In and Around Town

Fort Morgan Times
Friday, September 05, 1884
Page: 3

IN AND AROUND TOWN.

J. H. Farnsworth's men are putting up hay at Weldon.

J. H. Jones makes us frequent visits from his ranch on the Wildcat.

Mr. Hart Tracy is putting up a fine lot of hay on his ranch, near the mouth of wild Cat.

W. S. Morton will build a two-room house next to the lot he lately sold to Mrs. Flynt.

L. C. Baker's force of stackers are getting along finely now. No rain to hinder them.

Farmers are still threshing in Weldon valley. Wonder when a machine will commence here.

George Graham raised splendid potatoes on his farm with no other moisture than from falling rains.

Geo. Freeland is about to put up a shoe shop, where all kinds of repairing in his line will be done.

Stacking will be finished up this week, and soon after the hum of the thresher will be forne on the breeze.

J. P. Laur spent a few days with his parents and friends in Denver and that vicinity the first of the week.

corn that was sown broadcast for fodder matured and reached the height of 5 and 6 feet without irrigation.

J. E. fisk is building himself a residence opposite Mr. Killebrew's house. His family is expected this week.

H.G. Clark, wife and son, spent three days in our neighborhood last week, the guests of A. S. and F. E. Baker.

L. W. Kimball will erect a brick house on his farm as soon as the kiln of brick is burned, we have no learned its dimensions.

Geo. Courtney will soon open a law and insurance office here. Everyone will want to insure, however much they may want to law.

R. C. Norman, sometimes called "Bones," is at work with his teams at the Bijou Flume, also W. C. Sanford, who has been away several months.

When the occasion requires it, Judge Farnsworth can put on as much dignity as any one, otherwise his manner is mild, and his smile childlike and bland.
James T. Devin and G. W. Warner so far are the only raisers of the playful navy bean, of which staple Mr. Devin has the finest crop we have ever seen.

The carpentering firm of Haff, Fisk & Morton have all the work in their line they can attend to, and have work engaged ahead for half of the winter.

Work commenced on the first kiln of brick on Monday last. Messrs. Killebrew & burk will have ready sale for all the brick that they can produce this fall.

Corn is ripening fast, and corn cutting on a large scale will soon begin. The acreage of corn in cultivation under the Fort Morgan canal is not far from 500 acres.

In our hurry to get our first number out, we neglected to call on Agent Lawton, of Duel, for the time-table of the U. P. Railway. Next week we will ge there.

We refer our readers to our advertising columns if they wish to ascertain the different classes of business done here. We are publishing no shoddy advertisements.

The pleasant dancing parties at the Farnsworth House still continue. The only difficulty now is to furnigh standing room in the building for the numerous attendants.

Last week Chas. Fisk inserted the playful adze into his foot to such depth as to make the ornamental crutch a positive necessity. Though slow, his movements are graceful.

M. E. Lowe is building an addition to G. W. Warn'er shouse and othersie fitting it up for occupancy. G. W. (Warner, not Washington) will farm a quarter section next year.

We are willing to wager our old cap (that has seen many seasons on the heads of different noted individuals before reposing in its old age on the cranium of the writer), against a new tin cup, that members of the Fort Morgan baseball club can show more contusions, abrasions and rent pants to the square inch than any other body of men of like number.

Charles Fisk's new house is inclosed, and the lathing is being done. The house will be ready for occupancy in about three weekdays. C. says that it isn't good for man to be alone.

J. T. Devin, our efficient Road Rupervisor for the district, is getting our roads in shape for the winter and spring travel. The life of the average poll-tax payer has lately become a burden to him.

W. H. Flynt's new livery and feed stable is rising in vast proportions, and before long will be ready to move into. Henry has friends by the acre here, and good business is predicted for him.

E. C. Luce has just finished up his new house, 26x26 feet square. The carpenter work was done by Mr. Frank Paine and the plastering by Messrs. Killebrew & Burk. The whole job is a credit to the builders.

Captain A. P. McNitt is here recounting what a fine time he had at the Reunion in Minneapolis and during his visit back to the home of his childhood in Wisconsin. He seems just as young as he used to be.

Don't be afraid, gentlemen, to step up with your subscriptions for the Times. Like the poor, we are very likely to be with you always, and it is subscriptions to the poor fund we are looking up just at present.

C. D. Page is engineering the More and Tracy ditch through. He tells us that it is the intention to soon commence work on the Page and Pitnam ditch. This is good news to the many Morganites, who have land under that enterprise.

J. H. Brewer was thrown from a load of hay on Monday and quite seriously hurt in the side by one of the mules of the team striking or kicking him. It was a mighty mean trick for a mule to do, to say the least.

The Moore & Tracy ditch, across the river by Deuel, is fast nearing completion. Mr. Conyers has a force of teams at work there, under the effective management of Benjamin Kidwell. He says they will be through in a few weeks.

Mrs. Flynt has bought W. S. Morton's house and lot, and will engage in the manufacture of candies. Fort Morgan candy eaters will not hereafter have to depend on a mixture of white clay and flour, but will get the pure sugar article.

There will be a meeting of the Directors of the Citizen's Building Association on Saturday evening, September 6th, at the office of the Fort Morgan Irrigation Co., to elect officers and attend to such other business as may come before them.

