Larimer County, Colorado - The whole text, 1911 (part 22 of 22)

John C. Shull^ a Veteran of the Civil war who came west in the seventies, located in Larimer county in 1880. He ertlisted in the 34th Ohio Infantry, September 3rd, 1861, re-enlisting in the field January 1864, serving through the war and was honorably dischargeB March 11th, 1865. Mr. Shall, who is now afiH has been postmaster at Berthoud for many ye&rs, is exceedingly modest about his part in many of the engagements of the great Civil strife, but it is well known that he was a participant in many of the bloody battles of the war, always in line with the other brave boys in blue defending their country's honor. He was born in Stark county, Ohio, August 2nd, 1841. July 3rd, 1867, he was married to Nancy Jane Hilliard. They have three daughters, Mrs. Jessie Brinkley, Mrs. Gertrude Mahan and Mrs. Raymond Fenton ; also two sonss Walter and Charles.

Joseph E. Shipler, the first clerk of the town of Fort Collihs, was born September 6th, 1843, in Mercer,. Pennsylvania, where he was educated; enlisted in the 10th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry April 19th, 1861; served three years in the army of the Potomac and was mustered out at the expiration of his term of enlistment, June 17th,

1864, at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; married Alice Vescelius, June 30th, 1864, at Gregg, New York, and their surviving children are, William P. Shipler, of Montana; Fred E. Shipler, of Denver; Mrs. Alice E. Johns, of Denver, and Mrs. Lulu C. Bryant, of Pueblo. Mr. Shipler and family arrived in Fort Collins on February 8th, 1869, and he engaged in contracting and building. He was appointed the first town clerk of Fort Collins in 1873 and held the office several years. For the past 25 years, he has been engaged in prospecting and mining in Colorado and Nevada. His wife died in 1883, in Fort Collins.

Samuel O. K. Reed. - Many of the sons of the Empire state are scattered throughout Colorado, and Larimer county is proud of the fact that it contains its share of them. Mr. Reed was born August 5th, 1844, at Franklindale, New York, son of Rev. N. A. Reed; educated at Middletown, New York, and at Zanesville, Ohio ; enlisted August 15th, 1862, in company E 3rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry and was honorably discharged June 15th,

1865, at Columbus, Ohio; married Jennie Cameron August 1st, 1872, at Brooklyn, New York, and she died in 1910, in Fort Collins, leaving two children, Olin G. Reed of Fort Collins, and Joseph F. Reed in government employ at Fairfield, Washington. Our subject came to Fort Collins in October, 1880, and followed farming until 1906 when he retired and moved to Fort Collins. Since then he has been constable and district court bailiff. He is a genial gentleman, and can give and take a joke with the best of them.

George W. Foote. - Many an old timer could have been well spared in Colorado, but the man who does things is always welcome - whether he comes first or last. In this class stands a man who came to Colorado in 1874 in search of health, and if found, he determined to remain and do his share in its upbuilding. George W. Foote was a great sufferer from asthma and weighed but 117 pounds when he arrived in Greeley; and in this connection John Stover of Platteville tells the following: "When I first saw Foote I pitied him, he looked so weak and frail. I sold him the first team of horses that he owned in the then territory. They were a spirited pair and full of life and after he purchased I told him that I would take them to the barn, as he didn't look strong enough to handle 'em, even to carry the halters. Yet the cuss knew horses to an iota, knew how to break 'em, and had the nerve to handle any horse no matter how vicious, and for years after he was the best judge and handler of horses in northern Colorado."

George W. Foote was born in Mill Creek Hundred, Delaware, on November 23, 1842, in the old homestead that had cradled his father and grandfather. His grandsire had heard of Bunker Hill, and though but a boy, he was of the stuff from which heroes are made. He was a drummer boy in the Continental army and aided in the colonies gaining their independence from England. George attended school at Wilmington and in Philadelphia and in the interim he worked on the home farm. He was married to Sarah A. Woodward, and two children were born to them. George and family came west in 1874 and on June 5, arrived in Greeley, Colorado. They resided there until 1881, then moved to Loveland where he engaged at farming and in the livery and stage line business. He operated the stage between the two towns, the stage between Loveland and Estes Park and he was also connected with other stage lines. Mrs. Foote died in 1892 and two years later Mr. Foote married Delia E. Weaver, a Kansas girl. Two children are by that issue, Lester G. and Edna D., and the family occupy a comfortable home on the corner of 5th street and JefEerson avenue. In 1899 Mr. Foote sold his farm to the recently organized Loveland Sugar Company for a site for its plant, since which time he has devoted his time to his other lands - one half section located in Weld county in the Little Thompson valley. The Foote family is numerically strong in the east and middle west and were blood kin to some of the most famous men and uomen of the past century - among them being

Harriet Beecher-Stowe of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" fame, and the famous Brooklyn preacher, the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. Mr. Foote has prospered in this world's goods and is now the owner of several farms, lives in one of the finest homes in Loveland and is President of the Larimer County Bank and Trust Company. He is rated as one of the wealthiest men in the county.

Dr. Roy Wiest was born May 9th, 1877, at Pontiac, Michigan; attended the Pontiac public schools, -the Detroit High school and the University of Michigan Medical school, graduating therefrom in 1901. He came to Colorado in 1902 and located at Loveland ; married Sara Armstrong on Sept. 6th, 1905, and they have one child, Donald K. Wiest. Our subject moved to Estes Park in 1906 where he is engaged in practicing his profession. He is a member of the Larimer County Medical society and of the American Medical society; also a member of the Colorado Pharmacal association.

Samuel Service, one of the prosperous dealers in general merchandise in Estes Park, was born July 3rd, 1860, at Bally Easton, Ireland, and received his education in his native country. He came to Colorado in 1884, locating first at Sterling, moving thence, in 1902, to Estes Park where he has since resided. Mr. Service is an excellent business man and citizen. On March 23rd, 1890, he married Sadie Boyd at Iliff, Colo., and they have eight children: Mary, Susan, Rhoda, Frank, Bryan, Estes, Helen and Wilma.

J. W. Kendall was born in Wapelo county, Iowa; came to Colorado in 1873, settling in Denver; moved to Larimer county in 1879 and followed farming and stock raising; married M. J. Hembree in 1900, and they have one child, Lola Kendall. Mr. Kendall is a veteran of the Civil war, serving first in the 24th, Missouri Infantry and later in the 148th, Illinois Infantry. He was employed in the construction of the Larimer and Weld county canal and has helped to build several other ditches in Larimer county.

