SAGUACHE
CRESCENT.
V0L. XXI. NO. 52. SAGUACHE, COLORADO, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1901. WHOLE NUMBER 1092.
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FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
Doings Amoug Our Neighbors Of Inter.
est To Crescent Readers.
CENTER.
Center Dispatch.
J. L, Hurt shipped two cars of cattle
te Pueblo Monday.
We understand that Jute Lawrence is
working in the mines at Cr(~tona.
Born.--To Mr. and Mrs. Pete Sinclair
Monday morning, December 16, a son.
Both mother and son are doing well.
The telephone company sent their
man around again the first of week and
he placed in several new phones. Heput
one m the Dispatch office and one at
the La Garita farm.
R. M. Phillipsis now in Center and
has been working for Johnson ou the
new implement house on the west side
and will move his family in town. Ha
is a brick layer and mason by trade and
he intends to follow it as a busineBs here. i
HOOPER.
From ]-looper Press.
D. H. Staley and family left Wednes-
day for Salida ~heir future home.
J. W. Wills started Monday for Was-
aonville, California, to remain during the
winter.
Twelve cars of wheat were ihipped
from the Columbia mills since our last
issue to different mills in the valley.
This shows where the bulk of the wheat
is marketed.
School closed Friday for the usual
holiday vacation of two weeks. Princi-
pal Cooperrider will visit in Greeley dur-
ing vacation and Miss Hall will visit
her old home iu Trenton, Nob.
Wm. Wallace, assisted by Mr. Steph-
eneon and George Hiner, drove several
head of hors~ to Monte Vista Saturday.
The horses are to be shipped to South
Africa for army purposes.
Ralph Rowau has accepted the posi-
tion made vacant in the Wallace Mere.
store at La Jars by the resignation of A.
J. Heinzman and is now casting gee too
eyes and winsome smiles while tying up
packages for the fair sex of La Jars.
Ralph is missed in the company store
here by morethan one.
ALAMOSA.
Alamosa Courier.
Farmers about Moaca and Hooper
have pledged 6,000 acres of bests in the
event that a sugar factory is emtalished
in the valley.
W. E. Cox expects to return to Ale.
mesa just after New Years. He is now
in Kansas visiting his mother who ia
dangerously ill.
The contract was let Wednesday night
to Cole & Whitney for the new town
hall. Work is to commence nezt Mon-
day and the building is to be completed
by April first.
Pat H. Meloney, who wu for a long
time a conductor on the Salidg.Alamoaa
run and well known in Alamosa died in
Illinois last week. Ha has been in poor
health for several years.
Judge Iqolbrook heard a ca'as in Du-
range last week where Raymond of the
Herald had Day of the Democrat tried
on a charge of criminal libel. The jury
split evenly, six for acquittal and six for
conviction, and the case was set back
for a new trial.
The real estate firm of Willis & Colt
has recently handled one transfer of 40
quarter sections ot land, one of ten quar.
tar sections, and another of eleven quar-
tar sections. These sales indicate some-
thing of the activity of San Luis valley
real estate at present,
CRESTONE.
Crestone Miner.
John W. Cook l~as resigned his posi-
tion as town councilman.
The Cleveland uncovered a good vein
Monday in the 220 foot level.
The San Isabel has ore for all pur-
poses and the management is steadily
pushing for more.
Mayor p, J. Qmnn is expected home
for the holidays. He is greatly improv-
ed in health.
Dickinson and sons of Pike have ship-
pad two cars of ore from their property
to Pueblo. They have several shipping
mines in that vminity.
L. 1~. Fitts was down from the San
Isabel mine Tuesday morning. He ro-
~r~d their property in very good shape.
The mill is running full capacity and
has plenty of ore to keep it steady at
work.
(3. D. Coieman departed last evening
~for Mii~higan," his native state, wipers
~lrs. (J. and Master Charley Quinn have
been for:the past two months. Ha will
spend Christmas with relatives and re-
turn to Crostone about the first of the
year.
