The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-09-20
RAILROAD NEWS.
NM srAeRAvEs LOCATES 200 FAM
LIES IN COLORADO.
Como from Northern Europe to i'"''o
Sugar Bects.

Mr.. C. L. Seagravos, passenger ageh'
of the Santa Fe, has returned from
the sugar beet district of COLORADO
and completed arrangements 10 ioca'o
two rundred families from northern
Europe. the first fifty families to To-
cate near Holly, about October ~. MI
Seagraves said
1.-THE leader of the colony Is an cN-
pert agriculturist, and has visited anu
carefully investigated all sections Oh
the United States, and pronounced tue
Arkansas valley the most promising OIL
any section visited, on account oil the
superb climate. rich soil and the most
perfect irrigation system in the world
backed by reservoir supply with SUI
ficient water to irrigate all the Janus
for two years without a drop OF ram
thus insuring the farmers against rail-
ure of crops. After the first movement
the balance will follow as fast as
homes can be provided for them.
Mr.. Seagraves advises that the farm
ers in the valley are very prosperous,
and as that section will be densely
populated and brought UP to a high
standard of cultivation, it will In nvc
CIR six years become the richest and
most prosperous community in tho
country.
He says:
Sugar beets are very profitable
crop for the farmer and the only draw
back is the laborious work in the thin
ming season which lasts about two
weeks. This feature, however, is be-
ing overcome by labor brought into
the valley from New Mexico, who con-
tract to thin beets at so much per acre.
'In the vicinity of Rocky FORD,
where the land has been cultivated ex-
tensively, it is possible under only fair
conditions to raise twenty tons OF
beets to the acre, while thrifty and in
dustrious farmers grow from twenty
five to thirty tons to the acre, and IN
some instances as high as thirty-five-
tons
THE price of beets is determined ac-
cording to their sugar content the aV-
erage being about SIS per ton. the cost
of growing beets, including all iaDor'
seed as well as harvesting the crop
in the fell is about $25 per acre. leav-
ing the farmer SIS or more profit an
acre for his beet crop.
"The Arkansas valley of Colorado is.
considered the ideal sugar beet coun-
try as they grow more tons to the
acre and contain a larger percentage
of sugar than beets grown anywhere
in the world. The Rocky Ford fac
tory is now rearranging some OF us
machinery. the beets being so ricn
thew will not submit to the usual
methods employed at the other fac
tories.
"CantaloupeS are also very prollt-
able crop. and many growers estimate
they vii. pay 500 an acre net saw
two and one-half acres near ROCKY
Ford that yielded the grower one
thousand dollars. This was on rented
land of which the owner received one
third of the crop. This may be rather
an exceptional case. but IL proves what
intensive farming will do
alfalfa. as we'll as small grains, DO
we'll and are profitable crops to grow.
Vegetables of all kinds, poultry ana
dairy products command good prices.
and a ready market in Denver, COLD
RADIO Springs, Pueblo and the mining
camps.
LANDS in the vicinity of Rocky
Ford before the erection of The sugar
factory, that sold for thirty-tve. forty
and fifty dollars an acre, are worth
TODAY from one hundred and fifty to-
two hundred and fifty dollars all acre.
The question is what Is land worth
that will net over and above all ex-
penses from seventy-tive to one hun
bred and twenty-five dollars an acre:
Lands in the Holly district and tho
very choicest in the valley and under
a most perfect system OF irrigation,
with a never failing supply of water,
perpetual water right going with the
land is selling at thirtyfve dollars per
acre, with ten per cent down and the
balance in seven years at six per cent.
The company will also build houses.
barns, etc, on which they require fif-
ty per cent down and the balance in
seven years at six per cent.
THE Dunkards and Mennonites are
now colonizing large tracts G; lands,
while other settlers are pouring into
the valley from all over the country.
the valley from all over the country
Topeka State Journal, Sept. 2, 1901.