E. M. McGiBBON. - Wyoming lost a good citizen to Colorado when Mr. McGibbon settled here. He was born in Wyoming at Laramie city, September 3rd, 1872, and came to this state April 26th, 1902. He was educated in the public schools in Laramie and at the Wyoming State university. He was married to Miss Nettie Gertrude Glynn, March 26th, 1901. He is a farmer and stock

Victor Akin. - Mr. Akin is another product of the Centennial state and a native of this county. He was born three miles south-east of Fort Collins in 1886 and was married to Miss Elsie Gladys Haven in 1909. They have one daughter Helen Louise. He was educated in the public schools of the county. Mr. Akin has been actively engaged in the farming industry for several years on a large scale. In 1910 he had nearly one thousand acres of wheat under cultivation north-east of this city. His crop this year, while not as extensive, covers over seven hundred acres. He has the push and energy to make a record among the best of Larimer county's agriculturalists.

William H. Laws was born in 1840, in Lawrence county, Indiana; educated at Eureka college, Eureka, Illinois; came to Colorado in May, 1868, and in 1872 married Ida Dow; six children, Mrs. Mabel Johnson, W. G., Claude, Earl G., Mrs. Nora L. Wallace and Hazel D. Laws; lived in Boulder county thirteen years and was Assessor four years and County Clerk of that county four years; came to Larimer county in 1882 and settled in the Big Thompson valley. Is a retired farmer and a resident of Loveland.

LoREN GiDDiNGS. - The subject of this sketch is the sole survivor of three brothers - Leander, George and Loren Giddings - who came from Illinois to the Cache la Poudre valley thirty years ago for thf same reason that actuated hundreds of others to move westward, and that was to better their financial condition and to establish homes in a more equable climate. That the change resulted beneficially to these three brothers is evidenced by the fact that all of them remained and have done their part in developing the industries of the county, making it what it is today, one of the richest and most prosperous sections in the United States. Two of the brothers, Leander and George, have closed their earthly careers and passed on to join the unnumbered throng beyond the grave, but not until after both had met with a fair measure of success in their various undertakings. Our subject was born October 11th, 1841, on a farm in Warren county, Illinois. He received his education in the public schools of the period and on January 12th, 1865, he married Elizabeth Stafford at Berwick, in his native state. Eight living children, all well established in life, were born to them, and their names are: Ettie M. (now Mrs. Victor E. Stephens of Fort Collins) ; E. Chester, Claude C, Frank D., also of Fort Collins; S. Ralph of Timnath, Mary A., Phebe L. (now Mrs. Orville Young of Scottsblufl, Neb.), and Ina J. (now Mrs. L. F. Fetters of Scottsbluff, Neb.). In 1881, Mr. Giddings moved to Taylor county, Iowa, and two years later came to Fort Collins, near which place he has since resided, engaged in farming, stock raising and stock feeding. The first seventeen years of his life in Colorado were spent on N. C. Alford's farm in the Boxelder valley. Since then, for a greater part of the time, he has lived near Timnath where he has followed farming and gardening with excellent success. Mr. Giddings is one of the sturdy, substantial citizens of the county, a man who has always lived at peace with his neighbors and has always rendered unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's.

Hiram R. Smith, one of the best and most favorably known citizens of Loveland is a native of Pennsylvania; educated at Westminister college; married Louisa M. Shields, October 1st, 1878; came to Loveland in June, 1879; has faithfully served in positions of trust including justice of the peace, an oflSce he still holds. Mr. Smith fought three years for the Union during the Civil war; is a valued nevi^spaper correspondent.

Aaron V. Benson

and at the State Agricultural College at Fort Collins, Colorado. In 1900 he accepted the position of bookkeeper in the Bank of Loveland, of Loveland, Colorado, serving vi^ith that institution successively as bookkeeper, assistant cashier and cashier, having held the position of cashier with the Bank of Loveland and with its successor, The Loveland National Bank, since 1904.

Daniel M. Halligan was born in May, 1830, in Dublin, Ireland. He came to the United States in 1847 and spent two years in Illinois. In 1849 he crossed the Plains to California and engaged in mining. He went to Australia in 1850, but returned to California in a few months, locating at Michigan Bluff. In 1860 he was married to Mary

Roberts and in 1882 he came with his family to Larimer county and took up a stock ranch on the North Fork of the Cache la Poudre, where he lived until December 8 th, 1899, when he died. He left a wife and three children ; Walton M. of Denver ; W. B. of Fort Collins and Mrs. Bessie Heath, of Colorado Springs.

James Brunton. - ^A miller, machinist and accountant by occupation, our subject was born August 4th, 1862 in Pleeblesshire, Scotland, where he was educated. Married Laura B. Livingston, March 13th, 1890. His children are named Leva S., Jessie L., James F. and George W. Came to Fort Collins July 19th, 1887, and assisted in the construction of the Farmers' Mill. Has been employed by B. F. Hottel in the Lindell Mills since 1891. Mr. Brunton was elected alderman from the second ward, April 4th, 1911.

John Vaughn Barker. - Until recently, Mr. Barker has been actively engaged in the furniture business in Fort Collins. He came to the state in 1900, and located in this city, a year later. He was born in Chicago, January 31st, 1872, and was educated there. He was married August 21st, 1895 to Miss Carrie L. Weinstein. They have one child, Leo. V. Prior to coming to Colorado, Mr. Barker was connected for a number of years with the Parry Mfg. Co., of Indianapolis, Indiana, the largest buggy concern in the world. Before that he was cashier and auditor for the carriage wheel trust, known as the Commercial Wheel Company.

John Bunyan Bay. - Mr. Bay is one of the successful and prosperous farmers and gardeners of the Cache la Poudre valley, and was born in 1862, near Vincennes, Indiana; educated in the public schools of Illinois, and on September 7th, 1887, married Sarah McGehee who has borne him four children, Mabel, Carl, Roy and Raymond. He drove a team from Illinois to Fort Collins arriving in the fall of 1886; he followed market gardening for 18 years at which he was very successful and has since carried on general farming.

Elbert D. Pearson was born November 15th, 1859, in Oswego county. New York, where he received his education in the public schools; married Alice Dayhuff, December 14th, 1898; came to Greeley, November 10th, 1886, and followed farming near that city for eight years; moved to Larimer county in 1895 and bought a farm five miles east of Fort Collins which he sold in 1903, and has since lived in Timnath, taking charge, as manager, of the grain elevator at that place, a position he holds at the present time. Mr. and Mrs. Pearson have no children. The fact that he has been retained in the important and responsible position of manager of an elevator through which tens of thousands of bushels of grain are passed every year, is proof of Mr. Pearson's integrity as a man, and his faithfulness as an employe. It is therefore needless to say that he enjoys the confidence and respect of all who know him.

