The Colorado statesman., 1907-10-05
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

for $2371a box in Boston.
Telluride, Ouray and Silverton-that
great mining triangle-are beating
best records.
Land in Palisade, bought three years
ago for $40 an acre, was sold, recent
ly, for s1,050 an acre
Forty-five carloads of fruit netted
Grand Junction growers $6O,199.2O.
This is world record.
Grand Junction fruit growers say
that good crop of high-class pears is
better than gold mine
Pueblo hopes to add nailless horse
shoe factory to its already long list
of manufacturing industries.
One pear orchard on the western
slope will produce $4,000 worth of mar
ketable fruit this season.
It's a mighty poor coal miner who
is not drawing at least $100 a month
in Fremont county just now.
An oil refining plant with capacity
of 500 barrels day is to be erected at
Boulder. The machinery is on the way
from Ohio.
1t is estimated that the beet sugar
crop in Weld county will be worth over
S1,500,000 to the farmers of that sec
tion this year.
Within a year it is hoped to have
Trinidad connected with Cokedale, Sc
gundo, Hastings and other points by
an electric railroad.
The second crop of Strawberries in
Fremont county is almost ready for
picking. Two crops of berries a year
in Colorado? Sure thing.
A new irrigation project which will
bring 5000 acres of the finest fruit
land imaginable under water has been
started in Grand Junction.
Larimer county boasts of the high
est irrigation ditch in the world. The
lower end of the Link ditch, now build
ing. is 10000 feet above sea level.
A fifteen-acre tract of improved or
chard land near Palisade has just been
sold for $4,000, and the Nebraska man
who got it knows that he secured a
bargain.
The total valuation of Larimer
county property. according to the
schedule just filed, is SS,514123. An
increase of more than 100000 over
last year.
Two Palisade men made 900 peach
boxes in ten hours, without the aid of
a machine. They have to hustle the
boxes in that section to keep up with
the growth of the fruit.
Every cay some visitor returns from
Routt county bringing reports of the
wonderful richness of that county and
the development sure to follow when it
is opened by the Moffat road.
Two hundred and thirty-five thou
sand six hundred and eighty acres of
farming land in Weld county are val
ued at s4,500,000, according to the re-
Gently completed report of the asses
sors.
Yampa is proudly showing oats near
ly seven feet tall and turnips Weighing
seven and one-half pounds each. as an
evidence that Routt county is some
pumpkins itself when it comes to agri-
culture.
BEST crops in years; highest prices.
Watch us SMILE" Such is the chorus
of the Fremont county farmers at the
present time, and the song is being
sung not alone in Fremont, but
throughout the state. Isn't it good to
live in Colorado?
Efforts are being made on the west
ern slope to build railroad through
the western part of Montrose county
as far as Paradox. Such a railroad
would tap a splendid area of the finest
fruit, agricultural and grazing land, to
say nothing of minerals.
At the weekly luncheon of the Cham
ber of Commerce at Fort Collins the
following were elected directors for the
ensuing year: Prof. w. l.. Carlyle, Pc
ter Anderson, l. w. Bennett, 7. H. Rob-
ertson, c. A. Black, T. A. Gage and N.
G. Afford. The directors will hold a
meeting soon for the election of Off
GERS. The report of Secretary Taylor
oh, - loI
ance in the treasury of $3.50.
A. w. Marksheffel, who was indicted
by the grand jury on charge of invoi-
untary manslaughter in connection
with the automobile wreck last week.
which cost the lives of three passen-
gers was fined S25 and costs in Colo
RADIO City Police Court on charge of
violating the speed ordinance. Mark
sheffel pleaded not guilty, submitted no
evidence, and was admitted to $40 bail
pending an appeal to the County Court.
The Loveland sugar factory is grind
ing beets and has made successful
start on the long campaign. There are
about 10000 tons of beets in the sheds
and more are coming at a rapid rate.
The beets are smaller than in former
years, and as rule there is a better
stand, which will bring the average
tonnage up to the standard of last year.
About 10000 acres will be taken care
of by the Loveland factory, and so far
the crop is testing well in sugar. The
factory will have a payroll during the
campaign of about $4,000 a month.
Another carload of honey will be
shipped from Boulder in few days. In
all over eighteen carloads will be
shipped from this county this year.
The value of the honey raised in Boul-
der county this year will be over $780,