The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-14

in the world. Here the average farm
is about five acres with fruit as the
principal crops, and the yield from $500
to $500 per acre. The tales they tell of
crops produced are almost unbelievable.
until you price their land, but when
they talk from one to three thousand
an acre, you begin to realize there must
be something to it. In Canon City one
can't tell when he is in the country.
A drive of two or three miles will show
you the houses almost as close together
as in Mulvane, and all well improved
clean, and modern in appearance. 1t
was some such vision as this that Caleb
saw of old when he brought back the
big grapes from Eschol.
1t is a pretty trip from Pueblo to
Canon up the valley of the ArkansaS 9.
and if you wanted scenery, the woods
are full of it, with the Royal gorge
only few miles away.
Returning to Pueblo for a good
nights sleep and breakfast, the party
was ready at O'Clock Friday for an
other jaunt. A ride through Mineral
park, said to be one of the most beau
tiful in the entire country, started the
days sight seeing, and long ride east
through orchard and alfalfa and sugar
beet fields, again demonstrated the
many possibilities of irrigation. The
old Bessemer ditch was promoted by
sold the lands to the employees of their
smelters.. Today these old smeIter
workers are all wealthy and are hold
ing their lands at from $500 to 81 900 an
acre.
After a dozen miles through one con-
tinuous garden we crossed the ditch
onto the company's land. The soil was
exactly the same as the valuable land
fifteen feet away, but 1t had no value
except for the scattering tufts of buff
falo grass. until the company arranged
to irrigate it. The same climate, the
-1r oil
all its original fertility-water is all if
lacks to make it better than that that
is bein~ held at such fabulous values.
This new tract is triangular in shape,
with Pueblo as one point, and the 9TH
er two points, one about twenty miles
eae+ and the other the same distance
southeast. In the center of this tract
lies the proposed town Of Wilson, COM
prising a level site a mile square, in
which the company gives a lot to all
the bona fide land seekers who go out
and look at the proposition. There is
a hotel building almost completed, and
there will be other buildings erected as
soon as the settlers go in in the spring,
and it can not help making a good
town. with farmer on every ten and
twenty acres adjoining. The land for
miles is gentle slope to the northeast
and is as pretty as you could hope t.
see, and is undoubtedly the finest lying
single body of irrigatble land in the
world. Those who understand irriga-
ton say it is perfect for the purpose.
With an elevation of from 1900 to 1900,
one gets fine climate in both summer
and winter, and with dry crop seasons
the finest fruits and grains can be
raised and cared for without loss. An
interurban railroad between Pueblo and
Wilson IS promised for next year.
which will put the farmers in close
touch with the markets of the world.
This company is no fake. It is COM
posed of Eastern capitalists who have
spent or will spend something over
A,000000 on the project They have
just opened these lands for sale to the
public at $50 per acre, including a per-
petual water right. The company Is
making an effort to people this new
country with the very best class of citi-
zenship. 1t is selling its tracts to peo-
pie out of selected communities IN
Kansas. Nebraska and Iowa. It's terms
are so liberal-ten per cent down and
the balance in twenty annual payments
that it looks like a poor mans oppor-
tunity, as we'll as the rich mans
chance. The cost of selling this land
takes all the company gets out of the
first payment In order for it to get
back It's four millions it must furnish
plenty of water, and have farmers on
the land who will make 1t out of the
soil What better guarantee could be
asked that the proposition is legitimate
and that 1t will be a success? 1t is as
certain as ANYTHING can be in this
world that the industrious man can
make his payments. his living and q.
profit off this land after the first year
Twenty acres is a good sized farm, in
stead of quarter section here.
| The trip is a cheap and inexpensive
one. and for education alone is worth
more than it costs. It only takes a part
of a week to do a lot of sight seeing.
We left Pueblo at midnight Friday and
could have been home Saturday after
| noon at 1886.