The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1907-12-27
HISTORY OF TO-DAY
Details that WIN Make
Our Cunty Rich and Famous.

Our Cunty Rich and Famous.
No town upon the Western plains
has q more checkered or exciting
history Of the frontier days than the
town Of Julesburg. 1t derives its
name from the fact that Frenchman
named Jules Reni was tied 70 a post
and shot TO pieces by the desperado
Slade.
1t was during the days of Red Cloud,
Sitting Bull, Roman Nose, Man.
Afraid Of -His-Horse, Standing Elk
and Spotted Tail that Major N. J.
O'Brien, now OF the United States
Land Service, laid out old Fort Sedg-
wick and the government Reservation,
and many were the engagements that
he and his soldiers had with these
noted chiefs and their dusky warriors
Old Julesburg, the first was
located about one mile east Of the fort,
on the south bank of the river at the
old Ford crossing. This Julesburg was
sacked and burned by the Indians
February 2. 1865. In July folloring
the great Sioux War broke out, and
from that time on till peace was de-
clared there was more Indian fighting
in the vicinity OF Julesburg than any
other station along the Platte Valley.
During these times, Major O'Brien
says, the buffalo were more plentiful
on the plains around Julesburg than
the vast herds OF native cattle were in
later years.
Here, at Julesburg, the Mormons
crossed the Platte on their journey to
Utah. 1t was little south of Jules
burg that the great feast with the
Sioux and Cheyenne Indians occurred
A second Julesburg was built four
miles east of the fort. This was
moved to the north side OF the river,
where the little town of Weir now
stands, and at one time was the
terminus of the Union Pacific railroad,
and contained 1000 people. Here the
desperate element held sway until the
better class of citizens organized them
selves into vigilance committee and,
by their just but necessarily severe
verdicts and punishments, rid the
town of these lawleSs frontiersmen
and established IA peaceful govern
mcnt.
Those were rough, wild, exciting
days when the early history of Jules
> burg was madc, and no one would
recognize in the quiet, law abiding
spirited Julesburg of to-day, which
Ivy the way, is the fourth Julesburg
the desperate little frontier post OF
years ago.
!; JulesbuTg of to day. the county seal
of Scdgwick county,, is pleasantly
situated on the Lorth bank of the
South Platte River at the junction Of
the main line and the Colorado division
of the Union Pacific railroad. Nature
} has provided the town with many ad
/ vantagcs-a superb climate, pure
water mot alkali), an abundance OF
sunshine, plenty Of irrigation water
and surrounded it with as fertile anG
productive valley as can anywhere
] be found.
: Julesburg is peoplsd with an ener
getic, thrifty, hospitable class o
:, citizens, who believe in good churche.
J and good schools. The Methodist and
Congregational societies each supports
handsome church buildings nnt
organizations. The schools OF Jules
, burg are of the best. There il
maintained in the town a Count,
High School, whose graduates are ad
mitted into the State colleges withUu
: examination.
The town supports four hotels, tw,
restaurants, six grocery stores, 81!
dry goods and general merchandise
two hareware, two implement firms
one grain elevator three lumber aut
coal yards, two drug stores, two
harness shops. two jewelry stores, tw,
meat markets, two furniture stores
two livery barns, one weekly pane
and no saloons. The town now own;
u fine new water supply system and ar
I electric lighting plant equipped will
, the most modern machinery. rh,
, county has new court house, is Cu1
of debt, and, with the development o.
, the farms in the district, Julesburl
> has a future that may well be the cnv,
of many Western town.
The Julesburg irrigation district
D contains p, 500 acres of as fine land a.
;. can be iound in any irrigated country
1t was organized in July, 1904, aud OF
September II, 1904, Si5O,OOO. On
! tWcnty-year & per cent. bond wa,
voted to be used in constructing tn,
juIesburg reservoir, its inlet and out.
let bitches and in purchasing the Pc
tcrson and Settlers bitches.
The reservoir is located at the ey
IRENE west end of the district. 1t
holds one and one-quartcr billion
cubic feet Of water, or 2S, 400 acre feet.
1t is forty seven feet at lists greatest
depth and its circumference is about
SIX aud Oue-half miles. Its EN- bank
mentS, or ILLS are built on Il slOpc Of
four to one on the inside and Two t.
one on the outside, with Il crown Of
twenty feet. eight feet above high
water mark. The inside faces Of these
fills are riprapped with curtain pre-.
scrlbed stone in the most substantial
manner, under the advice Of the State
Engineer. 1t has bed or Iundatlon
of clay, imperylous to scepage.
he State Fish Commissioner is
willing to stock the reservoir with
spawn OF the very best varieties Of
fish. The reservoir is easily access
iblc by good wagon road. and Will be-
come popular resort for fishing and
hunting.
The inlet ditch for feeding the
reservoir is some nineteen miles IN
length, twenty-five feet wide at the
bottom, thirty seven feet at the top
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