Mr. a. J. Wiley has the agency for the Kalamazoo "Eureka" Windmill and pump. Parties thinking of purchasing one of these mills would do well to make their wants known to him, and a good bargain secured. He will be found at L. C. Baker's.

When our new hall is built, the Masons, Odd Fellows and Grand Army people will occupy the upper story, and it has been suggested that the lower room be used for school purposes until we have decided about our schoolhouse building.

W. F. Callender and G. W. Warner are in correspondence with a gentleman in Pennsylvania, who is desirous of securing land and homes for twenty families in that State. These families have means, and are the kind of incomers we wish to have among us.

Eugene Gruner, representing the Colorado Boot and Shoe Manufacturing company, of Denver, made us a very pleasant visit on Tuesday. From here he took one of Flynt's fine livery teams and drove to Brush and back in time for the evening passenger train to Denver.

J. P. Laur, who left last week to visit his parents in the southern part of the State, returned Tuesday morning accompanied by his sister, who will remain with him a few days. Jack reports everything dull outside of Fort Morgan, and is glad to get back where he can do something.

It is to be regretted that more potatoes were not planted under our canal, as it is feared that there will be a home demand in excess of the supply. The 30 acres on the fam of L. C. Baker are a fine crop, and show tubers of fine size and quality. It is too early to predict what the yield may be.

Geo. Graham's new baby is to have a town lot deeded him as a reward for being the first child born at the new town of Fort Morgan. That kind of a reward of merit, George, is away ahead of those penny chromes we need to get at school before we were old and bald-headed.

Our genial agent of the B. & M. R. R., at this point, Mr. W. F. Callender, takes a lively interest in all that concerns For Morgan, and is busy mailing papers that have anything in praise of this section to his friends in the east, and in answering scores of letters addressed him, asking for information concerning the country.

W. C. Packard, of the Sterling News, was in town on Saturday last hunting up subscribers and advertisements. He was piloted around the country by Mr. G. W. Warner, and to the settlement ten miles east of here. Mr. Packard is interesting himself in the proposed division of the county, but whether the dividison will be made, if at all, to just exactly suit the Sterling people remains to be seen.

Mr. Farnsworth finds difficulty in stowing away the numerous "regulars" at his hotel, and in furnishing accommodations to the transients; he find that his house already has too few sleeping rooms. We can say, however, that at the table, there is no lack, for we've been there, and know a good thing when we see it.

The farmers in this section will purchase a threshing machine of their own, each one taking a certain amount of shares. This will cut down on the price per bushel of threshing amazingly, especially as they already have the engine and the necessary talent for running the whole at present on hand.

J. E. Lewis and L. S. Moore are now putting up hay and plowing in this vicinity. Considering their long stay in San Luis Park, among the Mexicans they present a very familiar appearance to most people here. They intent to put in 320 acres in crop another year. There is nothing like the tout of an honest farmer.

Jack Smith and L. W. Nelson are digging a well for Mr. E. A. Boyle. Fifteen feet from the surface they struck slate rock, and went through fifteen feet of it, and directly beneath that solid bed rock, which will have to be blasted. Jack informs us that he expects to strike a coal mine below that strata. A coal mine would not be a bad find for this particular section.

Messrs. G. S. Redfield and E. J. Warner were down from Denver last week to look over the work being done on their 640 acre farm, three-quarters of a mile east of town. Next year they propose to put in at least 160 acres of alfalfa, and the remainder into wheat, oats, potatoes, peas, etc., the majority of which produce will be fed out on their farm to the fine stock which they will introduce here. They have already 500 acres broken and reacy for crop. Ten acres of alfalfa sown last July shows a magnificent stand.

The proprietor of the ground on which old Fort Morgan stands would like to sell specimens of ancient architecture to relic hunters. We have no doubt but that the fines specimens of the historical flea and persistent grayback may be unearthed in and around the barrack. Any one who wishes to explore these ruins in search of these festive insects, or for the $20,000 in gold said to have been stolen from the army paymaster at this point and buried beneath some one of the walls, can excavate on as cheap rates as Cesnola had in exploring the ruins of Cyprus.

At the time of the spring sowing and planting it was prophesied by outsiders that a large acreage put into crop under our ditch would be a waste of seed and a great loss to us generally, because of the uncertainty of getting a sufficient supply of water through a new ditch. The following showing of crops actually raised is not so bad, taking into consideration the fact that but one settler in five has any crops in at all:

 

Besides these crops Kleckner, Farnsworth, Kimball and Glassy have about 100 acres of millet sown. But about 25 acres of what were sown under the ditch, which shows and immense yield per acre. We think we can safely say that we can show as good corn if not better than any in the county, and every hill planted on spring plowing.

The above, we claim, is not a bad showing of crops for the sod ground, and under a ditch that water was not let into until June. Oats, corn and alfalfa have yielded far better than was expected. Besides this, 50 acres of peas and miscellaneous crops make 2,000 acres in cultivation.

More men wanted to work on the brickyard. KILLEBREW & BURKE.

Notice to all land owners under Fort Morgan canal. After November 5th, and unto further notice, water rights under Fort Morgan canal will be sold at $1,000. No discount will be made on these figures after this date. G.W. Warner, Secretary.