, 1925-07-15

6OAh6 ~ many q itdi ottP L
If our people take advantage of the
opportunity which now lies at their
door.
Never in the history of the Big
Horn basin have crops looked SO
good. Never have our farms been
so well titled and never have our
farmers felt so confident of big re-
turns at harvest time.
Especially is this true of beets,
which are at this time fully two
weeks ahead of what they would be
in an average year. There is an
abundance of water for all crops
in this part of the Basin and no in
dication that a shortage is likely
TO develop.
In marked contrast with those
conditions. we find a most deplor-
able drouth in the irrigated section
of northern Colorado, where for a
number of they have been
much worried over water conditions,
where in ordinary years they zap
propriate dewdrops." n where this
year they are suffering from water
shortage which amounts to a real
disaster.
Before the writer went down 10
a month ago. there had
been many reports from that sec
ton which indicated that things
We're in a deplorable condition.
While we were down there we were
told thai travelling men who had
Just come back from that section
had found nR&l;l.1,. H. 49,
had ever seen. During the month
of June they got some rains that
did some good, but we have since
learned tina nothing can save that
section from what amounts practic-
ally to a crop failure.
In the Longmont district we I'M
derstant that with IL, 900 acres of
beets under contract. but 5000 will
be harvested. and we were also told
while down in Colorado that of five
refneries, but one would be kept
busy this fall taking care of Colo-
radios beet crop.
Not only has Colorado suffered
from a shortage of water. but other
troubles have also come her way and
left disaster in their wake. Finding
hat the beet crop was not coming
as it should. farmers of that section
plowed up the ground and planted
corn. A little over two weeks ago
a hail storm visited that section and
swept clean a path six miles wide
II thirty miles long, which left
little hope for any kind of crop in
hat section this fall.
Rect worIpre wbo - NOT roodaa
in the Colorado section are now be-
ing sent into the Big Horn basin
to help care for the big crop we
are growing. With a fair break,
that crop Will be a record breaker
and this part of the state will this
fall be able to show the biggest
yields ever grown in Wyoming.
Look the facts in the face. They
are all to our advantage. Colorado
farmers nave long been worried
about water shortage. They have
long known hat we have plenty of
water up here in the Basin country.
They have also for a number of
had the figures before them
to show that the beets grown in
this section contain a larger per-
'NANet1t VI ohEdI lldu those CROWN
in any other part of the country;
in other words, an equal tonnage
OF beets grown in the Big Horn
basin will bring much greater re-
turns because of results that show
up when the beets go to the refin-
cry. :
Now is the time for the Big Horn
basin to get the facts to the Col
orado irrigation farmer. In other
years he has been getting a crop
in spite of the fact that he knew
there wasn't a drop more water in
that section than the crop was go
ing to need. Today he is facing
disaster and he's doing a lot of
thinking-wOndering if that con-
dition is likely to continue and if
he is likely to have to face a series
of a that will bring similar con-
ditions. He is in a receptive mood.
He's willing to talk it over with the
man who has n proposition to lay
before him.
The Big Horn basin has that pro-
position. 1t offers him land at but
a fraction at what Colorado land
has been quoted at for a number of
ear There never was any good
reason why Colorado land should
command the price it has while Big
Horn basin land was being offered
at a price far below that figure.
After passing through a crisis
that has tested u people to the
limit, our lands are now ready for
the nan who knows beets-who
can come and get real yields from
the best beet land the country knows
anything about. The men we need