The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-01-03

| III duultlUN TO the reservoir ming
for the storage of water, the district
has flood water filing, which enables
II 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 mHes-
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 laterals 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,
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, Sedgwick and Weir,
are side tracks where farm products
may be loaded for shipment, with IL
twenty-four hour run to the market of
the Missouri River and twelvc-hour
! 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. 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-
tion district is a desirable and ad-
vantageous locality in which t. live.
The soil is OF the best, being dark,
sandy loan. 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 bcets, oniOns, 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 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
Grit-Advocate will gladly place people
| in touch with responsible mum Of 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 short time, we can truth
fully say that we can sci land at such
prices that the purchaser may quadi
ruple 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 1926 to $50 per acre and is now
bringing $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 Il voice in
the management OF the affair OF the
district. Instead OF having to pay
from sl5 up to $50 cash per acre for
water as first investment after buy
ing the land, as they do and have to do
most OF the other vicinties 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 off the bonds,
, when this assessment my be doubled,
and even then your water will not cost
you anywhere near so much as water
renters In the Greeley country are an
nually paying, and you are gradually
paying of; 50 that after twenty years
you are to get perpetually free water
and part of ownership In water
supply that will be constantly in
crcasing in value
The little town of Scdgwick 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 $50. 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 IA town Of
loo people. The various business
enterprises represented in Scdgwick
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 Methndisfs