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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



to successful orcharding. He will plant 

 a nursery under the supervision of the 

 most experienced experts, to supply the 

 demands of the valley and to encourage 

 the growth and development of fruit 

 raising in this section. All fruits attain 

 a size, color, flavor and yield that invar- 

 iably astonish visitors from other fruit 

 belts. 



It is an established fact that sugar 

 beets will grow to perfection, and with 

 highest percentages in this valley, and 

 the great acreage in one body will, in 

 time, bring one or more beet sugar fac- 

 tories. The valley will support five such 

 factories. It is not unreasonable to pre- 

 dict that it will secure at least one. 



Conditions are almost unexcelled 

 for poultry raising, bee keeping, dairy- 

 ing, creamery products, all of which 

 will find a ready market at fancy prices. 

 In fact, for diversified farming, on either 

 a small or large scale, these lands can- 

 not be equaled when prices and other 

 :onditions are considered. 



Valley of Ranches River, Taos Valley. 



Constructing Flume on Canal of The Ranches Orchard & Land Co. 



Next to agriculture and fruit grow- 

 ing, the live stock industry is most im- 

 portant. Comparatively mild, dry 

 winters, luxuriant growth of wild 

 grasses, abundance of range, and plenty 

 of pure water make stock raising very 

 profitable. Sheep, goats, cattle and 

 horses thrive. Hogs are very success- 

 fully raised, cholera being unknown, and 

 the conditions are ideal for fattening. 



There is plenty of lumber, tim- 

 ber, fence posts, lime, gypsum and build- 

 ing stone for all improvement purposes. 



This land lies from six to thirty 

 miles from the Denver & Rio Grande 

 railroad. The St. Louis, Rocky Moun- 

 tain & Pacific has a line surveyed 

 through the lands, and it is completed 

 and in operation thirty-five miles to the 

 east of Taos. Another line into this 

 tract is now being located, coming in 

 from the north. Within two years this 

 valley will have one railroad through 

 it, and within five years, two. 



NOTES. 



The fruit growers of Palisade, Colo., have presented a 

 petition to Congress asking that the farmers be paid for the 

 lands condemned by the government for rights of way for 

 government irrigation canals. The oetition is based on the 

 statutes of 1890, which provide that the land used for govern- 

 ment canals or ditches across homesteads of pre-emption 

 claims shall be paid for by the government. The fruit owners' 

 claims aggregated $560,000. 



The Denver-Greeley Irrigation Company has about com- 

 pleted arrangements whereby its district lying east of Platte- 

 ville, embracing about 50,000 acres, is to be enlarged to in- 

 clude 40,000 acres more lying between Hardin and Roggen. 

 Ample water will be furnished to water the added territory 

 by the Standley lake project. 



A contract was recently signed between the Mesa County 

 Irrigation district and the Palisade Irrigation district of 

 Colorado by which the latter assumes control of both ditches 

 under a long-term lease. Five thousand acres of land are in- 

 volved. 



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