The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1914-02-12

ditions are not as favorable as they
might be.
Another of my old-time friends in
the person of George d. simmons is
making good in the fruit business.
He has twenty acres on the Grand
avenue road. and the casual passer-
by knows he is getting along all
right by the looks of his home and
surroundings. Mr.. Simmons came to
the valley about nine years ago and
bought ten acres, afterwards buying
ten more. He now knows that he
has too much land. His orchard in
bearing is not over five acres and
these five acres have returned him
q good living. and little over. be-
sides taking care of and improving
the other fifteen.
The man who has ten or twenty
acres should indulge in q bunch of
cattle. thinks Mr.. v. C. Talbert, who
has purchased six head of cows and
will buy six more to be placed on his
orchard on Seventh street. He says
one man can not care for twenty
acres. and the second man does not
have enough to do, but can care for
dozen COWS. The milk will be sold
to the creamery. This seems to be
the secret for the man who has too
much land, as five acres In orchard
is all one man can look after and
do 1t right. The other land is a
liability unless something can be
introduced that will make 1t a pro-
ducing proposition. This week l am
encroaehing on the preserves of
George La Grange. but 1t is the best
sort OF boosting and we need all We
can get.
Along the same line Mr.. Talbert
tells me that a few years ago l.. l..
Prewett of Mesa took notes from
his customers in settlement for goods
and re-discounted them at the bank
to get cash. There were as many
as forty to fifty OF these notes at a
time in the bank. For the past two
years there have been no signs of
such notes. The farmers of the
Plateau valley have. been raising
COWS and selling milk to the cream
cry and now in place of those notes
they have cream checks. This has
been what has made the farmers of
eastern Iowa, Wisconsin and many
other states rich, and we OF the
Grand valley have been sending our
cash east with which to buy butter.
note in the local columns re-
Gently informed me that local bar
Der has been appointed inspector for
this section, and said that heretofore
there had been no funds to pay a
man. 1t is more likely the funds are
running low now and 1t does not pay
a man from Denver to come over
here and pay his railroad fare. That
barber law is a graft, and is tax on
the local BARRIERS, for which there is
very little benefit. So far as l can
learn, few BARRIERS are satisfied with
1t. 1t provides nice JOB Tor one
man in Denver, and several fnspec-
tors. and the BARRIERS foot the oills.
1t does not cost the state anything.
There are dozens of such laws in
augurated every two years for little
Jobs for Denver people and the rest
of the state pays the salaries. 1t is
a mistake II a man over here gets
any good money.
Our laboring organizations under
the wise leadership OF such men as
Ounce Hutton made no mistake In
voting against statewide sympa-
thetic strike in the face OF their plain
contracts with the business interests.
To my notion there would be nc
strikes IL the labor leaders were
unit in their desire for what is best
for the men. The bitterest facttonal
feeling prevails in the labor ranks a,
Denver. Pueblo and Colorado
Springs. The only real agreement If
mat no Jobs shall be lost which
means a good salary without WORK
A united demand for proper legisla-
ton and regulation will bring ABOUT
all necessary reforms.
The statement made by Labor
Commissioner Brake few days age
that there was no such thing af
constitutional justice in Colorado is
as much the fault of Brake, II IL De
true. as anyone else. There Is q
Brake and anti-Brake fight In LABOR
circles which would prevent any sor'
Of united work for the laboring man,
and there will not be much I'M
proyement until such men as Brake
ara eliminated and the laborine
men unite on men who have nothing
hut the good of the men and women
who work at heart. There might De
volumes said on this question, and
one only has to read the record OF
the salaries paid to labor leaders
which was printed in The Sentinel a
few days ago to understand where
Iies the interest of some of the asl-
tators and leaders. Love or Goo
e,d thar fellow men should be the
sole ambition of such men