The daily sentinel., 1903-05-01

Therein may be found the key of
Nothing exists without labor Nature
labored and the mountain peaks evolv-
ed. The tiny rivulet worked its way
to the broad river and the river in
turn cut its path to the mighty ocean.
Man must COPY nature to succeed.
Colorado, of all places is averse to
the idler. The glorious air of the
mountains does not breed them nor
does success follow their trans plant
ing. This is essentially the field of
the worker.
Where Grand Junction stands, the
Utes found their habitation but a
score of years ago. They have passed
and left nothing more substantial
than the framework of dream.
They were an incubus in the resistless
evolution of progress and went down
before the race that by labor conquers.
There is a current of humanity
flowing in n steady stream westward
toward the Pacific ocean. So great
is the throng that it resembles an in
vasion. Many may be classed as
tourists, but many more come to
make Colorado their future home.
Most of these homeseekers possess
sufficient financial means to either
purchase developed property or to
make new home places, and this class
is especially welcomed in this region
of unfolding beauty and richness.
A half century and more ago an
other army passed by on its painful
march to the setting sun. 1t was the
pioneer gold seekers. faring forth,
like Jason and the Argonauts of old,
in quest of the golden fleece. Also
there struggled past the early Nor
mons, searching an Utopian i.'etreat
where they might find freedo - lnm
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worship God as their conscience
dictated.
These pioneers, who found their
way along the valleys of the Arkan-
sas, the Gunnison and the Grand, to
the goal further to the west, were the
hardy men and women who made
great the commonwealth of California,
Utah aud Nevada. AS so often hap
pens in life, their eyes We're focused
not on things about them but to a
distant range. They could not know
that what was then the great Ameri-
can desert should some day blossom
and bloom like another Eden. They
had heard there was gold at the end
of their travels, but did not dream
that their feet We're pressing stores
of it such as the world had never
known.
So it is that history in degree is
repeating itself. Yesterday the Ar
gonauts passed Colorado by hunting
the golden fleece, which many found
and many, many more did not. To-
day the tourists, as blind as their
fathers, stream past unheeding, striv-
ing for some will-o' -the-wisp whose
light flashes farther and farther in
the distance.
Out of all this passing tide, how
ever, Colorado is year by year gaining
a large quota. California holds less
allurements than in the past. Colorado
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production and is rapidly going after
their laurels as fruit-producer. We
are nearer the population center, ac
cessible to the eastern markets, have
cheaper lands. more water, greater
natural resources and better climate
than California or any other state of
the Union. These assets any one can
make available by coming to Colorado
and going intelligently to work
Colorado, from top to toe and
through and through, presents a fair
"a beautiful picture. But as there
is always some predominating feature
in the rarest works of nature or art, so
there is some spot choicer than all
the rest even in Colorado. And we
in this nook of the Grand valley be-
lieve we have found it.
Tie climatic conditions are proba-
bly, as near perfect as can be found in
Colorado or elsewhere. 1t is temper
ate the year round, but particularly
delightful during autumn and winter
and euuable throughout the season