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F OR A proper setting to this story about the Independ- ence Pass Transmountain Diversion Project of The Twin Lakes Reservoir and Canal Company, a few facts relating to the early history of Crowley County and of The Twin Lakes Reservoir and Canal Company should be given.Prior to 1890, what is now Crowley County, Colorado, was the dry, unwatered portion of Otero County, lying north of the Arkansas River, and was known as the "Range," and would have been aptly described by the words of a popular song: "Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam,Where the deer and the anteloie play, Where never is heard a discouraging word, And the skies are not cloudy all day."About 1890, T. C. Henry, the promoter and builder of many of the large irrigation canals in Colorado, seeking new dry lands to conquer and convert into wheat and corn fields.discovered that the soil of the tract of land now under the Twin Lakes system, and then under the buffalo grass, was extremely fertile and would yield abundant and varied crops, and could be sold for a profit, if water could be found and brought to the land.With the ardor and energy of an enthusiast, Mr. Henry waved his magic wand and money flowed to him and he, until he-was halted by the panic of 1893, and his creditors afterward, built the "Bob Creek Canal," now known as the "Colorado Canal."The Colorado Canal takes water from the Arkansas River eighteen miles east of Pueblo and is about fifty miles in length, with a width of 45 feet and can carry the 756.28 cubic feet of water per second of time, decreed to it from the Arkansas River as of June 9, 1890.109
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