COLORADO 

 As an Agricultural State. 



Its Farms, Fields, and Garden Lands. 



By WILLIAM E. PABOR. 



ILLUSTRATED 



A Volnme of Great Value and Interest to those seeking 

 'Canns and Eomes in the Far West 



In Us preface to this work the anther says : In preparing this volnme I have 

 aimed to keep strictly within the border line of facts. Twelve years of careful 

 observation, a personal acquaintance with nearly all. the valleys described 

 herein, an earnest desire to make public the agricultural resources of a State 

 whose remarkable growth has no parallel in American history,— these have 

 been Impelling motives in the preparation of this truthful account of the val- 

 leys, plains, and parks of Colorado. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Chapteb I.— Introductory. 



" II.— Historical and Geo- 

 graphical. 



<> ni.— Colonization in Colo- 

 rado. 



" rV.— Irrigation — Measure- 

 ment of Water. 



" v.— Area Susceptible of Ir- 

 rigation. 



" VI.— How Farming Pays. 



" VII.— CachS-la-Pondre Val- 

 ley. 



" yni.— BigThompson,Little 

 Thompson, St. Vrain. 



" IX.— Boulder and Clear 

 Creek Valleys. 



" X.— South Platte Valley. 



" XI.— Southern Colorado. 



Chapter Xn.— San Lnis Park. 



" Xm.— Southwestern Colo- 

 rado. 

 " XtV.— Artesian Wells— Res- 

 ervoirs. 

 '* XV. — Apicalture. 

 " XVI.— Fruit Growing. 

 " XVII.— Questions and An- 

 swers. 

 XVm.— Colorado Agricul- 

 tural College. 

 " XIX.— Farming Journals. 

 " XX.— Cattle and Sheep. 



XXI.— The Railway System 



of the State. 

 XXII.— Garden Culture by 

 Irrigation, 



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