The Greeley tribune., 1904-05-05
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GOOD REPORTS FROM BIG
HORN BASIN.
Hanover Canal, One of Wyoming's
Great Irrigating Systems,
Now Running Water
Full Description.

anniversary was tittingly celebrated
| by turning water into the headgate
OF the main line of the canal, which
is fifteen miles long. This portion
\ of the canal Is practically complete d
and water will be delivered its full
| length by May 10. About all thai
remains to be done is the placing in
position Of the galvanized steel
| waterway in the large tlume across
| the Big Horn river, The steel is
expected to arrive about May |, and
| ten to fifteen days will be required
| to put it in place. The Maginnis
patent steel fiume is being used
which insures that it will be abso
lutely water tight.
The Hanover Canal company has
spared neither pains nor money to
| the end that the canal might be built
rapidly and at the same time in a
permanent manner. Not for a day,
but for all time has been its watch
word. This company has set the
pace" for future canal construction
in this section of the west Seldom
in the history of canal building does
company, within the short space
OF one year, meet and overcome all of
the many and varied obstacles Incl
dent to such undertakings, and pGac
tically place 80, 900 acres Of land
under a canal that will reclaim fuzzy
95 per cent of it.
The main canal has its terminus
at Nowater creek, and from that
point it dlverges into two main lat
erals. The high line lateral is
carried across Nowater creek in
2000foot hume and will iIrigate the
bench land down to and below Slick
creek. The lumber for this hume is
now being delivered Water for the
low linen lateral will be dropped
into Nowater creek, taken out about
a mile farther down aud carried
along at TIE foot of the bluff This
lateral will extend nearly to Nowuod
creek, irrigating what is known as
the Colorado fats. These main
laterals will each be about fifteen
miles long.
At the point where the water for
the low line lateral drops into No
water creek there is ifty-foot fall
and the water necessary to irrigate
the land lying under it will generate
about 1900 horsepower. 1t is pro-
POSED to utilize this power at an
early day to generate electricity for
manufacturing purposes. The point
is about three miles distant from the
location of the new town, which will
be the trading center for the irri-
gated lands under the Hanover canal,
and should make one of the best agri-
cultural towns in the state, and with
cheap power will become quite a
manufacturing center as we'll
Actual settlers are rapidly taking
tie lands under the canal, some fam
lilies having moved in this spring,
and by fall from the headgate to No
water creek Will see line of farm
homes and fields of waving grain.
Greeley colony No. - was re-
Gently organized at Greeley, Colo,
having for its object the settlement
and development Of the lands under
the Hanover canal, and from that
section of Colorado will come the
successful potato aud sugar beet
ralsers to pursue their same avocation
here. Representative parties from
that part of Colorado, after making
a careful examination of conditions
under the Hanover canal, made a
very tiattering report as to quality OF
soil. water supply, climate and lay of
the land for irrigation, pronouncing
the soil "A No - for potato and
sugar beet growing. II is proposed
to at once organize potato growers
association and sugar beet growers
association in order to be in position
to make contract for stated
amount OF tonnage with the first
railroad that will build into the COL
ony. With the immense tonnage
the colony can thus assuredIy furnish
an unlimited supply Of fine quality OF
coal within six miles Of the headgate,
an inviting field for railroad building
is opened up.
The company with that business
foresight which has characterized it's
management from the first is secur.
ing its settlers from section Of
country where they know the value
OF irrigation, have had years of ex.
perience and are skilled in the art of
applying water to the land for bene-
ficial use. When, too, it began to
build the canal it started campaign
for settlers, realizing that an irrigat-
ing ditch without the farmers to