. The fertile lands of Colorado and northern New Mexico .. . of flood and of famine, flows steadily all summerand all winter. The total annual flow of the river is more than 3,000,000 THE FERTILE LANDS OF COLORADO 83 acre feet of water, and there is never a stage of the river when there is notwater enough in it to take care easily of 200,000 acres of land. The total ofall lands irrigable from the Grand River is about 175,000 acres. The greaterpart of its journey from the mountains to the Gulf of California is in narrowvalleys and deep canons, but in Colorado it opens out in the Grand Valleywit
. The fertile lands of Colorado and northern New Mexico .. . of flood and of famine, flows steadily all summerand all winter. The total annual flow of the river is more than 3,000,000 THE FERTILE LANDS OF COLORADO 83 acre feet of water, and there is never a stage of the river when there is notwater enough in it to take care easily of 200,000 acres of land. The total ofall lands irrigable from the Grand River is about 175,000 acres. The greaterpart of its journey from the mountains to the Gulf of California is in narrowvalleys and deep canons, but in Colorado it opens out in the Grand Valleywith about 200,000 acres of lands, some irrigable from the river and some fromthe side streams. The upper courses of the river are through almost every known kind ofrock. There are cations in granite and caiions in quartzite, canons of lime-stone and canons of gypsum; and the soil of the mesas and valleys below isformed of the fine materials from all these rocks, ground and reground,mixed and blended into loams which contain every valuable mineral element—. Copyright, 1909, by F. E. Dean Packing Colorados Famous Apples, in the Grand River Valley potash and phosphorus, lime and sulphur, silica and carbon, iron and evengold and silver. Given a touch of water and a little nitrogen, and the mesasand valleys are ready to spring into a fertility which could only be approachedin other localities by the addition of tons of chemical fertilizers to each acreof soil. Into this land of opportunity has come a population of exceptionally finecharacter. Elbert Hubbard, noted as a lecturer, traveler, observer andwriter, has said of the Grand Valley: Grand Junction, Colorado, is in the center of the GREATEST APPLEPRODUCING COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. For a stretch of twenty milesthe land is one laughing garden of flowers and fruit. * * * I am not atall sure whether Grand Junction apples are bought by eastern buyers on thetrees at five cents each because God has smiled on that particular valley, orbeca
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