The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1907-11-22


In addition to the reservoir filing
for the storage of water, the district
has flood water filing, which enables
it to run water during the irrigation
season through the inlet ditch and
reservoir and distribute it to the lands
under the outlet.
The outlet ditch is twenty-siX miles
long, twenty five feet wide at the
bottom, thirty-four feet at its top. and
four and one-half feet deep. 1t can
carry 400 cubic water per second. The
Peterson and Settlers bitches, whose
courses you can follow on the map, are
also used as distributing laLcrals for
the reservoir water. They have, res
pectively, pri.rtieS of $40 and 80
cubic feet per second of time in the
normal flow of the Platte River, which
is in addition to the reservoir and
flood water filings for the High Line
ditch, and which, when eXpedient,
can be taker from the river at the
head-gate of the inlet to the reservoir,
This Is another very important and
valuable feature is our irrigation
system
BY means of these three bitches the
entire district can be irrigated in less
than ten days.
BY referring to the map you will
note that both the main line and
Denver branch of the Union Pacific
Railroad extend through the district.
thus furnishing that most excellent
mail, passenger and freight service for
which the great Union Pacific System
is noted. Twelve passenger trains
pass through the district daily. Be-
sides Julesburg. Sedgwck and Weir,
are side tracks where farm products
may be loaded for shipment, with a
tWenty-four hour run to the market of
the Missouri River and twelve-hour
run to those of Denver.
The wagon roads of the district are
always good. The severa! country
school houses in the district are
located on the map. They are all
excellent frame buildings, and are
supplied with libraries and organs. A
nine months term of school is con-
Quoted in each. These facts very
materially enter into the consideration
and reason why the Julesburg irriga-
tlon district is a desirable and ad
vantageous locality in which to live.
The soil is of the best, being dark,
sandy loam. The elevation of the
district is 3,456 feet.
The Peterson and Settlers bitches
have been in operation for some years.
Alfalfa, wheat. oats, barley and corn
have been abundantly and profitable
grown. The soil and climate are also
well adapted to potato and sugar beet
raising, and now, with abundant
reservoir water held in storage, more
time will be devoted to the raising of
sugar beets, onions, potatoes, canta-
loups and all the more highly
remuneratiye products, for the sue
cessful raising of which this section is
noted. But for this more intense
farming we need more farmers. We
have room for hundreds of families,
and the district needs them to help
develop and bring it under the highest
state OF cultivation possible. With
view to supplying this need, and with
the greatest confidence that any who
are induced to cast their lot in the
Juldsburg irrigation district will be
repaid for coming, the Julesburg
Land Company, with branch office at
Sedgwick under the title of Parker
Bros, is fully equipped to buy, sell,
exchange and deal in lands in the
district. While other realty com
pauies in other sections can say to d
prospective land buyer that they can
sell land which will probably double
in value in short time, we can truth
fully say that we can sci land at such
prices that the purchaser may quad
ruplc his investment within very
few years. AS proof to this statement,
we can point to the Greeley, Fort
Collins and Loveland country, where
only few years ago land was selling
for from $25 to $50 per acre and is now
bringing $3.50 to $3.50 per acre, The
storage of water in reservoirs brought
this great change here. Besines we
have the great benefits and advan-
tages of an irrigation district within
eachresident freeholder has voice in
the management of the affair of the
district. Instead of having to pay
from Si5 up to $50 cash per acre for
water as a first Investment after buy
ing the land as they do and have to do
most of the other vicinities where
irrigation is had, you have merely to
pay an annual assessment to meet the
interest on the bonds for maintenance.
Not until after ten years will the
district begin to pay OFT the bonds,
when this assessment my be doubled,
and even then your water will not cost
you anywhere near 50 much as water
renters in the Greeley country are an
nually paying, and you are gradually
paying off; SO that after twenty years.
you are to get perpetually free water
and Il part of ownership In water
supply that will be constantly in
creaSing in value.
The little town Of Sedgwick is six
miles east of the Reservoir on the
Denver line of the Union Pacific
Railroad. 1t is now about eighteen
months since the town was plated
Its population numbers l50. The
Platte Valley at this point is broad
and fertile, furnishing an abundance
of farming land tributary to Sedg-
wick to issue in the near future the
building and maintaining Of town of
1900 people. The various business
enterprises represented in Sedgwick
at present are i creamery, lumber
yard. two general merchandise and
grocery firms. one farm implement
firm, hardware and furniture store.
drug store, butcher shop, livery barn,
blacksmith shop, two real estate firms
and two banks. The Methodists