T. A. Rickard, state geologist of Cole-
redo and also consulting engineer for
the Baca grant, arrived in camp Monday
evening. He will lo-k over and inspect
the work done at the Independent mine
since his last visit. Mr. Rickard has
great faith in the Crestone district but
says that depth will have to be attained
before grea t values are received.
THE VALLEY (IIRLS.
The Del Norte glrl never says a word,
And you would think she was rather tame,
With her practical views of the matter in hand--
But she gets there just the same.
The Monte Vista girl removeth her sp¢~s.
And frcezes her face with a smile,
Then sticks out her lips like an open book-
And cheweth her gum meanwhile.
The l~.guache girl so gentle and sweet,
Lets her lips meet the coming kiss,
With raptured warmth, and her soul
Floats away on a sea of bliss.
The J~lamosa girl gets a grip on heraolL
As she hurriedly takes off her hat,
As she grabs the prize in a frights ned way--
Like a terrier snaking a rat.
The Heoper girl will first refuse,
Just to hear you insist and plead,
But when she finally does consent--
Her kiss, you bet takes the lead.
She of Meson catches his mustache.
With a grip as tight as glue,
And opening up her ruby lips--
Pulls the kms on like a shoe.
She of Conejos accepts her fate,
Iu a clinging and soulful way,
And absorbs it all with a yearning yearn--
As big as a ton of hay.
Ft. Garland's fair never sigh or pine,
Nor act in a manner rude,
But go about kissing in a business hke way--
That shows nothing of the prude,
The La Jars girl on tiptoe stands,
Her lips so rosy and red,
You take her chseks in both your haads~
Then let'er go Bonner, prohibition's dead.
--Alamoea Independent-Journal.
Del Norte.
San Juan Prospector.
! I-1. Gonly, who has recently been sink
at Embargo, is now up and around.
Judge Baxter is seeking to organize a
class for initiation in the Elks, of which
order he is a member.
Mr. and Mrs. John Nevitt are expeob
ing to go to Arizona and California for
a short visit after the holidays.
There are fifteen people in Embargo
this winter. At present the men of the
camp are engaged in doing assessment
work.
Twenty years ago-Sheriff Bronaugh
of Saguache county came to Del Norte
and arrested three Mexicans for cattle
stealing.
The Crescent is urging Saguaohe to
secure some sort of fire protection. Del
Norte has a first class hand engine for
sale and the people of Saguaohe might
do worse than buy it.
Salida Notes.
Record.
Jacob Seligman's office in the rear of
the new bank is ready for occupancy and
he will open up the place for businms
next Monday. He has the neatNt and
ooiiest office in the city.
The machinery for the Ro~ mill at
Bonanza that was sold to the Fern eom-
pan~ that ie operating the Eeliple mine
,at Monarch was delayed for several days
on account or the Monarch line above
that point t)eing blocked with snow.
The machinery required eight cars to
transport it.
H. L. Stoddard was over yesterday
from Alder. He reports a very encour-
aging outlook in that vicinity for mining
as come work will continue during the
winter, rhc building of the Salida
smelter has greatly encouraged the en-
tire district and an exceptionally good
year is anticipated for 1902.
Engineer William Shaw was over the
first of the week from Crestone. He
says that the company owning the land
grant is putting in expensive ma0hinery
on the Independent mine, and that the
! property is being developed by as large a
i force as the workings will possibly ac-
commodate. The owners are preparing
for heavy production next spring, when
he feels sure that the camp will re~ume
its former activity.
The present adviser of the board of
county commissioners will manage to
have a couple of petit cases hold over in
order to prolong his job for another year
One suit is that of Superintendent Sis-
lay who sues for soma $900 for expenmm
while attending to the duties of hisoffica
and the other is that of George Chancy
who claims $77 of the county foe ser-
vices as constable in criminal matters.--
Monte Vista Journal.
