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WRRIGATED FARMY FOR SALE
UNDER THE GREAT AMITY CANAL 1N THE
A\RKA\XS‘\H \v;\IJIJ}:Y.
These lands lie p«?fl;x fx):rlza_l;ul{;l:];;e_{io rickest lands in the
Arkansas valley. The Great Amity Canal, 100 Miles long, was built
W 95, and together with reservoirs, cost upwards of %1,500,000.
This is the larc =t and best constructed canal in the state. Lands
man be bought in an, ize tracts desired at low prices and Qp long time
#syments. Perpetus: water rights. No water rents to pay. Now is
fie tume to secure a i ome in this beautiful valley.
J.S McMURTRY,
AGENT FOR CLOSE BROS & CO.,
. HOLLY, COLORADO
THE LAMAR MILLING
& ELEVATOR CO,,
WHOLESALE
GRAIN, MKAL, CHOP FEED,
HARD and SOFT WHEAT
FLOUR, GRAHAM, ,
ETC., ETC. ;
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LAMAR, COLO.
C. C. HUDDLESTON,
LAMAR, COLORADO. |
Deering Mowers, Respers and Binders. |
Bining Twine, Dain Hay Stackers and
Rakes, Our Line of Hardware Gro
ceries, Queensware and Harness is
Complete.
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(. 1. McPherso, ®
DEALER IN GENERAL
MERCHANDISE
ungs a spflflillty PRESCRIPTIONS CARE
y FULLY COMPOUNDED
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FURNITURE STORE. []
MRS. BELLE HOLLIS Prop'r’s. D
A COMPLETE LINE
Of Furniture and ]
Undertaking Goods.r_—l
UNDERTAKER AND PRACTICAL
D EMBALMER. D
D HOLLY, : : : : : : COLORADO. D
B. B. BROWN, President. A. N. PARRISH, Vice Pres.
5 W. C. GOULD, Cashier. -
>4 FIRST NATIONAL BANK,
LAMAR COLO
Capltal Stbck, % 5 T - ‘50.000-
Slll'pllls, _'“ e- et - 4,000 .
DIRECTORS.
_B. B. BROWN, A. N. PARRISH, W. 6. GOULD,
i M. D. THATCHER, T. M. BROWN.
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GEO A. WATSON,
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I Have Bargains in Lands with Water that cannot be surpassed.
" Practica in Justics Courts, and the U. 8. Land Office.
2 Collections a Specialty.
LAMAR COLORADO.
>([HE s HOLLY 5 HOUSE.
S LLY s HOUSE =
. weesesßoara and Lodging by......... !
DAY # OR ¢+ WEEK % |
Accommodations - first - class. o ;
Mrs., Kate Millimger, Prep. :
C BELL IN OFFICE FOR CON- 1
W‘Ul OF GUBSTS ARRIVING Ox «
TRAINS, . I
~ HOLLY, COLO. ,
THE HOLLY CHIEFTAIN.
HOLLY, COLORADO. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1898.
WHEN IN LAMAR
Calionthe B B B B R
Oriental Billiard
Hall.
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BEST WHISKIES - - - ‘
- - - AND - - - |
- - - > - CIGARS.
FRED SCHMIDT, Presgistor
@. =, NlePhersen,
NOTARY ¢ PUBLIC,
HOLLY, -~ -~ = COoLO
R. KING.
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WAGON = MARER,
AND BLACKSMITH.
West Santa Fe Street, HOLLY, COLO.
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% Italsoremoves Bunions, §
i Warts and Callauses of i
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X PRICE OXLY 25 CENTS A BOTTLE. ¥
FOR SALE.BY ALL DRUGGISTS, \
@ Manufactured by ‘: |
A KAMPS. & SACKSTEDER, %
‘-, APPLETON, WIS, ¥
% Have. Somothing i the snusu g
3 ready to wee. i case of sudden §
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7 a;.of.mzm Can be wsed in
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¥y Price 25 centw.st all Bruggists.
