The Farmington times., 1917-07-20
JUDGE ORTEN WRITES
FROM COLORADO SPRINGS

Editor Pennington Times:
If you will allow me the space ir
your paper, | will mention some OF
the things that l observed while on
my way to this beautiful little city,
Colorado Springs. left Pennington
at 4:30 a. M, July 4th. / reached
Tower Grove station, st. Louis, at
about o'clock, and caught the Mis-
souri, Pacific Limited at this place at
9:10 a. m. for the West. As it swiftly
glided through the hills and valleys,
| paid particular attention 10 what
was being raised through this sec
tion of our great State; noticed that
the wheat was generally good but not
large acreage out. Corn and oats
a large acreage and looking fine.
When we reached the Missouri River
bottoms, there | saw some of the fin
est wheat ever saw. Judging from
the way the shocks stood, it would
yield about 40 bushels per acre. Corn,
oats, alfalfa and potatoes all looking
fine. All the way along the road to
Sedalia, Mo-, indicating a large acre
age of all and bumper crop of each
for Missouri.
We noticed, between jefferson City,
our beautiful Capitol, and Upton and
Sedalia, two other beautiful little
cities and some very fine, well-kept
farms.
Now we come to Kansas City,
railroad center and a hustling, busy
city. Our stay here was short, so
we passed swiftly into the State of
Kansas, where we noticed for miles
large fields yellow with the golden
grain, large acreage of corn, oats, al
falfa and potatoes, promising large
yield for Kansas; all making the
most skeptic believe that these two
States will have plenty, and some to
spare.
Darkness came on US, we closed
our eyes to the things on the outside
And our attention was drawn to the
general conversation of the people
from the different parts of the country,
the main topics being the War, High
Cost of Living, and the Present Ad-
ministration. After exchanging ideas
on these different subjects with a gen.
tleman from California, while we did
not agree on all these questions, we
agreed to take rest. soon found my
self back in my own car learning to |
be good the rest of the night.
Well, daylight found us about GAS
west of St. Louis at or near Ramson,
Kansas One of the trainmen said to-
me, you had better examine your
watch. He thought l would find it
too fast, which l did. | found that |
was just one hour fast, so made this
correction. | went into the diner for
breakfast. We passed through sew
eral nice towns on these plains. We
soon reached the sugar-beet district.
We noticed for a number of miles
along the road large fields of beets,
indicating the sugar-beet business to
be paying business. We soon pass
ed through Sugar City, thriving bus
mess town. / presume that they man.
lfacture beet sugar there. We soon
reached Ordway, Colo, beautiful
town situated in the irrigation dis
trict. We saw the finest field of beets
and alfalfa we ever dreamed of. 1t
made me think if were young /
would "pitch my tent" in this locality
md raise cattle and alfalfa for liv-
ihood. We soon passed into Pueblo.
Here we changed cars for the
Springs. We arrived here at 2:15 ..
H., July 5th.
Mr.. Editor, if this does not reach
he waste basket. I may say some 1
hing about this beautiful city and i
he surrounding country for the ben :
fit of your readers, who have never
cen, and perhaps never will see, this |
'art of our great country.
j. II. ORTEN. Ii