La Junta tribune., 1908-03-28
MAx As0yT
Town


I The people Of the Arkansas VAL
ley must not run after strange gods
to the exclusion of such standby
crops as good old alfalfa. We have
several letters from that section in
which the information is conveyed
that hay is scarce and high. So
much good alfalfa has been plowed
up for sugar beets that the shortage
has become so apparent that out
sine buyers are unable to secure
shipments. Alfalfa seed is becom-
ing higher priced every year be-
cause the people like those of the
Arkansas Valley are not producing
enough of it. This shortage gigs
back on them by forcing up the
price so high that in strenuous times
like these they cannot afford to pay
eighteen to twenty cents pound to
put in new seeding on very large
scale. Field and Farm.
After long days of labor and some
nights devoid of the certainties of
moral or any other kind of persua-
sion, we finally prevailed upon the
ex-village policeman to take day
off and decorate the interior of our
print shop with some of his latest
designs in wall paper. The eN-vil-
lage policeman is an artist when it
comes to decorating interiors his
own not excepted, when the neces-
sity is urgent. The great family
journal force now entertains the
suspicion, that cannot be success
fully controverted, that it occupies
one of the swellest, neatest and
cleanest dumps in the print shop
line in all Colorado. We have also
just installed additional Hamilton
type cabinets of the very latest
design, whose interiors are decor.
ated with the latest and most up-to-
date models in type faces. and we
are now equipped and prepared
better than ever before, to turn out
work in the best style known to the
art p1eservative of all arts. If you
desire to he Missourified. we are
ready to show you.
4 Frank Wood and family left las,
Sunday by the overland route FOL
Granite, Colo. where Mr.. Wood vii
be engaged during the coming sum
mer in completing the work of build
ing the reservoir dam for the Otert
canal. Work is already in progress
and it is not thought there will be {
repetition of the difficulty exper
fenced last year in securing men tt
complete the construction of the
dam this season. 1t had been the
intention to complete the dam last
year SO that storage water might
be utilized this season, but the work
was delayed owing to the unsur
mountabie difficulty of securing the
necessary men. Next year, witt
the additional supply for irrigation
from the Clear Creek reservoir, the
Otero will be one of the best ditches
in the Valley, and there will prob.
ably be something doing in the ag.
ricultural line on the ten thousand
acres of great American desert
abutting this burg on the east
1t needs but the application OF
water to make it bloom and bios.
som like a garden.
R. Smith. formerly master
mechanic for the Santa Fe at this
point. who left the first of last year
for Grand Junction to accept SINH.
lar position ON the Denver and Rio
Grande. has forsaken the occupation
in which he has been engaged for a
lifetime and gone back to first prin.
ciples tilllng the soil. He writes
to change the address of his great
family journal to Cedaredge, Colo,
which is located in the great Umcom-
pagahre Valley on the western slope,
and says: Il have bought eighty
acres Of land five miles from Cedar
edge, and intend to put in forty
acres Of fruit. and forty acres in
alfalfa and Irish potatoes. l have