George W. Raigle. - ^Another of the sturdy sons of Ohio, who early responded to the bugle call "to arms," was George W. Raigle. A native of that state, born in Coshocton county, but educated in Indiana, he enlisted from the latter state in 1862, in company I 97th Regiment Infantry Volunteers. Comrade Raigle served his country loyally and bravely for three years and was then honorably discharged. He was in the thickest of the fray at Vicksburg and Mission Ridge, both battles marked by fierce fighting and great loss in killed and wounded in both armies. He marched with Sherman's army to the sea and passed in review with the great army of veterans at Washington, D. C, at the close of the memorable conflict. Mr. Raigle was married to Christina A. Howard, February 20th, 1866, in Indiana, coming to Colorado and settling in Larimer county, July 15th, 1879.

Ira O. Knapp was born in Will County, Illinois, in 1859, and lived in that part of the state until he reached his twentieth year, when he heard the call of the west and went to Nebraska and later to western Kansas, where he learned something of the printing business, which he followed for several years, his wanderings taking him back to Illinois where he worked in several places, Chicago among the rest. Bookkeeping was then taken up and for several years he was in the employ of a large general merchandising firm in Oregon, Illinois. In 1884 he married Miss Delia Dunkelberg of Rochelle, Illinois, and to them two sons, Herman J. and Jean V. were born, both of whom have received college education. Then farming claimed a few years time and in 1890 Mr. Knapp came to Colorado and has since that time made his home in Larimer county where he has followed several lines of work and done his part in the general development of this section of the state and Loveland in particular, where he has made his home most of the time since coming to Colorado. Mr. Knapp has been a consistent republican since becoming a voter and has been a worker in the ranks rather than an office seeker, though he has held the office of alderman in Loveland for a term of five consecutive years, being the longest ever given anyone by the citizens of that place. On February 1st, 1909, he became the editor and manager of the Loveland Reporter, the pioneer paper of Loveland. His varied experience has fitted him to deal as a newspaper writer, in a sympathetic manner with all the subjects of interest to the readers of the Reporter.

MiLo Y. OsBORN, only son of Judge and Mrs. W. B. Osborn, pioneer settlers of the Big Thompson valley, was born December 13th, 1851, in East Liberty, Ohio. In 1861, he came with his mother to the Big Thompson valley, his father having preceded them the year before, and that valley has been his home for a period of 50 years. On June 10th, 1875, our subject married Louise Frazier, of Denver, a pioneer girl and the first musician of note In the county. Of this union, four sons.

Clarence, Walter, Kenneth and Llewellyn were born, all of whom are living. Mr. Osborn is a successful farmer "and owns a fine farm of 245 acres situated within a mile of Loveland. In 1899, he was elected County Assessor^ and served one full term, giving excellent satisfaction.

John L. Willis

farming in Larimer county on land he purchased in 1877, then practically in its native state, without a fence, a tree or bush upon it. There was a homesteader's cabin on the land and that was about all. With true western spirit Mr. Willis went to work and has since improved the place until he now has one of the most attractive and productive farms in the Cache la Poudre valley. He was born September 5th, 1850, in Connecticut where he received his education ; married Luella A. Cobb, November 22nd, 1877, who bore him seven children: Mrs. Edith Giddings, Dora, Arthur, Howard, Frank, Leila, and Laura Willis. He came to Colorado in 1875 and settled on the farm, which he still owns and occupies, in 1877, situated about two miles north of the present village of Timnath and about six miles southeast of Fort Collins. Mrs. Willis died March 27th, 1908, and our subject has since remained single. She was a daughter of Royal Cobb, one of the pioneer wool growers of Larimer county, who died several years ago. Like all of the pioneers who remained in the Cache la Poudre valley, Mr. Willis has made good and is rated as one of its forehanded and substantial citizens. He had his ups and downs, and his share of hardships, privations and discouragements in the early days, but he never gave up and has the satisfaction now of enjoying the fruits of his labor as the sunset of life approaches.

John E. Anderson. - The subject of this sketch was born and educated in Sweden, but renounced his allegiance to his native country to become a citizen of the United States. He came to Fort Collins in 1890 and has since successfully followed farming. He was united in marriage with Miss Amy P. Scott in 1898, and five children have been born to the union, namely, Audrey, John, Robert, Lillie and Pearl.

Phillip Lariviere was one of the earliest settlers of the Cache la Poudre valley, coming here in December, 1859 from Fort Laramie. He was a good type of that class called freighters who played such an important part in the early settlement of the Rocky mountain region. Mr. Lariviere was born in 1840, at Three Rivers, Canada, where he learned the trade of a wheelwright, and in 1858 crossed the Plains to Fort Laramie. When he came to the Cache la Poudre valley in 1859, there was but one white woman here, a Mrs. LaMarsh. In August, 1866, our subject married Mary Harris, the ceremony being performed by Harris Stratton. Eight children, four boys and four girls were born of the union, all of whom are living. Mr. Lariviere died in May, 1886, from the effects of a kick of a horse.

Henry P. Handy. - The subject of this sketch was one of the noted civil engineers of the West, and he left many monuments of his skill as such throughout Colorado, in the planning and construction of large irrigation canals, dams, reservoirs, railroads and bridges. Not the least important of these was the planning and supervising of the system of water works built by Fort Collins in 1882- 3. He was the locating and construction engineer of the railroad through the Royal Gorge for the Denver & Rio Grande, and also located the Oregon Short Line. One of the large canals in the Big Thompson valley which he laid out and superin- tended its construction, was named in his honor. Mr. Handy was born near Utica, New York, July 24th, 1832, and died at Nampa, Idaho, in February, 1903. He left a wife and five children. The names of the children are Mrs. Nelia R. King, Nampa, Idaho; Wm. P. Handy, Denver, Colorado; George H. Handy, Caldwell, Idaho; Ralph H. Handy and Roy S. Handy. Mr. Handy and his family were residents of Fort Collins for nearly twenty years.

