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Pueblo chieftain., 1922-02-20
GIT PLENTY while YOU'RE CITTIN
IS EXPLOITATION OF ENTHUSIAST
Points to Steady Increase Of Values Of Land dDeclares
That All This Western Land Is Coming Up in
Worth and Merit Year by Year.

Promptly in the middle of February
came the first arrivals of .tranpors
looking for a location" In most cases
these tonderfooters treading OH the
hccls OF slow going winter arc either
dirt farmers or map farmors-practical
men in either case There is a dispo-
s,tion In some quarters to draw sharp
distinction between tho two hreeds
nut let US say right hero that this IL, a
serious mistake, The map farmer. or
asriculturist-on -on-paper. is in many
cases more useful person than the
average plow hand. While he docs
not plant or SOW he closely watches
or even directs these operations. and
nc takes a personal interest In all that
Is done Though sitting at the board
lns house stove In winter or on the
country store porch in summer he is
busy all tho timc-busy talking
This map farmer is in class by
himself we'll known to all OF us and in
most cases commanding our Difference
because we feel that he is wise OBJ
server gifted with the desirable quail
t'eS of generalship and looking at the
business from high viewpoint.
BY WEIGHT OF EXPERIENCE
SO II WAS that a thick-sot fIorid faced
man scrawled his name on tho regis
ter OF a homclika hosE about the first
OF tho week. Such men find such lodg-
irr places as II by instinct. They 70
there directly from tho depot as IL
they already knew the town by heart,
and evidently It is this same homing
instinct that turns them toward good
spots Of pro luctlve sections OF the
country.
By tho end OF tie week the new
boardor was no longer a tenderfoot
Instead OF taking In knowledge and
wisdom and experience he was giving
II out-imparting II In chunks and
hucketfuls, and II liz such good stuff
that the old-tlme boardcrs lay aside
their flimSy evening papers and gather
round the big stove to listen. II Is
a human trait TO harkcn and Wow
with rather critical demeanor. or with
cold reserved the loquacity OF a new
conner. but in a case where his ora.
tory overwhelms with manifest merit
and Inherent wisdom. then ali super
cilious criticisms give way.
Moreover. the Othollo is always a
popular narrator. for II In another
human trait TO defer TO the tales OF
a traveller. ono who has been over
much OF tho carth's surface always
commands a hearing.
Add to this the breadth Of view i'm.
parted by lar~a OF years. Any elderly
man has wider ana higher view
point becaus. OF the contrasts created
by tho conditions OF passing decades.
Pueblo chieftain., 1922-02-20
THIS WEEKS NOTES ON THE FARM

II was q week OF serene emptiness,
on tho face of II. apparently a pleas
ant sunxhiny week OF nothing doing.
a week of patient waiting for tho tail
end Of tho winter to go by. Yet there
was an important development which
10 realized only By newspaper readers
and local observers, to this effect:
Tho affliction of high winds. with the
disaStvous effect Of having tho wheat
blown out of the ground. IL far less
serious In this ArkRnsas valley. and
in all tho five big valleys OF south
srn Colorado. than anywhere else In
tho west. Seems almost ineSplicablo
except on some improved theory as to
upper Rit currents, but II Is true.
There are certain exposed spots in this
county where high winds can dislodEe
the sown wheat, bringing tho grains
to tho surface whero they nre taken
by birds or dry out. but such effect
is not general and disastrous rs II is
farther down In Kansas and In all
tho Colorado wheat lands north OF tho
divide. 1t IN a local advantage exist
ing In the whole Arkansas valley cast
to tho state line.
Another Item Of farm news was tho
signing by the president late In thc
week OF q bill exempting farm inter-
csts from tho operation OF antitrust
laws. I, permits them to max. sales
OF produce freely by cooperation with
no accusation OF combinations. This
il a matter that does no. apparently
have much to do with affairs In this
part of tho country. where co-opcra-
tion in selling has never been pushed
very far. We depend on the compcti-
ton of eastern buyers to come in and
Pueblo chieftain., 1922-02-20
WESTERN WOOL
COULD CL01HE
EVERY WOMAN
BY J. G. Brown. Nontfose. Colo.
Tho ahaep induatrY In slIGhtly On the

