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irrigation. In 1899 Weld county had under irrigation 226,613 acres, representing an increase of 102.2% since 1889, and a much larger irrigated See also:

AREA

area than in any other county of the state. Irrigation ditches are supplied with See also:

WATER

water chiefly from the Cache la Poudre, Big See also:

Thompson and See also:

South See also:

PLATTE (so named, from the• French, because of its shallowness), or NEBRASKA

Platte See also:

rivers, near the foothills. The See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal crops are potatoes, See also:

SUGAR

sugar See also:

BEETS, NIKOLAAS (1814-1903)

beets, onions, cabbages and peas; in 1899 Weld county raised 2,821,285 bushels of potatoes on 23,195 acres (53% of the See also:

potato acreage for the entire state).

The manufacture of See also:

BEET

beet sugar is a growing See also:

INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry, a large factory having been established at Greeley in 1901. Beets are also grown as See also:

food for live stock, especially See also:

sheep. Peas, tomatoes, cabbages and onions are canned here. Greeley was founded in 187o by Nathan See also:

Cook Meeker (1817-1879), agricultural editor of the New See also:

York See also:

TRIBUNE (med. Lat. tribune, from classical Lat. tribunal)

Tribune. With the support of See also:

HORACE [QuINTus HORATIUS FLACCUS] (65-8 B.C.)

Horace Greeley (in whose See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour the See also:

TOWN

town was named), he began in 1869 to See also:

ADVOCATE (Lat. advocatus, from advocare, to summon, especially in law to call in the aid of a counsel or witness, and so generally to summon to one's assistance)

advocate in The Tribune the See also:

FOUNDING (from Lat. fundere, to pour)

founding of an agricultural See also:

COLONY (Lat. colonia, from colonus, a cultivator)

colony in Colorado. Subsequently See also:

PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

President See also:

HAYES, RUTHERFORD BIRCHARD (1822–1893)

Hayes appointed him See also:

INDIAN

Indian See also:

AGENT (from Lat. agere, to act)

agent at See also:

White See also:

RIVER

River, Colorado, and he was killed at what is now Meeker, Colorado, in an uprising of the See also:

Ute See also:

INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

Indians. Under Meeker's See also:

SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)

scheme, which attracted mainly See also:

PEOPLE

people from New See also:

England and New York state, most of whom were able to contribute at least a little See also:

capital, the Union Colony of Colorado was organized and chartered, and bought originally 11,000 acres of See also:

LAND

land, each member being entitled to buy from it one See also:

RESIDENCE (Latin residere, to remain behind, to dwell, reside)

residence See also:

lot, one business lot, and a See also:

TRACT (from Lat. tractare, to treat of a matter, through Provencal tractat and Ital. trattato)

tract of See also:

FARM

farm land.

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