Pueblo chieftain., 1921-09-19

Far fetched" and go away from
homo to hear tho ncvs'' arc phrases
that reached the limit of absurdity
during the past week, at least II looks
that way to us far wcstorncrs as we
peer through out sduinty binoculars
away across to tho fantastic doinEs In
Chicago. TO those markctccrs back
there the world Is so small n ball that
they travel all over IL to prospect for
searecrows. Last week their rcd flag
with which TO stir rp the bull WAS the
weather report from Argentinc. .
country somewhere between ten and
twenty thousand miles away. Tho
wheat trade and even the corn trade
were actually caused to turn pale and
shake at tho knees with scAry reports
about tho weather away down toward
Patagonia, which told OF drouth and
then OF rain. All OF which illustrates
the helpless conservatism OF those
eastern market skinncrs. who are pro-
foundIy ignorant OF the progress of
production righ, here in the United
Statcs-that is, II tho American region
west OF tho Big Muddy Is in the Unit
cd States.
Yet very likely there are people
right here In Pueblo as ignorant as
those curb traders OF Chicago and New
York. hut they have some excuse.
Their entire timo IL taken up with
their strictly local mercantile or pro
fcssionnl business. Yet Il docs seem
too bad that any western man. even
ono whose activities and livelihood
arc down town." can not broaden his
vision enough to take In some Of tho
great outdoors. Every week numbers
Of copies OF good live farm Journals
arc tossed into the big tin cans in tho
postofico lobby.
hut. after ait. tho immense addition
to the country's food production 10 he
credited this year to Colorado. New
Mexico and Utah can not go far IN in
rlucnco upon Chicago's grain figures
n We can not E,'t our wheat and other
goods moved across tho plains. The
railroads can carry only jus, 80 much
There arc Stiil Thousands of bushels Of
1872 wheat In Kansas and Oklahoma
and thousands OF tons OF 1870 alfalfa
In Colorado.
In Wow of which. ia I. not a pert
incnt and practical query-can Nc
not Htudy up ambitious schemes to
make these three rich mountain states
an independent empire. nation with
in a nBtionl
IL was another Eooc week ~ clear
dry weather, n liberal section OF sum-
NOR lingering In tho lap of autumn
with temperature sinking sH low as N
only once, and with no prefns ture
frcsthites on tho tomatoes and melons,
II was a week Of hack breaking hur-
ry-up work In every field and garden
NJ southern Colorado. and this means
hevilderinE variety Of kinds NJ work,
Beginning next to the Kansas lin"
tho farmers have done lot Of tractor
plovinE and arc ready to SOW wheat
even before tho thrcshtnE machine
has cooled off. At ihe same time they
arc pulling hroomcorn and cutting cane
an industry unknown in any other
portion Of Colorado Further up the
valley come the alfalfa work. then tho
beets. tho melons. the cucumbcrs, until
Pueblo and Fremont are reached and
they present a little NJ everything. In
the real intensive farming t'p in tho
mountain valleys the farmers are In
a great swat ~ set ,h~ potatoes into
cellars before a sudden freeze comes
along. on the Nest slope is a grand
mixture Of fruit potatoes. meadow hay,
alfalfa and heets Then there is every.
where the grand parade Of resi'nsnts
Of plumei corn stalks on thousands of
acres where corn ~ anything else
never grew before.
The close relation of city and roun-
try. their continual inter dependence.
he shown Just NOW. when the steel