John C. Creed. - Born November 15th, 1833, in Highland county, Ohio. In December, 1861, he enlisted in company D 11th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, commanded by Col. W. O. Collins, after whom Fort Collins was named. He served until April, 1865, being discharged as sergeant of his company at Omaha, Nebraska. He came to Fort Collins in July, 1881, and continued to live here until he died on March 12, 1896. He was a gal-

Henry W. Chamberlin

David James. - Few men have lived in Larimer county who had more friends and exerted a wider influence in the political affairs of the county than did our subject during his lifetime. He began to take a lively interest in public affairs in his early manhood and, for years previous to his death, was a leader and a tower of strength in the councils lant soldier and did valiant duty as an Indian fighter on the frontier. He left a widow, Sarah A. Creed, and one son, Charles C. Creed, now of Boise, Idaho.

and activities of the republican party, and many of the county officers of the past owed their election mainly to the influence and activity David James exerted in their behalf. He was a leader, not a driver, and his friends always had confidence in his sagacity and judgment and followed wherever 'he led. He was elected the first town marshal of Loveland, an office he held for six or seven years, and served the town as postmaster for nine years, being appointed first by President McKinley in 1897. Since his death, his widow has held the office having been reappointed for a four years term by President Taft. Mr. James was born July 23rd, 1856, on a farm near Big Rock, Illinois. He received his education in the public schools of his native state, and in 1879 he came to Colorado and located at Loveland, Larimer county, which place remained his home until he died on November 19th, 1906. He was employed on a farm for the first few years and later followed the milling business for five or six years. He was always an active man, never a drone in the hive of industry. He was withal a manly man and he gradually drew about himself a cordon of friends which remained un- broken to the day of his death. On September 11th, 1884, our subject was joined in marriage with Carrie Shallenberger of Loveland, and four children, Beulah, Corinne, Lloyd and Carolyn, all living, were born to them. Loveland lost one of its enterprising and public spirited citizens when David James died.

Squire Ralph GiddingSj son of Loren Giddings, was born December 29th, 1873, in Cameron, Illinois. Ten years later he came with his father's family to Fort Collins, Colorado, arriving February 25th, 1883, and here he received his education and learned the trades of blacksmith and machinist. On February 22nd, 1900, he was joined in marriage with Edith N. Willis, daughter of John L. Willis, of Timnath. They have two children,

Dora W. and John Howard Giddings. With improvised anvils and bellows our subject and his brother, Frank, started in the blacksmith business when boys. The two boys earned their first $5 in Colorado grubbing sage bush for N. C. Alford. Our subject invented and had patented in 1911, the Gidding's beet puller which he is now manufacturing at his shop in Timnath.

William H. Turner^ son of Peter Turner, the founder of the town of Berthoud, was born July 4th, 1867, at Red Oak, Iowa; reared on a farm and attended the public schools of Larimer county ; married Otie Kerby, September 30th, 1896, who died November 8th, 1907; married for his second wife, Mary Bramhell, July 22nd, 1908. His five children are named Gerald, Rebekah, William P., Louise and Lloyd Turner. Mr. Turner came with his parents to Sunshine, Boulder county, in September, 1873, and to the Little Thompson valley, October 10th, 1877. His late boyhood years were spent mainly in the saddle riding the range as a cowboy, but he is now a successful and prosperous farmer. He owns and carries on one of the best farms between Fort Collins and Denver, situated li miles north of Berthoud, and is also a breeder of Norman horses, lines of work he expects to carry on all his life.

ViNCENZ Demmel was born in April, 1838, near Munich, Bavaria, where he was educated, subsequently learning the shoemaker's trade. He came to the United States in 1872, and to Fort Collins in April, 1873, which place was his home until he died on May 3rd, 1897. Mr. Demmel had built for his use as a shoe shop and residence, one of the first frame buildings erected in Fort Collins, which he occupied and in which he worked at his trade for nearly a quarter of a century. The building is standing on the original site on Jefferson street, next east of the City Hotel. His wife, two sons and two daughters, survived him until 1909, when one of the daughters died in Fort Collins. The other daughter, Miss Margaret is a graduate of the Fort Collins High school and has been a valued and very efficient teacher in the public schools of Fort Collins for several years. The two sons own and occupy one of the finest farms in the Boxelder valley and are good artd prosperous citizens.

John H. Simpson, Loveland, Colo., is a native of Ohio, born at Attica, October 11th, 1871. His education was obtained in the public schools of the period and at Buchtel College, Akron, Ohio, graduating therefrom in 1894. Adopting the law as a profession he entered upon a course of study in that science at Akron, Ohio, and was admitted to practice in 1895. On August 21st, 1899, Mr. Simpson was joined in marriage with Elsie May Carson, and they have two children, Pauline and John Carson Simpson. In the summer of 1903 he moved to Denver, Colorado, where he opened an office and began the practice of his profession, removing thence on September 1st, 1906, to Loveland, which city is still his home. Before coming to Colorado Mr. Simpson practiced law in Cleveland, Ohio, and was United States Commissioner for the Northern district of that state. He was admitted to the practice of the law in the courts of Colorado in 1904 and is a member of the County Bar Association. He is well versed in the principles of jurisprudence and has met with gratifying success as counsel and advocate in the practice of his profession, as the trial docket in both the county and district courts of Larimer county clearly show. He is an able and conscientious lawyer as his clients are at all times ready to testify.

Frank W. Moore. - ^This is a short life story of one of the most successful of Fort Collins' young business men and also one of the most popular and efficient public officials Larimer county ever had. He was born on September 17th, 1877, the fifteenth anniversary of the battle of Antietam, one of the most sanguinary of the Civil war, and is a native son of Fort Collins. He began his school life in the kindergarten and rose, year by year, through all the grades, graduating from the High school in 1897. After leaving school he became associated in business with his father, Ex-Alderman Thomas L. Moore, remaining in that connection six years. On January 1st, 1905, he was appointed deputy county treasurer under Col. T. C. Ramey, and gave excellent satisfaction during both of Mr. Ramey's terms of office, a period of four years. At the republican county convention held in October, 1908, Mr. Moore was the choice of his party for county treasurer to succeed Col. Ramey, and was triumphantly elected in November of that year. He was reelected in 1910 and is now serving a second term in that highly important and responsible position. He is vigorous in both thought and action, is quick of comprehension in the grasping of the point in any question that comes before him, accurate in his work and faithful and trustworthy in all things. He has made and is making one of the best public officials the county ever had. On March 1st, 1905, Mr. Moore was united in marriage with Jessie Ramer, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Ramer, who are pioneers of the Cache la Poudre valley. One daughter, now one year old has blessed the union. The home life of Mr. and Mrs. Moore is an ideally happy one.

