La Junta tribune., 1910-01-15
Up and Down the Valley

Ihe ARKANSAS. AHu FurgAtOire were
blocked with ice gorges this winter
! for the first time in twenty-five years
I Swink is credited with having pro-
duced $500 tons of sugar during the
year 1903. Money paid TO growers
was s735. 900, and to field workers,
I $3.50. 900.
Some beet growers around Sugar
City had as much as thirty acres OF
/ bects yet In the ground. which made
rather blue Christmas for them.
There aye more people in Rocky
Ford at the present time than any
] time in It's history. There is a
scarcity OF houses for rent and the
demand Is growing daily. SO says one
OF the local newspaper organs.
The directors OF the Fort Lyon
Canal met In monthly session at Sec
retary Kreybill's office one day last
week c. w. Burke was reappointed
superintendent. n. l.. Lubers was re-
appointed attorney, and Ben Powell
reappointed AZ engineer.
December Just passed has the rec
ord for the highest prices for lambs
ever known so early in the season,
1890 hundred, while yearlings sold
for s. hundred. the highest price
ever known al any season OF the
year.-Bent County Democrat.
According TO Weather Observer
Joe Lawlcss. OF the Lamar Sparks.
his burg made record for weather
during the year 1909. The mean TEN.
perature was "a degrees. with 26s
perfectly clear days and only thirty
three on which the sun did not shine.
The total precipitation for the year
vas l2.02 inches.
Sugar City now has electric lights.
The Juice line from ordway was com
pleted into town on the last day OF
the old year. and the first light turn
cd on at l2:0l o'clock January !.
1910. The Bornschoin Brothers are
certainly hustlers and made good
with their contract IN spite OF the
weather conditions
Rocky Ford is now considering the
matter OF getting water for domestic
purposes from the Apishapa The
western slope boasts spring. the
water OF which, when taken with a
little pepper and salt, is said 10 taste
like turtle soup. But the Apishapa
water would probably have to be
chewed. In the good old summertime.
-Swink Advocate.
A new irrigation project is under
construction, twenty five miles south.
east OF Fowler. and the promoters ex.
pect that It viii be completed by
April iih a storage reservoir Is
being constructed which will hold
flood water for 1000 acres The
water will be- obtained from Two
Mile and Iron Bridge Arroyos There
Is still some government land under
the system which may be taken mp
The Rocky Ford Cantaloupc Grow
crs Association have awarded the con
tract for the handling OF the 1910
crop OF melons TO Crutchfleld a VII.
folk. OF Pittsburg. Pa. on practically
the same terms as was agreed upon
the past year. which Is evidence that
a majority OF the members of the a.
sociation are perfectly satisfied With
the treatment received the past sea.
son. T. J smlrl has been selected to
manage the business OF the associa-
tion In place OF A. C.. Sloan. resign.
ed-Rocky Ford Gazette
At a recent meeting OF the city
council OF Rocky Ford proposed con
tracts OF the Arkansas Valley Water
Company and the revised proposition
of the Pearl Springs Water Supply
Company to supply that burg with
water were read. After considerable
discussion aud addresses by Attorney
Goblin for the Pearl Springs people
and James McNecn for the Arkansas
Valley Water Supply Company. a mo-
ton was inadc TO take vote on the
proposition and the one receiving a
majority TO be taken up by the coun.
ell and considered. Tn. result Of the
balio, was four for the Pearl Springs
proposition and one for the Arkansas
Valley. Nothing definite Was done.