22 Aug 1902
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Newspaper
Rocky Ford Enterprise
Location
Rocky Ford, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1902
Page
1
Officials announce replacing the washed out Apishapa flume with a three hundred foot syphon and begin work at once. The headgate and dam built last spring fared well in the flood, while community notices promote health tips and local ads for seeds, baby portraits, and Gerbing's Meat Market.
A cluttered listing from Rocky Ford includes loan offers from Fenlason and Cretcher with real estate and private money at 7 percent, insurance options, small investments, and various shops. Also notes ice cream parlors, cabinet pictures by Orr's Gallery, fairground space, and rental-ready properties plus a furnished bedroom wanted and a four room cottage for rent.
Professor Carpenter and two assistants from Colorado State College study the Arkansas flood to determine how much water reaches Kansas. They find most Colorado inflow is lost in river sands, implying Kansas receives little from Colorado during high or ordinary flows.
B B Kouns visited town on business linked to a beet dump near his east of Fowler farm and praised crops, especially three acres of cantaloupes for seed for A P Kouns of Rocky Ford. Hugh W Eggbert projects 6000 pounds of plums from five acres. Democratic county convention in Rocky Ford on August 30 will nominate county commissioner from the west end and a representative from Otero. incumbents J W McClain and J W Beaty are expected candidates. A travel-loving lady tests a boy. he quips he plans no presidency because he is a Democrat. G C Hawkey builds Rocky Ford’s new jail. onion grower D W Burrel forecasts 3500 bushels harvest. The fair at Lamar adds a grand stand and hall. dates August 27–29.
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