The Greeley tribune., 1907-01-03

600, 90, 900 cubic feet of water. 1t
will be filled from flood waters in
the South Platte river. The reser.
votr vas built for the Bijou Irriga
tton district in Morgan county by d.
A. Camheld Of this city, with L.
Z. Stamson, also of Greeley, as engi-
neer. This is the largest completed
reservoir in the state now.
Tho only industry that may ssbe
said to have gone backward during
the year is that of sheep feeding.
Where one year ago this winter there
we're About 200, 900 head of sheep and
lambs on feed, there are this year
only about 100, This is due to
the extremely high price of feeding
stock or the ranges and the high
price OF feed. While the stock is
fed for the most part on beet pulp,
the stock now in the country is more
than enough to eat up all the pulp
at the three Weld county facotries,
and 1t will besides require thousands
of tons of hay and some grain to
[ hn3eh up the stock for market.
sb Aouble iIas also been exper.
iencH In handling the enormous
crop Of sugar beets and potatoes
The railroads and sugar factories
have been fairly swamped with the
products of the soil. The farmers
have also found difficulty in caring
for the crops in the fields, owing to a
shortage of labor. Notwithstanding
this, there will be but little loss
from these difficulties.
A heavy snow storm right in the
early part of potato and beet har-
vest did some damage, but mostly
in tine loss of time by the farmers
Fine weather following for many
weeks after, however, in a large
measure made up for the trouble.
There are some pretty good things
promised for Weld county for the
next year, most important of which
is an electric railway line to connect
Greeley and other northern Colorado
towns and cities with Denver, and
having branches into the most
thickly populated and best cultivated
sections Of the country districts.
This promises to relieve all conges-
tion on the existing lines of railway
into the Greeley district, as it Will
give connection with all Of the big
trunk lines entering Denver. This
project is practically assured, and
unless some hitch not now in view
should come up, work will be COM
menced on the grading about March
i, la)I
There is now being constructed
a great central, electrical power
plant at Lafayette, Colo, just over
the inc of the southern boundary OF
Weld county. From here electrical
current will be sent to every town
in Weld and other counties, even as
far north as Cheyenne. This COM
panv las consolidated practically all
of the electric light plants in this
district. and will not alone light
and furnish power to the cities, but
to farmers as we'll. This will bring
the farIners still one more step nearer
having city conveniences, Win
country freedom. The increase IN
value in farm and city real estate
has been steady but not In any way
bordering on the boom. the past year.
The cities and towns of the county
have crown at a satisfactory rate
inst from the natural increase ana
Greeley now claims 5000 inhabitants
which is not an extravagant cial"
when it is known that the regiStra-
tion for last election was over ',ooo
eligible voters, and the school census
also shows that there are not less
than 5000 people here.
There has been considerable specu-
lation in the dry land beyond one
irrigated district, but so far this
has not been considered serious ana
the land is gradually being brougho
under irrigation. ~