La Junta tribune., 1910-02-26
UPspDOWN
THE
VALLEY

TEN" flour. best In the market.
Every sack guaranteed or money re
iualrd.-La Junta Milling Company
i~lstol, over on the alfalfa branch
OF The Santa Fe. is to have its forty
tou alfalfa meal mill doubled in capa-
CITY
ae Farmers Union at Las Animas
d'.Nuds flat rate of So per ton for
b'"'s Nothing slow about the Far.
m"rs' Union.
81 Rocky Ford the automobile in
dn..ry is booming. Five new ma
ch,ns were added to the list of those
owned by citizens OF that burg last
wnrk.
Dodge City recently organized and
inrorporated Commercial Club with
a capital stock OF $4,000, all of the
stuok subscribed being taken by bust.
ne men and residents of that vi
ciury
W \. Colt, of Las Animas, recently
ro,aE ed from Little Rock. Ark. a
carload shipment OF twenty-four work
oA"n to be used in plowing on the
Adobe Greek reservoir and bitches.
Iwo drivers came with the oxen.
a. Fowler the alfalfa meal factory
Is making hay whether the sun shines
OF not, Thirty men are employed.
nieh. and day, and the factory is
shipping from three to six cars OF
noaI every twenty four hours.
Rocky Ford is going to strictly en-.
for the ordinance forbidding the
ke"p.ng of hogs in town. With hogs
selling at $40 per hundred on the
kUUa1s City market II looks as though
tn breed was worth cultivating.
Harry Millbouse, the star twirler
OF .a" local base ball team last sea
soH has been signed by the Pueblo
sta league team. Harry's friends
dowu here are confident he will make
goud In this fast company - Sac
charno Gazette.
The Rocky Ford basket ball team
wa cain defeated by the Lamar
team last Friday evening. The sue.
ces uu OF defeats is lecoming mono
tonnus and Il would be most wei
com change could we chronicle even
ono rtory for the home boys. Rocky
For Enterprise.
oriway will soon be advertised by
a ldNIG foot sign placed south OF the
par, where II can be seen by all
pa ing through on trains. The sign
viii be surmounted by large pie.
'ufc Of pile OF cantaloupes. which
VII look good enough to eat.
w. X. Winterhalter. chief agricul-
iurist OF the American Beet Sugar
company. will begin his annual lee
ture tour the first OF the coming
month. Those interested in the scien-
fific method OF raising sugar beets
hould attend these lectures as they
wlll afford many valuable suggestions
re garding the profits to be derived
rom scientific beet culture. Rocky
Ford Gazette.
Colorado lambs at $3.50 were a fea.
'ure Of the sheep market Ia Kansas
City one day last week. as that was
he highest price paid for lambs since
last May. There were 400 head In
The shipment and they averaged sew.
pounds. They were fed by
gorge Terpening. OF Prowers county,
aud was the second shipment out OF
q bunch Of 5000.
Sugar City is In the throcs OF
q prospective wet and dry" cam
paign. The town has been dry for
arly two years and the twenty-thres
mpnths' time limit period, provided b,
the local option law. is about to ex'
p,re. Upon petition OF forty per cent
0i the voters the question can be sub
lifted The Gazette expresses the
uninion that conditions In Sugar City,
after two years OF drouth. are tho
est they have ever been since the
town was founded morally. financial
b. and infinitely better than under
Tho old order of things.