MINEBK00258

• County: Routt
• Document: Manager
• Suffix: A

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beets o$ that tract c;hich produced t}:e third hiE;}lest test for sugar in the state
of Colorado wY.en the whole state was beirri; tested on that question.
STOCK RAISIi~IC.
Routt County has about 75,OQ0 }:cad of catt.l.e and lO,OQO head of horses on
its tar, roll.
?'or tk-e east five years it and the adjoinir~; count„ o 3ilaz~.co, Piave "tor-ped"
the Denver stock market on range cattle Eros, .iuly to ',dovemae-r sac', year. Bear
river cattle ERoutt Co.} have a special. report or: t};e Cimaha and'Kansas Gity car-
ket Erato August to idovember at:ci their avera,;e weight or: feeders un hi,5her t}ran
froi+~ nrry other part of the United States.
!'i.ti_ tkle },roper cultivation. of the lard i.n Routt County, t};ree tines the pres-
e?ct nus:oer of stock could and would be prockueed as at the present tS.r:.e:
The grade of stock is very high at t;r!e present time mud s'teatdily is~provi.~,
many are en-r=aged in the raisi.rtl> of the that©ughbred ;)urk,~wy ar:d Hereford stock.
IRRIGATIUSI.
Tl e Bear or Yampa River which ;Flows through t}ie entire length and cart of
the brewdtl. of the County ~~euld Furnish vrater ample to irregate a million acres
of lands whereas not more t}!an 3G(?~000 acres cconld ever be adapted for farming
alor.~ the rivers and many of its branches are tracts of 1'ird ranriinb in size from
5000 to 20,OG~i sores where water car be put or, at an average aF about ,"i5 net acre,
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thereby r!,a}sir{; hones .for tixousarids of people cr_ lands vrlii.c}: are t?ov= worthless.
Tk!e real possibilities of a wise irrigation policy, loeal.ly, could not be
over estir!~ted; i.ts benefits, like the pi-o~per cultivation oP the la?r1, v;ould be
ever inc:rP.fi3iR;.
i7I?IIivrG P:)SSIBII_TTI1~S.
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1~'rnr:,r,}!e i,arct*«is fo'rruation z fete runes west of }faPm1s k'eakr er.ter!dinr; east to the