BY J. G. Brown. Nontrose. Colo.
Tho sheep Industry IL slightly on the
UP grade again after the slump Of the
past IS months. Lambs with nons
from this section. on the market are
and wool around 81 cents by the ware
houses In Chicago and In tho eastern
markets.
But you no doubt are more concern
cd to show something OF tho IMPORT
ance OF tho sheep industry IN Mont
rosc county.
Montrosc county is ono OF the most
Important sheep raising counties In the
state. There arc owned ABOUT 100000
sheep by Montrcss county men. The
values Of these aheep are u 500 900. Al
present prices the value Of wool pro-
be around 13oo. 900. Tho value OF our
lamb crop Of Montroee county Is about
$500. 600 From this industry alone
thcre will como into Montrose county
81 900 600 annually. No wonder people
hero felt tho squeeze when no wool
money camo into this section last
spring.
II is sahd to realize from the above
figures the great Importance Of a
business of this magnitude OF tho busi-
ness interests of our section. The sheep
mon are good spenders and when they
havs money all classes of business
men fcol the effects Of their prosperity.
Even the cow mon know how much
harder IL is to borrow money when
wool IN not selling
A, soon a. prejudice dies down a lit
tie more in this section and all land
on tho forest reserve not now utilized
for anything II thrown open to sheep.
and with more caro- in the breeding and
selection this industry can hc doubled.
wha, would another 81. ON. go year
from this source alone mean TO Mont.
rose county a,orrv
II ali tho sheep owned by Montrose
county mon were strung out In a single
row in regulation distance apart the
line would reach from here to Dem
Yer.
Tho wool from their backs would
max. a sweater each tsll wooD fof
5oc. 90 soldiers or n pair OF socks FOR
each and every man In tho total United
States army In France during 1.-The
world war, and their carcasses would
| furnish 10 millions pounds OF meat 10
feed them.
or tho ficcces Of tho sheep owned in
Montrosc county would mako drcs-
for every woman in America. that Is
Of course, IL the dresses were no longer
than thcy are at tho present time.
Single individuals hero rank amona
tho grest eifcephcrders since the days
Of Abraham and to saw they have
sheep on = thousand hills allowing
for metaphor. Is putting 1t mildly
enough.
RI reasonable protective tariff II
on wool and mutton tho future OUTLOOK
| for the business II good. However
should those sdvocaters Of equal or
por;unity OF America for all foreign
business. mon In competition with oui
| home people without sharing our bur.
dcrs secure the legislation they nov
seek. Our position would then hccoms
| untcns bic and Uncle Sam would have
| to buy his wool In III. future from
| foreign producers. and our people
would drift into other lines-csy farm
| ms
Pueblo chieftain., 1922-02-20

an income of $1,000 in December and
one boy of Is years did practically all
the work. That farm had a good bal
ance on the right side Of the ledger
every month last year.
"The price of the land is big fact
or in the farmers economic problem.
Many men operating on high priced
land have suffered a setback. Many
a small farmer growing sweet corn on
land that cost him $35 to $50 an acre
IL earning more per acre on his low
priced land than is the one-crop dent
corn farmer in Iowa on his 5000 land
There's more than one side to this
farm proposition and 1t Is not all pes
simism. There are a lot of optimists
among the millions Of farmers but
you arc not hearing much from them
just now. The other fellow has tho
stage"
Pueblo chieftain., 1922-02-20
NO LONG TIME REQUIRED

Yet one generation is no great frax-
heht or time--it passes swiftly, and its
panoramic pictures here in the de-
Veloping west are marvellous.
LOOK what western Kansas. or even
what central Kansas was when I was
kid!' exclaimed the big man an he
kicked the too-hot stove door open;
we can all remember when that land
was SO bare and unpromisinY nobody
would have it. The settlers were
mostly fugitives or outlaws or eccen-
tries. They planted a few windmills
ten miles apart. and their prairie hold
ings were usually abandoned from two
TO six times before they could .tay on
th' assessors rolls as a tax paving
proposition.
Southern Colorado the same way,
and not only the land but whole
towns repeatedly vanished from the
map. and now look at Baca county
after five successive years OF good
crops, with cream routes running in all
directions and feeling dreadfuiiy
abused because the railroads do not
hurry In with new tracks"
But IT was the no-mans-land furth-
er south, the Beaver panhandle of Ok
lahoma that this 200 pound tcnderfoot
mad come from and with which he was
most familiar. tho he seemed instinc-
lively 10 know all about the whole
Dif's - itN StdrS ago you
could hardly sec a fence or n cabin or
plow. and square mile OF landscape
WAS not worth six postage stamps. Now
you can go TO lots of places in Beaver
and In Baca and they'll ask you $50
an acre, and you can take it or leave
Il.
You might as well try to resist the
norther or the cyclone as attempt to
cry down tho westward march OF set
tIement and production. There may
como dry years and other breaks but
tho great American desert In now sup
porting thousands OF people and get
ting more all the time. Often It 10
question whether tho land is better
with its original buffalo grass or under
tho plow. In the latter case /. grows
up into mass OF pinkweeis six feet
high. Then We look at II and cusy II
and ridiculc Il and say 1t Ia no good.
When VIC do that VIC are the fools.
The very soil that can show a thous-
and tons OF weeds in a space OF three
months can show an equal weight OF
cornstalks or other good stuff in tho
s5mc space of summer time II man
would do his part OF the Job.
Put this down. too. right here-no,
only the land but the man himself Is
Just that way: II his mind is not
planted with corn. and kept hoed, II
too will grow up with weeds.'
Pueblo chieftain., 1922-02-20
JAN UARy STATE
COAL PRODUCTION

