. The fertile lands of Colorado and northern New Mexico .. . Two-Year-Old Peach Orchard at Rifle, Grand River Valley and large crops of alfalfa, potatoes and sugar beets are produced. There isalso good money made here in both small fruits and tree fruits. Silt, sixmiles below New Castle, is in the center of a wide valley. The bottom landsare watered from the Grand, but on each side are benches rising one abovethe other like orderly shelves, and the water is brought to these from sidestreams, such as Rifle Creek, Divide Creek, and Garfield Creek, watering apresent total of nearly 20,000 acres o
. The fertile lands of Colorado and northern New Mexico .. . Two-Year-Old Peach Orchard at Rifle, Grand River Valley and large crops of alfalfa, potatoes and sugar beets are produced. There isalso good money made here in both small fruits and tree fruits. Silt, sixmiles below New Castle, is in the center of a wide valley. The bottom landsare watered from the Grand, but on each side are benches rising one abovethe other like orderly shelves, and the water is brought to these from sidestreams, such as Rifle Creek, Divide Creek, and Garfield Creek, watering apresent total of nearly 20,000 acres of good lands directly tributary to Silt,on both sides of the river. By the building of reservoirs on these side streams,water can be stored to irrigate still higher benches, and the cultivated acreagemay be increased to 50,000 acres. Some of the land on these mesas, whenirrigated, is almost unbelievably rich. On the Lockhard Mesa, across theriver from Silt, the sagebrush was cleared from a field of eighty acres and itwas plowed and put into oats. The yield
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