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8 Pages VOLUME XX. Pulp Feed Cattle for New York. Sugar City fed beef shipped di rect to New York City is one of the features of the present week. One of the largest transactions in live stock that has been made in many years, and one that is unique and heretofore unheard of in Western live stock circles has recently been made. This transaction includes a sale of about 1,000 head of fat beeves that the Lockhart Livestock company have just sold for immed iate delivery to the United Dressed Beef company of New York. Part of the cattle will be shipped this "»eek to New York City. It is said that these steers will weigh about 1,370 pounds. They are the very finest quality and the price paid for them is sufficient to net the Lockhart oompany about S7O a head. These cattle have been on feed of hay, beet pulp and corn, and and are extra fine. They were fed at Rocky Ford and Sugar City. A few years ago anyone who would have talked of selling Colora do cattle to go to New York to be slaughtered would have been ridi culed. Now it is probable that that trade will develop into very large proportions and expand into a busi ness that means a new outlet for Colorado products. Mr. Blurneu thal the president of the United Dressed Beef oompany, said: “I consider the cattle we bonght from Col. Lockhart equal to any that I could purchase in lowa or in Ohio. They have been splendidly fed, are of fine quality; and are just what I want for my trade in New York. We kill more fine cattle than any oompany in the United States, and will be very glad indeed to come to Colorado for our supplies so long as that state can furnish' us with such cattle as Col. Lockhart has fed in this case.”—Sugar City Gazette. May Valley. W. H. Vandervort of Colorado Springs is looking over the valley with tne expectation of purchasing a farm. The literary exercises in conneo tion with the debate next Thursday evening promises to be very enter taining. W. P. James and Frank Rose have both been indoors for a week or more with colds that became dis tressingly annoying at times. Considerable farming bps been done the past three weeks which was checked by the cold wave of Monday. J. B. Davis and sons will move this week onto the farm recently oc cupied by Wood and Gordon the latter gentlemen will farm the Lyons farm just west of Charles Thomp son's. Mr. Greenwood will with his fam ily, move to Emporia, Kansas, this week. He is a good farmer and will have no trouble to get lands to farm, when he returns in a year or two at the farthest, Joe Tuttle is visiting relatives and friends at St. Joe. The Fort Lyon Canal company is anxious to contract for some 12 miles of ditches to be constructed from the different reservoirs here in May val ley, we are told. All cross section ing has been done and everything is ready for the moving of the earth. Technicalities don’t free bank wreckers in Colorado according to the decision handed down by Jus tices Gabbart, Gunter and Maxwell of the supreme court. All honor to them. There is fear and trembling in political circles in Denver. All part ies are fearful that Senator T. M. Patterson may land in their ranks at any moment. At present nothing is known but that he has flopped. There are lots of people mad enough to wage a war of extermina tion against the ground hog. Here we haye had the finest winter ever known anywhere until last Friday, and then the little imp spoiled it all. The statement of the first Nation al Bank of Lamar published in this issue shows total deposits of about $280,000, a gain of nearly $50,000 in the past two mouths. Lamar is going some now, and this strong fi nancial institution is always up with the times and comes in for its share of the prosperity. The Lamar Register SPFCIAT SAI F OF CROKINOLE AND CARROM BOARDS Now is Your Opportunity to Buy These Very Best of Game Boards at Less Than Cost 4-Surface Board, made from curly ma- Regulation boards, reg. price 3.50, now 2.60 ]fii e ’eS r over 100 games, regular price De L uxe boards, reg. price 3.00, now 2.00 §>4.50, now ----- oo.uu High-class crokinole and carrom board, Ordinary 29-inch boards, 2.00 reg. now 1.60 ~ regular price 3.50, now - - - 2.50 Ordinary 24-inch boards, 1.75 reg. now 1.40 All these Boards except the last two have revolving tables included, also a full equipment of men and materials for play THE UP-TO-DATE DRUG COMPANY The largest institution of its kind in the Arkansas valley Postoffice Building, Lamar, Colo. Railroad News Dirt* Is Moving Now All Along the new Railroad and Everyone Feels the Effects Work is under way this week all along the line of The Arkansas Val ley Railway. The contractors, Mc- Dowell & Leonard, have sublet con tracts for all the work on the Rocky Ford and Holbrook division, and a large number of teams are already at work there. They