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Pueblo chieftain., 1921-08-29

some newspaper man around here
last week wrote up a story on Pueblo
wheat, describing yield OF 55 h.ishels
of wheat to the acre from a 9o-acre
field near this city. The tone of the
contribution had an air of surprise
or at least OF discovery and therefore
does not set welr' In the minds of
local veterans addicted to affairs ag-
ricuoiraL They have no fault to find
with the facts as presented and they
quite approve tho idea that the partic-
ular tract in question turned out tho
amount of grain as represented
Also that on 500 acres down toward
Rye there is being harvested yield OF
25 bushels per acre. as described In
yesterdays Chieftain.
But why he surprised There IN
nothing new about this. Pueblo county
land was engaged in such stunts as
this forty years ago.
About once in every new generation
a new discovery is made as to the
beauties of San Isabel forest. About
once in twenty or thirty years some
body finds that there are rich and un-
prospected veins OF mineral in the hills
OF Custer county. D>adville and Call
fnrnia gulch have been discovered and
dug up by at least <our successive
groups Of explorers
So It is with Pueblo county; the news
goes out that 1t is good place 10 plant
garden stuff or farm crops. and that
its soil Is capable Of big things.
Away back in tho '7n- Uncle Peter
Dotson PLAYED bcttsr trick than to
toll and heave to raise wheat and then
haul II 10 town to enrich tho millera
and grain spectators. on hundreds Of
acres OF his vast Three Il ranch fIs
army OF workers produced big crops of
wheat. but II ALI went through tho burr
stones Of his Erist mill. so that instead
OF being tied down to tho modes. ard
narrow figures Of any milling combine
h.s rad flour to sell. and his market was
the whole unlimited grocery trade. Un-
III that dreadful day when tho mill
caught fire and burned up, and ever
since that time VIC speak OF the Burned
Mil road.
The Thread Of the Discourse
But what this stnry started out to say
is that Pueblo county has as good sol
as that of any country. can equal the
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-08-29
WATER RUNS
Thru A HILL
TO new LAND

Description was given on this farm
page a week ago Of a magnificent new
farming region added by the Apishapa
river to the producing resources OF
Arkansas valley. Now we can take
notice of another flood water reser-
voir area about to be put to good
use further east near Las Animas.
The Democrat thus describes the OPEN
ing of the main tunnel:
The work of driving tunnel thru
hill of solid rock was completed on
the Carey irrigation works southwest
of tho city Friday after years
work by Contractor John W. Brown
and his force of men. In running the
main canal from the reservoir to the
lands under the project 1t was found
advisable to tunnel the rock hills
rather than go around them. The
tunnel is by II feet and the distance
thru the hill is 1.t75 feet-alI solid
rock. The work was started at the
south end, but after going In about
500 feet a spring OF water was struck
which flooded the works to such an
extent that 1t was necessary to start
in from the north end and work back
to the center again. When the last
shot was fred II was found that the
engineers figures were correct and the
two sections Joined together almost
perfectly. There is yet some timber
ing to be done.
The work on the Carey project Is
fast nearing completion. The big dam
is finished. Five mile1 Of the ditch
to the tunnel IL also completed. and
four miles north OF the tunnel. This
ditch is 1s feet across at the bottom.
a feet at the top and Is "a feet deep.
II will carry 40 second feeS of water.
There Is at present feet of sater IN
the reservoir which can be drawn ana
used to soak up the ditch and get II
in shape for irrigation purposes. There
has been expended on tho project up
to this time for constructors urposes .
little better than $4on,eoo
While the country all about has
been visited by floods this year, there
has been but one run Of water of any
size into this reservoir. Last year
there were six big runs. but the res
crvoir was not then in condition FOR
storage purposes.
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-08-29
PUEBLO LAND EFULLY EQUAL
T0BEST0 OF GROUND ANYWHERE
People Of Our Vicinity Take No Back Seat in Lines Of
Agriculture Fine County and it
Contains Many Rich Spots

