In and Around Town

Fort Morgan Times
Thursday, September 25, 1884
Page: 3

IN AND AROUND TOWN.

Who were the Assyrian kings?

G. L. Courtney was in Denver last week.

Mrs. Martin Green and her child are very ill and recovery is doubtful.

Mrs. E. E. Baker has been visiting relatives in Fort Morgan the past week.

The colicy watermelon, like the last rose of summer, has "fa-a-ded and gone."

There is talk of a hardware and tin-repairing shop being started in town soon.

The first dock of geese of the season was seen on the river opposite Mr. Haskell's place, on yesterday last.

Orders for inside repairs will receive prompt attention from the drug house of J. F. Fezer of Greeley.

M. R. Clark has some fine muttons. Several tht went to the butcher recently dressed nearly 60 pounds each.

A. S. Baker will have a new well bored at his place for stock purposes, and have a windmill put up.

Fires will be started in the brick kiln the last of this week. The first crop is looked forward to with interest.

There is to be a change of time, it is said, on the Julesburg branch of the Union Pacific railway on or about the 1st of October.

Mr. Hunter, recently from near Boulder, is down building himself a house and otherwise improving his claim, a few miles west of here.

If any stray dogs are seen in this vicinity it will be well to send them to Agent Ramsay, of LaSalle. He has something like four acres of the canines.

Charles Fisk has painted his house inside and outside, and now everyone is biting his or her fingernails and anxiously waiting for the tenants to appear.

Have several fine relinquishments near town to dispose of at reasonable rates. Parties wishing to purchase will do well to address or call on G. W. Warner.

The second cutting of alfalfa that was sown last spring has just been made. Some pieces roll up the hay in considerable quantities.

James Litch killed 13 hawks Monday -- not a very good day for hawks either. When a man can do as well as that, why should he work?

J. T. Devin made a flying trip to Greeley one day last week. He hopes to arrange matters soon so as to make his weekly visits nearer home.

The threshing machine is doing good work on Max Clark's farm, working to the entire satisfaction of the owners of the machine as well as their patrons.

Republicans will remember the primaries held next Saturday, at 3 o'clock, to select delegates to the County convention at Greeley, Oc. 4th, which nominates members for legislature.

Agent Callender says that it was Billy Morton who carried off the cake from the ball feast, and only discovered the fact after his avoirdupois had rested upon the same for a few brief moments.

Hunters commenced this week to bring in game. Joe. Fisk shot two fine antelope, and Carlton King brought in a coyote the other morning; besides various other small game is being killed every day.

The workmen at the new artesian well of Greeley struck water on Tuesday last, at the same depth as the flow from the other well emanates. Two soda water fountains such as these wells are ought to sweeten the stomach of the average Greeleyite.

Bids are advertised for the building of a bridge across the Platte river at a point about six miles southwest of Evans. Contactors, please take notice.

Billy Morton and Charles Fisk are having a well bored between their respective residences. This is the second well Mr. Farnsworth has put down in the past week.

G. L. Courtney has established himself in business in Sterling, but will have regular and stated days when he will be in Fort Morgan, and will insure or law you to your heart's content.

We understand that the potato crop in Weldon valley has bene harvested and marketed, at good figures, and that they have only enough left for home consumption, and for seed next year.

Messrs. Kimball, Baker and Farnsworth are busy fencing in a large body of the settler's lands under the Putnam and Fort Morgan ditches, which will be utilized for pasturage during the coming winter.

County Commissioner Arthur Hotchkiss arrived in town from Greeley by way of Deuel Tuesday. He was much surprised at our rapid growth since his former visit early last spring. If Mr. Hotchkiss is a candidate for re-election he will receive the Fort Morgan vote.

A fine lot of hay has been cut on the ranch of Fred. Williams, three miles west of town. It is fine gramma grass, and is the best feed in the west for stock, alfalfa excepted. Next year Mr. Williams intends to put in considerable crop.

The thresher pounded out about 2,500 bushels of A. S. Baker's oats last week, and will finish up his crop after the grain in the neighborhood of Brush is cleaned up. Mr. Baker will have nearly6 or quite 5,000 bushels of oats. Not bad for a new ditch.

The baseball grounds need repairing in the way of cleaning out the cacti. These rare plants are a good thing to have back in the States, but when one's form reposes on the bosom of mother earth in a vain effort to catch someone out on a fly, then "earth is but a desert drear."

George Graham, as well as being the father of a bouncing boy, is quite a success as a horse-breaker to the rack in the good old-fashioned way, which enables the animal on either side of the searcher after lacteal fluid to life him, with a vigorous kick into the seventh heaven or beyond.

Constant complaint is made that parties passing through the gates leading to town leave them open, and the consequence is serious loss by range stock that prefer our corn fields to the dry grass on the outside. We don't blame the stock any, but people passing through should see that the gates are kept closed.

Mr. Edwards, recently from the K. P. railroad, comes to town regularly. He has taken up land five or six miles from town, and is living on it, together with his family. He has quite a number of head of young stock, and intends staying with his land until the Putnam canal is built, if that company show any signs of going on with their work.

For the past few days the thresher has been at work on the grain stacks of J. Max Clark, under the Plat & Beaver canal, and there would have been an immense yield per acre without doubt had not the hail severly injured the standing grain. The boys with the machine say they never saw a heavier growth of straw in any country.

We are under obligations to Mr. J. E. Fisk for some of the choicest antelope steak we ever tasted. If anything derogatory is said of Mr. F. in the communication in another column it will be pure blackmail, and actionable. For what we have already received we are truly thankful. Wait till we butcher our herd of swine, Joe.

