La Junta tribune., 1912-10-12
UP4,pDOWN
THE
VALLEY

The assessed valuation of Crowley
county this year Is s2.s2@.2s5. an In.
crease over last year of nearly one
half million dollars.
Men are scarce at any price In IN.
be, fields all over Otero county.
and II is reported that many are pay
ing AS high as $2.50 per day for
such help as they can get
Voters o: olney Springs have filed
application with the county commits
sioners for place on the ballo, for
the election to determine the ioca.
ton o, the permanent county seat
Of Crowley county.
/ The main squeeze OF the postof-
flee department at Washing ton has
issued an order establishing rural
delivery service out OF Wiley. TO be
effective December I'd. and TO be
known as X r. u. No. One.
There is one farmer in the IIol-
brook country who has 100 acres In
sugar beets. and he figures that It
will clear him this year about 81 900
about one-half what he paid for his
100 acres less than year ago.
The perfume cf the big sugar fac.
tory now perm afes the atmosph re-
at Las AniTas for the first time In
three years-that Is. the factory
has been idle for two years The
factory started up last Monday morn
ing. and for twenty-four hours day
for the next eighty days. will be
grinding sugar beets at the rate Of
500 tons per day.
Field after field of cantaloupes in
Crowley county this season were new
er picked from at all. . ing knocked
out by the early frost One man had
a field OF seventy-fiye acres from
which he picked only ! 900 crates.
and h. would have picked $4,000
crates at the least calculation had
II not been for Jack Frost putting
him out OF business
J NJ Gee has "A field Of six acres
of beets under the High Line ditch
that viii bring him In nice sum
The beets ran fully % tons to the
acre and tests made from different
parts of the field show the sugar
content to be at least u per cent
which will bring the price to So per
ton or $500 for the six acres which
is pretty good iicome from that
amount II land.
A committee from the Florence
city council was In Longmont this
week to inspect the municipal light
ing plant with view to building a
system there. At present Florence
lis being supplied with light by the
Arkansas Valley Electric Company
Florence has municipal water plant
and the venture has been 80 success
full from financial standpoint that
IL Is the opinion tina, lighting
plant will be a profitable investment
approximately 10000 tons OF sug.
ar be.ts will b. consumed by the
Rocky Ford factory this campaign.
which will dump abou, $500. 900 into
the laps OF the farmers Of this sec
ton. and In addition 10 this amount
practically $4,000 will 20 to the
hands that help TO feed the great
mills giant nav. so that II may be
said that the 1912 campaign OF the
Rocky Ford factory will bring To our
people ,hr.. quarters OF million
dollors IN good hard cash Rocky
Ford Enterprise.
The National Sugar Manufacturing
Company started its 1912 camps sn
Thursday. October "a. The beet crop
Throughout, Crowley county Is fine.
Boeis ar. of good size. and II dry
weather continues. III. sugar content
viii be satisfactory Tn. crop Is
much larger than expected. and
there will b. times when the fac.
tory viii no, be able to receive all
bee,s offered. When this arrives. ST.
loing should b. resortcd 10. 10 keep
the labor employed. for which the
company pays an additional amount.
added TO the contract price.-Sugar
GUY Cux..st.