D Manafactured by the &
- HEATH MED. CO., o)
| Appleton, Wis. &
], S )[ILLINGER,
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i)oes First Class Carpenter Work
Cistern work, Plustering. or building
neys. Brick alwavs on hand.
‘ HOLLY, COLORADO,
G B. THOMAN,
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Real Estate, Loans and Insurance,
Land Attorney.
Contesting a Speclaity.
LAMAR, COLORADO,
6 A. RICE,
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PAINTER and PAPER HANGER.
Does finest Graining and Decora
tive work. Keeps a supply of wall
paper on hand at all times.
HOLLY. - - . COLORADO.
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J. K. DOUGHTY. .
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
Office in Land Office Building, |
Lamar. Colorado
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ED. SWAYZE,
TONSORIAIL
ARTIST,
ALL WORK FIRST CLASS,
Agent for the Elite Steam Laundry,
of Denver.
SHOP SBECOND DOOR NORTH OF P. 0,
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INSUREYOUR BUILDINGS
—WITH—
C. L. MCPHERSON,
Holly, Colo.
-...Agent for the....
German’ [American¥insurance Cempany,
“ofs
NEW YORK.
Insarer Against
FIRES, LIGHTNIN G,
TORNADOES and
CYCLONES.
DR. R. D. WILSON.
PHYBICIAN axpo SURGEON,
Howuvy. COLORADO.
THE HOLLY DRAY LINE,
ART, McCOY, Proprietor.
Goods Promptly Delivered to any
Part of the City at Reas- .
3 onable Rates.
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Skin Diseases.
For the speedy and permanent cure of
tetter, salt rhegm and ‘eczems, Cham
berlain’s Eye and Skin Ointment is
without an équal. It relieves the itch
ing and smarting almost instantly and
its continued nse effects a permanent
cure. It also cures ftch, blfrer'l’itch.
;cnhl henginog:o nipples, ftching pilel‘i
happed » chronic sore eyes and |
granulated lds, e
Dr. Catys Condition Powders for |
borses are the best tonic, blood fifln |
€BB vermifuge. Price, 35 esuts. byl
THE HOLLY CHIEFTAIN.
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY.
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BY H. W. MILFORD.
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THE ATCHISON, TOPEKA
AND SANTA FE
RAILWAY. ,
Trains 1eaves Holly as follows: |
EAST BOUND. WEST BO J.\'D.‘
No. 8,....12:06p. m. | | No. 5....1:5 a. m.
No. 82..... 9:30 8 . | | *No.8l....12:37 p. m.
*Freight except Sunday. 3
H. P. HORST, Agent.
POBTOFFICE HOQURS.
(‘)Jmnn 7 A. M. Closes 8 P. M.
est bound mall closes 8 P, M.
East bound mail closes 2 P, M,
Sunday opens 9 to 10A. M. and 2 to 3:30 P. M,
C. L. McPHERSON, P. M.
SUNDAY SCHOOL EVERY SUNDAY AT
10.00 A. M,, at the school house,
L G. HAMMER, Supt.
PROWERS COUNTY DIRECTORY.
Clerk and Recorder, - - B, B, Falkner.
Treasurer, - - - - - J, W. Bent.
Superintendent, - - - David Barnes.
Jud.(iv - - - - - D.W. Robinson.
Sheriff, - - - - = Wm. McKinzee,
Coroner, - - - - -_ - Fred Lee.
AS8essor, - = = - J.A McDowell.
Surveyer, - - - - = John Duncan,
- J. S. McClung, Ch'r'n,
Commissioners, 2— - = = 8, J. Higbee,
- - W. J. Johnston.
IRRICATION.
One Active Cause ofColorado Im
provement and Progress. |
From The Elizabesh (Pa.) Herald.
