Colorado Irrigated Lands 



Sugar Beet Growing 



These Colorado lands are now attracting 

 more interested attention than any others in 

 the extensive field of Southwestern irriga- 

 tion. There are reasons why this should 

 he so. 



These lands lie nearer to general and local 

 markets. It is the eastern edge of the ir- 

 rigated country. 



They lie on or near great railway lines. 

 Transportation facilities are of the first 

 class. Rates are made, both locally and to 

 the general markets, that 'make the farmer's 

 profits secure. 



Colorado is one of the foremost states of 

 the Union in enterprise. All her citizens 

 are up-to-date. The very best farmers from 

 the central west are now using the irri- 

 gated lands of sontheastern Colorado. They 

 do things and get things, and are all pros- 

 perous. 



The. country has special advantages. The 

 climate and elevation seem to lie precisely 

 right. There is something in the soil 

 (which is a deep rich sandy loam) that 

 makes the country the home of the sugar 

 beet, and nowhere else does it attain the 

 quality and tonnage that it does on these 

 Colorado irrigated lands. So far there has 

 been found no product of agriculture that 

 pays so large a net profit to the individual 

 farmer as does the sugar beet in Colorado. 



All the details of sugar manufacture from 

 beets have been already arranged. Im- 

 mense factories, plying the highest price per 

 ton for beets on beard the cars, have been 

 in operation for a considerable time, several 

 new ones now being constructed. 



Hundreds of farmers are successfully en- 



gaged in other branches of agriculture on 

 these irrigated lands. Fruit, stock raising, 

 the fattening of sheep and hogs, all va- 

 rieties of intensive and general farming, 

 have been successfully carried on for so 

 long that it is known that all the experi- 

 ments have been tried and positive results 

 are assured. 



It is a country in which a man knows 

 what to do, and that it pays to do it. 



There are lands still unoccupied that are 

 under all the conditions above described, 

 and that can still be purchased at reason- 

 able prices. Their value increases fifty per 

 cent, the moment they are occupied and 

 used. They are under irrigation, with rea- 

 sonable, assured water rates, and there re- 

 main no experiments to be tried and paid 

 for in that field either. The valley of the 

 Arkansas is rich from end to end. It is 

 because of the irrigation canals already 

 made and the assurance of an annual crop 

 in this Colorado end of the valley that the 

 great successes have been made. 



Those who have studied irrigation and 

 its results know that by that means the 

 farmer, for the first time in history, knows 

 precisely what he is doing and is assured 

 of results. The time in which to take ad- 

 vantage of the situation is short. The open 

 lands under water are diminishing in area 

 all the time, and occupied lands of that de- 

 scription cannot be bought except at a large 

 premium over original cost. Land any- 

 where and almost everywhere has increased 

 in value. Irrigated lands are the best of 

 all, and certain to command an increasing 

 premium as the years pass. 



GENERAL COLONIZATION AGENT, 



Atchison, Topeka & Sante Pe Railway, 



1117 Railway Exchange, Chicago 



Please send me information about Sugar Beet Growing and Irrigated 

 Lands, as per adv. in Forestry and Irrigation. 



Nam-: 



