Mancos Valley Favored Spot
Mancos Valley is one of the most favored sections of the state. It is distinctly agricultural and anything that helps the farmer will contribute to the success of all.
The most important things are transportation and markets and they are inseparable. To help solve this problem, there must be a greater diversification of farm products and more finishing of animals for the market.
At the present time, all the farm products are shipped in the fall and thus the railroad is congested and cars at times cannot be secured. More dairy cows should be kept, all the feeder hogs now being shipped elsewhere and finished should be finished here: cattle and sheep should be finished here also and by this system a market a home would be furnished for lots of stuff that is now being shipped out, the railroad would not be congested and the farmer would have employment and money in the winter as well as in summer.
Winter dairying should be established and this can be most profitably carried on with hog raising.
The time is not far off when the Mancos Valley will grow a great deal of corn. Corn is now being grown where years ago it was thought impossible. As the farmers begin to grow corn, conditions will change.
Transportation in the south western part of Colorado can be improved only by such a system of farming as will keep the railroad busy at all seasons.
Road Certain in Year 1921
In response to the movement to secure the early construction of the highway from Dolores to Norwood a number of letters have been received which are encouraging but it appears the best we can hope for is construction of the road in 1921.
The Forest Service practically gives assurance of doing its part toward the construction of the road in 1921 and holds out the hope that the winter’s session of congress may make additional appropriations for road building in the National Forests in which event construction of the road might be brought about next year, but this considered as rather improbable. While in Denver last week, Messers. Cline and Jackson interviewed the State Highway Commission upon the subject of this road and found them easily interested in the project and left them apparently willing to do their part to put the road thru, but they, too, were in the opinion that it could not be done until 1921. Thus the matter stands. The thing to do is too keep all the forces lined up and in working order and put this road through in 1921 or “bust” a suspender in effort.
Indian Romance Getting Serious
An Indian love romance came very near having a tragic ending out in the Willden community last week.
It appears that an Indian boy and a young half-Indian and half-Mexican are rivals in a love affair, the object of their affections being a pretty young Indian girl just past eighteen.
The Indian boy herds sheep for Robert Wilson and John and Mark Willden and, for safe keeping, the parents of the girl brought her to the home of Mr. Wilson, the parents favoring the Indian boy’s suit while the girl favors the suit of the half-breed.
Last week, some one approached the tent of the young sheepherder and fired three shots pointblank in the tent where the herder was sleeping. All three shots missed their mark, but were too close for comfort.
The shooting is no doubt the work of the half-breed who had been lurking around the Wilson home of nights causing the household no little mental disquietude. There are still fears for the worst and bad blood is aroused in earnest. The Indian boy’s claim to the girl seems to lie in the fact that during the rigors of last winter when the flu was raging and the family of the Indian girl was almost starving, the Indian boy provided food and care for them under the understanding that he was to have the girl for his wife when she was eighteen.
The parents are standing by their agreement but the girl is not quite satisfied with the arrangement and there is yet no end to their troubles.”
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The Mancos Times-Tribune never ceases to work for the best interests of Mancos and Montezuma County, yet there are many people right here that persistently refuse to subscribe for it, many borrowing from their neighbor. We like to have everyone read the paper, but we also like to have their support.