colonies of bees. Being practical bee-keepers with plenty of hustle, 

 they made the business pay from the start. Each year the number 

 of their colonies and the size of their honey crops increased and suc- 

 cess to them came quick and sure. But, mind you, it took work. 

 Partly through their instrumentality a better grade of supplies at 

 closer figures than before were handled by Delta supply houses. 

 With an increased output of fine honey, fine fruit, fine cattle, and 

 what not, Eastern buyers were attracted to our market, the price of 

 honey ruled higher and higher, so that in J 90 J the bee industry of 

 Delta County was thoroughly alive and awake to its possibilities. 



The beginning of the present year witnessed several large deals 

 in bees as well as the building of a new line of railroad through the 

 county — a line which will put Delta County many hours nearer to 

 Denver. 



Mr. W. L. Coggshall and Mr. C. H. Weeks, both of New York, 

 became the owners of one thousand colonies of bees located in nine 

 yards in a very fine portion of the county. These yards are under 

 tfie management of Mr. Weeks, an enterprising 

 young man who has been in the West long 

 enough to know Western requirements. Given 

 a county such as Delta County, and a man with 

 grit such as Mr. Weeks no doubt possesses, and 

 there can be little question as to the result of 

 the enterprise. 



Simultaneously with Messrs. Coggshall and 

 Weeks came Mr. R. T. Stinnett, who purchased 

 a very fine hay and fruit ranch together with 160 

 colonies of bees. Mr. Stinnett, while thoroughly 

 practical, having served under such men as 

 W. L. Coggshall of West Groton, N. Y., and 

 N. C. Afford of Fort Collins, Colorado, and 

 having kept bees on shares and for himself in 

 New Mexico, where he had t,J50 in his care, 

 is also qualified to "tackle" the scientific side of 

 apiculture. At the College of Agriculture and 

 Mechanic Arts of New Mexico, from which he graduated in 1897, 

 he pursued a scientific course and made a thorough microscopical 

 study of the anatomy of the bee. He now considers himself per- 

 manently located in what he thinks is the finest State, for a home, in 

 the Union. Having lived in Virginia, where he was born in 1874, 



R. T. STINNETT, Delta 