best standard crops located anywhere,
and when the work is done right its
capacities are simply marvellous.
Right at the edge OF the west "orpo-
ration line of the city OF Pueblo is
small patch OF ground whose owner
had a limit on the extent of timc he
could devote to it. He could not spare
the hours necessary to grow vegetables
or other goods, therefore he planted
wheat on that ground every year,
crop that could be trusted to take care
of itself. Often the soil was so hard
that when broken in late summer 1t
came UP in great hard fragments as
big as a horse bucket. and when the
wheat was tossed the grains had to
find their way down into tho creviccs
to keep the birds and mice from get
ting them. These clods perhaps did not
melt up till tho snow soaked them in
mid-winter. Yet when spring came
that wheat sprans boiling UP in thick
green verdurc. BY the Fourth of July
il was a solid mass four feet hiEh and
looked as II one could set up and walk
on its level compact surface Every
straw carried wheat head six inches
long and seeming to almost rival an
car OF maize corn In the nutriment pro-
duced The actual yield must have tar
exceeded the 30 bushels over which the
present boast is made, and 1t was done
year after year. and with no special
labor and no fertilizer except the rich
brown dirt running in with the water
from the West Pueblo ditch. All this
was on an ordinary piece OF tho orig
inal river bottom land such as borders
the stream for 500 miles from Royal
gorge to Kansas.
All around Pueblo whether the lands
OF the Arkansas. tho Fountain or the
ST. Charles are scores of rich spots
whose actual yield. n given half a
chance and cultivated even In the slip
shod American way In simply pro-
digious. But when the Italians or tho
Belgians or even the Japs get hold of
Il. or II German farms II after the
thorough manner OF the Vaderlsnd,
that ground becomes almost a solid
mass OF food. Literally no place to
stack II.
Then there are the mesa lands which
start with only a light sand but In n
few years the river water from the
Rsssemer canal or other ditch has en-
richod 1t till II is practically as good
as tho alluvial stream borders. and
with the added advantage of its loose
texture which IL permanently retains.
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-08-29
BEAVER PARK
IS ALL RIGHT
ON new PLANS

Thomas Murphy. of Penrose in con-
versation with a Citizen representa-
tive stated that crops on Beaver Park
look fine and that many Of the farm
ers who would not have given u cent
for their chances following the wash
ing out of the Schaeffer dam on June
5 now have the best crops they have
ever had. He has recently added to
his holdings on the park to the extent
of fifteen acres and states that John
tho park have displayed faith in its
future by purchasing additional land.
The new pipe line just put in will
practically insure water for the crops
for the remainder of this season.
Mr.. Murphy states that work on
the Brush Hollow reservoir to replace
the Schaeffer dam will be startc by
September / and rushed to compile
ton. When tho new storage reservoir
is completed it will be a great benefit
over the old system as it will rrnctlc-
ally give the park land owne-s two
distinct distribution systems. The
Brush Hollow reservoir Will he even
larger than the Schaeffer dam and It
is figured that it can be filled to cara-
city In three months. 1t is planned
the west end of the park and the flow
of the creek from the pres,n: syst' m
can be used in the cast end of the
park during the height OF the ir.iga-
tion season.
Mr.. Murphy says that the residents
of Beaver Park are particularly hope
full of the future and are lookin; for
ward to an era of greater prosperity
than has ever been enjoyed before.
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-08-29

SO much better for vines and for all
fruit trees.
on a sinai, farm mile es~ Of Vine
land a man had occasion to dig a
cistern is feet deer. Ho expected OF
course to find hard shslc or compact
gravel such as underlies tho mesa in
Pueblo and Bcssemer. but instead Of
that he found nothing but alluvia1 soil
all the way down, and at the bottom
quit digging soil at is feet. What farm
in tho best parts of Iowa or Indiana or
Ohio could match such a condition as
,hat7 How the apple tree roots and
the alfalfa roots and the corn roots de-
light to horc down and revel In such
aoiI as that! Seem, as II in glacial
times tho hest humus for a hundred
miles wcs- and north had been scooped
along by the ice floes and dumped on
the southeast side OF tho st. Charles.
General waahtaston's Mistake
And how a tendcrfooter from the far
east Ia fooled whom he comes out here
and looks around, Hc secs the tswny
yellow ground everywhere north OF the
river apparently an exact duplicate OF
the wretched surface OF New jersey
and most OF the Atlantic coast. Yet
how different in reality. This dccep-
tive tawny soil In and around tho north
side OF Pueblo Is only dccomposed
shale but IT is full OF tho mineral,
needed ana IT only supplied with water
Will produce enything you want.
And tho most deceptive OF all Is In
tho.- long yellow ridges that run down
from the north such an in Irving place
and Terdcrfoot hill. Their taic-like
dirt shows to tho eve not particle of
anything plant or root would want.
vet all II asks is water to produce
abundantly. Keep II wet and the corn
roots send theS threads all through II.
Keep Il both wet and cool and IL viii
even grow potatoes.
Thus II is that while We admire
George Washington az a general and
patriot We pity his ignorance and his
lamcntahle judgment in planting his
grain and his national capital in 80
poor /, place as tho sterile pi.trtct Of
Columbia.
All ,his story is forced to stand on
its own bottom. for We have no hope
that II will he backed up with bril-
liant showing Of garden stuff ans grain
from Pueblo at the state fair. should
II be done IT would he the first time.
We are experts at booming the fair
vet when 1t comes to visible show
ing Of actua, farm stuff NC are sclirsed
every time by those purseprcud Rocky
Ford fellows or by tho boomers from
dttrhleaR kiovs and they prarre home
waving the blue rihbons
M ..
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-08-29
FARMING IN CANADA
IS A RISKY BUSINESS