Every first visitor to Colorado from
the east is interested in the agricultural
operations there, so different from what
he has been used to at home. Irriga:
tion is the magic force which opens na-|
ture’s bountv and causes the desert to
blossons as the rose. Those ef us who
were school boys and girls a qnarter of
a century ago remember the teaching of |
the geographies that a very large part
of the interior of our country was an
arid region called the “Great American
| Desert,” and the teaching was that it
was hopelessly unproductive. But irri
gation has worked a miracle there, for
it has been found that the parched and
| dusty soil only needs the avplication of
' | water in sufficient gquaptity to wmske it
arich sandy loam, very dee
tilled and seemingly inexhaustible in
" | its capacity for production,
The practice of irrigation in arid re
glons is one of great smtiquiiy, the
: Egyptians baving employed it from a
time when history is lost in the obscuri
ty of tradition. The British conquest
of India veyealed a system of irrigation
_tpracticed by the nativeson a scale of
magnitude not yet equalled elsewhere
It has been the practice in Mexico for
ages,and was doubtless copied there
from that mysterious and vanished race
| who once peopled the now desert wastes
| of Arizona and New Mexico, the ruins
of their great canals, aqueduets and
reservoirs yet remaining to testify to
the actiyity and enterprise of this once
- | teeming population. Among our peo
ple in our time there has been tardy
recognition of the possibilities of irriga
| tion, bnt recent years have witnessed
marvelous progress alongthis line,
| It was first begun on a small seale,
chiefly through individoal effort, on
the plains immediately contiguous to
the foothills of the Rockies, the waters
being diverted from their natural chan
nels in the mountains und conducted by
digches along the hilisides to the plains,
maintaining an elevation whence it
was easy to distribute them over all the
soil that it was desired to moisten,
From the begiuning it has rapidly
grown inte a vast system ef distribution
and storage, inclading great canals,
some of them more than one hundred
miles in length, reservoirs which are
veritable lakes in their dimensions, and
intricate mechanism for the measure
ment and control of the outflow, the
whole representing many million dol
lars of investment. In the verdacular
of the region every thing in the shape
of & conduit for the water is & “ditch,”
be it a canal capable of navigation Yy a
small steamboat or anything less than
that, down to the sidewalk gutter on the
town street. ;
It is claimed for irrigation shat it not
onlv imparts moisture to the soil, but
brings in solution from the mountains
those salt and mineral substances need
ed for the enrichment of the Boil, being
thusa constant fertilizer, and leading
to the constant improyement of the soil
for the production of crops, rather than
its impoveriehment. faida farmer to
me, in reply to a suggestion that it was
a great deal of trouble to get the neces
sary moisture to the eoil: “I would
far rather do farming work undes a re
liable system of irrigation than wunder
the conditions of farming in the east,
where I was brought up, There your
lands aud crops are always liable to Ye
burned up by drouth or washed: out by
flood, Here we get just the.quantity
of water needed on the land and at just
the times it is needed, so that good
Crops every year are as nearly certain
a8 anything in human life can be.”
The modus vperandi of the individa
alirrigator is very simple, He finds
the highest point on the gronad to be
’fl"w- and (yom this pelnt mues
‘line, with a slight upward grade, to.the
‘nearest stream or canal: Earthen fills
or wooden flumes are constructed over
-depressions in the surface, or the ditch
leads around them, hugging the side at
the proper elevation. But the practice
among careful farmers is to gradually
grade their fields to an even slope, de
pressions being filled and high places
leveled. A plow farrow is usually the
ditch provided for an ordinary field,
and from this water is distributed by
methods yarying according to the char
acter of the crops or the quantity need
ed.
Some figures 1n this connection may
not prove uninteresting, The whole
area of Colorado is 66,560,000 acres, but
a large part of this is mountain land,
not adapted for agriculture, The im
proved land in 1897 is given at 2,000,000
acres in round numbers, Double this
total is now under irrigation, and the
extent is being widened rapidly. There
are in the state 12,000 miles of irrigat
ing ditches of various dimensions, rep
resenting an investment of $50,000,000.
The average annual cost of water per
acre is given at 79 cents.
Large azsome of th above figures
map seem, the larigation system of the
region is only in its infancy. This fact
was forcibly impressed on the minds of
the National Editorial Association del
egates on the occasion of their tour of
the improyements being made by the
Great Plains Water Storage Co. in the
Arkansas yallev, brief reference to
which was made in earlier correspond
ence. This concern will operate ona
mammoth scale in the storage in five
great \akes, of the storm and flood wa
ters of the winter, which now go to
waste, and their distribution over a
considerable part of southeastern Col
orado and western Kansas in the sum
mer. The lakes are constructed by
dykes thrown nup at needed points on
the almost level prairies, thus enclosing
vast bodies of water, conducted to them
by canals and natural water courses
from the mountains.