Judge A. Q. McGregor^ former county judge of Larimer county, was killed by lightning on June 17th, 1896, in Estes Park. He was a native of Wisconsin, but came to Colorado in 1871. In 1883 he was appointed county judge, to fill a vacancy, serving until January, 1885. He then resumed the practice of law in Fort Collins, later moving to Denver. He had large property interests in Estes Park and he and his family spent the summers there.

John McNabb. - Stout of heart, strong of limb, wiry of frame and keen of eye the subject of this sketch has spent the greater part of the past thirty years tracking game among the lofty peaks and pine clad hills of the Medicine Bow range of mountains, or looking after the headgates and repairs of the Water Supply and Storage Company's system of mountain ditches and reservoirs. So long has he been a mountaineer engaged in these employments that he seems to be a part and parcel of the Medicine Bow range. One can scarcely think of the mountains without coupling John McNabb with them, and vice-versa. There is not a peak, a cliff, a park, a gulch, a stream, a rivulet or a belt of timber in the whole range that he has not explored and he can tell just where each is located and all about all of them. Mr. McNabb was born November 30th, 1859, at Woodville, Township of Eldon, Canada. He is descended from sturdy, Scotch ancestors who were pioneers of Canada. When fourteen years of age he left his home in Canada and went to Lyon county, Minnesota, where he remained about eight years, and his twin brother lives there yet. He came from Minnesota to Colorado in 1880 with John Zimmerman and first located at Cameron pass in Larimer county, later going to North Park near the present town of Walden, where he lived for four years. He then moved into the Cache la Poudre valley near Zimmermans, and three years later to Fort Collins, which city has since been his home for most of the time. While living on the Poudre during the mining excitement at Lulu and Teller, he carried the mail for S. B. Stewart from Chambers lake to those points and was obliged to make the twentyfive mile trip going and coming on snow shoes in the winter time, often with a pack weighing from fifty to eighty pounds strapped to his back. On December 20th, 1886, Mr. McNabb was united

David Hershman. - Is a native of Wayne county, Ohio, born September 24th, 1839. In 1 850, his father moved his family to Lansing, Michigan, then a new and undeveloped region. When 21 years of age, Mr. Hershman went to Illinois and hired out to a farmer for $14.50 per month, which was good wages in those days. In 1865 he came across the Plains with his brother John, arriving in Denver, July 12th. In the latter part of August he came to the Big Thompson valley, which has since, until quite recently, been his home. He is now a resident of Boulder. His business ventures have been successful and he is possessed of a comfortable competence to smooth the way of his declining years. He has raised a family of "ten children all boys except nine," as he puts it. He has always borne a splendid reputation for probity, integrity and clean living and is highly respected by all who know him.

Barbara McIntosh, now deceased, was born in 1828, in Scotland. She received her education at Godmanchester, and, in 1860, married William Gray Morrison. Four boys and two girls blessed the union of which two only survive their parents: William J. Morrison of Seattle, Wash., and Mrs. Isabella Hyde, wife of John Hyde of Estes Park, Colo. Mrs. Morrison came to Denver in 1893, moving thence three years later to Estes Par-k, where she died October 8th, 1910, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Hyde. She survived her husband by about 26 years, and her remains were taken to Trout River for burial.

James McGinley, born October 7th, 1812, in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, of Scotch- Irish parentage. He married May Armstrong March 9, 1837, and came from Michigan to the Cache la Poudre valley in 1874, locating on a farm one mile north of Timnath where he lived until death called him, April 1st, 1896. He left two sons, James W. McGinley of Stratton Park and Armstrong McGinley who died a few years ago in California. He died as he had lived, a true man, faithful to himself, faithful to mankind and faithful to his maker.

F. M. Samuels was born in Knox county, Illinois, near Galesburg, on September 27th, 1844. Four years later his family moved to Wapalow county, and at 10 years of age the boy was put at work on his father's farm. He was kept at home quite strict, and was 12 years old before he traveled a dozen miles. In July, 1863, he came to Colorado, arriving in Denver on the 2nd. There he worked at whatever was offered till August, when he came to the Big Thompson valley and worked out helping the farmers, getting from 75 cents to $1.50 a day, his dinner being allowed. The next spring his father Harvey H. Samuels, his brother John R., and he bought a claim; later they took up claims adjoining, all being on the Big Thompson three miles southeast from Loveland's present site. In connection with farming F. M. engaged at stock raising and times were prosperous with him. They sold much of their produce and beef cattle to neighboring towns and at the mines, and many a load they hauled to Cheyenne, a dangerous journey in those days, owing to prowling bands of Arapahoes and Sioux and those fellows were ever on a raid or the war path. Farming and stock raising were his pursuits and many a day he spent in the saddle on the round-up with Dave Wyatt as boss. But prices were at the top notch. He has paid $7.50 to $12.50 for a hundred pound sack of flour and the late spring of 1864 it was held at $25, owing to a flood that prevented travel from the supply stations. On the other hand they sold hay for a good price, refusing one time $60 a ton for it in stack. They sold potatoes and grain from ten to fifteen cents a pound, and the market was always wanting wheat, corn and vegetables. F. M. Samuels and Edith Mason were married in Fort Collins in 1893. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Mason who resided at Longmont, then moved to Masonville. It was a happy marriage and the two live together in comfort and happiness in one of the neatest residences in Loveland.

great divide on Wednesday, January 30th, 1907, at his farm home seven miles southeast of Fort Collins, aged nearly 78 years. Mr. Duncan was a native of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. He crossed the plains with an ox team in 1860 and located in Denver in June of that year. After residing in that city until 1865, he moved his family to a ranch situated on the river two miles west of the present town of Windsor, where he lived until 1872, when he located on a farm one mile east of the present village of Timnath, on which he died. Mr. Duncan had been a familiar figure in the Cache la Poudre valley for more than forty years and had done well his part toward setting up the standard of civilization in the wilderness. He was widely admired for his rugged honesty, his strict integrity and genial hospitality. Besides an aged wife Mr. Duncan was survived by a daughter and three sons: Mrs. Lizzie M. Holmes, of Denver; Perry A. and John, of Sheridan, Wyoming; and Charles A. To Charles fell the lot of carrying on the old farm that his father redeemed from the wilderness nearly forty years ago. Mr. Duncan was one of the foremost farmers and stock raisers of the Cache la Poudre valley, a loyal citizen of the county, an excellent friend and neighbor and a kind and indulgent husband and father. His whole life had been a busy and useful one and the world was better for his having lived in it.

