The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1900-10-05
Our UndeveIoped Resources.

| W Oh Immense value.
There is not state in the union that
possesses greater natural wealth or
better opportunities for the future and
it is the hope of each citizen to share
in the benefits that are sure to come
from the progress of our common
wealth.
This is what draws people to new
country. People do not give up their
old homes and their former friends
and associates and business relations
merely for the sake of the change. 1t
is because the newer country offers
better opportunities for themselves and
their children, and successively from
east to west these promises have been
realized in the largest measure by the
development of the United States. In
every community of the east to-day the
leading families are usually those
established upon the foresight of the
pioneers. In some cases it was trad
ing in furs with the Indians TIL at laid
the found alton of colossal fortunes, in
others it was the establishment of some
means of transportation in years before
competition was known, and in others
it was the securing of real estate in
some particularly favorable location
In Colorado today the people OF the
state are laying the foundation of it's
future greatness and those who are
possessed by those of older states,
and such as will not come again if
neglected now. Every part of our
great domain is throbbing with life
and therefore with growth, and the
person who watches his chances can
not fail to share in the reward. What
other region can show anything to
compare with the great fortunes that
have been made within a few years
out of Cripple Greek gold mines. And
yet for every dollar that has been
counted out to the millionaires
thousand others have gone to the
smaller stockholders of the successful
companies, and to the workingmen
who have been engaged in digging out
the ore from the mountains. And in
many parts of the state undiscovered
Cripple Creek wait their turn to endow
their fortunate discoveries.
Every owner of property in Colo
rado, in city or in country, every miner
or ranchman, every citizen even though
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brain that can think or a pair of hands
ready for honest work, is partner in
the commonwealth, and it depends
upon himself to secure the share that
belongs to him.
Within the next few years the state
will double in popul alton. Its wealth
will rapidly increase, its cities and
towns will be enlarged, it's mines and
its mills will be multiplied. and the
value of real estate rapidly dvanced.
With increasing population the op-
portunities for wealth will diminish as
they have in other states. Not all the
people who live in Colorado then will
have an equal chance for the rewards
to be distributed. But all living here
now may do so. The great prizes of
successful mining, the rewards of
shrewd investment in real estate, the
fortunes that are built by steady indus
try and thrift, are as yet undisturbed,
and they will be given with an impair
tial hand to those who can gain them.
The young men of Colorado enjoy
opportunities today such as have never
been surpassed anywhere at any time.
The virgin soil of our fields, the un-
touched resources of our mountains,
the industrial opportunities that await
the proper touch of a guiding hand,
are raw material with which magnii-
cent structures may be reared.
Developments across the Pacific seem
about to free us from dependence upon
the east and from competition with it's
crowded workshops. The demands of
Pacific commerce will enhance the
value of our products and stimulate
our industries to a degree that we are
only beginning to appreciate. Within
score of years Colorado will outstrip
the country's growth of older COM
munities, and our progress will be the
marvel and envy of all whom we are
surrounded.
OF our material prosperity there can
be no doubt, but it will be we'll for the
state if Our inte1lertual develonment
and the maintenance of a high stand
ard of public life and political morals
be not overlooked. Good business
judgment demands high standards of
thought and action, common among
all our people and enforced by the
strong power of public sentiment.
Only in this way can the most be made
of our material resources and the best