It PURE GRAPE CREAM C. TARTAR POWDER,
"D]Ra
Highest Honors, World's Fair
(]old Medal, Midwinter Fair
Avoid ]]Jgklng ]Powders containing
slum. 2'lWF m £qJmrle~ to hmlt&
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THE SAN LUIS VALLEY.
Situation, Soil and Water Supply--At.
tesian Wells and Prize Cr0ps~
Sugar Beet Experiments.
We slip the following extracts from
a write-up of the San Luis Valley in
"Sugar Beets:"
The San Luis valley has long been
celebrated for the fertility of its soil and
its adaptability to irrigation. Theoreti-
cally the valley has everything m its
favor. So far as the casual observer can
He, it has infinite advantages over al-
most any o~her section in the state, and
yet with all these advantages it never-
theleaa remains true that c~ly a very
small percentage of its rich and arable
lands have been put under cultivation.
Probably no section of Colorado can
show so many wealthy land owners,most
of them being non-residents, as the San
Luis valley. The result of this non-res-
ident ownership has been to keep out
small farmers and to make it more of a
stock than an agricultural district.
The San Luis valley lies at an eleva-
tion of something like 7,000 feet, and ap-
parently was at one period a vast inland
lake. The Rio Grands river, in after ages
forced its way through the Conejos
mountains at the southern end of the
park, which drained off the lake and left
an almost perfectly level valley, about
125 miles long and 50 miles wide, sur-
rounded by mountain ranges which are
from 5,000 to 7,000 feet above it. The
fact that this lake was the drainage
place for all the surrounding mountains,
and that the sediment washed down
from there carried richness of both min-
eral and vegetable character in large
quantities, accounts for inexhaustible
fertility of the soil
'lhe Rio Grande river runs through
the center and southern parts of the val-
ley and em'ly appropmatore secured val-
uable water rights, which have since
been made available by the construution
of large canals and lateral ditches,so that
from a standpoint of artificial water sup.
ply the land in the southern part of the
park is ad~luately supplied with irriga-
).ion water. ,
Another wonderful resource is the ar-
tesian water supply, which in reran1
years ha* been moat extensively develop-
ed. A !ew years ago a venturesome pio-
nesr deoidodto pat down an artesian
well and water was found that would rise
to the surface at a depth of 75 feet.
Other wells were then sunk, some going
200 feet and later on as deep as 800 and
900 feet. The deeper wells had a strong-
or flow of water and there are now up-
wards of 4,000 wells in the San f~uis val-
ley, all of them giving forth an abundant
supply of pure, sweet, clear water, free
from mineral and unpleasant odors and
taste.
Hundreds of wells in the valley have
demonstrated the permanence of the
i water supply, and farmers who own thsse
wells are inclined to rely more upon them
for irrigation than they are upon the
wster rights taken from the irrigation
ditches.
The sptcial intent of this article is to
call attention to the suitability of the[
San Lnia valley for the cultivation of
the sugar beet, and the writer recently
made a somewhat extended examination
of the soil in the vicinity of Alamosa.
One peculiarity of the soil is that while
it has a certain amount of adobe clay in
its composition, it does not remain lum-
py not. does the ground bake hard when
turned up. In a short tLme after plow-
ing at any season of the year, the lumps
and clods will disintegrate and the
ground will become mellow by the action
of the sun and air. While there is some
sand in all of the soft, it does not appear
that any large proportion of the soil can
be regarded as too sandh for sugar beets.
The depth of the top eotl is so great that
the nutrious elements necessary to the
sustainance of the sugar beet would
seam to be there in sufficient quantity
to guaran(e~ a succession of crops for
many years. The land requires scarcely
any leveling or preparation for irriga-
ties. There is little sage brush here,
and where the sage brush exists it is
easily gotten rid of by a plow which has
been introduced and which demonstrates
its capacity to 0lean up ten acres of
gro,nd per day.
