Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1900 — Colorado Letter. [ARTICLE]

Colorado Letter.

Lamar. Colorado, Dec. t, iqoo. Editor Jasper County Democrat, Rensselaer, Ind. Thinking that there might be a few readers of your paper, who would be interested in a letter from this portion of the country I write you and ask you to give it space in your paper, 'the weather is yet very dry and clear, with no autumn rains or snow as yet. Stock upon *be/ range and upon the Alfalfa fields are ir/ Cery tine condition. Tower- and Casey, large owners of cattle, are feeding a large herd at their ranch seven miles west of this place. They have experimented in feeding cattle here and taking the cattle to Missouri to feed and have found it much more profitable to ship corn here and feed with Alfalfa.-hay and where the "climate is dry and then ship cattle to Kansas City, than to ship cattle to the corn and feed in the mud. The government has special fence agents m the counties surrounding Lamar who are ordering cattle men to take their fences down wljich are. in Government land. This is the result of a constant rivalry between the cattle and sheep men. There is now being fed in Powers cupnty sixty thousand sheep. A train load of twelve thousand unloaded at yards today by a man from near Carlo, Illinois, by name of Oxman, who is a new coramn: here. We have a flour mill here that turn* out five hundred barrels ot Ilnur every day and the flour goes from her# tQ Arizona, California, Washington, Alaska, and a consignment of a cargo to is now being filled. The sacks are very fine and hold one hundred and forty pounds each. Wallace Robinson, orthe firm of D, B, Nowels, John W. Paxton, Wallace Robinson and GeorA’, tfurkV has ah Order for 01)6 Of tUOt 1 ? tar loads of Alfalfa seed for Germany. Alfalfa 14 Selling for three dollars and twenty-five cents per ton Iti stack for feeding. Oats twenty cent! pef bushel and wheal eightyfrve cents pf* oile hundred pounds. The Milling company have IWO hundred thousand bushels ot wheat stoied ui ’heff elevator and the wheat coming fti iu one continuous train of wagon*. ail the time. Charley, or Van HenkJc. as he was R,iiOwq Tn Jasper county, informed me today that he had full returns from his bed crop and he had cleared forty-hve dollars per acre, and many farmers are doing better than that. Mr. Leatherman has cleared eighty dollars per acre. The town and country are quite curious about what the plans for the future is of the Sugar-Beet company. All the head men with their engineer ai.d architect, came into Lamar oh Wednesday eveumg last, looked over the land and country surrounding the reservoirs, and next day left without talking with any one as to what they intended doing. Several parties went from here to Rock Ford on Thursday and saw the sugar factory at work, and report it turning out atm. hundred pounds of sugar every two minutes of time. The Indiana or Hoosier colony have made plenty of money on the Hoosier ranch this year. In addition to four hundred tons of hay. they raised 4,500 bushels of oats, five hundred bushels of corn and 2io bushels of clean Alfalva seed. I know of no place where a farmer with small means can do as as well here under irrigation. Would like to drop into Rensselaer and see relatives and old friends but can not. Will write again some time in the future. Very Respectfully, .

EZRA C. NOWELS.