The Globe-republican., 1909-09-23
THE EUREKA CANAL
WILL PUT LANDS ALONG ITS ROUTE INTO
HUNDREDS IN VALUE WATER IN
THE DITCH ASSURED
RIGHTS NOW OFFERED
Estimated That Fifty Thousand Acres'of Land
on Ditch win Be Contiguous
to Dodge City

to Dodge City
The time has arrived when the Eu-
reks canal people are preparing to |
offer water rig hts for sale. Manager
Traylor whose ideas have been worked
out in the matter Of raising" the
water was here this week and con-
ferred with number Of the business
men regarding the canal. and SUBJ
mittlng the form Of contract proposed
to use.
| Nothing so important has been
promised here, perhaps from the
earliest history ef the country, as
this Eureka canal, important to land
owners and to every other class OF
citizens M we'll, who are Ill any way
interested in the growth aud develop
ment Of the town aid county. With
out any irrig CATION, Ford county has
gained reputation as al agricultu-
ral county, and with the ditch in op-
Grafton, that part VI the county will
be u garden spot tnat will b. famed
far and wide. There is no kind Of
an investment that will beat irriga-
ton.
Since the value Of lands must un-
timately rest wholly upon their earn
ing capacity let us see what the earn
ing capacity Of there lands can be
made when irrigated. What these
lands will produce in corn and wheat
need not be surmlzed as under the
conditions existing for some two or
three years when only an intermit
tentsupply Of water was had from
the Soule ditch and the crude mex
perlenced method Of applying it to
the land resulted in wheat crops Of
sixty bushels per acre and other
crops in like proportion. These
lands with plenty OF water sklllfully
applied aud the higher degree Of
|, /
cultivation which is possible to give
lands to day 1t is safe to base the
earning capacity Of every acre OF
Ford county lard irrigated iu wheat
at sixty bushels per acre, corn at
eighty bushels per acre and alfalfa at
eiyht tons. With the increasing
incubation the demand must be pro-
0 portionAtely increased The people
Y must be fed and all feedstutf must
: come from the farm. There are no
!, more lands nor will there ever be
and from all available data wheat may
. seldom 60 below $l0O per bushel,
0 making the gross income from an
acre ot wheat $60.00 Allowing $lt
per acre for the production OF this
erop due to The increasing price
i. paid for labor and $5 90 per annun
Il er mere for taxes, interest ana DC
!. preciation of machinery would leave
a net ncpme Of $4,000 per acre on
+. wheat. Basipg this then on tel
per cent basis would pace the valu
:. y Of wheat lnad OF Ford county a
- $3.50 per acre.
- What would be The value Of al
u falfa land producing eight tons 0
~ alfalfa to the acre? Basing the value
) 81 4aaiia al $80A per tyn would Civ
gross value to- the product iron
each mere Of s64 allowing $lO as Stat
ed for production und SIS for main
tenence, taxes, eie, would bring u
value On actual eanipgs On ever
ar acre II alfalfa lard 10 around S49
y per acre.
e MATER IN TIE DITCH IS ASSURED.
ID Ia the past six months we bay
ii Been visited aiih Two possible pr.
n isets bath os Whieh promised grea
a things for Ford county ln' u
e. CARLY pqlt u the eat i %ea ramoft. /,
d fkat people if9m ColQgado wetel9ef
jng into Tie ol1 sonta Ditch sp
o thattbe purpose IL tie people il
q vestigating Die ditch was nothirl
h l}mote than scheme connected y
N promoters aud we regret 70 81
+ tllefa was more than oue knocker
i. claim That nothing was TO result fret
Il the investigation nnd That i i did
r. would not be possible to put the wa
10 ar n the ditch. Nothing was sal
10 by the people making this invest
cation, they quietly proceeded wit
9 their surveying, which included th
! : complete resuryey Of the canal fror
l. ingalls, to three miles into Edward
fe county to satisfy themselves that tn
survey of this canal had been proper
y " made and that it had the prope
T. I, grade to carry water and water flow
II Surveys for numerous Reservoir aite
we're made and filings duly recorde