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and already this year eight big floods have rushed down Pawnee 

 Greek and roared and rioted through the big basin's mammoth maw. 

 "The lands under the reservoir can nowhere be surpassed in fer- 

 tility and general agricultural adaptibility, and will be worth, under 

 irrigation, from 840 to 50 per acre." 



Chief Hydrographer Newell Examining some of the Rocks on the top of Pawnee Rocky Buttes. 



One of the most progressive towns in Colorado is Sterling the county 

 seat of Logan County. It has now 1,590 people; in the last two years 

 has built one hundred residences and now has twenty -five in course 

 of construction, with at least as many more to fallow this fall. 



The last two years building includes the 810,000 First National 

 Bank and the 85,00(f Central Hotel, while just being finished for full 

 occupancy is the big Logan County Bank, brick and stone block, 

 costing 30,000. 



The people of Sterling are alive to the fact that the Pawnee Pass 

 reservoir will be of inestimable value as all the land under it will be 

 tributary to their town. The South Platte Valley delegation to the 

 Tenth National Irrigation Congress was one of the largest and best 

 handled among the many in attendance. We present a photograph of 

 this delegation in group form with the names of the ladies and gentle- 

 men comprising it. In this grjup maybe found the most progressive 

 people in the valley including the bonanza ranchers, merchants, doc- 



