The Elbert County tribune., 1903-08-06
Facts About Colorado.


Facts About Colorado.
The newspapers of the state are print
ed on paper made in Denver.
Colorado produced s2s,517.il7A6 in
gold in the year 1902.
Colorado produced ss,315, ,l9229 in sill
yer in 1902.
Colorado produced s4,325 ,44s.29 in
lead in 1902.
Colorado produced s1.ooe, ,I0s3l in
copper in 1902.
Colorado produced s2,544, ,so3. As in zinc
in 1902.
The farm products in 1902 amounted
to s62,0O0,OO.
The value of live stock in Colorado in
1902 is estimated at sI5,ooo,OoO
Nearly four million acres of land are
irrigated by farmers in the state.
Colorado has an area of 1882 square
miles with population of $4,000.
Gold and silver are mined in forty of
the fifty-six counties in the state.
The highest mountain peak in the
state in Sierra Blanca, 14,4S3 feet high.
Nearly 100000 yards of cloth were
woven by the cotton mill at Denver last
year.
The Touring mills of Colorado turn
out annually over 100000 half barrel
sacks of four.
Colorado produced 100000 worth of
beet sugar and the industry is but five
years old.
Stone for lithographic work, equal to
that produced in Germany, is being
mined in Colorado
The coal fields of Colorado cover over
$1,000 square miles with 45,Oo0,OOo,OOo
tons of available coal.
We have 10000 miles of irrigation ca
mails and large bitches in the state. This
does not include unrecorded bitches.
There are 125 mountains in the state
whose peaks are over two miles above
the sea level, forty of which are over H.
900 feet high.
The oil wells, at Florence alone, are
producing 10000 barrels of petroleum
annually and other fields are being dis
covered.
Colorado has variety of mineral and
medicinal springs that will cure almost
all diseases that we are heir to.
The coal mines of Colorado produced
in 1902 100000 tons of coal; mine value
being over sl2,OOO,Ooo.
Colorado's iron and steel output for
1902 was worth over s1O,oo0,oo0.
Colorado has produced in valuable
metals, since the first mining began, not
including iron, s772, ,l42,3is.
Colorado leads all states in the union
in the production of gold.
Colorado is the greatest silver produc-
ing state in the union.
There were marketed over 100000
worth of poultry and eggs in 1902.
There are l45,oOo acres of orchards in
the state.
Colorado is 800 miles from east to west
and go miles from north to south
larger than the combined area of New
York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts,, Con
necticut and Delaware.
Colorado produces marble. of all colors,
granite the finest in the United States,
and sandstone of all kinds of texture and
colors.
Colorado peaches outrank the Della
ware peaches. Our apples, Strawberries
and melons equal any other states or
countrys' production.
There arc over twenty different com
panies in the state manufacturing min
ing machinery of every description, which
is in use in almost every mining camp in
the world, and the demand is steadily
increasing
Over s105,0Oo0O0 worth OF manufac-
tured goods were produced in the state
last year.
The public schools of the state rank as
high as in any state in the union and the
standard is equal to that of eastern com
munities.
The laboring people of Colorado re-
ceive the highest wages paid in the
United States.
Colorado farmers receive the highest
prices for their products of any state in
the union.
Colorado scenery equals any and ex-
GELS most Of that OF foreign countries.
The average yield OF potatoes in irri-
gated Colorado is $50 bushels per acre
and they are uorll reunwnad