The Raymer enterprise. (New Raymer, Weld County, Colo.) 1910-19??, 1910-11-03
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth Telling.

IL IdttleSuukeb uTe as numerous at
Platteville next season as this, a com.
pany will be formed to undertake
snake killing for profit and sell the
skins for belts, etc.
Contractors and force of so men
have begun the first work on the state
highway between Grand Junction and
Delta. The road will have maximum
grade Of four per cent.
Not only is the saccharing content
of the 1910 sugar beet in Colorado
higher by one per cent than that of
last years product, but the yield by
the acre in tons is higher.
T. II. Kibby. a pioneer ranchman of
Johnstown, has the banner beet crop
Of that locality. His 100 acres is
yielding twenty-four tons per acre and
the beets are testing eighteen per
cent sugar. selling for Sc per ton.
The county commissioners have ap.
pointed H. w. Cooper, manager of the
Morgan County Herald. as representa-.
tive of the county to the United States
Land and Irrigation exposition. which
opens in the Coliseum IN Chicago No
vember 10.
At Fort Lupton following an opera.
tion in which the entire under portion
of bis right jaw was removed and two.
thirds Of the left one cut out In an
effort to cure an unusual disease
known as big jaw" P. NJ. Ramsdell.
aged As, pioneer butcher, died Fri.
day Of the malady.
One Of the best beet crops reported
In Greeley this season is that of The
odore Kibby, a farmer living near
Johnst0wn, who has 100 acres which
are yielding an average of "a tons per
acre. His income from beets at 100
tons per day nets him 5000 eve;v
twelve hours, as they are testing Sc a
ton In sugar.
c. ]. Hartman, manager OF the
Greeley and Denver railroad COM
pany, and J. F. Farmer have invented
an automatic switch, which Is being
installed on the company's tracks.
Another new device invented by local
men Is an automatic lubricator, which
Is designed to eliminate the greasing
OF curves by hand.
Land which he secured from Uncle
Sam for $500 five years ago is val.
ued by James E. Graham at $32, 900.
He has Just made final proofs on his
800 acres, eight miles northeast of
Greeley. Graham secured that lani
by paying rs cents an acre down and
81 an acre every year. He estimates
his crop profits at $4,000 a year.
Mrs. Mabel Crouter. wife Of Charles
Crouter, now of Wheatland, formerly
a Greeley girl, Miss Mabel Hill, is a
candidate for the state legislature IN
Wyoming and is the only woman up
for election to the legislature In that
state. Mrs. Crouter was the daugh.
ter of A. Hill, pioneer of Weld coun-
ty, after whom the town OF Hills.
brough was named.
The Great Western will run a spe.
cial passenger train from Eaton to
Longmont next Saturday to carry the
Eaton football team and several hun
dred rooters. The Eaton team will
play the Longmont boys and the
game will be hard fought one. The
leans are about evenly matched and
he test will prove which Is the cham.
pion In the Northern Colorado Inter.
Collegiate League probably.
Having fought desperately for
months to live until November 10th.
At the end Of which time he could
make final proof on his homestead,
G. Hemingway, living two miles
northeast Of Num-. died Sunday, after
off October Both on the cal.
'ndar and saying, II believe will
I've ten days more" Hemmlngway
'ame from Boulder to this region five
'ears ago suffering with miners con.
He located on the home.
'tead and then began the struggle for
iealth. His widow and two children
VIII continue to live on the land, upon
which the widow will be allowed to
make the final proof.
The main road between Grand
Junction and Pallsade has been thor.
'ughly dragged by the farmers who
I've along It's length and as a result
he autoists report that te road has
lever been In such remarkably good
II Is smooth as a floor.
eveled off nicely, free from ruts,
'ticks and stones and an automobile
'an attain fifty miles per nour on its
'urface without danger. or even great.
'r speed. The farmers hope to always
70 able to keep the road In such excel.
ent shape and feel that they have
rue grounds for complaining Of the
condition Of the streets In Grand
Junction, which at present are any.
hing but good.