The Glenwood post., 1915-04-10
COMPLIMENTARY STATEMENT


c following true bat very compliment
ry statement concerning conditions in |
e Carbosslsle country, written by 5.
Mansfield, cashier OF the First Ma |
onAl bank at Caibondaie:
We are just cleaning up our 1914
up OF potatoes, having sold about
200 cars. The last 200 ears OF this
rop sold for from 50 cents to tl.lU
er hundred lbs.
Many Of the farmers are still holding
heir last crop of wheat, having re
used $500 per hundred for it.
Our cattle men will turn out about
EN- thousand head of cows and steers
his spring to pasture on the exception
Il range which We have adjoining Car
5ondale. This range includes tue upper
and of Garfield, a large corner of Pit
kin, Eagle and Gunuison counties, with
CArbondAle - the natural center tor
the range district. The splendid open
warm winter we have enjoyed has beea
= big money maker for our cattlemen.
Many head of cattle have remained on
the range all winter.
The alfalfa and timothy hay cut from
1000 acres of the best hay lands in
Western Colorado, with about 5000
acres of additional hay and pasture
lands provides ample winter feed for
the live stock industry of this section.
We expect an early planting season
this spring in which to seed about 1000
acres Of wheat, 1000 acres of oats and
2,400 acres of potatoes About $500
acres of wheat and oat land will be
seeded to alfalfa.
During the last twelve months there
have been shipped into this valley pure
bred hogs to increase the amount of
good stock we already had ON hand,
which will provide us with number of
ears of good fat pork to be marketed
next winter. This pork will be fat
tened on alfalfa and potatoes and fin
ished of on barley before shipment, and
for this and other feed purposes We
will raise about 1000 acres of barley
this year.
Several of our best farmers are now
shipping high class seed potatoes into
the potato growing districts of the
north and west as well as to the other
districts of this state. These farmers
make q speciality Of growing high class
seed potatoes, which find a market III
&1.50 to $3.50 per hundred lbs, and
they will plant special acreage fer
seed purposes this year.
One of our large farmers and potato
: growers will plant a number of acres
to ~'pedigree barley this spring, il
being one of the best mailing .barleys
grown in the state. 1t is pure '"Col-
lege Bred seed, highly developed, aE1
the growing field of this barley is ore
wish to view.
The new Carbondale creamery will be
opened this spring with abSHt three
hundred cows to supply it.
Ten families have located in the Car
bondale district during the past eight /
months, each or whom have purchased
for irrigation and domestic purposes,
and we expect at least six more new
- miles til. wear
From the present outlook, 1915 viii
be the most prosperous year in the his
tory Of this district.
Also in the same number there ap.
pears the following statement concern
ing the Grand Valley country from J.
J. Counell, cashier Garfield County |
State bank, Grand Valley, Colorado,
under date of March %, 1915:
The conditions in Garfield county, at
this time. are very promising, and ell
conditions now, point to bumper crop, |
to be harvested this fall. The princi-
pal crops for this season will be wheat,
sugar beets, potatoes, oats and barley.
Wheat will be the largest crop, with
potatoes second. Though the spring has
been somewhat late, the farmers ere
well advanced with their spring work.
Our people have finally learned that
few dairy COWS are very profitable, as
there are at this time fully SO per cent
more cows being MIXED than at any
time past, owing to the fact that there
- now a close market for this product,
which means ready cash during the
summer while other crops are making.
There will not be any more cattle
turned out this year than last, owing