Watson Ziegler was born in Sigourney, Keokuk County, Iowa, and married Mary Tomlinson, September 25th, 1883. He came to Colorado in May, 1880, locating first in Leadville, coming thence to Larimer County in 1896. Mr. Ziegler was a minister of the gospel of the Seventh Day Adventist denomination, but after fifteen years work in the ministry his health became impaired and for the past few years has given much of his time to temporal pursuits. During this time he became associated with the late Wellington Hibbard and together they placed the Laramie-Poudre irrigation project on the road to success. With his brother, he has done much in the Harmony district towards establishing farming in Colorado upon a scientific basis.

C. RuGH^ for many years one of the substantial business men and progressive citizens of Greeley, was born in 1854, at Rugh's station, Indiana county, Pennsylvania, in the stone house that his father was born and died in. He came with his family from his native county to Fort Collins in 1887, and engaged in the grocery business which he followed for several years. Upon retiring from that business, he moved his family to Greeley which place has been his home for about 17 years, and where he has since been in the potato shipping business. He served on the Greeley City Council from 1900 to 1905. He has been successful in his undertakings and is counted as one of the solid, substantial men of that city. He is proud of his six children, as he has reason to be.

Leonidas Loomis is a native of Pleasant Valley, Larimer county, born July 20th, 1863. He was the second white boy born in the Cache la Poudre valley and the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Abner Loomis. He was educated in the public schools and at the State Agricultural college, graduating therefrom in 1884, with the first class to receive diplomas from that institution. He then engaged in the cattle business in Wyoming, finally selling out and returning to Fort Collins. He married Lovina Hayes in 1902, and then spent a few years on a stock ranch in North Park. He is now a prosperous Cache la Poudre valley farmer.

James B. Arthur. - The "Great American Desert" extended from the Missouri river to the California line as depicted In Mitchell's geography and atlas. It was thought by early explorers to be an almost arid waste, thousands of square miles in extent and unfitted for the habitations of civilized men, yet time has proved the utter falsity of that statement as it often proves the errors of history. The gold excitement of 1849 was the beckoning finger of thousands and the Plains were covered with wagons bearing their human freight and household goods to California. Five years later gold, that lure for all men, was found in Gregory gulch, Nebraska territory, afterwards Colorado. The human tide was checked in its roll to the Pacific and stopped at the new find, till but a few months elapsed when that . section of our state had a goodly number of hardy white men, men who staid and reared families, till today it ranks high in the sisterhood union. Among those who came afoot, on horseback or with ox team was James B. Arthur, reaching the promised land in the month of June 1860. This young man was born in County Londonderry, Ireland, March, 1835. His progenitors were Scotch Highlanders and, like thousands of their neighbors, they had to seek shelter in other lands, owing to the religious and civil wars that swept over Auld Scotia for so many years. The Arthurs were Presbyterians, a stalwart breed that would worship God as they pleased, even if to do so they had to wield claymore, dirk or pike. They were kin to those who settled in the North and South Carolinas, crossed the Alleghenies, spread over Kentucky and the Ohio bottoms ; the men who conquered the wilderness from its savage possessors and finally ended all British pretentions to the United States by whipping Packingham and his red-coated veterans of a hundred battles at New Orleans. And James B. Arthur was a good type of his clan. At fourteen years of age he left his native town and took passage on the Cathnesshire. He was bound for Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, where a sister resided. The youngster staid in "The Smoky City" for a few months, working in a store, but the river life had attractions for him that he could not resist. In those days the floating palaces that plied between Pittsburg, Cincinnati, St. Louis, New Orleans and intermediate ports were the chosen means of travel and they afforded just the excitement for a full blooded, hardy, daring boy. All through late fall, winter and early spring young Arthur made his trips and by his honesty and attention to business he was promoted to positions of trust, but there were from four to five months each year that low water in the river kept the steamers tied to the levees and James went on to the Great lakes so as not to be idle and exhaust his earnings. He first steamboated on lake Erie between Buffalo and Cleveland, Toledo and Detroit and there he was also known as a trustworthy, reliable employe; and many positions of trust he held. The panic of 1857 decided Mr. Arthur's future. That great financial disaster paralyzed all industry and plunged the whole country east of the Missouri river in gloom. Realizing that hard times would hold all business in its grip for months, Mr. Arthur went to Kansas City where his brother John lived. That was in 1858. The gold strike in Gregory gulch took possession of him and he with several others started across the Plains with oxen and wagons and plenty of provisions. James B. Arthur was a money maker. He was shrewd, far seeing and bold in undertaking. Arriving in Colorado during the gold fever height he staid around Gregory gulch for a few weeks doing his share at placer mining. But he plainly saw that washing or mining for gold was a speculation and that there were far more blanks than prizes in the drawing. He did not expect to get rich in a day, month, or year, but he did aim to acquire a competence, something that would pay him for time and trouble spent and for that reason gold mining did not appeal to him. Hay at the camps was worth from $75 to $150 a ton and the public domain - the Plains - were covered with rich buffalo and gramma grass. Having teams and wagons he saw a better chance to make money in hay than at placer mining and he went on to the prairie, put up his tent and with assistance the grass was cut and dried and when cut was baled. Scythes and hand rakes were used and hard work it proved to be, but it meant money. There were no mowing machines or hay balers in Colorado those days and everything done was on the primitive order. A box was used as a baler. This was about 3 by 6 feet, and from 4 to 5 feet high. Ropes were placed at end and sides, inside this crude affair ; hay was pitched in and a man tramped it down till the box was filled, then the ropes were hauled taut and tied. This plan kept the hay in place and for hauling to points of destination was far superior to loose hay on a rack. But the loads were too bulky for their weight and Mr. Arthur put in practice a method he had seen hundreds of times on the Mississippi river at New Orleans. He obtained an old cotton press and put it to use. He and John Hahn, now of Loveland, were the first men to use this machine in Colorado and it paid them for they put as much hay in half the space as by the box method, consequently they could haul more and in better shape. Mr. Arthur had located a claim on the Cache la Poudre, when he engaged in the hay business, situated a few miles below the present site of Fort Collins. It was a lonely spot. The neighbors could be counted on the fingers of one hand and the nearest one was miles away. In this connection it is well to note the effort of government that then prevailed in the Poudre and Big Thompson valleys among the ranchers. There being no regular form a Claim Club had been organized with by-laws and officers and all questions in dispute were settled by it. The justice of the peace (one of the officers) gave his decision first, then it was given to the president of the club and how he decided was considered final. A great many people labor under the impression that the territory before being named Colorado was a part of Kansas. This is an error as the following copy of the certificate for the land located by Mr. Arthur will show:

