The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1915-11-11

mile tour During two splendid fall days
October = and 1.-THE Denverites ex-
p!orcd the Did plains country now
rapidly being J-o..en up into non-irrj-
gated farms, an! scanned the rich
farming enterprise along the irriga-
ted valley of the Platte. As 4 result
there is enthusiastic testimony of the
solid success which agriculture in the
Sterling Holyoke Julesburg region has
obtained. and Of the spontaneous cor
diality of its inhabitants.
Night had fallen er. the long string
Of automobiles chugged dowu the draw
from South Tabla country. Crossing
the half-nlilc bridge which spans the
sandy Platte bottom, they landed their
occupants in the substantial little far
ming town OF Julesburg.
The machines were hoars with the
dust Of the plains. Their lights glea-
med duly thru the film covered re-
Electors, Engines were still running
merrlly after their heavy days work.
h'"N''' anu Set OF pViat, husky
drivers would have gone on thru the
hight ii the party OF Denver business
men had given the word -as
The Sights OF Day
The forty-nine Denverites, surfeited
with days wonders in the new farm
ing country, clambered out and gath
cred in happy, chattcring groups, lust
as they had done fifty times that day
III the rangy main streets OF outlying
hamlets, in dooryards of cosy farm
habtations. besides great flat fields of
wheat stubble where rattling thresh-
'rs were eating up the heavy grain
bundles, near stock corrals where fat
steers contentedly loafed-at all those
spots where it was possible to Sc,
modern scientific farming and it's re.
suits at close hand and hear the pleas
ant stories OF those whose toll thru
the summer was being SO amply re-
warded by Dame Nature During the
day they had seen the fruits of the
harvest piled high had gazed at sere
corn fields mile broad, great ex-
panses already sOwn and growing thu,
tender sprouts of winter wheat, stu
pendOuS yields of cane for winter feed
ing. swine in dozens of sunny fields.
and, best OF all, happy. contcnted and
convinced farmers who told the yisi-
tors that drouth WAS no longer a bug
abooo; that the problem of farming
with little rain and no irrigation was
being solved
Miles Full oi Pleasure
The speedomctcrs registered vari-
ously. according to dctours made and
cross-cut negotiated during the day.
The general average put the ten hours
journey from Sterling a; some wher
around lis miles.
And glorious miles they were, 1t
was one of 1hoS" eXuberant-ot-ozone
days on the prairie. one of those fall
weather creations where morn has
emerged from silent, crisp night and
the mounting, majestic sun goes about
lis Snappy work of pumpkin-,inting
wheat drying and corn finishing with
| warming briskness: and tn. oxygen
| s"eils ones lungs and ones eyes di!at.
with the very exercise of picking up
the milcs-distant horizon and the shap
ing Of far away brown specks int.
wheat stacks, corn shocks, men ami
| mails, habitutions, barns gran"-ies.
| slios stra" piles and all the objects
man has brought to the vas, rypauses
Il" rows OF unharvcsted corn had
| ieelca themselves off to the eye as
mo they were the pages of book re-
leased in rapid succession by the
| thumb
IN" bushy can" tops. bowed heavily
Win their seed yield, merged into vast
coa"s"-WoVen carpets Although wr
ran thru comparatively newly settled
farming country, ranch hahi,atious
seemed to pop into view with til. re-
Su'aritE Of hal;-n.ilc posts. Many of
,hcia bore the prsdoninn,ins features
ai piG-ro&y-r.G barn and the tulI
white Windmill. towering like :, semi
rhore o! the desert.
VIII! We We're There
NOW all this sort Of thing started a,
Denver on October 18TH.
Ilc Chamber of Commerce, L.t mass,