Letters from Saskatchewan earlier
In the summer described widespread
devastation by hail. proving that the
industry OF agriculture up in that
country OF boundless plains and
cranky weather presents n life OF ad-
venture Thcre had been q series OF
dry seasons and poor crops were the
rule in a wide territory in which many
settlers from the United States had
located. This year the apring rains
came and would have been welcomed
but were accompanied by ono herce
hail storm after another so that many
farms were entirely stripped and had
no crops whatever.
Yet there arc aome encouraging
features. Correspondents In Manitoba
confirm current opinion that the
corn belt Is moving northward. Dur
ing this summer Of unbrokcn hcn. 4
large amount of corn has been grown
in tho provinces Of Canada This will
go far to make UP for a short wheat
harvest averaging ten bushels.
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-08-29
THIS Weeks NOTES ON THE FARM

No need to write farm notes now;
nobody would read en-; everybody too
busy. right in the thick OF the opening
of the harvesting season. That's the
trouble with gardening in the rich
lands of Colorado-it's easy enough to
plant but a back-brcakinS job to do
the harvesting. Pity and sympathy
should go out at the present time to
the sun Drowned dweliers wrestling
with truck loads and carloads of mel
ons down the river, with the beets
next the list and corn as runner-up. II
is a spotty old place. this Arkansas
valley. with some farmers howlins
the great gathering job that begins in
August and lasts till after Thanks
giving.
But don't mako the mistake OF blam-
ing any OF 1t on Pueblo. II the prices
weakening do not imagine It is be-
cause Pueblo Is wobbly on account of
idle smelters and quiet iron works.
Pueblo Is under such momentum moth
ing can stop 1t. Floods and fires and
Industrial Irregularities all seem only
to stir up fresh activity. while the
Pueblo taste runs more and moro to-
ward luxuries. Rects and sparcribs and
neck boil may sccm to weaken in the
market prices but II you've got any
hurry them along for Pueblo is eager
for them and can pay for these and
other delicacies out OF the money
spared from tho present purchases of
hnc furs.
The bottom did not drop out of the
grain market during the week as had
been feared. on the contrary 1t held
its own fairly we'll under the in
Hucncc of developing large exports. 10
which the German pcacc treaty will
add. The cattle market at Denver be-
came dcmoralizcd owing to n hcadlons
run of animals to that town. Eggs
fell off a cont at eastern ccntcrs and
butter weakened slightly but changes
in tina. limo are only triflinE and all
poultry and dairy products continue
strong with good future. Fruit move
ment is rapidly enlarEinG both from
Colorado and California and prices
arc firm An enormous business in po-
tatoes and other staples is offering tc
tho railroads all the business they can
handle.
Colorado melon trade II now at its
best both In quality and quantity and
Otero county is shipping out train
loads Of the finest melons Of both
kinds while at the same time com
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-08-29
EASILY FIND SOME ENCU<E
TO DODGE THE CANNING JOH

GroCorymon saw that Tho sale Of
fruit OF all kinds i very limited in
this city 50 very little Of 4, is being
canned This fact also limits tho
amount Of sugar being sold. No.
t"nth part Of tho usual volume of can
ming il taking place. ono reason suS-
Scstcd being that the city has stocked
up on food stocks. while another ~
that tho cost Of raw fruit Is too high.
Tho Indicator.
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-08-29
TpE> will Alt STAND rr
NutsN TEf. CORN GOES Dv