DENVER, Feb. 1a.--Coal production
in Colorado mines for the month of
January totalled 500, ,'os tons a decrease
OF 245,s01 tons over tho corresponding
month of last year. according to tho
monthly report OF tho state mine iD
spcctor issued today. Las Animas
county produced tho most coal 20a.AT
tons, according to the report, Huer-
fano county was Second with 15s. 4os.
Weld third with 1929. Boulder fourth
with sl,s7a, and Routt fifth with 50,-
100. El Paso produced 42,127 tons and
Fremont I.o0s.
The total number OF men employed
tho report shows. was 1879. Those en-
ploycd I'm various counties were az
follows: La. Animns. 1852: Huerfano.
2.sis: Weld, 135s: Boulder 1.14s: Routt,
SOS; El Paso, 3Te and Fremont 1,130.
Pueblo chieftain., 1922-02-20
ROBBED FOURTH TINE
WITHIN ONE YEAR

DENVER. Colo, Feb. 1s.-For tho
fourth time within a year. the Piggy
Wiggly store at 1901 East Thirteenth
avenue. In the fashionable residence
district. WAS robbed tonight.
Two unmaskcd robbers, with their
ovcrcoats drawn up to conceal their
faces, entered the store during tho
late shopping hours this evening"
backed thrce clerks into n corner. took
between $500 and 5000 in cash and
checks and escaped through crowd
OF fifteen or twenty persons who had
gathered In front OF the store. Tho
robbers stepped into an automobile.
which was waiting at the corner. GnI
drove off.
Pueblo chieftain., 1922-02-20
Making Feeble Effort
To Escape Being HuU1

Tho Minnesota Farm Bureau Fed
Grafton is conducting campaign to
stop foreclosures OF farm mortsaS
In hundreds OF cases In that p;ato
farmers will be unable to moot inter-
est payments due on their farm mort
EnGcs in Nsrch. In n large number OF
farm mortgages there Is n clause which
makes the whole sum OF mortgage fall
due when n farmer misses an interest
payment.
For n farmer or nybody else 10 sign
puch a cut-throat mortgage NJ thnt
looks like deliberate suicide. Rad
enough to put even "a longtime blanket
on n poor helpless farm.
Pueblo chieftain., 1922-02-20

rangement certainly saves many
weary steps. The woodwork here,
As 1t is on the second floor is done
In white enamel. Tho other rooms
on the nrst noor are finished in
mahogany with oak floors. There
is full basement with laundry
which is not an unimportAnt fea-
ture. Another feature that will
nt once make the housewife happy
is the large and commodious linen
closet on the second door.
Finished in cream colored stueco
and with green shingled roof. and
Pueblo chieftain., 1922-02-20
Bou Ont in Mountains
lrins q Cdpper Pri.t

Glenn Middash OF Mirage. village
in upper san Luis valley. won sis as
third prize in the Cspper Interstate
riu club contest. competition taking
ir Kansas. Colorado. Nebraska and
oklahoma This hoy started out Win
a purebred pls three years ago aud by
proper care and feed hss raised piss
ina, have been premium winners at
every fair they were shown. some OF
tbsae pirs were sold In tho northern
80 wore sold locally and started
,sVs-al farmers with excellent foun-
daticu stock.
Pueblo chieftain., 1922-02-20

with the chimney and base around
the house OF dark red texture"
brick. this cottage is one of the
most attractive little homes that
could be found anywhere. 1t is
estimated that It would cost be-
tween $500 and $4,000 to build
this home, exclusive OF tho plumb
ing and heating, and It Is a safe
guess that the one who invests his
money in this house will never re-
sret II. As shown here II Is
twenty-seven feet wide by twenty
five feet six inches deep.
Pueblo chieftain., 1922-02-20

