The Grit-advocate., 1907-10-18

IL 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 ore-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 a- distributing lateraIs for
the reservoir water. They have. res
pectiVely, pri,rties of $50 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.
IhlS 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 JuIesDurg. Sedgwick and Weir.
are side tracks where farm products
may be loaded for shipment, with II
tWenty-iOur hour run to the market OF
nj bj,-.r Ia.
run to those Of Denver.
The wagon roads of the district are
always good. The several country
school houses in the district are
located on the map. They are all
excellent frame buildings, and are
supplied with libraries and organs y
, nine months term of school is con
Quoted in each. These facts very
materially enter into the consideration
and reason why the Julesburg irriga
tion district is Il desirable and ad-
rantageous locality in which to live.
The soil is of the best, being a dark
sandy loan. The elevation of the
district Is ,. .4j6 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 he devoted to the raising Of
sugar bect>, onion>, potatoes, canta
lOups and all the more highly
remunerative 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 aud bring it under the highest
state OF cultivation possible. With IL
view to suppl lying 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 a branch Office at
Sedgwick under the title of Parker
Rros., is fully equipped to buy. sell,
exchange and deal in lands in the
district. While other realty com.
| pAnies in other sections can say to a
prospective land buyer that they can
sell land which will probably double
in value in d short time. we can truth
| fully say that we can sci land at such
prices that the purchaser may quad
ruple his Investment within very
few years. AS proof TO this statement,
we can point to the Greeley, Fort
Collins and Lovcland country, where
only ii few years ago land was selling
| for from $50 to $50 per acre and is now
bringing $3.50 to $50 per acre. The
storage of water in reservoirs brought
this great change here. BcSincs 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 $l5 up tn $50 cash per acre for
water as ii first investment after buy
/ ing the land as they do and have to do
most Of the other vicinitieS where
| irrig alton 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 OIL the bonds.
| when this assessment my be doubled,
and even then your water VIII not cost
! You anywhere near 50 much as water
renters III the Greeley country are an
nual!y paying, and You are gradually
/ paying of; so that after twenty years
/ you are 10 get pcrlmtllaily Tree water
and part Of ownership In a water
supply that will be constantly in.
CrcaSing 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 80. The
Platte Valley at this point is broad
and fertile, furnishing an abundance
OF farming land tributary to Scdg
wick to issue in the near future the
building and maintaining Of town of
1900 people. The various business
enterprises represented in Sedgwicn
at present are 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 Mcthudiste
have a church and Sunday school
organization. and the Scdgwick school
district is nreDiring TO erect Il new