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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



WORK AT HOLLY, COLORADO. 



A Great Community, Reclaimed from the Desert, Now 

 Thriving and Prosperous, with Happy Residents. 



HOLLY, Colorado, is located in the far famed Ar- 

 kansas Valley in the east end of the state. This 

 town, sprung in the last twelve years from a barren waste, 

 bids fair to be one of the best towns in the eastern part 

 of Colorado, in the near future. Holly, besides being on 

 the main line of the Santa Fe, is also the terminal for 

 the Arkansas Valley Railroad. This latter road was built 

 through the farming districts lying along the north side 

 of the Arkansas River, and extends from Holly to Rocky 



The Public School, Holly, Colo. 



Ford. The hundreds of thous'ands of acres of irrigated 

 lands through which the road passes have been divided 

 into small farms, and the Arkansas Valley traveller is 

 impressed with the density of the population. 



To make ready markets for this thickly settled farm- 

 ing country, towns have sprung up in the past two years 

 on the Arkansas Valley road and Hartman, Bristol, Wiley, 

 McClave, Cheraw and others, all have their name on the 

 list of Colorado's thriving towns. Motor cars have now 

 been placed on the Arkansas Valley road, thus giving the 

 farmers and residents of these small towns easy access to 

 Holly, the capital of this territory and market center for 

 its thrifty people. 



Holly is the headquarters of the Arkansas Valley 

 Sugar Beet and Irrigated Land Company. This company 

 developed the great irrigating system adjacent to Holly, 

 and originally owned the 80,000 acres of land watered by 

 this system. The reservoirs which hold the storage 

 waters to supply this land are the largest of their kind 

 in the country. They cover 13.000 acres of land and con- 

 tain 182,000 acre-feet of available water. Is it any wonder 

 the farms of this territory produce the maximum returns 

 per acre that it is possible to obtain from irrigated lands. 



About 50,000 acres of the original 80,000 have been 

 sold.- The development that has come to Holly from the 

 settling up of the 50,000 acres leaves little room for doubt 

 that when the remaining 30,000 acres are settled. Holly 

 will have more than doubled in size and importance. 

 These lands are on the market now and are rapidly being 

 settled up. 



Holly is also headquarters for the Holly Sugar Com- 

 pany, which owns a factory at Holly capable of slicing 

 600 tons of beets per day and another at Swink with a 

 capacity of 1200 tons per day. The Holly Sugar Company 

 built the Arkansas Valley Railroad, for the purpose of 

 giving the beet raisers an easy market for their crops. 



Here are some concrete facts about Holly: 



Altitude 3,400 feet just right for health and comfort. 



Population, 1.500 and rapidly increasing. 



On the main line from Chicago to California on the 



Santa Fe Railroad. It is the Eastern terminal for the 

 Arkansas Valley Railroad with sixteen passenger trains 

 daily. 



Owns modern water works, the best water in the 

 Arkansas valley. 



Owns a modern electric light plant. 



Owns a modern sewerage system. 



It has concrete sidewalks on all its streets. 



Its schools are the best; accredited with all the col- 

 leges in the state. Four churches: Presbyterian, Metho- 

 dist, Baptist and Catholic. Fraternal organizations are 

 well represented. 



Holly has an opera house, two newspapers, two banks 

 (deposits $250,000), beet sugar factory employing 210 men, 

 ice plant, telephone system (700 subscribers), three auto- 

 mobile garages, more than seventy-five business firms. A 

 modern passenger station to cost $15,000 is under con- 

 struction. 



Holly is an important center for cantaloupe shipping. 

 Holly cantaloupes top the market. Hundreds of cars of 

 alfalfa and millions of pounds of sugar are shipped from 

 Holly every year. 



There are splendid opportunities for business locations 

 at Holly, and the Holly Commercial Club is on the job 

 to help anyone desiring to investigate any of Holly's many 

 advantages. 



WATER IN SALT RIVER VALLEY. 



FARMERS in Salt River Valley, Arizona, are rejoicing 

 in the approaching completion of Roosevelt Dam. 

 The water stored behind this structure has already saved 

 this year's crops from what probably would have been com- 

 plete destruction from drouth. The normal flow of the 

 river is lower than at any time during the last six years, 

 and stored water to the extent of about 46,000 acre-feet 

 was drawn from the reservoir during June. Up to July 

 1, a total of $38,706.95 had been received from the sale of 

 water. More than 130,000 acres are now under irrigation. 

 There is great activity in the valley in the sale of farm 

 property. The sales run from V/2 acre tracts to quarter 

 and half sections. A number of large tracts have been 

 subdivided into 5, 10, 20 and 40 acres and are being dis- 

 posed of to homeseekers. The value of lands at llie pres- 



Main Offices of the Arkansas Valley Sugar Beet & Irrigated Land Co.. 

 and the Holly Sugar Company. Located at Holly, Colo. 



ent time under cultivation ranges from $75 to $500; raw 

 lands from $60 to $250. The latter priced land of course, 

 is that suited to the growing of citrus fruits. The value 

 of cultivated lands at the time the project was initiated 

 was $40 to $150 an acre, and raw land $10 to $50. 



Agricultural conditions at the present time appear to 

 be in excellent shape, prices for farm products being uni- 

 formly good. New hay is selling for $10 a ton, and new 

 rolled barley at $1.25 a hundred weight. Various lines of 

 business in the towns throughout the valley is also good, 

 failures in mercantile lines being practically unheard of. 



