The Lamar register., 1901-06-05
LAMAR AND PROWERS COUNTY
As Seen by the Representative Of the
Denver News on the Recent
Editorial Excursion.


were lodged and spent an hour next
morning in sdmiring the attractions
of the town. This young city is the
seat of Prowers county, is the office
of United States land district COM
prising 100000 acres, has popu
lation of 1000, an excellent public
school system, 5OO-barrel modern
Touring mill, full quota of church
es, an artesian water system, electric
lights, telephone exchange, lodges
and clubs, two newspapers, excellent
hotels, and heavy and annually in
creasing railroad business, an i'm
portant and enlarging factor of
which is the shipping of fine white
and brown building stone.
The commercial portion of the city
has broad and well-kept streets and
big brick and stone business blocks,
while the residence quarters are YER
table bowers of beauty in which, en-
shrined by the ornamental foliage of
the maple, the mulberry, the locust,
the catalpa, and the Russian olive,
CLEANS the lawn, glows the rose,
clusters the SNOWFALL and bloom in
perfumed profusion other floral
growths.
Tributary to Lamar are thirty five
miles of irrigsting canals and 24O,-
600 acres of fertile farming soil, the
canals having an immense reservoir
reinforcement. But small portion
comparatively, of this rich agricul-
tural expanse is as yet cultivated,
there being this year 10000 acres in
alfalfa, 25,O0O acres in wheat and B,
600 acres in sugar beets, with an ag-
gregate, probably, of 10000 acres in
various other croppage. The alfalfa
will yield this year about 125, 900
tons, the wheat will approximate l.
100000 bushels, while the sugar |
beets will count $4,000 tons.
THE BIGGEST REsERvoIRs.
Leaving Lamar in the morning
the visitors were driven to where;
fifteen miles to the northward, lay
the silver sheen of the wstefs Of the
greatest system Of prairie stored if
rigation reservoirs yet known to the
world. The reservoir lake system
comprises five connecting natural
water storage basins covering four
teen Thousand acres-or nearly twen-
tythree square miles-with shore
line of sixty miles and maximum
water depth of 92 feet, the available
irrigation capacity under present
outlets being sixth billion gallons
or in excess of one hundred and
ninty two Thousand acre feet-of
water. This storage system is fed
from the waters of the big Fort
Lyon canal which issues from the
Arkansas river near La Junta, the
actual reservoir feeder being the
Kicking Bird canal, which taps the
Fort Lyon at distance Of forty
miles from the latter's headgate and
as the Kicking Bird is thirty four
miles long, these storage waters thus
have total canal carriage of seventy
four miles before reaching their res
ervoir destination.
This great storeage system CON
structed at cost Of over one million
dollars, was lately sold, together
with the big land tracts under the
Amity canal for 81, 250, 900 to the Ar
kansas Valley Rugar Beet and Irri-
gated Land company, corporation
backed and controlled by the Ok
nards, beet sugar manufacturers and
millionsires and identical, to all
practical purposes, with the Ameri-
can Beet Sugar company at Rocky
Ford.
Under the Amity canal and the
reservoirs the Oxnards have about
one hundred and twenty five thou
sand acres, all of which great tract
is to be devoted to the business of
sugar beet growth and beet sugar
manufacture.
The Oxnard sub division of sugar
beet growth in the Arkansas valley
is to be on the basis of forty thou
sand acres to each one hundred and
fifty thousand ton factory, the beet
culture itself to be confined to ten
or twelve Thousand annually rotated
acres, while the remaining thirty
thousand acres will be cropped to
grain, alfalfa, vegetables, fruits,
etc., thus erecting each factory and
its surrounding and tributery lands
into practically a self.supporting
community.
THREE NEW SUGAR FACTORIES.
In the Lamar region the Oxnards
will eventually have at least three of
these factories and it is expected that