The Lamar register., 1891-06-06
THE LAMAR REGISTER.
The cssil Pap, Of 7ssvs,s County.
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT.
Two similar States.


Colorado and Pennsylvania are similar
in many ways. it is true that the latter
is old, while our State is young. The
former is large, the other is small; one is
Western, one Eastern. The history of the
growth of Pennsylvania has much of en-
couragement for loyal Colorado citizens.
we will have reached nearly the first
rank among all States. Colorado lacks
only one thing-development of her nat
ural resources place her among the
leaders.
Pennsylvania's area is 10000 square
miles; Colorado's area is more than twice
this, or 112, 500. In each State there are
western plateaus, central mountains and
eastern plains. Pennsylvania has 3d.
100000 acres of land, of which 60 per
cent. is classed as farming land. In Col
orado there are 66S8O,OO0 acres. About
80 per cent. is not yet III farms, although
the farm products for 1891 amounted to
S45,0O0,OO0! The possibilities OF Colora-
do, in the way of agriculture, are marvel
lous. OF her total acreage, in tillable
| land there is 28.8 per cent; grass land,
% per cent; unproductive, 43.4 per cent.
For farming purposes there are some 35,-
$4,000 acres. In the cultivation of her
lands our State has the advantage over
Pennsylvania. With irrigation we are
happy and prosperous whether it rains
or not, and crop failures are thing of
the past. Including pastures, the farms
of Pennsylvania to-day are just about
equal the tillable lands ready for devel-
opment in Colorado. The annual pro-
duct of Pennsylvania farms farms is not
far from s15O,OOO,OOO
In both States the beauty of mountain
scenery is proverbial. Pennsylvania
boasts of attitudes of 5000 feet; in Dem
yer as we walk our streets, or sit in our
homes, we are 2,300 feet higher than the
peaks of Pennsylvania, while stretching
across this State the range rises grandly
above our plains reaching an altitude of
14,5O0 feet Colorado Springs lies twice
as high as any two points in the Allegha-
ny Mountains near Philadelphia. The
mineral wealth OF Colorado is vastly in
excess of Pennsylvania. The gold, cop
per and silver of the latter are hardly
found in paying quantities, while in Col
orado millions OF dollars worth (mining
output 1S90-s29, $50, ,734) are mined eve
ry year, and the surface is but scratched
as yet. 1t is said that one thousand mil
lion dollars in gold underlie the neighbor-
hood of the City OF Philadelphia, which
could be mined profitably if mans
work should ever be worth less than for
ty cents a day. One mines alone, in
Leadville, Colorado, has s14, ,00O, 600 worth
of ore Ysilver) in sight; from another mine
there s11s,OOO worth of ore has been
takeniout in one day. The State 1nspec-
tor OF Mines told your correspondent
that there was more coal in Colorado
than in Pennsylvania and any one of the
smaller coal-producing States COMBINED.
Colorado's petroleum market is in its in
fancy; yet we follow Pennsylvania in
the amount of product in this line. AL
State the natural gas industry is becom-
ing to us locally what that industry in
northwestern Pennsylvania is to-day.
Pennsylvania rate Of gain in population
during 274 years has been at the rate of
about 2 per cent. The present annual
rate of increase in Colorado is about 13
| per cent. The immigration to Pennsyl-
vania is largely foreign; to Colorado,
American. In this State we may reas,
onahly expect a population, in short
time, more than double that of Pennsyl-
yania. Before the year 1000 We should
have some 100000 souls within our
borders. The day will come when Colo
RADIO will rank among the States west of
the Mississippi river as Pennsylvania
I ranks with the Eastern States. Cilas
II. Sage in Our Bdnkers' Case.