also have a force of teams at work iu the Big Bend region and haye let the con tract for the first three miles out of Lamar aod the contractors will be here in a few days to begin work. The contractors will ship part of their large outfit from Illinois here for this job including some of their heavy machinery for doing the worst portions of the work, and it will only be a short time until hundreds of teams and men are busy all along the line of the new road. The con tracts oall for the completion of the work on this section of the road by the first of June, and this will enable the construction work to be com pleted in good season for this year’s beet crop to be marketed. The grading and bridge work and later the construction work means that hundreds of men will be regu larly employed here all this year again, and the monthly pay roll will be even larger than .last year when the factory and big ditches were be ing constructed. The large increase in acreage of beets already contract ed for this year will necessitate the enlarging of the capaoity of the fac ory and arrangements are already under way to this end. The annual meeting of the stock holders of the Holly, Big Bend & Holbrook R. R. Co, was held at the court house on last Saturday after noon. The following directors were elected in place of those that resign ed: C. M. Ward, Granby Hillyer, J. S. Hasty and C. C. Goodale, and these with Arthur Carver, P. N. Sohroeder and Mr. Johnston now constitute the board. E. C. Gordon resigned as secretary and Granby Hillyer was elected to that position. After allowing bills and approving the report of the retiring secretary, Mr. Gordon, the board ordered that OITICIiZi ITETSTSPiPEB OX neOTLTOSSSO OOVMTT LAMAR. PROWERS COUNTY. COLORADO, WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 7. 1906. a meeting of the stockholders be called for Marcch 17, 1000, for the election of a new board of directors aud to consider any other business that bad heretofore been referred to the annual meeting of the stockhold ers. There was the best of good feeling prevailed at the meeting and the directors were freely congratu lated over the fact that having or ganized the company only a few mouths ago in the face of almost in surmountable difficulties they have in this short time actually witnessed the work of building the road under way by a company strong enough to insure its completion, and it is safe to Hay that the price of every farm in that region has doubled in the meanwhile, and will be still farther enhanced as the work progresses. The first clash occured between the rival roads in the Arkansas val ley on Monday and the Arkansas Valley R. It. won first honors. An outfit of the Holly and Swink R. It. on Suoday started to grade a piece of right of way belonging to the Ar kansas Valley It. It., it being impos sible to enjoin them on that day. On Monday the McDowell outfits in that section took possession leveled off the work and an injunction was granted preventing the Holly and Swink outfit from further work there. The reports about a battle and a clash between armed men was the product of an excited spectator at the time the McDowell outfit took possession of the giouud, and had no foundation bnt the presence of one man with a shot gun. Judge Gunter handed down a de cision from the supreme court Mon day declaring Tom Patterson a criminal and the News-Times dailies as immoral publications. This is nothing new, except that it comes from an old line democrat like Judge Gunter. It will stop further con tributions to that one cent fund, which had reached the magnificent total of 17 cents outside the $25 con tributed by the office force. GOLDEN RULE STORE •*• THE RED STAR SHOE j Men’s ~|| ~| Women’s j Shoes shoes $1.49 is. SU9 and |Q “ d up /• jQStei* «p North Side-Feast Blk I I SMART & SIMON, Props. CHURCH BROS. & EVERETT i Dealers In GROCERIES QUEENSWARE AND FURNISHINGS S°l e Agents for the Celebrated JKS “QUEEN QUALITY” 0| SHOES We also carry a large stock of other makes. When you ueed anything in footwear, remember All persons having furs of any kind for sale will please bring same to McLean’s livery barn on the 20th of each month C. STARR MOETON STRAIN. President J. VV. PAXTON. Vioe Prat L. W. ADAMS, OhUb CAPITAL $30,000 THE STATE BANK OF LAMAR LAMAR, COLORADO DIRECTORS MOETON STRAIN J. W. PAXTON L. F. ADAMS W. L. MORSHOUSS J. W. ZOLLAEH It. T. McCLAVK A. DKKTKR We want your busmens, large or small, and offer every facility consistent with safe and conservative banhieß Accounts Received Subject to eheck. Money Orders Reid DAVIS & DAVIS Dealers In New, and Second-hand Furniture QUEGNSWARG, STOVES AND RANGES Agents for all standard makes of BICYCLES ■ AND - BICYCLE - REPAIRS General Repair Work a Specialty 3mmunition**Guns and Wheels Por Rent West Side Main St 'Phone No. 92 Bhtofc 8 Pages KOHIB IS.