Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-11-17

How Florence and Trinidad do their share,
Together they make a very fine pair
Both have coal. one has oil.
| Which make for them u lot of toll.
Manzanola is hard to beat,
How Rocky Ford never takes n back seat,
Why La Junta is doing fine,
Also Las Animas along the same line.
| OF Lamar. Il most royal host.
| Good Holly is added to our toast,
| Sugar City and Ordway did no wrong.
When they left and said, 30 long,
We extend hearty welcome,
To the visitors far and near
| And expect great words of wisdom,
From the Mayors assembled here.
Rhoady Kenehau, state treasur-
er, addressed the banqueters and
attempted to square himself for
his failure to "dig up" the water
defense fund and shifted the
blame for the road improvement
fund and Agricultural College ap-
preparation, both of which are held
up, onto Senator Crowley, Repre-
sentative Baxter and their COL
leagues in the last general as
sembly.
Representative Baxter spoke for
the "Farmers of the Arkansas
Valley" DR.. u. T. Roberts for
the "Board of Aldermen, City
Clerk North on "Why the Mayors
Meeting" and Mayor Coffman on
"Why We are Proud of Rocky
Ford" as follows:
1--WE are the best known little
town in the world. We have ov-
er 1000 church members, and ov-
err 1400 school children in our
schools. Pretty good for town
of 1000 people. We have no sa-
looms, and but very little gamb-
ling or boot-legging, or their
kindred vices.
1--WE have more trees and finer
parks, better stores, better banks,
better schools, better churches,
better men, prettier women and
more babies than any other town
in the valley. We have a good
supply of the finest and best ar
tesian water in the state. We
have the finest fair grounds To-
Gated on the first timber claim
ever entered under the desert
tree claim act in the United
States. We have the best fair
every year that is held in the
state. This is the home of that
luscious fruit, Rocky Ford can
taloupes and watermelons, which
is known the world over.
1--WE have the largest and best
sugar beet factory, with the most
popular manager of anywhere in
the west. Whenever Fred is
around the people rise up and
call him Noble. With a monthly
pay roll to employees of $50, 600. 90
and to the farmers they pay year
ly $3.50, 10000. The factory is
worth more than 1000, 900. 90
and their 5000 acres of land worth
81, O0O, OOO.OO more.
1.-The actual truth about Rocky
Ford and vicinity sounds like a
fairy tale. Fruit yielding from
$500. 90 to more than 81, 90
per acre. An acre of canteloupes
yielding from $4,000 to $500.0 90
an acre. An acre of sugar beets
yielding as high as 20 to 35 tons
per acre, bringing the farmer
from from $100. 90 to $200.00 per
acre, this of course is what the
farmer gets. The consumers that
buy these delicacies pay much
more. The cantaloupes the far
mers get from S1O0. 90 to $500. 90
cost the consumers on an aver
age of about 81, 200. an acre.
So it is with the sugar beets far
mers get from $1,000 to $500. 90
per acre the consumer pays from
$3.50. 90 to $500.00 for the sugar
that comes off an acre. But
while Rocky Ford we think is the
queen city of the most fertile and
productive valley in the world.
Not excepting that world re-
nowned valley of the Nile.
"Yet it is the people of Rocky
Ford and vicinity that has cap
tured me and captures everybody
that meets them. Their hospi-
tality is unbounded, their kind
ness is world renowned. Why,
to be mayor of Rocky Ford. is
greater than to be a king. When
a man is elected mayor of Rocky
Ford everybody gets behind him
and boosts. The motto of our
/ town is to every one that comes