It’s the time of year when the irrigation ditches start running. Bill Jackson has a short article about the Godfrey ditch located between Evans and La Salle running in The Greeley Tribune. From the article:
Officials with the ditch company celebrated the 140th anniversary of the 1870 water right that takes water from the South Platte River east of here to irrigate about 1,000 acres of farmland. That farmland is along what is known as the Godfrey Bottoms, a fertile piece of ground that separates Evans and La Salle. The ditch was started by Holun Godfrey, who came to the area in the 1860s from eastern Colorado and started an irrigated farming operation.
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