\ Northwestern University profrs-
sor has after three years OF expert
mont produced rcd. white and blue
corn hy crossing rcd and white cars
10 mako blue ears and then grating
tho three varieties The professor be-
lieveg hc can perfect corn SO that tr-
rows Of kernels will show solid bars
NJ rod. white and blue.
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-08-29
.>RMERs GET rOoR PAY
MUST BUY At THE TOT

Farmers get but 60 per cent of the
price they got for their crops few
years ago but they still pay great
deal more for what they buy. so that
there is good reason for tho protests
they arc making. A dollar a bushel
for wheat. and poor crops at that,
doesn't pay off tho mortgages very
IA III -Ihn indicator
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-08-29

planning of high freight rates. Pueblo
people are revealing in ample auanu-
tics of delicious canteloupcs while pay
ing double tho prices they ought to
pay.
Colorado Is the leading sugar beet
state OF the union. according to reports
Of the United States census bureau.
According to the report Colorado pro-
duced 1.sos.ls7 tons of sugar bects in
1919.
A La Junta milling company IL pre-
pairing to erect grain elevator AT
Chcraw and work will be started in a
few weeks. The elevator will be con-
structcd of concrete and will have a
capacity of $4,000 bushels.
The lamb IN the stock market fire.
auently mistakes himself for a fox
Boston Transcript.
man from the cast. who has two
sons. last week bought three farms
comprising l.5oo acres. near Glade
park in Grand Junction section.
II. c. Richardson OF Pueblo has ptr-
chased a thrce-acrc tract on the corn
cr OF Valley street and Central ave-
nue. from the Rainbow Park Land
company. He intends to move here next
spring and put tho tract in fruit and
egctables.--Florcncs Citizcu.
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-08-29

Crowley-The receiving shed for the
Heinz Pickling company took in II
tons of cucurbers on Saturday. Ap-
proxima tely IS 10000 had been paid to
the farmers up to Monday by the COM
pany here.
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-08-29
GREEN PICKLE
IS CERTAINLY
AFINE TREAT

Be not envious Of the new head let
tuce boom at Buena Vista-our hum
blue, low1y Arkansas valley Is develop
ing a new stunt that can almost match
the lettuce racket without half so
much parade The long green is
ever an attraction to the human eye
but We do not lot the cucumbers grow
too long for pickles. Look at this as
tonishing story from Ordway Era OF
last week:
Over $4,000 had been paid out for
pickles in the Sugar City, Ordway and
Crowley districts up to Tuesday night
OF this week, sum put into circula-
ton at time when many other crops
are not yet on and when some other
crops are going slow for lack OF a
market.
The amount OF money paid out In
the three receiving stations by the
Heinz company up to Tuesday even
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-08-29
SECOND WALLACE MARRIAGE

Dos Moincs, Iowa. Aug. 2s.-For the
second time In three weeks, Henry G.
Wallace. secretary Of agriculture, will
come back to Iowa 10 attend tho
wedding Of one of his sons, Secretary
Wallace will arrive Thursday for tho
wedding here Saturday Of his son
James Wilson Wallace and Miss Viz
ginia Stuhbs.
on August II. another son. John
Rroadhead Wallace. was married to
Miss Margaret Powell
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-08-29

The lamb IN the stock market FIRE
quently mistakes himself for fox
Boston Transcript.
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-08-29

SPANISH GARNET QUITS
Lisbon. Aug. 7s.-CBy The Assoc'at ted
Frcss)-The cabinet Of Barros oucrios.
formed las, May, has resigned.
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-08-29

The Thread Of the Discourse
But what this stnry started out to say
is that Pueblo county has as good soil
as that of any country. can equal the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-17

