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company in the hands of the bondholders and the policy 

 of the new management will be watched with interest, 

 especially by the water users under the system, who have 

 been at variance with the former company for some time. 

 The irrigators refused to pay the annual water rentals at 

 the opening of the fiscal year, claiming that they had riot 

 been furnished with sufficient water for irrigation, where- 

 upon the company refused to deliver water and the canals 

 were dry. The bondholders, fearing financial loss would 

 result, ordered water turned into the canals, and the pres- 

 ent suit is a result of this controversy. 



A test case brought in the district court at Garden 

 City, Kansas, recently by the sugar beet growers, for the 

 purpose of forcing the Garden City Sugar Beet Company, 

 which owns an irrigation ditch, to furnish sufficient water 

 to the farmers, was decided in favor of the beet growers. 

 Robert Warthen claims that he took up sugar growing 

 at the instigation of the sugar company and that it had 

 tacitly agreed to provide water at a given cost. It did this 

 for a time, but lately had refused to do so and sought to 

 evade its contract. The decision of the district court will 

 be appealed to the supreme court, as the sugar company 

 seems to be facing the same failure that the decision has 

 shifted from the farmers. 



More than $2,000,000 will be expended by Chicago 

 capitalists in the reclamation of swamp lands about twenty 

 miles from New Orleans. Reynolds. Watson & Company 

 of 317 La Salle street, Chicago, Illinois, have completed 

 the deal for a tract of land embracing 34,070 acres. The 

 land will be drained and converted into ten and thirty-acre 

 farms. F. W. Hodson, former secretary of agriculture 

 and commissioner of stocks of Canada, who recently re- 

 signed as land agent of the Union Pacific railroad, is in 

 charge of the project. 



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a minimum price of $5.00 per ton. Twelve to eighteen 

 tons per acre and often more, are raised. Thus the farmer 

 receives a gross return of from $75 to $100 per acre for 

 his beets. 



This country is the home of the famous Rocky Ford 

 netted cantaloupe. There is always a ready market for 

 them and $100.00 per acre net profit is not unusual, and 

 many cantaloupe raisers get $200.00 and often $300.00 per 

 acre. The seed of this cantaloupe have been spread all 

 over the country, but nowhere in the world do they have 

 so juicy a flavor and solid a meat as in the Arkansas 

 valley. Solid trains of cantaloupe pass through Holly in 

 the season bearing this luscious fruit to the Eastern 

 market, where it brings remarkable prices. 



These lands under the Amity canal are remarkably 

 adapted in climate, soil and sunshine to the raising of all 

 kinds of small grain and vegetables. Forty to sixty 

 bushels of wheat per acre are not unusual in this locality. 

 Oats yield from fifty to one hundred bushels, and all other 

 grains do equally well. This country is the natural home 

 of the truck gardener. Cabbage, tomatoes, celery and all 

 vegetables of the finest quality grow in profusion. 



Cattle and sheep feeding is one of the great industries 

 of this locality. Free range extends both north and south 

 of the district to an unlimited distance. Thousands upon 

 thousands of cattle and sheep are brought from the range 

 and fattened on beet pulp, beet tops and alfalfa hay, which 

 produces such solid, juicy meat that it brings as high prices 

 as corn fed cattle in the markets at Kansas City. 



Of the 20,000 acres retraining to be sold, 10,000 acres 

 were just placed on the market. This land lies within 

 one to five miles of Holly and in respect to its location and 

 levelness it excels any tha.t has yet been sold. Another 

 year will see this land dotted with happy homes where the 

 farmer of the rain belt, worn out by anxiety of drouths 

 and floods, has sought his home in a country where he 

 can say, "Let there be rain" and there is rain. Not 

 rain with a cloudy sky and muddy roads not long days of 

 drizzle and mist when he has to stay in doors and watch 

 the water choke his crop, but rain with a clear sun in the 

 sky; rain wherever he wants it, on his beets and alfalfa, 

 and not on his wheat, rain on his fields, and not on his 

 roads. Truly wonderful changes have swept over this 

 country in Eastern Colorado in the past twelve years. 

 Railroads have been built, towns have sprung up, sugar 

 factories and alfalfa mills have been erected, schools and 

 :hurches are scattered far and wide throughout the country. 



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