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The Lamar Register
VOLUME XXIX.
FORT LYON CANAL
Annual Meeting of Stockholders Ad
journs Without Electing a New
Board
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Fort Lyon Canal Com
pany was held in Las Animas on Mon
day and drew the usual large crowd
of interested water right owners and
farmers from all along the system.
The usual big job of the credentials
committee took a good part of the
day, and was added to considerably by
the complication of most of the givers
of proxies forgetting that we are at
war and must put a war tax on doc
uments. It made the patriotic stock
holders feel real enthusiastic to be
, called in to buy a stamp and lick it
before they could vote the proxies.
In the meanwhile the stockholders
had been listening to the annual re
port of the president, D. B. Nowels,
which met with both commendation
and condemnation as the various stock
holders felt about it. There was
more division of opinion than for sev
eral years, and the session lasted un
til into the night. Many of the east
end stockholders left on the stub
train, and it was finally decided to
adjourn the meeting until the first
Monday in February when the new
board will be elected. The members
of the present board were renominated
with the exception of Senator-elect J.
S. Hasty, who refused to allow his
name to be presented. B. T. McClave
and W. E. Cooper were nominated for
the place.
An assessment of 85 cents per share
was voted, which is the same as that
of Jast year. Much oratory was spill
ed us is usual on these occasions,
wMeh- resulted as H generally does in
Prowers county in giving a fat job
for some expert—and nothing more.
GROWING OF SUGAR BEETS
Raises Standsrd of Forming and Is
Aa Added Money Producer
It is becoming a recognized fact
everywhere that sugar beet growing
raises the standard of farming in any
community in which it is practiced.
Where farmers have been raising a
crop of six and seven tons of bc-«*ts
to the acre formerly they are row
raising 12 to 16 tons.
When the sugar beet culture was ;n
--troduced into Europe a quarter of a
century ago, the farmers there prac
ticed what is known as a three-crop
system of rotation. That is. they
raised three successive cereal crops,
followed by one year of fallowing.
They fallowed in order to rest the soil
and to enable them to pull out the
dense growth of weeds by hand.
Before the advent of the introduc
tion of the sugar beet crop among the
German farmers, it is stated on good
authority that practically one-third of
the toal area of their level land was
regarded as poor and would not pay
for cultivation, while their yield on
the better land was but 12 bushels to
the acre.
It appears that they were then plow
ing from three to four inches deep,
fertilized their land very little, and
the thin layer of loose soil became ex
hausted of all its fertility. The grain
roots were unable to penetrate the
hard soil underneath. This resulted
In poorer crops from year to year. The
soil below the stirred up layer of three
or four inches was practically dead to
all living organisms and particularly
to those that had to do with the ren
dering of plant food available. This
soil needed aeration, nercolation and
humus, to make it friable and ferti'e
evidently with the culture of sugar
beets came deeper plowing of the fie'd,
from seven to twelve inches deep. It
thus resulted in a larger storehouse
of sun’s energy, larger capacity for
moisture, for percolation of water,
for aeration, for conservation of hu
musand for furnishing right condi
tions in the soil for the living organ
isms therein.
Figures on the total beet product ; on
of the United States, based on reports
THE PIONEER NEWSPAPER OF PROWERS COUNTY
LAMAR, PROWERS COUNTY, COLORADO. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 16, 1914.
from sugar beet factories, indicate
that *186,000 acres of beets will be
harvested, yielding 5,147,000 tops. Re
turns from sugar factories in Louis
iana show that during the 1914 cam
paign 3,600,000 short tons of cane are
expected to be used for sugar. Final
returns for 1913 showed that 4,214,000
tons of cane were crushed for sugar.
Carlson’s State Relations Commission
(By Alva A. Swain)
The commission for the settlement
and prevention of industrial disputes
as proposed by Governor-elect Carl
son is in many ways a new scheme.
So far it has not been tried in the ex
act form as proposed by Mr. Carlson
in any other state in the Union. Yet
it appears to be a scheme which, if
handled properly, should solve many
of the questions that so often- arise
in industrial disputes.
