La Junta tribune., 1904-06-18

- oLORAD0 ar.. el.i..d tie .ss.ation
tM of the VOID On sesosaat Of il. sosd
~ A.d silver which isrsd .aAy tAoss-
- ands of tAs asss esassDrisinG Asd
>Av~usurous seruss tAe vild hafssa and dan
ss..s paAi.s h % sss.. Aossssesh s.d ataos.
Ros nany ysass oi.i.g vas ~ saas o. ~ sAisf
i,au,sry; bss sooa followed Asrds q eassls,
Aoe.ss asd sAssp and the equally advsnssfoss
eDvhoy until The noaatains. vallsys and plains
uees alisd With casale, horsss sod sheep
Cities spsuAg ~ as u b. DssSe SisA tAsis
sarisd ipdnsssiss and roilruads enok IL paaes
q the OF team and saisrans vaesa- sAossssins
sAs distance and the tins bstvssa Cosorsdo
esd the States II vas later found that Color
sdo had many great rssoascss, and - ana
money poured into the STATE 70 develop then
many nads fortanss and thoa.ands veas hsoke-
Colosado's greatest resoarcs. srsaesse vsAiA
vas the last to be discovered and deveiopsd-
las fields. farms, gardens and orchards
an to talk On the f" Future OF tho Arkansas
Valley" Tbs Arkansas Valley eosprises the
southeastern part OF the State, enbsaeine the
oesrisory drained By the Arkansas river. river
runninx nor. than NJ niles within the state.
ard q terr,sory greater than I've Nsw Enxiaad
ssasss-sn empire within itsslf and With re-
souross 50 varied and rich ss TO sustain .
large populatioo almost IL not wholly independ-
sns Of the rsss Of the world and supplied With
the necessities and many Of the luAuries 81
eivilissd life.
First are its mines Of guild. silver. copper.
lead, sine. irou and coal. More sold and silver
than any other part os the United States; coal
In beds tventy-srven feet thick and iron ore OF
the fssss quality without limit. Oil has bsso
produced for many years in large quantities At
Florence. Second, its live stock, most Of which
lives ssmmer and winter without feeding.
IAers spe noss than oae-half million bead Of
eatsie, onethird million e.heep, one hundred
and nifty thousand horses and many Thousands
Of hogs. TAere is sold and Consumed yearly In
this TERRITORY e. 10000 worth Of cattle; 81 20
600 worth Of shsep and lambs; 10000 Of wool I;
$4,000 Of horses; szs0oOO Of hogs and probably
q 10000 worth Of poultry. sGss and butter.
nird, its eities. Coior.do sprinss and Canon
City, the most attractive health and pleasure
resorts; Cripple Greek and Lesdville, the two
vorld-fanous mining camps; Pueblo the com
nnercial center and metropolis, IL . railroad
eeater, has large and growing Wholesale trade
and Is Important for its manufactures. II has
she greatest steel works in the west and second
20 but few In ths World, asd posssssss several
great smelters. Trinidsd is . railroad. manu-.
facturius and Wholesale city, also voted fos It's
coal. Rocky Ford is the homo Of the canta-
loups and the most enterpsisins and widely
Known city in this territory. Thers are also La
Junta, the best business town and with the
greatest future; Las AnimAs, the greatest live
stock center, and Lamar, with the largest
farming country tributary and sugar factory
in view; Is an enterpaisins town. Sugar City v
town that rose suddsaly in tie midst OF H.
- A A. - Au~4
enterprise os the Nati6nal Sugar Conpeny
which built here nne i've hundred ton sugar
refinery. There are also Mansanola, In = fruit
county add noesd for its canning factory, and
Fowler, bssy a.d thrifty listls town with pure
cold vster and !. fertile eosatzy. Fourth,
its sosnssy snA slinass. Aillioas 81 Aoalafs
arc spent snA rsa1issd On H. climate and tAs
seeoesy. Citiss and railroads arc built and
uaineaino1 b. those rosooresa II this tesft-
sosy are Fixes Psah With IL voadsefsl cog
railsoad, Chsysa.s Canon, the caves. ninsrsl
sprinss, and, grsndess of all, ths fsnous Royal
Gorse Of tAs Askansas. where tie walls riss
S0oo ssst psrpsndiculas over yoas hesd. Coz
pare this with IL pride Of Nsw York, the
Palisades. The Palisades are 80 test high.
Fifth, aid noss Important Is it, asriculture.
when cane 70 the Arkansas Valley twenty
one years ago II was = stock country. There
vas no farming Of any coosequeacs. Tween
ty.nve years ago thsrc were bat few small
canals and these were built b. the settlers for
their own use. These demonstrated tho won
dsrful fsTtilisy of the soil asd climate and the
great variety and quantity Of its peodncts and
thus invited tAe promoter ard eapitalist Who
came later and built the great canal systems
that cover tAe rich valley and plains With water
and convert the once barren and arid land into
green fields. blooming orchards and fruitful
eardens-a transformation that distances the
imasinatiooi About the year lSe0 the climax
in canal building was rsaehed when fonr large
canals, the Holbrook, the Hishline, the Otero
and the Bob Creek, were built, and other canals
were enlarged and extended. There Is nov nne
land under these canals In the AFkansas Valley,
subject to irrigation, more than ooe-hah mil
lion acres. Not more than forty per cent Of
this Land l. under cultivation. There ID = great
abandanes a wster for all The land under the
canals, bat Il must b stored at food times
when The river il full, OF when the vatef:is NOT
needed In the winter for direct irrigation. This
water now runs 70 waste 70 tha 50, often doing
great danAes In Its Asd coasss. WAsu the
later larss canals we're built tAses Vas appaf-
emily an abundance Of water for them but,
owing 70 tAe fact that tie carly canals claimed
many tines noes vater IN thsif apppopfiations
than they had actually used, and every year
since, more land h pat in cultivation even
undsf the older canals, each eaDsl Il drawing
moro vater froa the river. The water, which
cnUacM An0oUacGaEaTS.
H. AnAca,pa. GsaA aea 4. Waaav. RAeAos.