Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-10
COLORADO HAwkgYE SOCIETY.
Zig Picnic to Ee Held at Grand juno.
tion-5,O0O Nav Attend.

Grand Junction, Colo. Aug 10.-The
annual gathering of the Iowa clans for
western Colorado occurs in Grand
Junction this year on Aug IA Over
5 GOO one time sons of Iowa. who are
located on fruit farms in the Grand
valley. will attend the celebration and
hear Lieut.. Gov. Clarke of Iowa, deliver
the annual address. Preparations are
being made by the Grand Junction
Iowa day committee to make this meet
ing Of the Iowans memorable Special
trains are to be run into Grand juno
ton from up the Gunnison valley. in
which there are something like 1000
Iowa people, and from both ends of the
Grand valley.
Iowa men stand out prominently in
the history of the valley OF the Grand.
About the famous peach growing dis
trict of Palisade there are so many
Iowans from Guthrie Center that it is
often termed Little Guthrie" 1t was
Iowa men who led in the work of build
ing the first OF the great irrigation sys-
TENS that now irrigate 100000 acres in
| the Grand valley, and it was an Iowa
ma D. W. Aupperie. of Sibley. Iowa,
who fought persistently and finally sue
cessfully with the department of the
interior and secured the approval of he
government for the federal cons truction
of the great Grand valley ditch pro-
ject. The ditch is to be ffty-five miles
long and will irrigate 10000 acres Of
land, which is the richest in the valley.
Another Iowa man. Fred Barber, is
president of the Orchard Mesa irriga-
ton district. which this year is con-
structing 100000 irrigating project
which will water 10000 acres of fruit
land, across the Grand river from
Grand Junction. Still another group of
Iowa men. George and Frank Keifer,
planned and projected the Redlands ir-
rigation system. southwest of Grand
Junction, watering 1000 acres of land
In politics Senator Horace T. De Long
of Jasper county, Iowa, representing
Mesa and Delta counties, on the west
ern slope is a product of the Iowa sys-
tenn Of political endeavor. Senator De
Long is a leading republican in Colo
RADIO and is especially prominent in his
fight, which was successful. to secure
the passage of the local option law.
The Grand valley was opened to
settlement In 1881. The townsite of
Grand Junction was laid out by Gov
ernor Crawford. of Kansas and Senator
James w. Bucklin. who is today pres
dent of the charter convention. Among
the first settlers from Iowa in this
county was colony from Storm Lake.
Senator De Long came in 1896. Frank
MeClintock Of Fayette county, was
among the first. He brought his fam
lily here in 1852. His son, H. L. Nc
C1intock is deputy district attorney. A..
G. Newton. at one time newspaper
man in Des Moines. and later owner
of the Grand Junction Daily News,
which he sold last year, is now one Of
the valleys leading fruit growers. The
present editor of the Daily News is
4. A. Bickel, who was associated with
the Davenport Republican and Daven-
port Times for some years. Within a
radius OF twelve miles Of Grand juno
ton there are 500 men from Guthrie
Center, and there are more Iowa people
in the Grand valley than traa. eli other.
states combined.