The Greeley tribune., 1912-01-04
GREAT THINGS IN STORE
FOR GREELEY AND WELD
DURING COMING YEAR

r. S. Pinney, Secretary OF No. 2
Ditch:
~ had 100 acres in spuds lase
year. Today l am buying potatoes
to cook. Nevertheless, not fosa
Of my land IL for sale at less price
than l would have asked year ago
The mountains are full of snow, No.
2 reservoir Is already half full q
water, with q good head still run
ming; Terry lake is nearly as well
fixed, and other reservoirs are fA
good shape. Every present proc
pt>ct points to a good year. To ~
fellow spud growers who were -
hard hit as l, my advice Is, keep .
stiff upper lip, and go to 1t again."
f. ]. Decker, banker and ranch
man:
matters are getting to a sound
basis. People are adjusting thet1
business to meet present conditions.
Expenses are being cut. The coun-
try is as good as 1t ever was, and
there is no reason to he discOur-
aged. We can't expect to have fat
years always. l believe the outlook
for fairly prosperous year in town
and country over northern Colorado
was never better"
Paul barrow, gas man:
"There will he more debts paid
and less autos bought, for pleasure
alone, in 1912. Less money viii
be sent out of the county and state
in fool investments. The average
man will have a good deal more net
profit to show for his years work
Al
I We have more orders for gas install
latiOn next spring than we had At
this time last year. With fairly
conservative management, I do nos
believe any business man need feed
blue over the prospects,
Harry II. Shaw. merchant and
farmer:
'I have every confidence in the
future Of Greeley and Weld county.
We have the best country on earth,
| and the law of averages must work
here as elsewhere. Conditions win
improve Just as rapidly as they
went to pieces. Tllis is no permanent
backset, either for the farmer or ths
business man. Weather and watev
conditions are better now than for
five years. and there is nothing IN
the business atmosphere to discOm~
age the man who will use care IN
his undertakings and trim his per-
sOnal expenses"
George NJ. Houston. real estate
man and dairyman:
There is q disposition to look
for signs and to make forecasts
Either the medicine man or Mefii-
| rfp uat
to health and harvest. We must b.
assured, for we are vet children.
: 'Why anyone at Greeley should
need to be assured, should need -
whistle for courage, is not clear.
: Surely there are signs all about M
to point the not easy, but interest,"
ing. path to opnience. The really
convincing thing Is not the printed
pare. but the screaming facts, out
in the field and at the roadside.
"NOwhere is a good sign applt-
cable here. one borrowed from the
sonlless and unromantic corpora
tiops: it stands ont clean and clear:
It has no weakening modifier; n
saves nerves. life and purse; It h:
STOP. LOOK! LISTEN"
"Right now. at Greeley. We arc
doing Just that, and THAT is q yet
better sign.
"f912 will he rood year.
"Curry the cow, drink much but
ter milk. and all years will he good
here at Greeley"
Dear MIR. Tribune:
You ask me to give Won my opfn-
ion OF the present conditions and
the outlook for the next SensOn.
The present conditions we know, tho
future Is something of a guess. II
were capable of telling what the
future has In store for us 1 could
make more money, l was going 70
say. than stakeholder in the
Standard Oil company. But what's
the use of worrying about the fu-
ture? 1t has been my habit not to
borrow trouble. To hear some peO-
pie talk, u stranger would think the
past year was the worst We have
ever had. have lived here 90
years, been actually engaged in
business all the time. 1 know there
have been years when We have had
enormous crops OF potatoes and
the prices the farmers got would not
more than pay them half the cost Of
raising and delivering them to the
dealers. There were no sugar fac
tories then, everything depended on
the price of potatoes. Conditions
arc very different now: farInee
does not have to depend upon ono
kind of Il crop. / am not farmer,
but if ! was to take up farming 1
would farm rs our New England
farmers do, feed few cattle and
hogs. l believe there is enough goes
to waste around one OF our farms
here to feed ten head OF cattle and
, 20 head of hogs every year.
Now about the future. There has
not been such bright prospects for
plenty of water in the past five
years as there is for next season.
Every report we get from the noun
tains is that there is more snow
than there has been for number
of years.