Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-03-15
COLORADO'S VAST ADVAN.
TAGES.

While the prosperity Of many other
States rests on a single resource or a
single industry, the prostration OF
which, in times OF commercial or finan-
cial distress, produces widespread disas-
ter, Colorado presents numerous ave-
nues Of production which all lead to
competence and wealth Her vast de-
posts of gold, silver, iron, copper, lead,
coal, petroleum, building stone and 9TH
or minerals and metals, assure every
variety of mining industry; her fields
and productive soil and abundant water
supply are giving rise to all the diversi-
fed forms Of agriculture and horticul-
ture; an unexcelled water power and the
cheapness Of fuel unite for the develop
ment of manufactures as varied as hui
man skill; cattle raising and feeding ex-
list under tho most favorable conditions;
rare, bracing climate assures health to
Ml; schools and churches and vol or
dered social system denote the mteli-
gent regard of her people for the highest
interests Of civilization, these, in brief,
constitute the Inducements which Colo
RADIO holds out to those who are looking
for homes in the Rocky Mountains.
THE MINERAL WEALTH.
Mining in all its branches affords OPP
portunites for Investment or for labor.
The gold belt extends from northeast to
southwest across the entire State, and
yielded last year $7S02, 453, an increase
of over $4,000, 900 over 1892. New camps
are being opened, new mines discovered,
old camps revived and old mines re-
opened, all atfording employment for
thousands Of men, and warrauting the
prediction that the gold prod
uct OF the state will approximate
1874, 100000 in 1894. Since the new
gold excitement commenced over fifty
new gold camps have been established
in twenty-one counties. With restora-
ton of the price of silver, the mining
of tho white metal will instantly revive.
The coal fields of the state aggregate
many thousands of square miles, whose
product has increased from 60,977 tons
in 1873 to 100000 in 1898, and the
production in 1892 was 3,771, 234 tons.
The market for the product exists all
over tho ns-Mississippi country, cast
ward to the Mississippi river and south
ward to tho Texas coast on the Gulf.
The vast deposits Of iron ore are only
beginning to DO developed, tho value of
the product for 1898 having been g.
97O,SS9 Tho iron and coal resources of
the state are the foundation of an indus
try that will be second only to the min
ing OF the precious metals. The quarry
ing industry of granite, red and white
and marble finds its encour-
agement in the largo demand for build
ing stone and paving blocks, even as far
east as Chicago. Certainly here are OPP
portunities for those who wish to en-
gage in mining which no other state can
rival or surpass.
AGRICULTURE AND HOTICUIi-
TURE.
Agriculture will next claim the atten-
zion of the homo seeker in the far West.
There are 10000 miles of irrigation ca.
nails in the State, representing 500, 000,-
200 in value. They cover 5000, 900 acres
If land, 100000 acres of which are
actually cultivated. Wheat, oats, barley,
'orn, alfalfa, potatoes, all Of the grains
grasses and vegetables flourish album
iantly and return tho highest known
,ield per acre. The wheat crop last year
vas 100000 bushels. The value of the
potato crop was nearly $1,500,000, and |
ound sale from Augusta, Georgia, to
San Francisco, California The value of
he alfalfa crop was $4,900,000, and the
otal agricultural output of the state,
lot including fruit, was larger than the
'ield Of the mines.
Horticulture is the coming industry.
fifteen years ago there was hardly an
richard in the state. Now there are 49,.
90 acres in fruit, one-third Of which
as come in bearing and which yielded
lst year $2,250,000 to the fruit grow
RS. The extent Of the demand is shown
l that hundreds of carloads Of fruit are
nnually imported from California. This
nport the fruit growers of Colorado are
early diminishing. Soil and climate com
inc torender the mountain valleyso OF Col
RADIO the homo of the apple, the peach,
40 pear, the apricot, the grape, the
lum, the cherry, while all the small
'uits, like raspberries and Strawberries,
row luxuriantly and yield POLITICALLY.
or the past six years q ten-acre fruit
rm at Canon City has paid a net prof
of between $500 and $500 per acre
lch year. Last year n fifteen acre farm
the Grand Valley near Grand juno.
on, yielded $3,SO05O in peaches, pears,
lerries, plums, apricots, strawberries,
spberries, etc.
Other forms Of agriculture arc extern
vely practiced Dairying, agriculture,
,ultry raising, the feeding of sheep and
title for the Chicago and other eastern
arkets, are all profitable industries.
DOL growing has long been a recog-
zed source Of resource, as well as the
Using Of cattle. There is no form of
;riculture but opens every inducement
r success in tho State.
Manufacturing is fast assuming largo
oportions. In the City Of Denver alone
1893 there was manufactured prod a
Il Of $37, 173,1l0 and the total for the
ate is at least double that amount. /
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