This only differs from many similar
concerns in the fact and is larger than
any of them, being the most extensive
irrigation system on the continent, and
but few in India being larger. It con- !
trols and owns 311} miles of main }
canals, the longest one being 113 miles
in extent and reaching well into the ‘
state of Kansas. The scene of its oper
ations, with the town of Lamar as lj
nter, was but recently a vaet tract of
waste country. Tt is now being rapidly
settled up and improved. The Atchin-|
son, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad tm-‘
verses the whole region, affording ready
means of communicating with the world
at large and access to markets. With
the vast irrigation system fully in oper
ation, it is more than an idle dream
[ that the lately desert region will, early
in the new century, be the home ofa
million prosperons and contented
people,
What is A Lawful Fence?
As the season of the vearhas arrived
when stock from the range are inclined
to give the farmers much trouble, by
breaking into their feed, it willk no
donbt be well for the farmers to post up
on the Jaw concerning this matter, We
therefore publish the full text of what
constitutes a lawful fence and the rights
of the farmers who are annoyed by
stock breaking through their fences:
The time has come when the rights of
the farmers of this county must be re
cognized, as well a8 those of the cattle
men, and where crops are surrounded by
a lawful fence and stock break throngh,
the only way for the farmer to pyotect
himself is to take the stock wp and pro
ceed according to law. [t might also
be well to add,that it is unlawful to let
hogs run at large; and anyone hasa
right to take them up at the owners ex
pense, and to recover any damage they
may have done, Here is the text of the
law as taken from Mill’s Annotated
Statutes, Vol., 1;
Sec’, 1939, LAWEUL FENCE DEEINED—
The following shall be a lawful fence in
the state of Colorado: Post and board
fences, made of sound posets, not less
than five inehes in diameter, set uub-‘
stantially in the ground, not more than |
eight feet apart, with three boards of
one inch lumber, eight inches wide and
not more than eight inches apart; or
four boards one inch thick and six
inches wikle und not more than six
inches apars, securely fastened ‘with
nails or otherwise; a three pole fence, |
with sound poles not less than two
inches in diameter at the small end,
with posts as above, one at each end
and one in the center, or near the cen
ter of each panel. A fence of three
barbed wires with posts not more than
sixty feet apart, with stays between not
more than ten feet apart, or three barb
ed wires with posts not more than thirty
three feet apart with one stay midway
between; or two barbed wires with pole
at top not less than two inches in dia
meter, wired at each end to posts, the
pokts not to be over eight feet apart; or
four plain wires, with posts not less than
five inchesin dJiameter and not ower
fifty feet apart with stays between them
not over ten feet apart. Provided—
That any division or road fence made
|of wirag shall be deemed unlawfu} that
‘contains s less number of wires, posts
imd stays than above described, All
‘otlm- fences, made of boaids, rails,
poles, wires, stone or hedge plants or
‘other material which sdall be 88 atrong
and as well calculated to protect en- l
closures as those above described, shall |
be considered lawful fences. Said plain
wire fences as described in this section,
shall not be less. than number nine and
‘all wires thall be properly stretched.
- Sec,, 1840, Heicur or Fexces—All
fonces shall not be less than four feet
}and six inches in height,
Sec., 19041, Owner oF Lecarn Fence
MAY RECOVER Por TrEsPass—Any per
son making and maintaining in good re
pair around his or her enclosure, any
fence such as described in section one of
this act, may recoyer in a suit for tres
pass, before any court having competent
jurisdiction, from the owner of any ani
mal or animals which break through
any such fence,in full’ forall damages
sustained on account” of such trespuss,
together with costs of guit; and the
animal or animals so trespassing may be
taken and held for secarity for the pay
ment of such damagesand costs; and
no person or personk shall be allowed
to recover damages for any injury to
any crops or grass or garden products,
or other yegetable products, unless the
same at the time of such trespass or in
jury, was inclosed dy a legal and suffi
cient fance. as before describeb,
AMITY .