Persons inclined toward making In
vestisation of swine pens at tho moon
lieht hour arc hereby confidcntislly
advised to keep away from tho pig
she'd. of Ia lara farmer named
Barton. He fired his rifle at a strang-
or who was doing so the other night.
and next day brunette character
named Orteea visited the local doctor
TO have a punctured arm mendcd.
Pueblo chieftain., 1922-02-20

Prom uuliard. Wyo.; = Broad,
bopt who last spring stored his wool
Sin here after refusing an offer OF
"A cents q pound for It has disposed
81, Mo rlip vt an advance OF 100 per
,,-, rsrriyirE ss cents pnunu.
Pueblo chieftain., 1922-02-20
ALL YOUNG FLAPPER
HENS EXCITED BY
THEIR new HUBB|ES

FARMINGDALE, n. Y. Feb. lo.-
(By Tho Associated Prcss)-Thc cx-
elusive young f,appcr section at the
State Institute OF Applied Agriculture
was all afluttcr with excitement today.
There was much artful cooking OF
heads and prccninE of nnc feathers.
For in some way the news had gotten
about that before niEh,fall all the good
nappcrs. jus. budding into henhood.
were TO &C. beautiful young husbands.
with delightful backgrounds of wealth
and social position.
Tho fact savorinS OF Asia. that the
brides -to-bc had mover seen their fu-
ture husbands didn't secm TO bother
each was to share her husband with
10 others. Monosamy stiil Is unknown
in tho world OF White Lcshorns. Rhode
Itiand Reds and Plymouth Rocks.
rodny's weddings mark the second
stage OF a threc-ycar cgH laying md
poultry breeding contest being con-
Quoted by u. A. Ahrcns. head OF tho
institutes poultry department
During the last year. 500 pulieis from
all parts OF tho cast have occn de-
voting their energies solely to egg lay
ing. aud have established cuTiabic roc
ords for themselves. The contestants
entered by poultry raiscrs for tho cs-
pcriment-contcst, laid l5'.'.. cgSu III
tho year. or an average OF l5s.h per
pullct.
A single comb White Lcshorn owned
by T.. j. Lovcland. OF New York car
ricd off f,rst priz, with rs. eggs. Mr..
I.ovcland's White lscghorn pom also
carried off the pen pr1zc with total
OF J. 13o eggs. There were 10. pullcts out
OF the 900 entered. that produced 2co
or moro eggs.
Tho second. or breeding phase OF the
contest, which starts with today'a mat
ings. will continue thru March. April
and May. each bride being allotted "A
setting OF 10 cgEs. The hens VIII not
be permitted to hatch their own fami-
lies. however. this detail being attend
cd to in incubators.
Next fail. 20 puiicts from each pen
ono from each hens brood al far as
possihlc-will be selected ana placed
In tho pen their parents occupied.
Tests as TO their skin as layers and
parents. conducted during tho follow
ing season, will conclude tho contest.
The object of the contest. which is
supported by a $4,000 appropriation OF
the legislature and BY fees from en-
| trsnts. arc:
To encourage selection OF stock and
a closer study OF the physical char
ac,cristics which determine bird,
producing nnd breeding ability.
To furnish each poultry raiser with
an accurate record of eggs PRODUCED
and tho breeding ability OF each hen
entered
To return to tho farm at tho end of
each year some registered birds with
their records of performance which
may be used in establishing dcfi-
mite and successful mcthtd OF breed
ing.
And to demonstrate to poultry raisers
the methods and practices in breeding
and management that will lead TO
| higher production and greater profits
Pueblo chieftain., 1922-02-20

During the month of January 80
carloads of potatoes and rs carloads
OF onions were shipped from ulathe.
Pueblo chieftain., 1922-02-20

single warehouse at Montrosc
has fifteen men and women PORTING
onions and potatoes.
Pueblo chieftain., 1922-02-20

Flowers arc found growing up 10 In,
line OF perpetual SNOW In all noun
II S'rnus countries.
Pueblo chieftain., 1922-02-20

This very simple frock of Black
Canton crepe is made distinctive
by the use Of silver embroidery
The frock Is one Of the slip-over
models with rubber in the waist
line and an unusual collar at he
opening. The wide sleeves are the
Ncason's decree
Pueblo chieftain., 1922-02-20

stop now. They are not really nt
for tho table at this time. and should
he giyon chance TO breed for another
supply of good meat noy' fsll. There
II never any danger of rabbits being
. pest here. and y law fixing a closed
season for them after tho middle Of
February would meet with approval
such military town ss Rifle Is of
course tho right place for the resid-
cncc of portly herd leader Cap
tain Domino has arrived TO make the
Rifle stock farm OF Claude II. Reese
his home. The captain was obtained
by MIR. Reese at Denver Stock show
and is the finest Hereford on the west
slope.
Pueblo chieftain., 1922-01-09
SP.R.TUA- AID IS NEED
OF EUROPE SAYS DODGE

