The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1915-08-17


denied them by the commissioners
because such direct appropriation is
prohibited 10y constitutional provision.
Now the northern New Mexico fair
managers are hand In hand with the
county authorities In preparing tho
county's exhibit at the state fair and
the combined forces are certain to
produce n Of the finest display
ever seen in the state. The mining
feature Of this exhibit already has
been provided for by a coal exhibit
which Manager r. J. O'Brien. OF the
Stag Canyon Fuel company. at Law
son. Will make.
The COunty's Hammer Year.
II b. an IDEAL year for Colfax county
Co enter into a state exhibit COMPETE
ton. From county finances and
county roads, down 10 the small
farmer aud tho small stockman,
every person and thing In thc length
ANA breadth OF the county fairly
0reathes progress and prosperity. The
state fair workers. IN visiting the va
riops communities, have covered
nearly tho entire county. n Is one
vast expanse 81 green, dotted freely
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the brown and gold Of wheat ripe
and in tho stack, OF with the rich
green OF alfalfa and the no less at
tractiye shades of oats and corn. bar
ley and rye. Grass on the range ia
high and thick and cattle are sleek
and tat.
George Woodhouse. acting chair
man of the board Of county commis-
%sipners, who in the inircquent inter
walls when he iH not attending to
county business. rs by way of being A
very successful stock farmer. han just
sold @ couple OF yenrling calves for
$40 each, which is about "a state rec
ord. This. OF course is an cXcep-
tonul price for exceptional stuff; but
10 b. indicative of the prices cattle are
bringing in these parts. The bands
of Fat range stock scattered over the
ColiaX county landscape In an di-
rectiong. are referred TO locally as
dollar mills According Ia tho local
men these mills work while yDli
sleep" ana al All other times The
range cattle business 90 on "a better
basis today and the cattle men are
more prosperous than in any period
of he s6-Callcd 'phlmy days" Fur
Uhcrmurc. 20 new branch ct the BUST
ness is %apriuglug up, la the way 81
feeding for market. Hon e. \.
Blackwell, president of the First VA
tional bank here, said today that ne
expects the fecdiur industry 90 DEE
come the tle end ot the stock bnsl-
ness In ColflK county within "A few
moro wears. The banks here are act"
lively encouraging this line Of develop
mcnt.
Anyone who believes that ColtaN
| %county'a resources r confined 20
cattle and cpal have an awakening
lcnmiuw upon a journey through tue
|cnunty In almost any direction. The
state fair workers were driven
through miles of neat clean, prosper
oua firms today; ARMS ON which rich
hnrvests are being made, with yields
of a. 90 80 bushels to the acre and
other crops in proportion. These
farming districts, on the rich kntoi
mesa lands. around cimnrron, ano
-trtbutnry 90 French. Maxwell and
Springer, are growing rapidly y I'm
der the hands Of skiliiuh modern
farmers. We ssw a shining new gasp-
line tractor today begin lis first WORK.
the breakinr of o SOC acre wn'a'
fold for fan planting
CoIfnx county's exhibit az the sta's
fair win be most convincing eNidene'
mat in the not far distant iuturr
plain. old fashioned agriculture WI
be this county'a foremost INDUSTRY