featuring industry that will employ 500
men and make cash investment of
100000, but the secretary has been
instructed not to give out the details
at this time.
The reason for the many recent ar
rivals of men to invest money in Colo
rado is that the truth of first-class con-
ditions is recognized.
Brightons new syrup factory is
ready for business. The sweet fluid
will be turned out from sugar beets.
Here is something to ponder over
and tell your friends in the East
Two Colorado men planted 130 acres to
potatoes this spring. They have just
finished digging. Here is the result:
Fifteen thousand sacks of as fine pota-
toes as were ever grown, or sixty car
loads and 5000 sacks of seed potatoes.
The average was 230 sacks of salable
potatoes and fifty bushels OF seed pota-
toes to the acre. Can you beat it?
What is believed to be one of the
finest deposits of marble in the world
has been discovered in the Redlands
country.
Corn averaging forty bushels to the
acre has just been cut four miles west
of Fort Lupton. 1t was raised without
irrigation. This indicates that Colo
RADIO can grow corn successfully.
Fort Morgan counts It a day lost
nowadays when some new buildings
are not started in that city. During
the present year over 200 buildings
have been erected and still there is
big demand for more.
1t Is expected that water will be
turned into the big ditch in Morgan
county next year. Forty thousand
acres of virgin land will be watered by
the ditch.
Over $1,000.000 will be paid out to
the farmers of Morgan county this
year for sugar beets alone.
Fort Morgan is contesting with Gree
ley as to potato growing. One man dug
fifteen acres that went better than $50
sacks to the acre.
If the price of potatoes in the Gree
ley district holds up to present figures
spud growers will have no cause to
complain of any shrinkage in their
bank accounts, but on the contrary will
he looking around for more room in
which to store their money Potatoes
are selling at very good prices at pres
ent and one which leaves a big margin
| of profit.
A Kersey man has just sold his
eighty-acre farm. which he bought four
years ago for $4,000, for 100000 cash,
and he retains his crop for this year,
valued at $4,000, in addition. The s10,-
900 that he received for his property is
practically all velvet"
One hundred thousand lambs will be
fattened in Weld county this fall and
winter.
Next spring under the Beaver Land
& Irrigation Company's project in Fre-
mont county, 1000 acres of land will
be brought under irrigation and event
ually 10000 acres will be added to the
arabic soil of the county.
The fame of Colorado honey is
spreading abroad, and all beekeepers in
the state find that they have not
enough honey to fill orders.
Colorado Springs is going TO have a
new dairy that will make a specially OF
supplying a line of milk that will be
acceptable to the doctors of the city.
Over in the Redlands country they
have pumps at work that are throwing
water into irrigation bitches at an alti-
tude of 1877 feet. This gives a good idea
of the big strides that are being made
in the state in the way of more and
better irrigation projects.
BIackmailer In Jail.