The Glenwood post., 1909-10-23

ois land that is producing fifty bushels
of corr is considered worth one hundred
and fifty dollars per acre and if 1t is
actually worth that figure what is the
value Of Colorado land that will pro-
duce sixty to one hundred dollars in
sugar beets, one hundred to one hun
dred and seventy-fve dollars per acre
in potatoes. as many Garfield county
fields are doing this year, or sixty to
seventy five dollars in alfalfa or two
hundred to six hundred dollars in fru':
as can be shown from the shipping re-
ceipts from numerous orchards in the
upper Grand valley? AS asked before,
who eau adequately and justly place
valuation on land of such wonderfully
productive possibilities
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THE POST 1Sr for everything that
tends to improve and develop this new
country. Everything in the way of de
velopment and making productive that
which has heretofore remained idle and
dormant cannot help but prove bcnc-
fit to the whole country or community.
That is why we have long hoped that
some one would in some way water
the dry land in the Autlers-5ilt see
That is why we record with pleasure
the effort of j. NJ. and o. V. Coulter
to water a great tract of land by reser-
voir, taking water from Rifle creek,
and that is why we are glad to see
Perry Coryell working on project
for the irrigation of a splendid tract Of
land from East Elk creek and the reu-
son We look with favor upon several
other irrigation projects which if com
pleted will add several thousand acres
to the productive area of Garfield
county.
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1T DOES one good to see the bust
ness-like manner in which the Antlers
Orchard Development company has set
about to reclaim great tract of arid
land at Silt and Antlers. Work will
soon start on the dam of the big reser-
| voir which by its increased capacity
will water nearly three thousand acres
which has never known artificial riiois
ture. The work on the survey of the
new ditch has been begun. Contracts
for the building of twenty-five miles
Of fence have been let. Several hun
| dred acres will be set to fruit trees
next spring and we shall soon see =
mighty change in the appearance of
things in that section. Not content
! with causing two blades of grass 20
grow where but one grew before the
| company proposes to cause thousands
of thrifty fruit trees to grow and bios
! som and fruit where only sagebrusb
| has been seen heretofore.
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THE ENEMIES of conservation and
forest preservation who seem to be call
ed upon to attack on every possible oc
! casiOn Mr. Pinchot and his forestry
policy are wasting a lot of ammuni-
tion and all to no purpose, for PresiIen.
Taft has put the seal of his approval
on Pinchot and his methods and poll
cies and the farmers and stockmen are
coming more and more every day to the
belief which the Post promulgated from
the beginning, viz: that there is much
more of good than evil in the federal
| forestry policy and that the bad can
be eliminated quicker by practicirg
| reason and common sense than by the
destructive tear down policy which the
rabids adopted a few years ago. Steady.
boys, steady, it will all come out in the
wash.
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THE GROWING of sugar beets has
proved wonderfully profitable indus
try for Colorado. 1t is now q business
of gigantic proportions and many
farmers have grown wealthy by the
cultivation of this crop which but
few years ago was unknown in the
United States. But, just as the Post
predicted ten years ago, the time has
not yet come, and we do not believe it
ever will come when, taken one year
with another, the sugar beet will com
pare creditably in wealth producing
power with the potato in Garfield ceuu
ty. Fewer sugar beets and more po:a-