That the San Luis valley is very rich
can be readily appreciated when it is
known that the prize crop of potatoes
gro*n in a contest arranged by the
American Agriculturist of New York,
and wherein a prize of $500 was offerred
for the lai'gest amount of potatoes grown
on an acrel any,here in the United
States, was awarded to a farmer~of the
San Luiav,lh>y. His crop was 50,582
lhs., or about 874 busileis to the acre. It
is well known that the polatoes grown
, in the ~a!ley (.~lual, as b, q,~;dit , if they i
¢'O not ~urp;m% the potato of tim n eil-
kn-~ Greeley district.
Further, for years the farmers in this
district Imve been in the habit of grow-i
ing wheat which yielded 40 or 50 bush-
els to the acre and oats which yielded 50
to 75 bushels to the acre, and it is ¢:,id
that from three to four hundred bushels
to the acre is but an average crop of po-
tatoes.
For the past four or five years speci-
men plots of sugar beets have been grown
in the San Luis valley by way of experi-
ment. Every year has proven success-
ful, but no systematic cult~vstion has
been undertaken until the present year.
The reports gathered did not give the
result in tonnage, but from personal ob-
!servation and inquiry, we are confident
that the average tonnage if carried to
the extent of acerage totals, would have
shown a tonnage of from 15 to 20 tons
per acre, and this from improperly and
unskillfully cultivated ~round. The
beets were of regular size and of a long
tapering shape, which indicates the loose
hess of the soil, and the possibility of the
beet roots penetrating to the depth of
20 inches without sub soiling.
The objection which has heretofore
been offered against the Sap Luis valley
as a sugar beet district has been its alti-
tude, and because beets have not yet
been grown elsewhere at such an alti.
tude, many draw the inference that it
would be unsafe to locate a sugar f~ct-
tory there. It does not appear from the
experiments made that the altitude is
in any way unfavorable, and the fact
that potatoes, carrots, garden beets, tur-
nips, parsnips and all other similar vege-
tables have for a period of 30 years or
! more flourished there, and the oldest in-
i habitant cannot recall a single year that
there "has been a failure in crops of these
roots, it would seem that this
objection
ts untennable and of no force."
RUSSIAN COLONY COMIN(].
Willis & Colt and ,~,. T. Ambler have
made a deal ~hich will result in bring-
ing 43 families to settle just east of Ala-
mesa in Costilla county. They have
sold 1,720 acres of land to a Russian col-
ony from eastern Nebraska. R ~presenta-
tive~ of the colony have examined the
country and selected the lands.
The ground will be cut up Lute 40acre
tracts, with a house and artesian well on
each. The settlers will engage in beet
raisiug for the Alamosa beet sugar fac-
tory. Their homes will be within one to
four miles of Alamosa. Artesian irriga-
tion will bs developed and these settlers
will show tSe old residents of the valley
the never failing water supply, which
has th us far played no part in proportion
to its future importance iu the develop
meat of the agricultural resources of the
valley.
This colony will add over 200 persons
to Alamosa's farming population.-
Courier.
"Uncle Rube."
A Drama in Five Acts--To Be Olven
at Union Hall, Saguaehe,
Friday Eve. Dec. 27.
The members of the Saguaohe Brass
Band will give another popular play at
Union hall, Friday eve., Dec., 27. The
success of the last entertainment given
by this organization is a guarantee that
this one will be well worth patronizing,
and as the money thus obtained ia to as-
sist the boys in buying new instruments
and music, which will oe used to enter.
tain and please our citizens, all should
take pains to assist them. Buy one or
two tickets and help them along in their
laudaWle undertaking.
Following is the cast of charac~ters
and synopsis of play: "
CAST oF CHARACTERS,
Reuben Rodnoy, a Justice of the Peace ...... School Trustee and ma~ter hand at ......
"swappin' hosses,". .......... U. G, Rockwell
Deacon Bailey a smooth old villian .........
............ '. ..................... L. ~. Lockett
Murk, h~e son, a promisi~g rascal ..... L. P. Allen
Gordon Gr;*y, a yuu~g artist .......... J. W. Beery
Upson Aste~bd~, a New York swell ...........
