Robert B. Wiley Jr. is a retired farmer in Boone, east of Pueblo. The Bessemer Irrigating Ditch was established more than 114 years ago by a group of farsighted and industrious men who recognized the ...
Irrigated agriculture under the Bessemer Ditch is an incomparable community asset. Few Puebloans likely realize how the convergence of soils, climatic conditions and water in Pueblo County join to ...