Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-12-06
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Mrs. Dorothy Bahringer returned
Tuesday from Rocky Ford, where she
had been working for the Royal
Neighbor lodge.-Holly Call.
A large delegation OF Sugar City
Elks went to Rocky Ford last Monday
| night to assist in initiating into that
order one, Teddy Nashus, says the
Saccharine Gazette.
Miss Gertrude Crawford has return
ed to Holly after an extended So
journ in Rocky Ford. and has already
| resumed her duties as night operator
| at the telephone exchange.-Holly
Chieftain.
Lawrence Lubers, who has been in
the laboratory of the sugtr factory
here. left the middle of the week for
Rocky Ford where he will be employ
ed in a similar position until the cam
paign is finished thcre.-Las Animas
Democrat.
J. G. Given, who now resides at
Rocky Ford. came down to Holly
Monday and cried j. w. Wright
sale the following day. We are told
things brought good prices. general
ly speaking. Given is hard to beat
at his business.-Holly Call.
The average sugar content of beet
grown i'll this section the present year
is said to be .I6H per cent. which
makes $6.o5 the average price for
beets. This season has been most
profitable one FOR the valley farmers,
not only have beets yielded well. bu,
all small grains. hay and other crops.
-Swink Advocate
Mr.. Walter Kellogg. superintend
cnt of the American Beet Sugar Co.,
factory at Lamar, has been promote,
and will have the management of the
Las Animas factory i'll the future.
Assistant Superintendent Zitkowsk
will be first assistant. b. l.. Balm
will he night Observation-Disclosures
Register.
G.. A. Dahlgren started work this
week on a $4,000 apartment house
which is being erected by the Amcri-
can Beet Sugar company for their
employees on a ranch owned by the
company four miles west of Rocky
Ford. known as the west ranch. :"
The building will be constructed OF
brick. with lounging room, bath room
and every modern -equipmcnt.--La
Junta Tribune.
The new water plant on the north
side is so~far completed that the final
test was made last week and the peo-
new wells. The old plant was shut
down last Saturday. probably for good
and all and will later be dismantlct
and the machinery moved into this
new building and when this is done
La Junta will have one OF the fines
| water works systems oil any city o.
its size in the state, reports the Free
rress.
Sam Mathews, who at Newdale thi,
summer had as fine a cantaloupc acre
age as there was in the entire valley.
was i'll Fowler a few days ago. Mr.
Mathews wante dto lease three hun
drcd acres just west OF Fowler. clost
to siding nthe Santa Fc, where h,
could open up shipping station 10
melons. He expected to put the en-
tire three hundred acres in canta.
loupcs, and offered cash rent. Tn
ground in question. however. had al
ready been spoken for. and Mr.
Mathews went home disappointed
Fowler Tribune.
The active canning season closed
week ago at the local factory, says tht
Manzanola Sun. While the season
was not entirely satisfactory to th'
management or the farmers, on ac-
count of there being no cherries ant
She uniavorablc weather during tho
ripcning season for tomatoes. yet i.
was so much better than last yeai
that no serious complaint can b,
made. The total pack for this yeai
amounted to 10000 cases. OF this
amount 5000 cases of gooseberric'
were canned. 1900 cases OF beans, 42oi
cases of tomatoes and 1000 cases Of
pumpkin. making in all about IS cars
OF canned goods.
One of the most successful sugar
making campaigns in the history OF
the Holly Sugar company ended last
Friday at noon after a continuou;
run of this model factory of iorty-ive
days and nights. says the Holly Chief
tain. The magnificent sum of Si55.
900 has been disbursed to farmers
factory employees and others; proba-
bly, the largest sum ever paid out ir
single campaign i'll this section.
The past season has been exception
ally favorable for the sugar industry
and the yield both in quantity and
quality has been far above the aver
age. Some of the crops ran as high
as ? per cent in sugar content. a
number of farmers have harvested as
much as. 100 acres.
General Manager E. c. Howe Of
Denver and Valley Manager Geo.
Noble OF Rocky Ford. visited the La
mar factory of the American Beet
Sugar Co. last week. and were high
~ pleased with the inspection OF the
work done here this year. says the
Register 1t has been by far the
most satisfactory campaign ever made
in the Lamar factory. The tonnage OF
hects handled has hccn larpcr than