The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1909-10-30
LANDS IN COLORADO.
To Be Had Cheap and on Easy Terms,
Says VIM. O'NeiII.


Says VIM. o'NeiII.
The writer of the following COM
munication, VIM. ONeill of Currie.
Mimi. was appointed in 1906 by the
national officers of the Ancient Order
Of Hibernians as an adviser on lands
for the entire order in the United
the consideration of those who con.
template the procuring of homesteads
in the west.
Editor Irish Standard:-
I am surprised to see thousands
tiocking to South Dakota to gamble for
government land and then have to nav
for it, too, and lose their homestead
right for 100 acres, when they can
get fine land, as good or better, in XII,
Carson county, Colorado, ready to
plow. in good and proven farming
country, where the crops are there to
show. There they can get not 100.
but 800 acres as a free gift, only
10 make 1T your nome.
The actual expense (besides railroad
fare). for livery hire, locating, making
out papers and paying land office fees
is only sS5,-no more principal nor
interest for ever. spent a month at
harvest time out there. 1 stacked
wheat there as fine as ever grew (no
irrigation), on our field of 500 acres.
They raise everything we do here
and some things we don't raise here.
I have located 142 miles east It
Denver. We can ship our cream there
for SO cents Il can Go gallons), and
get back the cans free. Denver is a
higher market for cream, eggs and
poultry than Minneapolis. About Aug.
l saw young chickens selling whole
sale there at % cents a pound, and
it is a fine climate for raising them.
Kit Carson county is 1000 feet above
sea level. The winters are short, be-
ing so far south, and in summer the
dry, breezy, bracing air neutralizes the
SUMS monday heat. The nights are
always remarkably cool.
Cattle and horses grow fast and
fatten, running out every day in the
year on the free, open prairie. But
most farms save hay now to help over
stormy wintef days. and they raise
corn, sugar cane kaffir corn, milo
maize and millet, to keep spring.
like flow Of milk coming from ther
cows all fall and winter. With your
own 800 acres fenced and your. COWS
on free grass, 1T is an easy matter
to live when a family have, say 10 to
Is cows and take care of them. Water
Is pure and plenty; not a stone OF
boulder to strike your pillow in the
whole country. But you find flat lime
| rock cropping out of bluffs along the
creeks. The soil is q rich chocolate
loan, with sometimes a small frac-
ton of sand, and in some places quite
good deal of sand; but we need not
take the sandy land now. In a very
few years it will all be taken. Lumber
for building is about as cheap as IN
Minnesota, and coal is about the same
price as in Southern Minnesota.
Macaroni wheat is so cents, and q
fine crop. Corn was fine when I left
there. Decided land can be bought
cheap and on easy terms. Nowhere u
there such a certainty Of q sure and
rapid advance in price.
I am trying to. found Catholic COL
ony there, and would be glad to show
a lot of our friends that great land. II
they can go on Nov. I'd or 10th, l hope
they will write me. On the first and
third Tuesdays of each month you can
buy a Denver return ticket cheap, and
stop off with me at stratton, Colorado,
on the Rock Island, road, west of ON.
aha. If friends of the A.. O. H. .r
any Catholic will write me for further
particulars I will cheerfully reply. ~
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