“Beginning with next week’s issue The Mancos Times and The Mancos Tribune will be consolidated and published under the name The Mancos Times-Tribune, with Freeman Bros. as publishers. In entering upon this broader field of newspaper work we wish, first to thank all of our subscribers and friends for the support and patronage shown toward the Times under the present management, and secondly we wish the continued support and hearty cooperation of the people in our efforts to make the Times-Tribune newsy, helpful and thoroughly efficient unto all ends and aims of a county newspaper. Our platform and important announcement will appear next week.”
“Municipal Progress”
“In the last two years, many of the conveniences and comforts of city life have come to you: an extended telephone system, electric lights, city water works, all this and more has come and come to stay. Adding to these are other establishments of a business nature and the splendid buildings that have been erected and Mancos has attained a steady degree of progress that we must be proud...The one thing needed in solving the problems of our material development is the unification of forces that make so wonderfully in solving of all problems, social, economic and others. The chief factor is man. We need more men to create more wealth, more material wealth to attract more capital to accomplish our ends.”
“Great Demand for Irrigated Land”
“Under one of the proposed government projects in Washington, where it is estimated that the cost will be in the neighborhood of $75 an acre, a reconnaissance of the lands included shows that the farms and prospective settlers are willing and anxious to have the government go ahead on the basis of repayment by the land holders of this amount...Where irrigated land will produce annually farm and fruit crops worth from $20 to $100 an acre, the initial cost of an adequate water supply, even when the cost is higher, is not a serious consideration and the obligation is gladly undertaken by hosts of settlers. The rush for these irrigated lands upon which to make homes is for to excess the supply of improved land.”
