The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-01-24

/ best, if not the best, water supplied
districts in the West.
In addition to the reservoir filing
Tor the storage Of water, the district
has food water filing. which enables
1t 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 laLerals 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
| tWenty-four hour run to the market of
| the Missouri River and a twelve hour
F., 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-
bion district is a desirable and ad-
vantageOus locality in which to live.
The soil is Of the best, being dark,
district is 1856 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 storake, 9,re
time VIII be devoted 30 the .raSi5E of
sugar beets, onions, potatoes, caf1ta-
lOups and all the more highly
remunerative products, for the spe-
cessful raising Of W hich this seSinn is
noted. But for this more idtepe
farming we need more farmers.
have room for hundreds OF iamikes,
| 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 gSfatest confidence that any who
are Induced to cast their lot in the
Juldsburg irrigation district will be
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
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 quad3
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 $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
eachresidcnt freehOlder has 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 vicinities where
| irrig alton is bad. 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 off; so that after twenty years
you are to get pcrpetually free water
| ana 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 80. 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
| 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,
| hlurL smith shpn two real t1fp firing