. The story of agriculture in the United States. An Irjeugated 1^ield showed that vegetation would grow in desert soils ifproperly watered. Great profits could be realized fromvegetables grown near the mines, so abandoned ditchesand sluices were used for irrigation. The same condi-tions also brought about irrigation near the newly dis-covered mines of the Pikes Peak region in Colorado. Another interesting story in which irrigation playeda part is that of the settlement at Greeley, 1869, Nathan C. Meeker, who was then connectedwith the New York Tribune, was encouraged by HoraceGreel
. The story of agriculture in the United States. An Irjeugated 1^ield showed that vegetation would grow in desert soils ifproperly watered. Great profits could be realized fromvegetables grown near the mines, so abandoned ditchesand sluices were used for irrigation. The same condi-tions also brought about irrigation near the newly dis-covered mines of the Pikes Peak region in Colorado. Another interesting story in which irrigation playeda part is that of the settlement at Greeley, 1869, Nathan C. Meeker, who was then connectedwith the New York Tribune, was encouraged by HoraceGreeley, the great editor of that paper, to carry out a IRRIGATION AND DRY FARMING 337 plan that he had formed for making a settlement inColorado. Soon a number of Eastern men and theirfamilies came to the site of Greeley and founded theUnion Colony of Colorado. Here the community owned the land; each person ob-tained a village lot and bought from the colony a farmbesides. The proceeds of these sales were spent inbuilding public improvements — a s
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