Rocky Ford enterprise., 1910-06-24
ADDRESS FROM
N TOWN 1 DOCTOR
Draws Big Audience of Towr
People
MANY VALUABLE
SUGGESTIONS
For the Bettermsnt and Increased
II Growth Of Rocky Ford 1.-THE
Ideal City Of Homes

municipal specialist of note, address
ed large and representative meeting
of the business men, citizens and
farmers of the community in Dyes
Theatre last Thursday evening.
The town doctors" address was
the most interesting and instructive
that has ever been heard in Rocky
Ford along similar lines, and many
suggestions were made that will be
of great future benefit to this city.
lie scheduled our assets and liabili-
ties as follows:
Assets.
Choice. agricultural section
Choice diversified section.
Stock section.
Fruit section.
Fine climate.
On main line Of railroad.
Irrigation section.
Sugar beet industry and factory
and office.
Cantaloupe section and reputation.
Stores and banks.
Schools and churches.
Lumber yards.
Commercial club and paid secretary.
Carnegie library.
Seed houses.
Elks. Odd Fellows. X. P. and Ma
Chautauqua and lyceum courses.
Lights. water works, sewers. etc.
FIGURING mill.
Ice plant.
Bottling works.
Steam laundry.
Fair grounds.
Watermelon Day.
Three newspapers.
Foundry.
Opera House.
Hospital.
Ssrk opportunities.
Lack of diversified industrials-too
much one thing.
No railroad competition.
Not county seat. which means
larger and live town.
Road men inclined to boost La
Junta at Rocky Ford's expense. Are
your hotels boosting?
Your business men are satiatcd
with easy success, and letting things
drift; dangerous. as other competi-
tive towns are ready to beat you out.
Proximity to Pueblo.
Money goes out of town on wild
cat schemes, such as mining. land
drawing, and stocks Of doubtful char
acter.
Unscheduled Assets.
The specialist offered the follow
of our civic condition, not all of which
can be carried out by any means, but
some of them will undoubtedly be
tried in the near future:
A limited commercial club with
membership of two hundred and q
waiting list. and membership fee OF
ten dollars at least, with mountain
OF work always on hand as a means
to keep the industrial blood in circu-
lation. The body to be so aggressive
that it will dominate all other infiu-
enccs in the community absolutely.
A farmers wife's rest room. Con-
venicnt ground floor preferably. with
easy chairs and literature; in charge
of the clubs lady stenographer, and
in which also. shall be the desk OF the
commercial secretary. These rooms
t0nbe primarily rest room for out oi
Il In trade. but also the headquar-
te1,of the commercial club; also th'
headquarters for the Y. NJ. c. A..
Sunday meetings until you have 8
$4,000 Y. NJ. c. A. building and
dormitory which urge you to pro
mote at once.
do not know how much you ar,
paying your commercial secretary, bu,
the job is worth $4,000 a year.
The commercial club committee to
go after and get an alfalfa mill foi
Rocky Ford. and perhaps two.
A commercial club advertising COM
mittce to raise fund Of not less than
$4,000. better $4,000. to advertise ma
,ionally the Rocky Ford cantaloupes
Your opportunity is great to keep IN
the nations eye, by a national cam
paiQn the next two or three months
Let other cantaloupc sections adver'
tise Rocky Ford by advertising Rock,
Ford cantaloupcs II they wish; but
you advertise Rocky Ford eanta'
loupes by advertise the dates they
come on the market through the met
ropolitan papers in the market cen
tiers.
A commercial club committee tt
prepare plans to promote an interur
ban railroad system north, south, cas-
and west from your city. You car
and ! urge this subject upon your at
tention as one of your greatest op
portunities. Build 1t yourself.
Your commercial club should ait
your seed men to advertise Rock,
Ford as a great seed center, and 20.
should endeavor to get large see'
farm established here. =.
You should have comercial clui
committee to promote and bring t'
Rocky Ford a good nursery.
You should have a good greer
house growing winter vegetables. ant
this should be incorporated by loca
capital.
Nhu should have a commercial gar
den truck farm incorporated. To bu!
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