^ t ^ LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 017 064 920 5^ Conservation Resources Lig-Free® Type 1 Ph 8.5, Buffered ,,,, "^O YOU WANT A HOME? .L2 B8 ^ Copy 1 If SO, come to La Jara, where the best inthe land can now be purhcased on easy terms. La Jara. one of the principal towns of Conejas County, and the fertile San Luis Valley, is located on the D. & R. G. Railroad, about eighteen miles northeast of the southwestern limit of the valley, it is surrounded by a level country that posses- ses a soil unequaled for fertility ar.d unsurpassed for crop production. From this vicinity many of the Worlds prizes ha\e been captured on live stock, wheat oats, barlej', potatoes and garden vegetables. This section does not only possess an abundance of water for iriigation from the natural streams, the San An tone, Conejas, La Jara, Hot Creek. Alamosa and Rio Grande rivers, but has in addition sheet water at the depth of about twelve feet underlying the valley everywhere and available for irrigation by pumping. Also artesian water available at all de])ths below seventy feet, which when tapped with a well six inches in diameter will flow day in and day out. by the year, one- half cubic foot per second, insuring to this part of Colorado an abundance of water iov all agricultural and domestic purposes. The artesian Water is chemically pure. The local druggists use it in its nat- ural state without distilling in the compounding of medicines. It is a noted fact that the several parts of the state are each characterized by producing some specialty in agricultural, horticultural, manufactured, mining or other products. So this part of the State excels in the yield and cxuality of grain. The prin- cipal crops are oats, wheat, barlej-, potatoes and peas. Small fruit does well. The cereals yield from thirty' to one hundred bushels per acre, potatoes from two to four hundred bushels per acre. The grain raised for fattening purposes are barley and peas, peas are sewn the same as any other small grain, irrigated once and then allowed to ripen — to mature. When ripe the hogs or sheep are turned in and they do the harvesting and in a fe^v weeks fatten themselves readj' for market. The average profits by this method of f aiming are abcut t^^ cnty dollais per acre per season. The San Luis valley has on several occasions urcau. I^a .lara. Colorado. 0. ff^*, i. LIBRPRY OF CONGRESS 017 064 920 5 • LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 01 7 064 920 5 ^ Conservation Resources LIg-Free® Type I Ph 8.5, Buffered LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 017 064 920 5^ Conservation Resources Lig-Free® Type I