The Colorado statesman., 1913-12-06
DEARFIELD SETTLEMENT.

Dearfield Settlement is the largest
colored farming settlement in Colo
rado. 1t is to have a townsite plated
and surveyed by the State Land
Board. The plat will be ready within
a few days to sell town lots and ten
acre tracts to merchants, mechanics,
residents, dairymen or dairy women.
Dearfield is located in one of the
most fertile and prosperous commun-
ties in Colorado, and surpasses any
section for work for reliable colored
men and women, 1t was the banner
section of the state for raising sugar
beets this season.
For ten years | have tried to inter-
est the State Land Board in settle
ment for colored people on state lands,
and finally there has been a State
Land Board, appointed by Governor
Ammons, who believed in equal rights
and justice to all classes of citizens.
The members of the board are Attor-
ney General j. Fred Farrar, President,
John E. Field, Surveyor. and Volney T.
Hoggart, Register. Mr.. U. G. Harris,
Land Appraiser, made an investiga-
ton of the location of Dearfield and
reported favorably on the appraise-
ment. The Board decided by its ac.
tions that our people should be encour-
aged to make good up there and that
the state and all others interested in
settling and building up the state
should extend their influence to Dear
field Settlement.
The State Engineer, Mr.. John B.
Field, will plat and survey 4SO acres
of school lands adjoining the settle
ment and 11a miles from Masters
Station. This land will be plated into
townsite of lots that will sell from
$1,000 per lot and up, giving a liberal
per cent. off for those who will make
improvement within 80 days from date
of purchase. There will be plated a
section into 5 acre tracts and Il sec
ton into 10 acre tracts that will sell
from $4,000 per acre and up. These
tracts surround the townsite and are
laid out to conform with the town in
case of an addition to the town. Pur-
chasers of tracts will be given a liber
al percentage off if they begin their
residence and improvements within 80
days from purchase.
These tracts of land are we'll adapted
to poultry raising dairy products and
sugar beets. This proposition will be
held open to the colored people for
llullItd TIME lOl lllSiIl " tame tiuN an
tage of a splendid opportunity to build
up creditable colored settlement and
town officered by colored people.
Judge Volney T. Hoggard, Register
of the State Land Board, is a true
southern gentleman and is a friend of
the colored people. He desires TO do
something of credit for the race while
he is in office, as he has many colored
friends in Colorado and in the south
The establishment of the town of
Dearfield on a basis that any one can
buy a town lot or small tract of land
on reasonable terms is his proof of in
terest in our race Two lots will be
given free to the widow woman who
will build boarding house at once, and
run it for the accommodation OF the To-
caters. Two lots will be given free
to colored man or company to estab-
lish a cement block and brick factory.
Two lots will be given free to a black
smith and wood worker.
Anyone desiring to become inter
ested as a purchaser or agent, address
o. T. Jackson, General Agent,
1921 21st Street, Denver, Colorado.
Office will be in charge of Miss
and the office hours
will be from 900 a. m. to 500 p. m.
See this paper for final announce
ment of plat for reservations.