The daily sentinel., 1914-07-16
GLADE PARK PROSPEROUS
AND HAPPY, SAYS OTTO
TO the Daily Sentinel:

/ To the Daily Sentinel.
What would our country be If we
didn have the dry farmer same
I old country, over run by the big out.
/ fit with a dozen or so cownunchet-s
"a roundup wagon. with lis coffsa
and flour biscuits, sale side and
pruues. We rode up horsebarI.
along the Fruita pipe line road I5st
Sunday and how different II looks
up mere than in September. lgOc
when we made that same trim for tho
first time. There were only The
cattle many of them. bur no neonis
no fences-no schoolbouse-po
church homes-the grit and the
stay yiug qualities OF the dry s.,rner
will II the end convince III, most
skepti,-that here on Pinon Mesa Il
a very blessed spot to live. Just a.
this moment IL thUnders-the flood
gates above are being opened again
it happened quite often so far this
year-the crops show IL everywhere
Once. great long while ago, a river
wound its course through this very
same country. There is plenty of evil
dence in more than one spot-on one
high hill there is a fine deposit of
regular channel wash gravel. We
never tried it for gold, although some
day we will. but there certainly is
gold in those Glade Park crops this
year. The people are praying for
good road to market. and a tele-
phone line, and the good word is.
Wake up, Mr.. Grand Junction busi-
ness man, or else youll see us an.
neXed to Utah.
The new survey is completed-the
Colorado national park and game
preserve proposition as yet-ioins
the Glade Park trail and the fence
camp is now located near the south
west corner-grass is fine every
where-water we get from the pipe
line. also from a spring in the gulch.
Perhaps we better call it Deer spring
or Lick Spring-for doe and
little fawn came there to water. The
south part of our game preserve
is very hilly and rough-and there
is a whole lot of buck brush. No
city in the west has such a territory
so close to its doors-as our park
in the rim rock.
Glade park people are not whis-
pering politics. They are wide
awake then of course Mesa county
is not backwoods county. Mr.. j r.
'h'Ni'A VI AlOhlldlllN ale ana inrlnu
Junction a long time resident. and
well known c. E., would make an
AL county commissioner, but it's
not in the district this time-but
next time. Also Mr.. Joe Leslie, Sr.,
having served as county commission
er in another county of this state
would do fine for this county. For
sheriff Mr.. Frank Thompson, v.
thriltN ranch
eX-railroader, is very favorably men
toned. CIV
That the great powers that be are
very much Interested in this partic-
ular region is shown by the workings
of an army of newcomers. Millions
of black and yellow like bugs are
working on the sage brush. They
started in over in little park and
now have come over to Big Park.
They are not molesting the crops
strange, but true-just showing
ravenous appetite for old uncle sage
brush. They eat off the leaves. the
brush withers and dies-and they are
taking it clean. What a blessing
there is room for many more 60
ahead people up here. Mr.. o. II.
Mason, bishop of the park, who
brought back the many prizes for
Glade Park from Colorado Springs in
1911-from the dry farmers con-
gress, breaches the dry farmers gos-
pei as strong as ever.
May the business relations be-
tween the Grand Junction business
mems organization and the settlers
up here be not quite so strange as
they have been in the past. Here is
hoping. Couldn't leave the country.
The boss wouldn't let me go-not
yet, at least.
JOHN OTTO.