The independent., 1904-01-28


That Will Paw
you SO to so per cent annually. Rented
will pay you from 20 to 80 per cent an
nually.
A sure crop every year, and the
brightest prospect of doubling your
investment in two years or less. These
farms are located in the Box Elder
valley, northern Colorado
There are six million dollars in
vested in sugar beet factories in this
valley Farms are paying enormous
ly as they have sure crop and a big
one every year, ample water supply,
IA reservoirs, and more than enough
We are selling farms in this valley at
$50 and $50 per acre, and several have
been rented during the past year at
$40 per acre cash rent, paying 20 per
cent on the investment. -Four miles
down the valley from where these
farms are located farms are selling at
$3.50 to $500 per acre. Twenty miles
further south in the valley, farms are
selling at from 5000 to $3.50 per acre
paying on this valuation annually 20
per cent. Land that we are Offering
is equally as valuable when fully de-
veloped and improved as the farms
that are selling at $3.50 per acre.
The crops this year will run about
as follows:
Alfalfa, 6 to tons per acre.
Wheat, As to 65 bushels per acre.
Sugar beets, 20 to 30 tons per acre.
Oats, so to 40 bushels per acre.
Barley, 65 to 130 bushels per acre.
We have yet about 1000 acres of
this land to sell with perpetual water
right and are of the opinion that any
one purchasing farm in this valley
will double his money within one year.
We will certainly have all this land
sold soon.
The man who has a good farm in
an irrigated country, and a good irri-
cation right, knows its value. He
never sells out and goes back to the
farm in the east where too much rain
or too protracted drouths distress and
disappoint. In any line of business,
certainty is the element most desired.
Farming under irrigation is the near
est approach to sure thing yet dis
covered Some question of chance en-
ters into almost every business cal
culation excepting into the combina
tion of good soil, and good water.
Given these two, and mans note is
paid, his credit is established and his
bank account is assured. Irrigation is
G inn al hn
growing crops, at exactly the time
most necessary; not too much and not
too little That is rrigation-nothlng
more and nothing less. Then, too, the
silt in the water fertilizes the soil
and renews it from year to year with
out either labor or expense. This nat
ural fertilization, and the exact
amount of moisture at the exact time
brings the greatest yield OF all crops.
doubling and sometimes quadrupling
the returns over farming in the east
ern states.
Wheat, oats, barley, potatoes, sugar
beets, alfalfa, fruit, all vie with each
other in quantity and quality The re-
suit is, farming by irrigation is ideal,
and peace and plenty abound.
In comparing irrigation farming
with rainfall farming the Wyoming
Experiment Station Bulletin on ir.l.
cation says:
'"rhe increase from irrigation IS
sometimes four-fold and seldom lass
than double. II is estimated that II
only one acre in four could be re-
claimed IL would still bring the prod
uct of the ARID region OF tho uniteu
States up to the product OF the ba,.
alce of the country"
The clippings furnished b. Ms speak
for themselves. for tncy are the story
oG the contcntcd and prosperous tatm-
crs OF northern Colorado. whose lines
have fallen Ia pleasant places aud
among whom discomfort Is unknown.
and poverty never met with. II w
probable that nowhere ON earth are
there as many prosperous farmers as
In that section OF which Fort Collins
Ia the center.
The building OF the new dltChes
aud the cultivation of the new lands
In this vicinity. together With the
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