Europe recovering from the shock
of war is looking to America for spirit
ual aid, was the striking theme OF the
impressive speech by Clarence p.
Dodge, owner of the Colorado Springs
Gazette yesterday afternoon to ap-
proNimately 1000 persons during the
program OF the Steel Works Com
munity sing at the Y. NJ. C. A.
America expects too much" was
another illustrative statement made
by Mr.. Dodge in relating the condi-
tions caused by releasing the millions
Of men from the service of the gov
ernment after the armistice had been
signed and the period of reconstruc
ton begun. Relating his first trip to
Europe shortly after the armistice had
been signed. his second voyage in
the fall of 1920 and the third visit
last spring. Mr.. Dodge gave in vivid
detail to his many interested listen
ers. the developing stages towards re-
Pueblo chieftain., 1922-01-09
1850 PUEBLOANS IN
GAINFUL OCCUPATIONS

Fourteenth Census, there were 1850
persons 10 years Of age and over In
Pueblo engaged in gainful occupations
in 1920, constituting 40.s per cent OF
the total population OF the city t43.-
05O) and 5o.7 per cent OF the popuia-
ton 10 years of age and over.
OF the gainful workers in Pueblo
in 1920, l4,0i1. or 1913 per cent. were
males and 3.539, or col per ent, were
females. The male gainfui workers
constituted 1876 per cent of all males
10 years OF age and over. while the
feralc gainful workers constituted Il
per cent of all females 10 years OF
age and over.
OF the gainfui workers Of Pueblo in
1920, 1854, or 40.1 per cent, were
engaged in manufacturing and me-
chanical industries: 2,201, or 1875 per
cent, in transportation: 2,358, or 1874
per cent in trade; 32I, or Is per cent.
.n public service: 1878. or 7.2 per
cent. In professional service, $500. or
lo.l per cent, in domestic and person.
al service, 1888, or 81 per cent. in
clerical occupations: and 534. or 3
per cent, in all other occupations.
Pueblo chieftain., 1922-01-09
WHO HAS seen A
V|.AM|NE?
No One, Says Science. They
Work Like Magic, Tn.
caught BY the Eye
NECESSARY TO LIFE

Vifamines arc known to he real
things and indispensable parts of our
daily food, yet no person has ever
set eyes on one.
Apparently. there has never been
given a better definition OF those mys-
terious elements than given by
learned scientist. who recently said:
'sNitamines are to food what our
souls are to our bodies. They are
there. They do things. But we car
not see them"
Ever since ceration man has been
eating yitomines. but didn't realize II
until very recent years. The study of
yitamines has become important be-
cause. thru knowledge OF them, many
horrible diseases are being cured.
Scientists agree that the invisible
vitamines supply certain need OF
the body that is necessary to life it
self But they disagree on just what
that need is.
Many agree that vitamines supply
the body, with certain necessary
chemical units which the body is un-
able to manufacture. others regard
them as stImulators, AS they seem to
exert a stimulating influence upon the
various activities OF the body. still
others have other opinions and in tn"
end the general public regards all
their theories as only Intelligent guess
work.
There are three KINDS of vttamines
Fat-soluble a. Water-soluble y. and
watcr-soluble C.
A is found mainly in milk. butter
fat. eggs. spinach, carrots. sweet
potatoes. kidney fat, cod-liver pdl,
yellow corn. and tomatoes
Il is mostly confined to yeast, wheat
germs, and milk.
is contained mostly In citrous
fruits, such as oranges. lines and
lemons, fresh cabbage, tomatoes.
onions. green apples, lettuce, and
green peas. This data. OF course, is
limited. as no full tables have been
prepared up to the present tins.
: Anyone whose regular diet contains
q good balance OF A, r and Vita
mines is said to be pretty sure of good
health. Only one or two Of them is
not sufficient.
Lack OF one of the three is known |
10 have produced scurvy, beri-beri |
ricketts,, pellagra, and even blindness
Any persons who are not fortunate |
enouGh to have the advantage of an /
lII-winter supply OF garden and or
hard fruits and vegetables containing
he proper vitamines, should remcm-
,er that science has been able to Of
er vitamines In condensed form so
hat they may be easily eaten to sup
Iement regular foods,