The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-01-10

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 " the lands
under the outlet.
The outlet ditch is twenty-six miles
long. twenty tive feet wide at the
bottom. thirty four feet a. it's top. and
four and une-hsIlf feet deep. 1t can
carry 400 oubc water per second. The
Peterson and Settlers bitches, whose
courses you can follow on the map are
also used AS distributing laLerals for
the reservoir water. They have. res
pectively,- prkrties Of 80 and 80
cubic feet per second OF time in the
normal flow o{ 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 takeu from the river at the
headgats OF the inlet ~ the reservoir,
This is anoaher very important and
valuable feature is our irrigation
system.
by Deaias Vt 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 JMlesburg, Scdgwick and Weir,
are side tracks where farm products
may bs loaded for shipment, with Il
twenty-four houy 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 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
duced in each. These facts very
materially enter into the consideration
and reason Why the .Julesburg irriga-
tion district is desirable and ad-
vantagcous locality in which to live.
The soil is of the best, being IL dark,
sandy loam. The elevation OF the
district is J. lo6 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 bccts, onions, potatoes. canta-
luups and all the more highly
rcmunerative 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 a
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 nun of the
district. While other realty com
panies in other sections can say to IL
prospective land buyer that they can
sell land which will probably double
in value in a short time, we can truth
fully say that we can sci land at such
prices that the purchaser may quada
luplt HIS IlhtSIilltul "lullh IL very
few years. AS proof to this statement,
we can point to the Greeley, Fort
Collins and Loveiand country, where
only IA few years ago land was selling
for from $25 to so per acre and is now
bringing $50 to $50 per acre, The
storage of water in reservoirs brought
this great change here. Bcsines we
have the great benefits and advan-
tages of an irrigation district within
cachresident frcchuidcr has IA voice in
the management Of the affair of the
district, Instead Of having to pay
! from SlI up TO $50 cash per acre for
water as first investment after buy
ing the land, as they dt and have to do
most Oi the other EiCinlties where
! irrigation is had. you have merely 70
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 will not cost
you anywhere near so much as water
renters in the Greeley country are an
nually paying, and you are gradually
paying off; so that after twenty wears
you are to get perpctually free water
and a part of ownership In IA water
supply that Will be constantly in
crea>ing n 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
It's population numbers $50. The
Platte Valley at this point is broad
and fertile, furnishing an abundance
nf f.r ri
wick TO issue in the near future the
building and maintaining OF town of
l,5OO people. The various business
enterprises represented in Scdgwick
at present are a 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 Methudists
have a church and Sunday school