From the Providence Journal.
 RHHE liner Winifredian, which has
 II been breasting the Atlantic for
 S time so long as to seem all most beyond the memory of man. reached Boston from Liverpool Friday three days behind her schedule, hay ing been delayed by a hurricane last Monday. The most experienced of her crew and passengers agreed that It was the worst one they had ever been through. The ship was literally stopped by the bowling northwestern, for some IS hours taking a battering that smashed lifeboats and tore away deck fittings.
 That it was period of uncommon discomfort is attested by the chleE officers broken arm and sundry ln- iuries to others of the ships com pany. That there was anxiety for the fate of the vessel among the pas sengers may be believed. But officers and crew were undoubtedly confident that the Winifredian could live through anything the Atlantic could kick up. She is a stout old ship.
 At the height of the storm the winifredian caught the wireless \. K t1 a1Fri3 s{nking,'' from the freighter
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-17
A STOUT SHIP

Rombardier. on the way to Antwerp, rrain laden. The Bombardier is now at the bottom of the sea, or derellct. An Saturday the steamship Mount Clay brought her crew into Boston.
 The hurricane had torn the Bom- bardier apart. Luckily the Mount Clay was only 50 miles away when she Sot the call, and the stricken ship stayed afloat until the storm had somewhat abated,
 The Bombardier was new ship, one of the shipping boards, in the service of Belgian line. She was constructed as her skipper describes it. with a plate from Ohio, another one from
 Philadelphia, and winch from Cali fornia,t an example of the fabricated" ships boasted about during the war time rush. The Mount Clay is ship ping board vessel, too, but not simi- lar product--she was formerly the
 German liner Eitel Friedrich. The hurricane did not worry her.
 The wooden vessels are evidently not the: only ones in our hastily con- structed fleet that are not fit to go to [ sea. ship that is fit ought not to Efounder,4or be in peril on the Allan tic so long as she keeps away from ! lee shore or an iceberg.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-17
BAD nOYs IN BOOKS

From the Mobile Register
 There is no such thing as "a natural ly bad boy. declares MT. Amunsen of the Boy Scouts. Perhaps that iss the reason F. P. Adams of the New York Tribune. couldn't get interested in the 'Pecks Bad Boy of literature. MT. Peck's bad boy seemed false, " whereas sto the "old and failing orbs' of .Mr Adams. "Penrod Schofield" seems entirely true" Those of us who have never read the venerated "Peck's Bad Boy will have to accept the inference Governor Peel wasn't scientific He simply wrote an exag- geration of his own son. whose reac- tions he didn't understand. Mir Tark- ington. however. appears learned even to the learned. T think" said a teach CT of psychology and so far as we know this hasn't been printed Ion" the author of "Seventeen'-"I think he gets his stuff from Stanley Halls Adolescence. Wherefore let us be scientific.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-17
A CONSTRUCTIVE JOURNALIST

From Editor and Publisher
 There is no other profession except journalism in which the work of the individual could have such far reach : ing effects on the events of the world and he remain practically unknown to the general public as was the case ot Winner Stuart, market editor and di- sociated Press. who died in Brook lyn last week.
 He revolutionized the methods for handling market and election news; it was the tables and codes that he, de- vised that made possible the rapid transmission of news at times when the entire world demands quick re- suits; within the profession that ht honored by choosing it as his own he was recognized as an internationalSex ex- pert, without peer. but to the gen eral public which benefited most from his efforts he was practically un- known.
 MT. Stuart Joined the market de- partment of the Associated Press when boy. and since 1893 he had been it's head. He was the originator of the CO., operative election service Of the As sociated Press that makes possible the flashing of election returns to all great eenters of population within a few hours after the. polls close This alone is sufficient monument. to any man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-17
LUKE M'LUkE SAYS

A homely girl always feels better after she sees some girl who is homelier
 than she ia. A man has to talk about the weather or politics. But a woman can talk about nothing in particular. If you win put on the right kind of glasses, you can discover defect in an yangel
 It doesn't cost anything to tell a poor, sickly guy that he looks fine, and it brings about q million dollars worth of comfort to him. Say something when you talk and people won't find any fault with your grammar.
 This is getting to be noisy old world. About the only place a man can find rest and quiet nowadays is in 1 the store of merchant who does not advertise.
 l The things that come to the man who waits are never the things that he is waiting for, E The man with patches on his pants, who doesn't owe anybody, has | harder 1 time borrowing money than the well- dressed man who owes everybody, in- ciuding hisl tailor. It makes a man weary to sec horse ], faced dame wearing a $1.200 coat and Ia swell hat when he sees . pretty girl who has to wear an old turban and a shabby coat. This would be a better world If it were as easy to arouse enthusiasm as sk is to arouse suspicion.
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