Ball playing and taking the girls out riding seem to be the greatest amusements of our young men. There appears to be considerable danger in connection with a game of base ball; and from the way one of our young men was holding himself in the buggy the other day we judge there must have been some danger in that amusement. How was it, Jim?

J. H. Farnsworth has bored a well near the rear of his hotel, and it is said that Henry Flynt will put in a windmill and run a pipe from it to his barn, and thus save manual labor in the shape of rope pulling. There is nothing like pulling a two-pail bucket of water up from the bottom of an 80-foot well in the way of an appetizer. The demand for water is great in this vicinity.

When Arthur Wiley sees a weakly constituted young man pulling away for dear life on a rope that has a 20-gallon bucket at the end of it, and down a well little less than a hundred feet in depth, he smiles one of those rare and humid smiles of his and serenely walks away. He's the agent for a windmill and pump, and tht explains the subdued grin that spreads all over his face and half way down his back.

While in Greeley we witnessed a race betwen a malefactor and Officer Camp, of the Home Guard. The officer's fire company practice showed itself, and he came to the front in good style with the prisoner. Time, 1:0.

E. C. Luce is in charge of the lumber interests of F. E. Baker at this point for the present. He will try and make it interesting for any one who has the money with which he wishes to purchase building material.

Wallace Sackett has shown us a plan of a house he is contemplating building. If he carried out the plan it will be a very cozy little house, provided he occupies it together with the girl of his own heart.

Parties who have subscribed to the Citizen's Building Association ought to make their payments promptly to the Secretary or Treasurer of the 20 per cent of their stock subscribed, that the work may not be delayed.

Mrs. Sarah Baker, of Denver, who has been seriously ill at that place, has been removed to Greeley, where she is being nursed by her aunt, Mrs. G. R. Baker. She is slowly gaining strength.

The era of the pumpkin pie has arrived. A good pie of this kind is not bad. The Vermont youngster wished that the whole world was a pumpkin pie and he was in the middle and obliged to eat out on it.

J. A. Conyers has finished his contract on the More & Tracy ditch, and pulled his outfit to his ranch, three miles from here, where he is making extensive improvements on his ranch. The boys are all hearty and ready for more work, which Mr. Conyers will undoubtedly be able to obtain, if rustling will do it.

Mr. A. E. Gipson, of the Greeley nurseries, will be down here shortly to take orders for apple trees and small fruits of all kinds for spring planting. Those needing supplies of this kind will do well to hold their orders until they see him. He is a thoroughly reliable dealer, and keeps a No. 1 stock.

E. E. Clark, of Greeley, is responsible for the statement that it costs nothing to raise wheat in this country. He says that all you have to do with the gruond is to plow it with a plow, drag it with a drag, sow it with a sower, water it with a water, bind it with a binder, thresh it with a thresher, and fan it with a famine. The famine follows the present prices for the article.

At present Joe. Fisk is the envy and admiration of the town, not that he is handsomer than the rest of us, because he isn't rather below the average, than otherwise. The facts are these: besides being a No. 1 blacksmith, Joe. imagines that duty calls that he ought to go out shooting antelope every Sunday, and as the call has become "woodchuck or no meat," when the Sabbath day dawns, sees Joseph with a coat of many pieces or none at all) making good time for the sandhills, south of town, muttering incoherently. Someone, who, it would seem had been along on a former occasion, says that the nimrod is calling on the Superior Being, that He may in some inscrutable way vouchafe to make his Ballard rifle scatter more than usual, that he may not return empty-handed, as had invariably been the case since the wolverine state last the sunshine of his presence. This particular morning's work proved the old adage that persistency was a jewel and no mistake. As old Borean shoved his nose over the divide, Joe. poked his proboscis over a sandhill, and there under his eye were browsing a flock of antelope, waiting to be brought like lambs to the slaughter and Joe. brought a couple of them; but it is not known whether he accidentally shot the animals, or after getting his second win, the worthy blacksmith ran the gentle creatures to earth and knocked them in the head with the butt of the gun. At any rate he got the meat and all of the fun there was in it.   Oure Porter.

Fort Morgan is situated on the Burlington & Colorado railroad in Weld county, Colorado, seventy-eight miles from Denver and sixty-five miles from Greeley, over the Union Pacific by way of Deuel, which is our station on the Short Line running to Denver, two miles distant from Fort Morgan. The town was laid out last April, and now has fifty families located in the town and on the adjacent lands under the Fort Morgan canal, besides many who have taken lands under the propsed Putnam canal.

The Fort Morgan Irrigation company completed their canal last June, and over 2,000 acres of fine crops were raised this season. There are 30,000 acres of dine land under this canal, and all but 4,000 acres have been taken by the actual settler.

The State lands, consisting of 4,000 acres of fine land, are offered for sale by the Fort Morgan company at reasonable rates, with easy payments, and special inducements are made to parties wishing to colonize.

Water is sold at $800 per water-right, for 80 acres, with seven years time in which to complete the payment.

Oats, wheat, corn, alfalfa, potatoes and all kinds of vegetables and small fruits are successfully raised here.

Fine facilities are open for stock raising on the lands lying along the line of the canal, where some fine stock has already been brought in.

Town lots in Fort Morgan can be hadat reasonable rates. Lumber and brick can be had for building, and one can live here as cheaply as anywhere in the State.

When passing over either the Union Pacific or Burlington railroad stop and see for yourself.