| Show GRATITUDE A we wish to express aur our appreciation I 1 aaion to our neighboring friends for a new kind of support extended to us which brin brings s joy to our hearts we have long hoped for cooperation from local and more distant business men in the form forin of advertising but with few exceptions which speak for themselves them seles as you read air orr weekly advertisements we have failed to receive much local support our co chas reay has been on oil his toes lately however and we are therefore presenting to you some NEW FRIENDS in the loral form Z of advertisers and a new correspondent from over the line in our neighboring state the advertisers in grand junction are well cnown to us for we have traded with most of them over a long period of time we ask that you take of these places and as you find your way to us stop aop off and se see ethem them for we aso also inov giov that some of our distant friends ire arc tf planning anning to come this way for a visit or to stay and we ve suggest that you do as we did on our first trip trig into this thin new country SAVE kour LAST MINUTE SHOPPING until you reach grand junction 1 we make periodical trips to this point and always find what we want in addition to the enjoyment of meeting these business folk who are ever cheerful anti and court courteous in their deal users in some of the west colorado bisers in some of tile the east colorado section too in dove creek and points beyond to le commend to those who come via the southern route thiu cortez and points directly east of us its we have many friends in dove creek who have called here on various occasions and we are happy indeed to have the cooperation nf if I mr fr hunter as a correspondent we thank him thru this column for his high regard of us and we shall try more diligently than ihan ever to merit the approval he expresses of our simple efforts we intend to make a trip to this point in the near future and will tell you of it when it happens we send our loving thoughts of appreciation cia tion to our neighboring friends in the meantime during the past weel week we have had a strange mixture of weather and as we write this column we ve look over the snow covered mountains which until yesterday were taking on their spring and summer diess dies of green it is a beautiful sight to watch the change fr fam winter vinter to summer and except for a little snow in the highest parts there was little of it left A three day period of wind dust and chilly nights ended in in snow yesterday and agabi agam the mountains itie aie covered it is a pretty sight but ue lie hope the sudden change will not affect the growing things in this vicinity for in the lower altitudes altitude the fruit trees are well in and much of the spring planting is underway under wy our own project is slow pi n proa pria progressing grossing gressing and one piece of land lam we expected A to acquire has been denind ul ui Valt although bough we have another pac sect tec teth band expect to begin our own hp 1 la b X t 1 l bere iere next week we are told aha ini Monte jt j t lia gardens planted plant crl in may catafi up to those planted oswe afe witness to the storm v eek ie w e understand i 0 PI practical value vc us postponed because we did afi abou amou amount for firsti firs payment although we lve of tr fei feiel ed a which one of fa Q will receive in uha anda ai to our use y df aarl bog ant was concila confide con side aed ed sats vy PAYMENT and ps a oby the agent who called MM L hiir older oi fak forche the n ew lino t belaine pe laine ace are za i need of ot i decided to withdraw pry this agreement and again we zt im is L e victim of strange strang happen ggs X which tod te hd to ilard our ad acin in so maicy ma hy ways it if yo boj coul aulo know the difficulties under aich kich this imi weekly eald journal Is is printed and ld realize the he voik jaep it entails with ith alie abe old machine w which aich breaks break a down without warning in saine same manner as an old car will act you would better appie chate the faithfulness of our DUI co workers coworkers t there is scarcely a week when mr blake R and rid his assistants do not have to make some minor repairs repair sin in order to complete the weekly issue and last week wis was another example of their relentless will to perform their th air part 1 without f belay af f publication ion we me antio N thiis fact fa as a word of tribute to the them in a and adin in older that yo you u may know of some of the obstacles that beset aur pit thay co axially Axi Llly as we anve try to work with what equipment we have i f aart a |
