The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-04-27
THE NEW DENVER"
Springer, N. NJ, Colfax County and the
 Famous Cimarron Valley.


 arron Valley have been topics of conversation among Chicago real estate men. So much ha, been sad concerning the richness of it's soil the grandeur of it's scenery. the mtldness o It's climate and the cheapness and fertility o it's lands that THE TRAVELLER, with charac teristic enterprise. decided to send a repre- sentative to that favored spot and make 1t, attractions and advantages known to tht world.
 Springer. New Mexico, is the supply point oi the CimArron valley. and to that place our representative hied him ria the santa F, Route from Chicago This road runs the most elegant Pullman Palace cars from Chicago through to San Francisco. The usual tedlum of long railway journey s so far overcome by these luNurious accessories to modern travelling, and other eonveniences employed by the santa Fe, that it Is really luxury tC make trip across the continent by this line So perfect Is the conduct of this road, train, between Chicago and San Francisco make their schedule time to a minute.
 The scenery along tho santa Fe route |. grand beyond description. The road crosse, the Raton range of the Rockies al Summit Pass. which has an elevation of 7,g8 feel above the level of the sea. This point is l, ,l6 miles west of Chicago. The gradual descent south and east brings the traveller into tn, Cimarron valley of New Mexico the place which Is now attracting more attention-O Okla homa, perhaps exeepted-than any other agri cultural section of the United States Colfax county, in which Is the town o Springer, lies in the northeastern portion o the state, and it's western limits embrace tn, most attractive part of the famous CimArroI valley. The county Is we'll watered by tn, Clmarron river whose source Is toward tn, northwest in the Merlno valley. This river I, kept full the year round by the melting snow s and rains in the noun tains. and by it's estuA ries, tho CerosO, Sweetwater. Ponil, Ute anC other streams, anOrding a never.failing sup ply of good water to the territory through which the stream nows.
 The CimArron valley Is in longitude 36 de grees north, latitude lo6 west and has an alti tude of 5.so0 feet above the sea level. The val ley IS l25 miles long by about 75 miles in width and embraces the best agricultural and stock growing country anywhere in the west, and that, too, in climate as mild and equAble al Is to be found within the borders of tn, United States.
 Springer. the New Denyer,"is the county seat of Colfax county and IS the principa town in the Cimarron valley To the north west is the Raton range of the Rockies, who's. snowy peaks pierce the skies. To the cas- lies a vast ocean of rich prairie
 THE CIMARRON VALLEY
 itself presents gentler aspect. IL Is valley land-that is to say. it is below the mesas- slightly rolling and has not the monotonou, appearance of the fiat prairie. The soil IS uni form. there being no broken or unavailabl. tots in the whole valley. There is consid cable descent from the base of the noun tair range to tho center of the valley, but the fal Is easy, gradual and rolling, affording the bes possible advantages for irrigating.
 Some months ago some of
 CHIcAGo's REMEMBERING CITIZENS discovered the peculiar advantages possessed by the Cimarron valley. They saw that the portions of that rich section which were mol naturally supplied with water could be Irri gated and reclaimed. With Chicago bushes, men, to think Is to act. A company was al once organized. with sufficient capital fo, every purpose, the richest and best portion oi the valley was purchased, including the right to use the water of the CimArron river. Ar irrigating ditch connecting their lands with the river was constructed, and now that yast territory is made to bloom and blossom As the rose" The ditch IS constructed with s series of Hood gates, so that water may bs distributed over the lands as needed and lr any quantities desred. About ten miles down the valley they have made an artificial lake or reservoir covering oyer 500 acres and with q depth of from fifteen to twenty-five feet-s work which was accomplished by damming. By