The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1906-12-26

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and they would irrigate 100000
acres. Indeed, all the canals, big
and. little, furnish water for beets
that are sold to one or more of the
sugar factories.
The American Beet Sugar Com
pany, which operates in the middle
and upper end of the Arkansas val
ley of Colorado, neglects no beet
growers in its territory, and it is
spending great deal of money to
maintain canals aud laterals. 1t
WAS the first company to enter the
field and it deals with the farmers
fairly and literally. Its canals COW
or some of the best lands Of the val
ley, which are made more valuable
by their close proximity to the main
line of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fe railway.
The water priority of the Lamar ca
nal is one of the best in the valley
and the American Beet Sugar Com
pany, before it began to sease land
to beet growers, plowed its land
deeply with steam plows and harrow
ed and worked the soil into the best
possible condition. This WAS an ex-
ample for independent farmers, and
in consequence there are no more
scientific and painstaking beet grow
ers in the world than the farmers
who sell their crops to the Rocky
Ford and Lamar factories.
On account of the refractory phys
ical condition of the territory which
it's canals traverse and which its res
ervoirs are located, the most costly
system of irrigation in the valley is
that of the Arkansas Valley Sugar
Beet aud Irrigated Land Company,
whose lands are tributary to the
Holly Sugar Company's factories at
Holly and Swink. These two cor
porations, while separate and dis
tinct, are close kin in ownership and
are under the same management.
The Arkansas Valley Sugar Beet
and Irrigated Land Company owns
the Amitv Canal and the Buffalo ca
nal, which are delivery canals; the
Kicking Bird and the Lone Wolf,
which feed the company's reservoirsi
the Comanche and the Pawnee, which
drop from the reservoir into the
Amity, and the Great Plains reser-
voirs, which hold surplus freshet and
storm waters. The company also
owns a large interest in the Fort
Lyon canal, and by contract with
its management, has enlarged it for
the purpose of conveying unappro-
priated waters into the Kicking Bird
and by the Kicking Bird, to the res
ervoirs. In addition the company
owns fifty or more laterals.
The Amity canal is Ito miles long
eighty miles in Colorado and thirty
miles in Kansas. In Kansas, its use
has been abandoned. The original
cost tt the Amity was $75o,ooo, but
it has been greatly improved by the
present management. 1t is thirty
feet wide and has a decreed appro-
priation of 1884 cubic feet of water
per second. It extends twelve miles
north of the river and would irrigate
$1,000, acres.
The Buffalo canal is sixteen miles
long, ten feet wide and has decreed
appropriation of 59a cubic feet per
second. 1t extends four miles north
of the river and would irrigate 1000
acres.
The Fort Lyon canal is lib miles
long and sixty feet wide. 1t has a
decreed appropriation Of 1852 cubic
feet per second and carrying ca
pscity of 1000 feet. 1t extends if
teen miles north of the river and
would irrigate 10000 acres.
The Great Plains reservoirs in
olude five large basins, and are locat-
ed in Prowers and Kiowa counties,
between fifteen and twenty miles