N. T. stands for Nebraska territory, so Colorado was partitioned off from Nebraska instead of from Kansas. From farming Mr. Arthur developed into a stock man, buying his first bunch of cattle in Missouri and trailing them across the Plains. Years after he went to New Mexico^ Wyoming, Oregon, Utah, and Idaho after stock and at times owned 5,000 head. At that business he made the bulk of his fortune. But in the early '80's he saw that the open range was doomed and he sold every hoof in 1883, then devoted his time and money to other pursuits. He invested in irrigation ditch propositions, bought and sold land; he became an active member of the Empson Packing company of Long mont; also bought and opened to trade the gypsum beds at Red Butte, Wyoming; and organized the

Rocky Mountain Plaster, Stucco and Manufacturing company. He was director of the Poudre Valley bank for years and its vice-president at his death. While not a politician, Mr. Arthur was a staunch believer in good government and honest officials. He never truckled to those high in authority, nor curried public favor. In those early days Governor Evans, appreciating his solid worth, appointed him to the Board of Commissioners to perfect the organization of Larimer county, and on the expiration of his term he was twice elected to succeed himself. He was also a member of Fort Collins council for two terms ; mayor for one term ; and state senator to fill a vacancy. He was a zealous worker in Masonry and for years he was a member of all the Masonic orders in Fort Collins. Also a member of El Jebel Mystic Shrine of Denver; and a member of De Molay Commandery No. 13, K. T. of Fort Collins, Colorado. He held many Masonic offices, serving as Master of lodge No. 19 A. F. & A. M., Fort Collins; Eminent Commander of the commandery of, that city. Mr. Arthur was also an ardent Episcopalian and worked for years as vestryman in the upbuilding of St. Luke's church in his home town. James B. Arthur was married to Mary A. Kelley in Bay City, Michigan, in the early spring of 1870, and there is a thread of romance to this tale of true love. The couple knew each other in 1855 and in time there grew an attachment. When he determined to go west and seek his fortune they plighted their troth, but it was nearly twelve years before they again met, though a correspondence was kept up between them and when the marriage tie made them one they were as one - through the years they lived together - till death called him hence, August 11, 1905. James B. Arthur was one of Nature's noblemen. There was not a more conscientious man. He detested a liar; had no use for the fellow given to sharp, questionable practices; but was a staunch, steadfast friend to those who proved their worth, no matter whether they were poor or rich. He was fearless, but not rash, and no matter whether in a mining camp in a city or town or on the cattle drive, he stood by his principles and never weakened, no matter how strong the opposition. And those days when he was constantly on the move he was welcome to all camp fires and his word was as good as negotiable paper from Oregon to the Missouri, from Mexico to the Canadian line. And as he lived so he died - a brave and honest gentleman.

SUPPLEMENTARY to the very concise and accurate history of the Colorado Agricultural college, located at Fort Collins, which appears elsewhere in this volume, a brief sketch of its present organization and work may be of interest and value to the reader. The influences of the modern college are not confined to the class room, to the student body, nor to its campus, but reach out in many directions, and manifest themselves along many lines of endeavor. This is especially true of the Colorado Agricultural college, organized, as it is, not alone for the training and education of the youth of the state along practical and industrial lines, but also for the investigation and solution of the many prob' ' which are constantly arising in every phase of ttft agricultural industry, and which in an irrigated country are often new and strange, and for carrying the information thus obtained and the facts thus demonstrated to the homes of the people by the means of bulletins, lectures and institutes held at central points in the agricultural portions of the State. This three fold work of the college may be characterized as educational, research work and extension work.

The educational work of the college has been defined by .the two Morrill Bills, under which it received its land grant, and its annual donations of money from the National Government, for giving instruction in the following topics: Military Tactics, Agriculture, the Mechanic Arts, the English Language, Economics and the various branches of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences. These requirements, which have assumed the nature of a contract between the State of Colorado and the National Government, are being faithfully carried out by the college, both in letter and spirit. The division of Agriculture offers courses in Agronomy, Animal Husbandry, Entomology, Forestry and Horticulture. The studies of the first two years of these courses are identical, specialization in the respective courses being with the junior year. The instruction in this division is designed to meet the needs of two classes of students - those who desire to take up some branch of farming as a business pursuit in life, and those who desire to become agricultural experts, teachers or investigators.

The facilities in these various lines are ample and complete. The great college farm, the college herds, the Government horse breeding plant, the insect collections in the museum, which number 75,000 specimens, not to mention the numerous buildings, with their highly equipped class rooms and laboratories are all aids to the work of the student. Furthermore the college is surrounded by the most highly cultivated and productive agricultural region in all Colorado, where agriculture by irrigation has reached its highest and best development, and the student is therefore afforded ample opportunity for observation and practical experience. For in Colorado, as in all the states of the Rocky Mountain west, agriculture in all of its varied forms rests upon irrigation, and it therefore becomes a highly specialized science. In addition to the knowledge required of the average farmer in the humid states,- the farmer, orchardist or gardener, in the arid west, must understand the use of water in the production of crops - when to apply it, its use on different soils, the amount required in the varying soils, altitudes and climatic conditions of different seasons - the proper preparations of the fields for the successful application of water, the proper construction of ditches and laterals for its most economical and intelligent distribution - in brief agriculture by irrigation is in itself a science which must be mastered in order to assure the most profitable results. Instruction is given to include these special conditions. No other institution is so advantageously situated for giving instruction in arid, high altitude and irrigated agriculture.

The division of Mechanic Arts includes courses in civil and irrigation engineering, in electrical engineering and in mechanical engineering. The studies for the first two years are the same, specialization beginning with the junior year, considerable freedom being allowed in the choice of studies during the junior and senior years. These courses are given in an especially thorough manner - a strong faculty, fine buildings, excellent equipment, library facilities and opportunities for practical work, all combining to furnish the student with opportunities not surpassed by any institution in the Intermountain West. The best evidence of the admir- able work that is being done in this division is the recognition given it by the National Government in the preference shown its graduates for positions in the Reclamation Service, and other branches of engineering work being carried on under Federal authority and supervision. In these positions the graduates of the Agricultural college are making good, and demonstrating in their work the thoroughness and excellence of the instruction they receive during their college life. That the graduates of the college are thus enabled to step into responsible and paying situations from the day of graduation constitutes a controlling reason why young men should avail themselves of the advantages which these courses offer to them and vindicates the claim made in behalf of practical and industrial education.