4 BY Jay Bee.
We expect in the near future that the
center avenue will be fenced in.
Quite a number of Amity men have
gone to work on the new (Jueen re
servoir,
Twice during the past week we have
seen the smiling face of Mr. Wiley over
at the colony,
At the Sunday night meeting we
were pleased to see present the wreck
inz gang of the Santa Fe railroad.
We understand that the engineers
and surveyors are expected here ina
few days. with a view to grading the
land.
Ensign John Davy has gone to Tri
bune, Kansas, to inspect some property
which the army i 8 thinking of buying.
The Salvation army, on Sunday last,
received a visit from Brother Brown, a
‘red hot Methodist. Hels ulways wel
come.
Coyotes are reported to be visiting
this section. We haye not seen them
but haye heard noise euough around,
.aoout midnight, to be coyotes or any
thing else. ]
A new school district has been formn
led und_school has commenced. Miss
Sadie Gunnerson, of Denver, has been
selocted as teacher. Aboat twenty
scholars appeared the frst geggion.
The latest arrival here is a real live
Frenchman. He was born in Illinois
and has lived In Kangas, Missouri, Ok
laboma, Texas, etc. He is an ensign in
the Salvation Army, and his name is
French. He is cut here for his health,
and we think he has come to the right
spot to get better.
The colony has lost one of its most
respected friends by remoyal to Denver.
Obris Christesson, who came to assist
in building the houses for the pioneer
colonists, huving finished the work he
came to do, has received unother ap
pointment. He will in future be a
cadet, assisting in the managemewnt of
the Workingmen’s hotel at Denver.
He gave his furewell sddress oo Sunday
night, and will take with hin the good
winhes of the whole colony.
Mr. and Mrs. Winchester House had
quite a house full of wmerry people on
Thursdsy, October 6th, the occasion
being Ben’s birthday. Asit only hap
pens once in a lifetime that & person
cun be twentyfour years of age, it was
only natural that itshouid be fittiugiy
celebrated. Amongst the visitors pre
sent were Mr. and Mrs. McAbee, Mr.
and Mrs. Kreig, Mr. and Mrs. Newman
Mr, and Mrs, Patterson, Mr. and Mra,
Coker, Mesdames Erickson, Stevens,
Cash and Houss, Missis Higgins,
Childe, Cox and Newman, Messrs, Mc-
Dowall, Bowen and Cox, Ensigns
Erickeon, John Davy and W. B, Davy.
A splendid supper wasn served by the
hostuss, to wnich everybedy did faill
justice. After supper wascleared away
a real good social time was speat, suit
able to the occasion. Music was fur
vished by Miss L. Newman, organ, and
D. Coker, cornet. As most of those
present were from the Salvation Army
colony, the affuir would not be com
plete without & meeting, so they fi
nished up witn a good Salvation meei
ing. Everybody united in wishing
“Qur Ben”” mauy bappy returns of the
day, and all expressed themselves as
delighted with the party. ‘
R e S RN
Three Doctors in Consulitation.
““When you are sick, what yon like
best is to be chosen for a medicine in
the first place; what experience tells
vou is best, to be chosen in the second
place; what reason (i. 8. 'l'heocy) says
is best in to be chosen in the last place.
But if von can get Dr. Inolinaticn, Dr.
Experience and Dr. Reason to hold a.
consaltatioo woe-ther, they will give
you the best advice that can be tuken.”
When you hayea bad cold Dr. Incli
nation would recommend C(hamber
lain’s Cough Remedy because it is
plessant and safe to take. Dr. Exper
ience would recommend it because it
never fails to effect a speedy and per
manent care. Dr. Reason would
recommend 1t becanse it is prepared on
scientific principles, and acts on ns
ture's plans in relieving the lungs,
‘ounrnz the secretions and restoring
the system to a natural and healthy
condition, Fos eale by O, L. McPher
08,
NUMBER 36
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