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Denver Dec 11 78 [1878]
My Dear Mr Barnum
Yesterday A.C. Fisk
ask me what you were going
to do with Villa Park. Burnell
the Merchant-Taylor who has lived
there for a year or so has come
over to town to live. And the
place is vacant. Fisk, who is
one of the must active and energetic
real estate men in town, says
all your land is now covered
by a new ditch, known as the
“Bancroft ditch.” And that by
purchasing $200 or $300 worth of
stock in it, you would have
ample supply of water for your
lands. And that were to water
supply sure you could rent the
lands for $2 or $3 of $4 per acre for
raising wheat. Mr. Fisk wants
to know what rent you will
take for the entire property for