Bent County register., 1886-08-14
LAMAR.
The Government Land Office 10
Gated There Yesterday.
HOW IT HAS BOOMED.
In the Past Eight Weeks-What
Fine Business Capacity has Ac-
complished.
A GOOD PLACE TO INVEST.
If you Want to Make Money Surely
and Quickly.


From the Topeka Capitol.
To pluck and energy there is no
such word as fail 1t is the indom-
liable will that wins. A recent ex-
emplification of this is manifested
in the town of Lamar, thirty miles
west of the western line OF Kansas.
The motive power that made Garden
City, few days ago, seeing the gov
eminent lands Of Kansas were near.
ly all absorbed, recognized the fact
that EASTERN Colorado was 10 be the
field next to be invaded by the tide
of emigration. The means to han
die it were inadequate. The land
Office was away off at Pueblo. The
cost of getting to and from it was
too great. The lands were fine.
The sand hills had disappeared. Tim
ber was more plentiful. The soil
produced luxuriantly. All the ele-
ments for fine, thrift, prosperous
country were there. The only ques-
ton was how 10 get the people there
TO see it, and care for them while
doing 40.
The energy and business tact that
built Garden City was aroused and
grappled with the problem. Politi-
cal influence wss sought to divide
the Colorado land district and make
, land Office in the fine lands of cas-
tern Colorado. The effort was suc.
cessful. In less than two months n
bill was proposed, introduced into
congress, passed through, and signed
by the president and the new town
of Lamar has the land office for n
district for 10000, 900 acres of superb
land, divided in half by the Santa
Fe railway, and with government
land at a minimum price of 4l.25
per acre coming right npto hetrack.
No going ten miles from the rail.
road ou. there in order to get low
priced land.
This land Office means grcatdcs.l
for town. 1t means town full of
people. 1t means groceries and stores
crowded with customers. 1t mean.
hotels and restaurants taxed to their
utmost to feed aud care for the peo-
pie who have to go there. Divide
ten million acres up into quarter
sections and compute the number of
people that it will pass through the
institution At Lamar, called the land
Office and you will catch the idea.
But not only this. That great cor
porstiOn, the Santa Fe railway is
backing this infant prodigy. The
same business sagacity enlisted it,
and It at once gave Lamar a fine de-
pot and splendid sidings. 1t also
erected large cattle yards, where hun
dreds of cattle ure now daily shipped,
for the cattlcmen have not been
asleep as TO the fine grazing of this
region, but yearly coined thousands
and tens of thousands of dollars from
its luxuriant grasses. They are the
exports. The other siding is con-
stantly crowded with cars Of lumber,
coal and merchandise, while the
main track daily pours out tide of
humanity. They are the imports.
Less than eight weeks old, Lamar
has a bundled houses, and business
in proportion. Among these is fine
hotel of thirty-four rooms, besides
several smaller ones, aud all pushed
to care for the persons drawn here
by the business opportunities offered
and the fine lands in the market.
There are stores, lumber yards,
bank on q solid basis, and all the
things which go to make up wide
awake, bustling, town
To get their postOffice was nice
problem. After naming their town
Lamar it was found there was already
a post-office of that name in the state.
Nothing daunted, the energy behind
Lamar went to work, had the post
Office of Lamar, Pueblo county dis
and that of Lamar, Bent
established fact which We
venture TO assert is without a parallel.
But there was will to do it, and