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Lamar and Prowers County Prospects and Sugar Beet Growth
Excerpts describe Lamar as county seat of Prowers with 6,000,000 acres land district, growing irrigation reservoirs, and a rising sugar beet industry led by the Oxnard interests. Details cover beet land sales, Amity canal, and plans for three factories plus rail and agricultural expansion. Also cited is praise for Surveyor General Charles C Goodale’s efficiency in Colorado lands administration.
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Lamar
Prowers County
United States Land District
Samar
Fort Lyon
Arkansas River
la Junta
Amity Canal
Arkansas Valley Sugar Beet and Irrigated Land Company
Oxnards
American Beet Sugar Company
Rocky Ford
Oxnard
Arkansas Valley
Uncle Sam
Washington
Colorado Springs Gazette
General Land Office
Joodale
Charles C. Goodale
Denver
State of
Colorado
Hermann
Goodale
West
Surveyor General