The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-06-26
INTERESTING COLORADO LETTER
L. D. Mudd Writes of his Trip and
Experiences In the Centennial
State. interesting Facts
About the Country.
Boulder Colo, June 2, 1908.

Ing When L returned from trip to
north part of Col, and Southeast
Wyo ming, was gone four days and
saw quite good deal of the finest
country | ever laid my eyes on.
Mr.. Dams brother-in.law Charley
Davis and and real estate man
started from here on May 25, and
took the Colorado & Southern
r. r. to Greedy, distance of 20
miles, passed Longmont and
Loveland and Ft. Collins on the
way. All of these towns have a
population of from 5000 to 5000,
and are all surrounded by some
exceedingly fine agricultural
lands, mostly under irrigation
which range in value from SS5 to
probably $500 per acre according
to location, improvements, size of
farm etc., but the crops they raise
is immense, they raise on their
best lands under the best cultiva-
tion as much as $50 bushels of
onions per acre and of potatoes
700 bushels, beats 32 tons. Alfalfa
s tons, wheat so bushels, oats and
barley 100 to 125 bushels, of course
as l said this is the high limit.
One man told me that he had
piece of very heavy bottom land
where the sewerage of Greedy had
effected, that made nearly 700 bu
of onions. The best land in the
Greedy territory where they raise
the famous potatoes rents as high
as $50 per acre, but usually about
$50 so you see one can afford to
pay high price for such land.
We left Greedy Tuesday morning
on the U. P. r. R. and went north
% miles to the new town Mum,
and this trip covered the broadest
expanse of fine level land we have
seen any where and about one
third is not under water and the
dry land sells at about Is TO 20
dollars per acre, the former price
for unimproved land and the lat
ter for fenced land. l heard of
sec. (64O acres) of fine level land
all fenced, room house, barn,
40 acres in corn and oats together
with 3 good horses, II head of cat
tie some hogs, chickens, farm
implements, good surrey and all
household goods, good well of
soft water etc, the entire for SIS
per acre, but | think from what l
have heard it can be bought for
S12 per acre. This land has no
irrigation but there is two chances
to get water, one from proposed
ditch which | am quite sure will
be built and the other is from a
reservoir which | am told has al
ready been located and one third
interest in which has been offered
me at about S4500. The ditch
spoke of will be built but I don't
know if the location will be above
this land or not, if it is above, it
can be watered from it at about
S25 to $40 per acre, and then the
farm will be worth S100 per acre
There is considerably dry farm.
ing done in this vicinity and oc.
casionly they raise good crops. ]
l saw one piece of land 800 acres
that raised so bushels per acre ir
1905. will have to tell you abou
Greedy, town of 5000 people ant
the cleanest and incest city I evel
saw and property there is higher
than any place have yet been, i
is surrounned by the best country
I ever saw, and one thing thu
people pride themselves on ant
say is the cause of 1t being so mic,
and up-to-date is the fact tha
there was never any whisky solo
there as beverage and l heart
several business men say that if il
was possible to start a saloon ther'
and one should open up 'property
would depreciate from 25 to 80 pc
cent another thing that show
the sentiment of the people o
Greedy, which is the County sea
of Wald Co. Colo, is the fact tina
an ex-saloon keeper, who is wortl
over 100000 violated the dram
shop laws is now serving a si
months jail sentence after takin
, his oaae To the aunrama court an