Mr. Carlson’s proposition, in sn?rt,
is to abolish all boards, bureaus and
commissions whose duties and powers
in any way relate to labor and indus
trialism, and to create in their stead
a single commission appointed by the
governor and clothed with all of the
powers now vested in the boards, bu
reaus and commissions to be abolish
ed. This would include the powers of
the public utility commission, the
commissioner of mines, the coal mine
commission and inspectors, the labor
department, the boiler inspector, the
state bureau of mines, and that por
tion of the power of the auditing
board and the military board that '•on
trols the auditing and payment of
military bills.
At the present time the power ex
ercised by the above boards and bu
reaus is divided. Part of it is under
the control of the secretary of siat*fj
part of it is under the control ot the
governor; part of it is under the con
trol of all the executive officers act
ing jointly, and part of it is rr>ally
not under the control of any one exe
cutive department. It was by reason
of this divided power that Governor
* Ammons was unable to control the sit
uation during the last strike. Gov
ernor-elect Carlson is of the opinion
that a commission, vested with all the
power and appointed by the governor,
and vested with the further power
to investigate and offer a plan of set
tlemnt, could be a great help in the
immediate settlement of industrial
troubles. In fact, Governor Carlson
feels that a commission, clothed with
the authority that would be giver his
proposed commission, could prevent
many a strike being called. He will
try to secure the enactment of a sec
tion in the law providing that all la
bor disputes shall be referred to this
commission, and that no strike shall
be called pending the investigation by
this commission of the differences be
tween the parties involved. He will
also try to clothe this commission with
power to order the installation of
equipment that will look to he safety
and health of employes. In addition,
he is desirious that it shall be clotned
with power to investigate the standard
of efficiency and responsibility among
employes, especially where their labor
is sold collectively. In other words,
the commission shall be authorized to
not only protect life and property in
securing the proper installment of
machinery and equipment, but also in
securing the most efficient labor for
positions, especially if they be of a
hazardous nature.
Governor-elect Carlson’s idea in hav
ing this commission appointed b> he
governor is to concentrate this power.
By so doing the chief executive an
secure immediate knowledge of any
situation that may arise and he will be
in a position to deal with it almost in
stanly.
Columns might be written about his
proposed commission, but the above
are the essential features and convey
his proposition in genral.
Good Roads Association
The fifth annual convention of the
Colorado Good Roads Association will
be held in Denver on January 20 and
21, 1915. This was decided at a meet
ing of the executive committee held
this week. The State Association of
County will meet in
Denver during <lhe same week the
date for tha®meeting being January
18 and 19.-*
Th offUfM call for the convention
presents four subjects as being of vi
tal importance to the continuance of
the good road {work of this state, viz,
efficient highuflSy legislation, federal
aid for good;.£ads, best methods of
constructing aid maintaining good
roads, and hoiwcan Colorado reap the
best advantagajfrom the construction
of better higlMjpys.
The arrangements for the conven
tion are in chaiffie of a committee rep
resenting the MDenver Convention
League. has already been
made to the nJßpads of the state for
the customary liar rates always grant
ed on account of these meetings, and
formal announement of these rates
will probably MBiade during the com
ing week. £
A legislativelyminittee consisting
of H. A. EdmojJ) of Fort Collins;
Geo. K. Kimbaflfildaho Springs; M.
C. Ramsey, Grift Junction; George
H. Charlton, iftango and Frank
Kreybill of was also ap
pointed. This will meet
with similar from the
State Highway Iftnmission and the
State Aasociatiotty County Commis
sioners and recesffinend to their res
pective bodies suggestions looking to
any needed imprflunents or changes
in the present ataßltes.
Owing to the fmm that there will be
available for the mnstrucion of good
roads beginning 1016 a fund of over
$750,000 the convgrftion of the Colo
rado Good Roads Association this year
will be the mo*> important ever
held. It is expected that the needs of
various sections of Rte state as to road
construction will bV presented to the
time. Again
Qifpad •construction
also be thoroughly considered, and in
this the advice of the government en
gineers will be had inasmuch as repre
sentatives of the Federal Good Roads
Bureau will be present at the sessions
of the convention.
CANCELLED TRACTS OF TWO
BUTTES SEGREGATION
Will Be Open for Filing on January
11, 1915. Order Received By
Local Land Office
The following letter from the Com
missioner of the General Land Office
in Washington will explain itself, and
opens the lands mentioned for filings
on January 11, 1915:
Register and Receiver,
Lamar, Colorado.
Sirs:
April 21, 1909, the department ap
proved Colorado Segregation List No.
