THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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The investor and homeseeker is naturally interested 

 in what has been done and what can be done in the coun- 

 try toward which his attention is called. However, it 

 is impossible to fully outline all that can be said of this 

 wonderful country. Only a personal visit and a thorough 

 examination of its possibilities will suffice if an invest- 

 ment, of a new home, is desired. This is especially true 

 of this locality, for Colfax county, New Mexico, had never 

 been advertised until The French Land and Irrigation 

 Company made its investment and put its lands upon the 

 market. These lands, lying in the beautiful Antelope 

 Valley, were as nature made them, rich in all the natural 

 resources necessary to make a veritable "Garden of the 

 Gods," waiting only for someone with pluck, energy and 

 foresight necessary to develop them by putting on these 

 lands the only element they lacked, an ample supply of 

 water. 



This The French Land and Irrigation Company are 

 doing. That their judgment of the future possibilities of 

 this valley is correct is evidenced by the results obtained 

 in competition with other localities. 



At the International Industrial Exposition, held at 

 Albuquerque, N. M., September 29 to October 3, 1908, 

 Colfax county, against very strong competition, took as 

 a prize a $400.00 silver cup for the best general exhibit, 

 including education, mineral, live stock, agriculture and 

 horticulture, and also took all the prizes for sugar beets. 

 Colfax county also took first prizes for apples at the 

 great expositions held at Chicago, St. Louis and Buffalo. 



Judge Hugo Seaberg of Raton, the county seat of 

 Colfax county, in a recent letter published in "The Earth" 

 says "Everything is combined to make this county one 

 of the most desirable places to reside in. A progressive 

 class of people, a sunny, mild and healthy climate, sur- 

 passed nowhere, an abundance of good water furnished 

 by its numberless mountain springs, brooks and rivers 

 passing through the county, excellent schools and 

 churches easy of access, quick and satisfactory newspaper 

 service, telephone service to all parts of the country 

 reached by long distance telephone, and a low rate of as- 

 sessment and valuations for taxation purposes." 



Situated in this county are the lands of The French 

 Land and Irrigation Company. Bordering their land on 

 the east is the main line of the Santa Fe Railway Com- 

 pany. The town of French is at the junction of the 

 Santa Fe and the Dawson branch of the El Paso & South- 

 western railways, which runs to the mining town of Daw- 

 son, with its population of about 9,000 people, engaged 

 in mining coal and working in its immense coking plants. 



On the west is the St. Louis, Rocky Mountain & 

 Pacific Railway, running to Cimarron, a thriving, progres- 

 sive city of about 1,000 population. 



The towns lying near this tract and which furnish 

 a market and trading place for the residents are French, 

 Dawson, Springer and Cimarron, and Raton, the county 

 seat, with a population of about 7,000, lies about twenty- 

 five miles distant. 



French is a new town, founded by The French Land 

 and Irrigation Company, and has great future prospects, 

 and is destined to be one of the best cities in New Mex- 

 ico. Located at the junction of two railroads and sur- 

 rounded by as fine an agricultural country as can be 

 found anywhere, it affords the investor an unusual oppor- 

 tunity to get^n on the ground floor, and to the business 

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 for an investment or a new home secure a piece of land 

 or a town lot in French while the project is new and 

 reap the benefit of the great increase in values that is 

 sure to come. 



The home office of The French Land and Irrigation 

 Company is at French, N. M., and a branch office is main- 

 tained at 604 Atwood building, Chicago. A letter ad- 

 dressed to Sophus Richard, general, manager of the com- 

 pany, at either office will be promptly answered. 



Mr. Richard is a veteran in the land business, thor- 

 oughly conversant with the value of real estate, and has 

 a reputation for fair dealing. 



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