THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



more than all -else, its beautiful and ex- 

 quisite homes, and in no community of 

 Denver's size do better schoolhouses stand. 

 There are no tenement houses to work 

 their harm to health and happiness, but 

 according to the United States census of- 

 ficials Denver ranks first in the country in 

 the number of homes to her population. 



As a business and financial center Den- 

 ver claims as her kingdom the entire coun- 

 try between the Missouri river and the 

 Sierra Nevadas and from the gulf to the 

 British provinces. Its banks and com- 

 mercial establishments and factories are 

 unsurpassed. Its street railways, with a 

 complete system of transfers without ad- 

 ditional fare, astonishes everyone. 



Denver is amply supplied with steam 

 railroads; in every direction the steel 

 threads lead. It is the terminal point of 

 nine immense railroad systems, and from 

 its magnificent union depot scores of trains 

 arrive and depirt every day. 



As a manufacturing center it is becom- 

 ing of the greatest importance. The im- 

 mense car shops of tue Union Pacific rail- 

 road are here located, employing thousands 

 of men. The largest smelters in the world 

 employ thousands of others, and then there 

 are numerous other industries, the paper 

 mills, the cotton mills, the furniture and 

 shoe and soap factories, and the iron foun- 

 dries and machine shops. All these and 

 many more open a vast market for raw 

 material, and the workers in the factories 

 are the consumers of the products of the 

 orchard, the farm and the dairy. 



THE LAND AND LOCATION. 



The property of the Denver Land and 

 Water Company comprises about 17,000 

 acres of land, the first section of which is 

 just seven and a half miles south of the 

 center of the city of Denver and only 

 about three miles south of the city limits. 

 The lands now on sale are from eight to 

 ten miles from the heart of the city; about 

 an hour's drive. 



THE WATER SYSTEM. 



The irrigation system consists of a large 

 main reservoir, Castlewood Lake, capable 



of holding 250,000.000 cubic feet of water; 

 a main canal thirty miles long and laterals 

 in all forty -two miles, making the 

 total length of ditches seventy-two mil -s. 

 The reservoir, canal and laterals are al- 

 ready completed. The company has also 

 projected four other reservoirs which will 

 act as distributing points. These reser- 

 voirs will have a combined capacity equal- 

 ling that of Castlewood Lake, and the lake 

 or main reservoir will then become a 

 ' : great catch basin." One of these lower 

 reservoirs is already built and in opera- 

 tion. The others will not be needed until 

 a vast body of land is under cultivation. 

 The irrigation system is one of the largest 

 and most complete in the state of Colo- 

 rado, and the company has never suffered 

 from a shortage of water. 



SOIL AND PRODUCTS. 



The soil is a rich sandy loam with clay 

 subsoil, is free from alkali and is very fer- 

 tile. It is adapted to all kinds of fruits, 

 apples, pears, plums, prunes, cherries, 

 strawberries, gooseberries, etc., all kinds 

 of vegetables and all kinds of grain and 

 field crops. Alfalfa does remarkably well 

 and this is an ideal location for dairy farm- 

 ing as Denver is a market for all the milk 

 and butter and cheese produced, and sev- 

 eral creameries are already in operation 

 not far from this property. At present 

 the farmers take their milk to Littleton or 

 Sedalia, six to eight miles distant, every 

 day in the summer time. 



CLIMATE. 



The climate is the famous climate of the 

 Rocky Mountain region, and when that is 

 said, it covers everything that can be de- 

 sired. 



This section is noted principally for the 

 relief it affords to all suffering from pul- 

 monary diseases, from catarrh, and dis- 

 eases of the throat and bronchial tubes. 

 It is due to the dryness. equability of tem- 

 perature, plenty of sunshine, and absence 

 of high winds with cool nights, which aid 

 recuperation. Life in the open air with 

 plenty of exercise, either in the way of 