7 under the Carey Act, filed December
31, 1908.
July 10, 1914, there was filed in your
office a relinquishment from the said
approved Segregation List of the fol
lowing tracts: R. 44, T. 27, Sec. 20,<
SH, Sec. 21, Stt NEI4, SH NW*4,
SWH, NH SEH, Sec. 22, NEH, SH
NWI4, Sec. 23, EH NWH, NWH. EH
SWH, Sec. 28, NH NWI4, Sec. 29,
NWH NEH, NEK NWI4. WH NW
H, Sec. 30, EH NEH, EH NWH,
Sec. 32, NWH SWH, T. 28, Sec. 1,
SH NEH, SEH, Sec. 2, NWH NWI4,
Lot 4, Sec. 12, EHNWH, Sec. 21, SE
H NWH, R. 45, T. 29, Sec. 2, SH
NEH, 6th P. M., your land district.
You required record evidence of the
authority of the Register of the State
Land Board to relinquish the same,
which authority has been furnished.
You report that the lands involved
have been noted upon the records of
your office as relinquished July 10th,
1914, at 2 o’clock p. m., but that any
application by individuals for parts of
such lands will be held suspended
without action pending acceptance of
the relinquishment. A relinquishment
under the Carey Act does not take
effect upon filing, but only when and
as accepted. Without giving the rea
soning in detail, it is sufficient to re
fer to 2 L. D., 49, 3 L. D., 69, 6 L, D.,
I, 41 L. D., 379, and 43 L. D„ 341,
from which it appears that such re
linquishment is not within the purview
of Sec. 1 of the Act of May 14, 1880
(21 Stat., 140.) Accordingly, you
will reject, subject to the usual right
of appeal, any applications that may
have been filed for this land, unless
such applications shall disclose the
initiation of a right therein prior to
the filing of the state’s application.
Colorado Segregation List No. 7
under the Carey Act as to the tracts
above described is hereby canceled,
such cancellation to become and be
effective on and after the hour of 9
o’clock a. m., on the 28th day next
succeeding the date of receipt in your
office of this order, on which day and
at which hour you will note such can
cellation on the records of your of
fice, and thereupon and thereafter you
will receive, consider, and appropri
ately dispose of any and all applica
tions for entry, selection, and location
of any of said lands which may be
submitted to you under Circular No.
324 (43 L. D. 255.)
Listen Daughter
Dad knows that Christmas is com
ing and so does your mother and your
brothers and sisters. And we all know
what will please you most. So, from
present appearances, you are not to
be disappointed. But you seem to have
the wrong point of view about Christ
mas, honey, and I want to set you
right. Christmas is the season for
giving. Get that? The real happi
ness lies in planning what you are go
ing to do for others and then doing
it. The real Christmas spirit fills
only those whose thoughts are upon
the happiness they hope to bestow up
on their friends and upon the unfor
nates who think they have no
friends. Its not so much what you
give as to whom you give. There is
a poor woman living around the cor
ner. No one is thinking of what she
would like for Christmas. She’d be
the second happiest woman in town
if you were to walk in on her early
Christmas morning with a gift of
something warm for her to wear. The
happiest woman would be my little
girl who brings it. There is old Black
Jim, who shovels the snow and carries
out the ashes. Never thought of him ?
Well think of him to he extent of a
pair of warm mittens. Knit them
yourself. Don’t know how. Your
mother will start you. It will be
twice as much fun for you and old
Jim’s look of gratitude when you give
them to him will repay you more than
all the fine phrases of all the young
squirts to whom you send neckties
they wont year and pincussions they
wont use. Try dad’s prescription,
daughter, and you’ll be the happiest
girl in town Christmas day. You will
find that it isn’t getting what you
want for Christmas that makes for
real joy. You’ll discover something.
That’s right. Start now.
What to Do For a Cold
We attend on Dr. Wiley's remarks
with deep concern when he speaks on
matters of health and, indeed, when he
speaks on anything, the doctor being
a man of incisive speech and new
wrought phrases never threadbare.
He says, “To cure a cold take a bot
tle of cough medicine, set it on a table
in the patient’s room, open all of the
windows and throw the bottle through
one of them.” Repeating again in
more definite terms Macbeth’s adjur
ation, “Throw physic to the dogs.”