.................................. J. R. Morgan
Ike, the hired man ................... Oscar Mack
Bub Green a young rustic ............ Briee Mack
Bill Tappam, a constable ....... C. L. Townsend
• M.iliceut Lee, the pretty school ma'am .......
.............................. Mrs. J. W. Beery
l~Irs. Mama Buns, n charmtcgwid~w .........
........................ Mrs. U. G. Rockwell
Tags, a waft from New York .... Hilda Fairbanke
Mr. Updegraff, Uncle ltube's rich nephew ....
in New York ....................... Mr. Beery
~rs. Updegraff.his w~e .............. Mrs. Beery
Snow Ball, the New York boot black .........
................................ Lea T~,wnsend
SYNOPSIS OF PLAY.
Act l--Streets of New York-Uncle Rube is
taken in all around, and eveu the beet black gets
the best of him -M.eets Upson and Taggs and.in-
vztes them to visit him, and JS mystified at the
baby he finds--M.eets hxs relattves, makes a visit
has a narrow escape from a fire. I
Ac~ II--The old homestea(l--Ike i~ re)stifle4-- I
The deacon hears some plain tslk--~aclo Rube [
arriws, some city yarns-T ~e battle of the bees,
"No~ I nail this a reK'lar eirous.'"
Act Ill--The c~,nstable's otfiee--Bnb Green
wants revenge, Mark's pr()posa~--Mihy's answer.
The deacon's cuuniug plot to ruin Uncle Rube--
A rece, pt for ~I0,LD0, 'l'he plot sunceeds.
Act IV--Kitchen in tim old farm hence-Get-
ting supper-- Milly ~peaks h,:.r mind - Mark gets
impudent, He catches a tumble--Uncle Rube
atut the pop corn-Poppins the question, The
SUpp~ r-- t, nolo Hube arrested.
Act V--The coustable's office-Waiting for
news--(~ordon gives Mark a lesson in man,ers--
l'he acquittal--Uncle Rubs or,ass court--Borne
hard swearing--Tags on her mus~4,-.Ta, deacon
IS C(Lh~ht l.U his own trap--Mmy's fortane, hap-
|~ t't|t Jlllg.
lhi~ dr,ma will without doubt bs one of the
best p)'odnctlou of talen~ ever given on a ~ta~.~
i~ Saguaeh~, the drama represents foerteen dif-
teret~t cl~araet~rs and all par'uS are good.
Admission 15 and 25 oea(s. Re,erred seats 35
ceats. Seats for ~aie at the Crescent office.
GIVE USEFUL PRESENT5
We have them and will close out at the
usual Christmas discount prices.
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MOFFAT, COLORADO.
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| Ncw6oodsArr,vm0 Da,ly [
Jackets and Capes
Latest Styles, Lowest [)rices.
CI.OTHIN
Men s awl Boys Smts that are made to Fit, in Stylish
S
Mixed and Plain Go.de of all (~rade,.
Underwear eo,. Al, at,,, ,u aU rades,
gives a little idea of our supp;y.
Dress 6ends
hi every Shade, Weave and Texture of the Seaso.s
OtttDut, at Prices that nose can compete with.
SHOES
That Wear and made on Lasts that Fit the Feet, in
sizes to Fit the Little Tot to the Largest Person,
gives but a vague idea o~ this Department.
GROCERIES
We have just received nearly a Car Load of Groceries and
Canned Goods and can supply with Frnits in their Season.
The Be kley Packint House,
ATtENTi,ON! )
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We wish to call your atten-
tion to the fact that we carry
in stock a complete line of
ST. CLAIR RANGES and ~
HOT BLAST HEATERS,
also all kinds of BUILDERS ~
HARDWARE, WINCHES-
. TER RIFLES, AMMUNI-.
[ TION, SASH, DOORS, and[
[ all grades of LUMBER, I
• The w 5to c,
** J, J, Keller.
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Stoves
in Stock
Star Estate Ranges,
Wilson Heaters,
Cook Stoves,
All sizes and prices.
Zincks, Pipes, &c.
LAWRENCE & WILLIAMS
