Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-01-09


sugar campaign starts about the last
days of September and lasts about
three to four months. Thew wash the
beets, cut them up, then put them in
to a press and press the juice out.
Then the juice goes into tank and is
boiled and then through big drum
I would call it-that turns round and
drives it on into the sack ing room.
where it is sacked and loaded on the
car. When the factory starts, it runs
day and night until the beets are
all into sugar. At the factory they
put out 2700 sack of sugar Ia
twelve hours. They raise lots of beets
here and they were good this year.
The farmers get $40 per ton. They
run from 15 to 20 tons to the acre.
One farmer had in 65 acres and got
$1O,023. While the beet harvest was
on they paid $4.0O a day and board.
1t is great alfalfa country. They
get three crops. There are great
many potatoes raised here,. They are
more generally called 81 SUES"
This is fine farming ca2lntry. They
have to irrigste, but they sure do
raise the crops. Any thing that we
raise in Missouri they raise here.
The land is high. There is a farm. in
about one mile from here of 160 acres
that sold about six weeks ago for
$52, 100000, so you see man must have
some money to buy farm here.
But there is one thing l must say, if
it hadn't been for Missouri, l don't
think Colorado could ever have been
peopled, for there are lots of Mis-
sourians here. If man asks you
where you are from and you tell him
from the "show- me" state, he knows
the rest.
While it is great farming coun-
try and they laugh at the Missourian,
when it comes to barns and shelters
for stock, they are not in it here.
They have little barn just big
enough for the work horses and the
grain. You haul the hay, up and
throw it on the ground arai eedit as
as you need it. Every farmer has
from one to two thousand dollars
worth Of machinery, and when they
get through with it pulls it out in the
corner of the lot and it sets there and
takes the weather until the next year.
Thousands of dollars worth Of ma
chinery goes to ruin here every year
for the want of sheds.
Well, you may want to know some
thing about the weather. We have
had fine weather until the last week.
1t has been showing little for the
last three days, but the snow is only
about three inches deep. The cold
est night was 10 below zero, but the
cold here don't hurt you like it does
in Missouri. 1t is dry. I have always
been told that you had to wear
heavier clothes here than you do
there, but dress like always did,
and the cold here doesn't seem any
colder than it does there at 10 above.
The air is fine. 1t is something over
1000 feet high. Windsor is about IF
teen miles from the foothills, and Of a
morning, when it is real clear, it
doesn't look to be more than three
miles away.
There is story told here of a man
in the early days, that came to Colo
RADIO. He got up one morning and
told his wife while she got breakfast
ready he was going to walk over and
take look at those mountains. So
he travelled until in the middle of the
at ternoon and came to small stream
of water. He began to pull off his
clothes. A man came along in
wagon and said, "What are you do
ing; are you going crazy?" He said,
"No, if this stream is as deceiving as
those mountains are I may have to
swim before / get across"
I am feeling fine and the air feels
good when you get up of morning.
Wishing you and my Iron County
friends Glorious and Happy New
Year!
A.sa.al