The dogs will doubtfully sniff at it
and go their way.
“Fresh air, no cough medicine, is
needed for colds,” continues Dr. Wil
ey. “If a great holocause should burn
down every home we would get rid
of tuberculosis.” Perhaps so, but it
suggests the legendary farmer’s meth
of getting rid of the rats in his bam.
To return to the tepee, the primeval
cave or the leathern tent in which
our ancient ancestors had no colds,
but must have nursed their chilblains,
involves too many inconveniences, but
when influenza invades our doors we
may temporarily take flight. A walk
of ten miles along the high road is
often extremely discouraging to a
cold if one hasn’t been suddenly de
bilitated by the attack. May not one
thus outrun the cold ? It has no taste
for peripatetics and is eventually left
panting far in the rear.
NUMBER?**- Cj
A Week Lost
One week has been lost at Denver
in the attempt by the industrial com
mission, all too manifest, to fasten
upon property responsibility for a
condition in Colorado that has long
since corrected itself. Not a word has
been said or question asked, unless
we have been inattentive or obtuse,
that would convey to the looker-on
the idea that the commission is less
than a court sitting in judgment on
the case of the people against the op
erators and the national guard. Wc
marvel at the commission in exposing
its hand. If the members were men
of real ability they would cover their
prejudices so that the people might
at least think that what they are after
is the truth, the whole truth and
nothing but the truth. Their evident
design to try and “get” Rockefeller
regardless of the particular situation
are disgusting. The governor of the
state has been shown scant courtesy.
And, after all, who are they and who
cares a rap what findings they make ?
They will probably be followed by
another committee or commission and
still others ad nauseam.—Boulder
Camera.
How We Get the News
Day before yesterday a perfectly
nice lady called us up and with tears
in her voice reproved us for not men
tioning the fact that she had had a
friend visiting her last week. We told
her that she had not let us know any
thing about it and that therefore, we
did not know that she had a visitor.
Then she said, “Well you should have
known. I thought you were running
a newspaper.” Wouldn’t that rattle
your slats? Some people think that
an editor ought to be a cross between
Argus and Anna Eva Fay. They seem
to think that our five senses are aug
mented by a sixth that lets us know
everything that happens, even if we
see, hear, feel, taste or smell it not.
Dear lady, editors are only human,
or at least, almost human. If you
have a friend visiting you, if you are
going away, or have returned from a
visit out of town, if Johnnie falls and
breaks his arm, if your husband chops
his toe instead of a stick of wood, if
anything happens that makes you
glad, or sad or happy or mad, call us
up. Tell us about it. That’s the way
to get it in the paper.
Odd Bits of News
Worcester, Mas&.—The Rev. Freder
ick Nicholson, pastor of the First
Spiritual Church, recently appealed to
Chief of Police Hill for “protection
against love-sick maidens and schem
ing mothers.” He said his life has
been made miserable by love letters
and telephone calls.”
Milwaukee, Wis.—That Wisconsin
will not become a prohibition state in
this or the next generation, whether
woman suffrage prevails or not, was
the prediction made by Mrs. Sophie
Gudden of Oshkosh, at the press ses
sion of the Wisconsin Woman Suf
frage association, held last week at
Milwaukee.
Clarinda, la.—Mrs. Martin Lucas
offered to crank an automobile for
Mrs. Abbie Gilmore and in doing so
broke her arm. Mrs. Gilmore helped
Mrs. Lucas into the car and started
to crank the machine. She, too, broke
her arm.
Merrill, Wis.—A house was shipped
to the fair here recently by parcel
post. The house was of the take-down
variety and was sent piece by piece.
Atlanta, Ga.—Several people here
have been afraid to eat oysters re
cently because when the oysters were
put into hot water they turned a bril
liant pink. Health officers say that
the oysters are perfectly good to eat
but they cannot explain their “blush
ing” of the bivalves.
Somerset, Ky.—Miss Lena Hamm,
Kentucky's first police woman, start
ed duty recently. Her uniform is of
police-blue trimmed with white braid.
Benny and Pearl
Benny Lindsey went before the
strike commission this week to tell
them that Rockefeller had been trying
for many years to get his goat and
Benny had to get Pearl Jolly as a
bodyguard. Sounds a good deal like
the fly that thought the sun got hot
just to singe his wings.