Rocky Ford enterprise., 1907-09-27
COLORADO NEWS I1ems,s


boxes OF pears for sz.5ci.
There are deposits OF over 81. oOo, 600
in the three banks Of Longmont.
The ore tonnage for the I.eadyiils
district in August reached 5000 tons.
Forty acres Of land planted TO wheat
near Windsor thrashed i.7o6 bushels a
few days ago.
Six thousand fiye hundred dollars
was paid recently for a ten-aeTe tract
Of land near Fou Collins.
Montrose 10 TO have a new pressed
brick plant About $4,000 will BE- IN
vested in the enterprise.
A Ber;houd man has fourteen acres
of oats that average little over
ninety'nine bushels To the acre.
Corn. the ears Of which average ten
inches In length. and grown without
irrigation. are being exhibited in Wind.
sor.
A South Park ea,tleman recently
sold his cattle a, $50 head. The sale
will net him between 10000 and sioV.,
600.
There is more ore being shipped
TO the smelter In Durango Than ever
before In the history OF San Juan dis,
triet.
olathe has Incorporated rs a town
and the citizens say IL will have douiH
the population within the next two
years.
Ten acres Of young apple orchard
recently sold for $4,000 near Clifton.
They come high. but think Of the re-
turns.
a sugar beet weighing ten and one
half pounds carried on the prik. H.:
the biggest specimen raised In Weld
county.
Cimarron Is showing oats that stand
seven and onchaif Zee, high and pota.
toes that weigh three and one-half
pounds each.
Wages for ordinary unskiiied labor
In Boulder county run from t2,so 10 ~
u day. There In not an idle man In
the county.
The sugar factory In Fort Collins
will begin .rindin. this week. There
will be about $50 tons Of bccss ready
for grinding.
In the first week Of the melon xea,
son Las Animas shipped seventeen
cars Of cantaioupes. The prices were
above the average.
Grand jury indictments have been
coming thick and furious at the For,
Collins during the past week aud hard.
iy n druggist remains free from the
bar.
Mining has taken on n new lease Of
life In the Wet Mountain valley. The
old Bull Domingo mine IL being cleared
out aud put In hnc shape for opera
ton.
Routt county has never been blessed
eth such abundant crops nr are now
being harvested this year. The
meadow lands are \ forest Of hay
stacks.
fous aud sia.horsc teams are arriv-
Ing every day In Gunnison with tnarbi.
qunrricd In the county. The marbl.
IN said to be equal TO any Quarricd IL
the world. W
Montrose Ii counting on havin. a
beet sugar factory In time to use the
first crop Of beets raised after water
from the Gunnison tunnel Is turned
into the valley.
The bees have becu busy around
Greeley this summer. One man has
taken thirty.four tons Of the sweet
stuff from 500 hives. The honey Is
valued at 5000.
Fifteen acres of wheat near Long
mont yielded 1.li9 bushels Of good
wheat. according TO the report OF the
thrnshers. Can any state In the Union
show anything to approach this?
In well near Grover. dug to a
depth OF lG0 feet, water rose to within
four feet of the surface. Farmers there
there are jubilant over this. as they
are anxious to locate artesiau wells.
The Empire ditch In Weld county
has been completed Mt cost Of $780,
900. The reservoir has capacity OF
100000 cubic feet Of water. The
ditch will irrigate 10000 acres Of land.
The fruit growers Of Delta are SO
prosperous this year that they are go.
ing to put some tens OF thousands OF
dollars OF their surplus cash into
building from which to market their
product next year.
In the Grow Creek district they are
showing oats that run eighty bushels
to the acre. Raised without irrigation.
Durum wheat running between thirty.
nine and forty-one bushels to the acre
is also being thrashed.
Radishes in the South Platte valley
have grown ranging in length fr'S&
twelve to seventeen and one.haW
inches. 1t was Just five weeks f5Wn
the time the seed was planted us,Ni
the radishes were pulled.
District Judge Harry p Gamble, at
Pueblo, this morning granted the peti'
ton of the Eastern Colorado Power
Company in condemnation proceedings
to take immediate possession OF the
Barker ranch below Netherlands for the
construction of reservoir. The
amount OF damage will be fixed by
jury. The company offers $25.Ooo.
but Mrs. Hanna C. Barker demands
100000.
George c. Briggs, ex.mayor of Love
land. is having made at his expense
mammoth sign bearing the inscription
"Loveland Grand Canon" 1t will be