Semi-weekly herald., 1910-09-19
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company The basement will be used
for wareroom and storage. the first
floor for The general merchandise. the
balcony for the display OF goods. The
second floor In to be divided into
lofiicc and lodge rooms and a banquet
hail This company was organized
in 1905 and succeeded the firm OF
Graf, johnson and Hunter with j A.
Johnson. W A Hunter. r. G. Graf and
NJ A, Mahany as stockholders. It has
enjoyed an uninterrupted period OF
prosperity, the capital having grown
from $4,000 to $4,000. and the mum
ber Of stockholders increased TO
twelve, most of whom are well known
business men and fruit growers In and
around Farmlnston.
The electric light plant has recently
been purchased by company headed
by r. l.. Knowles They Will spend
in the ucighborhood OF 100000 In i'm.
lproyoments
DIR, sammons and DR. Smith start
this week to erect hospital that
VIII be modern in all ita equipments.
The new addition to the Grand hotel
Is just being completed. The cost OF
construction was 10000. Tho hotel
now has fifty rooms all furnished in
an artistic, comfortable and sanitary
way. and the service is exceedingly
good The long porch and the park are
lsplendid resting places which afford an
excellent view of the town. Delicious
fruit and choice vegetables laden the
tables of this modern hoatelry The
hospitality dispensed by mine host All.
len and his good wife is OF the variety
that makes one desire to stay indefi.
nitely
Last spring In opposition to the
wishes OF some OF the towns progress
sive citizens an Improvement district
was formed and four and one-haf
blocks OF cement sidewalks on either
side of Main street ordered construct
cd Tho work 10 well under way now
and all are so much pleased with the
permanent improvement that second
district is being formed which viii in.
clnde Ave and one-half miles of terri.
tory.
The town boasts of two banks, which
are safe financial repositories, having
shown healthy growth.
There are at least half dozen we'll
stocked mercantile establishments
The two live newspapers, the Times.
fIngfIpH "a mi
conventional function of boosting
Editor Staplin of the Enterprise IL the
leading spirit In the mercantile firm
that bears his name Judging by the
large volume Of business transacted
by The company he Is destined to dwell
on t. u. streets far from the haunts
of members OF the newspaper frater-
nifty.
A ride through the farming section
will convince the most skeptlcal that
the property values fully warrant the
growth the town is now enjoying
The ranch owned by George Allen,
about two miles east of town, Is the
Mecca for all visitors Mr.. Aliens or
chard contains not TO exceed fourteen
acres. From four and half acres of
peach trees he has this season sold
1000 boxes and will market fully
1000 more within the next fortnight
This fruit has been shipped as far
east as pittsburg and as far south as
Atlanta Mr. Allen refuses to make
an estimate of his probable profits. but
those In position to know state that
the peaches will net him 80 cents a
box. or Il total Of $500, Not many
years to the rearward had 1t been
predicted that such a profit could have
been realized from that amount OF land
in this section. the one making The
prediction would have been hurried
back to the asylum for further treat.
ment. To be sure this phenomena.
yield is the result of Inteingent and
skillful farming on the part OF Mr.
Allen who knows the possibilities OF
his land from n to 2. Nor are his ef
forts confined to horticulture A mag
nificent seventy-fiye acre field of al
falfa from which third cutting had
already been taken was another evil
dence Of his ranch capabilities.
A near neighbor of Mr.. Aliens. Mr.
Blackjack, who Is famed for his cherry
crop, has brown ricks OF alfalfa which
nov mold 1000 tons and the field con
tsins another growth which will soon
Increase the stacks already dotting
the landscape
]. d. Clark, the land man who tells
the new conner that this is the great
est section on earth, owns the goods
to back his statement Not great
distance from The town limits Mr.
Clark Is Joint proprietor with Attor-
ney Edwards in one of the finest
twenty-aere orchards that ever graced
any country The land is watered
with pumping plant
f. A Boorman has been In the
section more than third of cen.
tury. Mir. Boofman says he came there
when he was in just before the coffin
stage OF tuberculosis trouble but he