Semi-weekly herald., 1909-10-18
COLORADO NEWS.

| Five men received penitentiary sen.
tences at Grand Junction at the close
OF the district court term Tuesday,
Mostly for stealing.
NJ ID. and John A. Thatcher started
the ball rolling for the Pueblo Y. NJ.
G. A. building with $4,000. and C..
w. Crews with S. 900. And there out,h:
to be fifty men IN Pueblo able to give
one thousand each
Recent reports show that the Gree.
ley potato harvest is better than ex-
pectcd and the crop will be at least
SO per cent Of normal Farmers who
| expected rs to 90 sacks an acre are
getting 1926, and II ihis condition pre-
walls over the county the crop will
be almost normal
Colorado has more apples In car
lead lots this year than have Oregon
Washington, Idaho, Montana and NV
Mexico, all of which are apple pro
ducing states. combined. This Is the
1 consensus of opinion of apple experts
all over the west, including the pub.
fishers of Better Fruit, the foremost
| apple publication of the country. and
Clinton L. Oliver, secretary of the
Colorado State Horticultural associa-
tion. The apple crop of Colorado is
this year worth S4,OO0,0OO.
| By its action In creating q teach.
ers' retirement fund, the Greeley
school district is first in the state
to take advantage of the retirement
law passed by the last legislature.
The district levied one-tenth Of a mill
tax on the assessed valuation of he
district, which gives fund of $3.50
q year, which may be increased by
donations. legacies. etc. To come un
der the law. man must be so years
Old. and woman 80. and each have
been In active service as teacher
for % years. OF which not less than
fifteen years mnst be In the district
| The worlds champion len mile
| Marathon race was pulled off at The
Alamosa fair grounds Tuesday after
noon. The entries wers: Saul Halyye,
the Grand Junction Indian: Hurry
Shovelton, winner of The Port Mar
athon race; Roy Johnson, Salt Lake
City champion; Cejestino Ortego, the
San Luis valley runner; andrew
Johnson of Denver. and Ted ilorse of
Chicago. The race resulted as fol-
lows: Halyve first, time 50 minutes
and ~ seconds; Harry Shovelton, sec
,ond, GO minutes; Roy Johnson. third,
62 minutes and AZ seconds. Two spe.
cial trains brought in about 500 peo-
pie from Del Norte. Antonito and
surrounding towns.
Scarcely ever has the adapability
of Colorado as an apple producing
state been better demonstrated than
In the case of DR.. e. A. Miller of
Austin on the Surface Creek mesa,
eight miles from Delta, who has just
sold from the trees the 1909 crop from
his forty-acre orchard. for $4,000, ac,
cording to advices received by Sec.
lretary oliver of the State Horticultural
| t"SSoNi"'ioh. Nniit luiS may 5etiH
fair margin of profit, Mr. Miller's ap
pies as matter Of fact brought him
less than 81 per box. There are on
the average of eighty trees on each
acre, and the trees are expected to
average ten boxes of apples TO the
tire. According to this estimate OF
the buyer. a Chicago fruit buying syn
didate. there will be 80 900 boxes pick.
led from all the trees in the Miller
orchard. The price paid. $4,000, makes
1t clear that the apples will bring
considerable less than 81 box
} The San Luis Canal company has
plans out for the building of a big
reservoir in the San Luis valley north
: of Alamosa in Costilla county and have
} taken preliminary steps to supply
themselves with reservoir water for
the purpose of irrigating 100000 acres
of land. The land in question is north
or just across the Rio Grande river
+. in Costilla county. This reservoir
when completed. 1t is predicted will
double the population of Alamosa The
J San Luis Canal company proposes to
organize an irrigating district.