SAN LUIS VALLEY, COLORADO. THE TRINCHERA ESTATE COMPANY, OWNERS of 450,000 acres of land in one solid block. Now offer 40,000 acres choice farm land, under irrigation, for sale cheap and on easy terms. Also choice Fruit Lands in Colorado for sale, which to-day successfully compete with California. Positively without competition to-day as to price, quality and location. C. B. NELSON, Gen. Agt. ROOM 19, 1605 LARIMER STREET. Denver, Colorado, July 13th 1890 President Woodruff ...

place before you such facts as we may have in regards to these Lands. Hoping to hear from you I have the honor to remain very respectfully your's. W. H. Richey, agt. [sideways text] W. H. Richey 13 July, 1890. [end of sideways text] [sideways text] This cut represents a true copy of a PHOTOGRAPH OF SAMPLES in my possession, raised by Fort Garland in 1889. The highest Oats are 6 1/2 FEET HIGH. The Wheat was raised on land broke in the ...

January 7, 1890. THE TRINCHERA ESTATE. (Northern portion of the Sangre de Cristo Grant.) The Sangre de Cristo Grant occupies most of the eastern and southern portion of the San Luis Valley in Southern Colorado, and extends a short distance into New Mexico. Its title is perfect and a United States patent has been issued therefor, as Grant No. 4, containing 998,780. 46 acres. It is bounded on the northeast and east by the crest of the

much the more valuable half of the property. Since the di- vision the lower portion has been known as the Costilla Es- tate and the upper portion as the Trinchera Estate. The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad enters the Trin- chera Estate at the summit of Veta Pass and traverses it in a generally south-westerly direction for about thirty miles, almost bisecting it. Fort Garland, the military post of the San Luis Valley, is situated near the center of the Es- tate, and now belongs to the ...

oats, wheat, potatoes and other garden vegetables. The cli- mate is not adapted to the growth of Indian corn. The whole country forms an excellent cattle range. The streams which rise from the lofty mountains above referred to are so nume- rous that the entire property is amply supplied with water at convenient distances for stock purposes as well as for ir- rigation where the lay of the land is suitable for that pur- pose. Usually, during the summer months the cattle frequent the open country lying between the foothills and the

pecting in the mountainous portion of the Grant has been carried on to a very limited extent. Gold mines, however, are worked on Placer Creek and Grey Back Gulch, and an iron mine called "Placer Iron Mine", of great prospective value, has been worked, for which a royalty of 25 cents per ton was paid to the Grant owners by the Colorado Coal and Iron Com- pany. 11,862 tons of iron ore have been mined. The fol- lowing is an average analysis of this ore, which at once shows it to be one ...

they not been private property; and until the owners of the Grant took active control of the property a good deal of un- authorized gold washing was carried on by little parties of miners who, whilst they made no appreciable impression on the placer ground as a whole, probably took many hundred thousand dollars in gold from the Estate. The present Com- pany has not thought fit to undertake any mining operations, inasmuch as none of the parties interested are mining men. No shafts have been sunk on the placer grounds by the Compa- ...

The Trinchera Estate contains somewhat less than 450,000 acres. The exact acreage cannot be stated, because small sales are constantly being made to settlers. The nearest town of importance is Alamosa, situated on the Rio Grande, about 12 miles north of the point where the northwestern boundary of the property touches the river. This town seems destined to become one of considerable size. It is already a railway center, from which one branch of the D. & R. G. R'd extends up the Rio Grande ...

Ditch Companies, for the purpose of irrigating large blocks of land situated to the south and west of Alamosa, which the last named Company has recently purchased from the State. Such active development on a large scale cannot fail to in- crease the value of the Trinchera Estate, which is contigu- ous to those lands. Following the example of the large ditch companies operating on the western side of the San Luis Valley the Trinchera Estate Company commenced surveys in 1887, covering the greater ...

In order to raise funds for surveys, canals and o- ther improvements, a loan of $20,000 was effected, on mort- gage of a small portion of the property not immediately re- quired for colonization purposes. This money, together with first payments on land sales, has all been judiciously used for the advancement of the property; so that the Es- tate is infinitely more valuable now than it was three years ago. Amongst the improvements the location of the new Town of Fort Garland must not be overlooked. This new Town is ...