Show THREATEN TO TO LYNCH A NEWSPAPER NEWSPAPER EDITOR ED IT 0 R Disappointed Settlers In Little Snake Country Colorado Would Like to Get Their Hands on Great Divide Man ManIt It is reported from Moffat county Colorado that hundreds of ot new settlers settlers settlers set set- were so cruelly misled as to conditions that they threaten to lynch Volney T. T Hoggett editor ot of the Great Divide if they ever get in reach of him film He Ho is said to have painted such roseate pictures about that country all the way from Craig to Baggs that Immigrants swarmed d in there by the hundreds this last spring Ono One One glaring misrepresentation was that abundant crops can be produced pro pro- in the Little Snake country without irrigation The truth of the matter seems to be that the annual annual annual an an- nual rainfall does not exceed ten inches After settlers arrived I Hoggett is said to have advised them Now get together and get water to the land I Many portions of ot this territory from Craig to Baggs Daggs is very rough and broken f Visitors in My Myton ton this week declare that thousands of or people who arrived arrived arrived ed in that country this year have lost oil II they had and are ge getting out the best way they can The Great Divide was formerly the Denver Denver Denver Den Den- ver Weekly Post |