The daily sentinel., 1901-07-09
WESTERN COLORADO.
Pabor's Rocky Mountain World
Tells Why it Has So Much to
Saw About Grand Valley

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A correspondent takes the World to
task for giving SO much space to Grand
valley especially and western Colorado
generally, in preference to other parts OF
the state, and asks us why we do it.
We take pleasure in responding as it is
not the first time we have been written
so on the subject.
The eastern half OF Colorado is the
older and better settled part. The west
ern half WAS an Indian reservation up to
twenty years ago, on which not even
white hunter, let alone awhile home
seeker, could 90.
The water supply of the streams flow
ing on the eastern slope are inadequate
to the needs of the farmers now cultivat
ing lands under irrigating canals, whose
capacity is greater than the water flow
to be counted on. In the valley OF Grand
river there could be ten times the amount
of land supplied by the stream than is
now being used. In fact, the supply is
simply inexhaustible.
1t follows, therefore, that there are
lands to be homesteaded and to be
bought cheaper, with or without i'm
provements, over there than elsewhere.
Farm lands about Greeley, Fort Collins,
Longmont and Boulder, bring in the
neighborhood of $65 per acre. while
equally as good tif indeed they are not
richer and stronger) lands in Mesa,
Montrose and Delta counties can be had
for from $40 to $40 per acreand upwards,
with the additional advantage OF an
abundant water supply for irrigation.
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valley for many years. He founded the
town OF Fruita, IL miles west of Grand
Junction, and is thoroughly familiar
with its rise and progress in the past, its
present prosperity and the splendid fu-
ture that lies before the valley and
county. He has never lost his interest
Though he has lost all the land he once
owned) in it, and still chershes hope
that he may be able to return to the
town he founded, and for which he
prophesied much that has found fulfill.
ment in these later years.
And so, because OF these and other
reasons, western Colorado generally and
Grand valley especially, has in the World
an earnest and sincere advocate, desir.
Gus of heraldipg it's advantages abroad
as a mecca toward which should journey
those who think OF Colorado as their
future home This without disparaging
any other section unless comparisons
make it plain.
Agricultural success in Colorado de-
pends upon an ample supply of water
for irrigation. Fer this reason we cham
pion the western slope instead OF the
eastern, where at present there is a
plethora of farmers aud fruit growers
and a palpable uncertainty of water
supply; and to clinch this statement we
reprint from last weeks issue the official
record OF the flow in the four principal
streams Of the state.
The first named in southern, the next
two in eastern and the fourth in western
Colorado. The highest amount reached
by each on day named was as follows:
Rio Grande Norte, June 18th L ,442 Sec #.
South Platte at Platte Canon,
June 2oth .1.9O5 "
ArkansBs at Pueblo June 20th...4, $50 ''
Grand at Glenwood Springs.
june 3Oth. 80, ,45S
A second foot OF water is the quantity
represented by stream one foot deep,
flowing at the average velocity OF one
foot per second.
1t would seem from the above that the
noble Grand river carried about four
times as much as the other three com
bined. 1t tells the story OF an abundant
water supply for all the land between
Grand junction and the Utah line.-
Rocky Mountain World.