The Division of General Science and Home Economics is especially designed for young women and offers a broad cultural course in science, literature and language, as well as a more technical course in home economics. As in the other divisions, the studies of the first two years are the same in both courses, being basic in their character, specialization beginning in the junior year, with a liberal choice of electives in the senior year, and five credits allowed for music in the requirements for graduation. When it is stated that ninety per cent of the women in the United States do their own house work, the need of training in all matters that relate to the conduct of the home, and the activities that center about it, need hardly be pointed out. The problems of the home are fundamental in National health, wealth and character. National strength, greatness and prosperity rests upon the homes and home life of its people, and as this is pure and wholesome, well regulated and intelligently managed and conducted, so will all the arts of civilization be the better conserved and free institutions the more surely perpetuated. Hence the importance of this course for the young women of Colorado and the west, and for which the Agricultural college offers unusual facilities, especially since the completion of its new, handsome and commodious Hall of Household Arts, the gift of Senator Simon Guggenheim. Particularly should this course command the attention of those who contemplate following teaching as a profession since the demand for teachers of home economics is greater than the supply, and the graduates in this line of work are sought after as dietitians, lecturers in college extension work ; managers of tea rooms ; and demonstrators for college or club work.

The division of Veterinary Science offers a three year course of nine months each to students who wish to fit themselves for the practice of veterinary medicine. The course is based upon the requirements of the United States Bureau of Animal Industry, and for thoroughness of instruction both theoretical and practical, is not surpassed by that of any institution in the whole country. It assures its graduates an honorable and profitable life vocation, the opportunities for the veterinary practitioner being both numerous and varied, including not private practice alone, in which there are many inviting fields, but positions as veterinarians in United States cavalry regiments, as investigators and inspectors in the Government Bureau of Animal Industry and as instructors in agricultural colleges, and as inspectors and executive officers under the quarantine and health laws and ordinances of states, towns and cities.

Under these various divisions are grouped numerous departments which bear a more or less intimate relation to all of them, and in which special lines of instruction are given, all basic in their character, and all bearing upon the general work of the college. These are the departments of Agronomy, whose instruction relates especially to soils, plant breeding, crops, and farm management; of Animal Husbandry with its instruction in the breeds of live stock, their care, feeding and propagation, dairy farming, etc., of veterinary science; of botany and forestry; of chemistry and geology; of civil . and irrigation engineering ; of English and history; of entomology and zoology; of home economics; of horticulture; of language; of mathematics; of mechanical engineering; of physics and electrical engineering.

The Military department exists in accordance with the requirements of the Morrill bill of 1862, which enacts that military science and tactics shall be taught in all agricultural colleges. In accordance with this act, the Military department of the college has always been maintained upon the highest basis of efficiency and forms one of the most useful and attractive features of the student's life. As the military drill affords physical training for the young men, so a physical training department is also maintained for young women.

The Conservatory of Music furnishes carefully prepared courses of study in each of the various branches taught, commencing with the most elementary in each specific branch and carrying its students through to the last stages of a finished

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Special mention need not be made of the library with its 38,000 volumes and 25,000 pamphlets, of the laboratories or the museum, all of which are supplemental to the main educational work of the college and add to its equipment as a first-class, successful institution of learning where instruction aims to train young men and young women for the industrial and practical avocations of life and to create a type of citizenship, a certain well defined quality of manhood and womanhood which shall constitute the very bone and sinew of the republic.

Passing from the educational work of this institution, which is the imparting of knowledge, its research work, which is the creation of knowledge, deserves brief but special mention. This work is under the immediate direction of the Experiment Station, which is maintained by the Hatch Fund, an annual congressional appropriation of $15,000, which began in 1887, and by the Adams fund, which was begun in 1906 with an appropriation of $5,000, to be increased by $2,000 annually until the total should reach $15,000. These funds are also aided by occasional appropriations by the state legislature. In a new state, like Colorado, with its varying soils, altitudes and climatic conditions, with the new problems which are constantly forcing themselves upon the attention of farmers, stockmen and fruit growers, especially those relating to irrigation, this work of research, investigation and experimentation is of special value and importance. Its actual results are to increase our knowledge of facts and conditions, to enable a more intelligent prosecution of agriculture and of kindred pursuits and industries and a more successful combat of the many and various difficulties which constantly beset them, and finally to broaden our vision of agriculture as the science upon which most rests the real foundations of State and National prosperity.

The third function of the Agricultural college is Extension Work, that is, carrying the work of the college to the people. This is done by means of farmers' institutes and short courses held at various central points in many sections of the state, and by means of information bulletins. The institutes are from one to three days duration. The short courses occupy an entire week, and permit a more continuous and detailed presentation of the practical topics discussed by expert lecturers and professors. The leading topics presented at these institutes and short courses vary with the leading form of industry in the locality where they are held. If it be farming purely, then the subjects presented relate especially to field crops; if it be fruit growing, then subjects which concern the orchard and garden; if it be stock growing, then subjects which bear upon animal husbandry. The beneficient effects of this extension work are already felt and are generally acknowledged in Colorado. To the practical information imparted, the timely hints given, the valuable suggestions made by the Agricultural college experts at these institutes and short courses, many individuals - ^whole communities even - owe improved methods and more prosperous conditions.

During six months of the college year there is also maintained at the college, the Colorado School of Agriculture. This is a secondary school, admitting pupils from the 8th grade of the public school, and divided into two terms of three months each. The full course occupies three years. The studies are mainly practical, and are intended for the special benefit of farmer's boys and girls, who may have neither the time nor the inclination to take an advanced college course. This school has now been in operation for two years, is growing in popularity and is doing an important work in the spread of knowledge of an improved agriculture in all of its various lines.

Such is the work of the Colorado Agricultural college concisely outlined - such the threefold function that is making it so influential and upbuilding a factor in the industrial development of the Commonwealth. No institution in the state is more zealously or more worthily fulfilling the purpose for which it was founded, and on none rests a heavier weight of responsibility in the development of Colorado's vast material resources, in the creation of material wealth, in the promotion of industrial prosperity and in the upbuilding of all the arts of civilized life. Fortunate for the Colorado of today, thrice fortunate for the young men and young women who shall make the Colorado of the future is the fact that the college and its management - the State Board of Agriculture, the President, the Dean of the Faculty; the Director of the Experiment Station and the Superintendent of Extension work - realize this responsibility, and are using their brains, time and efforts for the accomplishment of the tasks that have been Intrusted to them, ably assisted and seconded, as they are, by a faculty and a corps of instructors, each a trained expert and master in his or her line of work.