Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1913 — GOOD LETTER FROM FORMER CITIZEN [ARTICLE]

GOOD LETTER FROM FORMER CITIZEN

T. J. Sayler Reports Everything Getting Along Well in Lamar— Money in Raising Sheep.

Lamar, Colo., April 26, 1913. Editor, Rensselaer Republican, Dear Editor and Friend: On my return from a short pleasure trip to California I found your notice of my being in the red on my subscription to The Republican. Enclosed find check for $5.00. Give me credit for same and be sure to send your paper to the same address. We could not keep house without it. Mrs. Sayler is in California yet. She will not return until the last of May. It might be of interest to you to know what we are all doing. My son, Frank, is in the coal and grain business in Lamar; my son, Jay, is cashier in a bank in a small town fifty miles from here; my daughter, Florence, is teaching in the public schools of LaJunta, Colorado, lam fanning and feeding sheep and looking after business in general, and contracting some on the side. Sheep feeding has been very satisfactory this winter to feeders. We have cleared from 80c to $1.50 per head after getting paid for our alfalfa hay and all expenses. There has been over 200,000 head of sheep and lambs fed in the vicinity of Lamar this winter. We feed our alfalfa hay raised on our ranches, and ship our corn from Kansas and Nebraska. Corn has cost on an average of 90c per cwt. D. B. NoWels and son, Auburn, fed 20,000 head this winter. We have had an early sprang, our alfalfa being about six ■inches high now and will be ready for cutting the first crop by the first of June. Sugar beets are now being planted. Hoping this will find you prosperous and happy, and with best regards to all of my friends, I am, Yours truly, T. J. SAYLER. A newspaper clipping enclosed by Mr. Sayler states that he came from California a month sooner than had been his intention, owing to the fact that the government was letting a big irrigation works contract at Montrose and that he procured the contract for construction with a bid of $68,000. Mr. Sayler and family will be remembered by most Rensselaer people, who will be very pleased to learn about himself and wife and their children.