The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1906-12-15
WONDERS OF COLORADO.
The World Should Be Informed OF ita
Marvellous Resources.

weeks recently, Simon Guseenheim
of the American Smelling AMI Rein
ing Company. found eastern investors
eagerly looking ior places of sound in
vestmcnt. and when he returned 20
Colorado he realized more fully ulan
ever that there is no other state or
territory which offers such induce
mcnts as his home state Yes.
tcrday he furnished reasons for the
faith that is in him and gave "A Won
derfullv Interesting survey Of the 81
ant strides taken by the state in re-
cent Years, and told of what is in
store in the next year or two. Mr..
Guggenheim is trained business
man OF sound Judgment and his state
ments carry force and conviction In
all departments and branches of in
dustry, in sugar beet and fruit culture,
in agriculture generally. in mining, the
state has gone ahead and il has yet
good way To 30 to reach the zenith.
The world should be made aware OF
what Colorado has to offer.
Il was never so much impressed by
the greatness of Colorado as on my
rec tent visit to New York. said Mr..
Gugganheim. During the three
weeks ] was away | read several in
terviews in the Denver papers regard
ing a sem-centennial celebration for
his city. / am heartily in favor of ii.
l believe we should show the world
what Colorado has to offer. Our great
need is people who will come here with
money to invest or who are ambitious
70 become citizens of the state The
Igreat need of the people of tho East
is opportunity for investment and
Employment. 1t is certain thai people
who are looking for new locations or
Investments will pass us by unless we
reveal to them the world d-astonishins
possibilities of this state.
L when | say we can astonish the
world ] mean it. l talked with
building contractor in New York who
was employing men eXcavating base
mcnt for SIPS a day. When | told
him the beet growers of Colorado
would pay $500 day for those men,
and hoard them, be was astCnishod.
Ii reminded me of the days when Colo
rado people doubted the men who said
the sugar industry in this state had
n great future.
Il recall visiting the first sugar fac
tory a. Grand Junction six years ago
when it was standing idle, and hear
ing people say the industry would
never be profitable here. Now our fac
tories have capacity of 10000 tons
of sugar every twenty-four hours.
and bCets are piled in the fields
because the tllers of the soil
have outstripped the headlonS
pace at which capital has been
preparing to care for what they raise.
1t would take eastern people many
years TO accomplish what we have
done in half a dozen years.
81 wish we could exhibit to the
| world the marvellous strides in the de-
| .vclopmcnt of our agricultural lands,
| Coming into Denver the other day
| over the Burlington l saw scores OF
prosperous farmhouses between here
and Otis, 1876 miles east, which were
| built in the past year The short.
grass country in Washington and
Yuma counties IS coming into its own.
| All the way to Chicago | saw evidence
| that the Colorado land agent was at
work | can remember the time when
| you couldn't find man selling Colo
RADIO land. II you were to tell the
| wonderful advance of the prices of az
ricultural lands of Colorado tC east
Iarn people they would not believe you.
| Frhcy need such an object lesson as
Ian exposition would provide. When
IoId New Workers that in the past five
years the area of irrigated land in
northern Colorado had increased fir.
| Leen per cent. while the aggregate
kalue had actually doubled, they
thought we were having a boom |
| FOLD them our San Luis valley irrigated
| lacreagc had increased twenty per
| rent and that over on the western
! slope and down in the Arkansas val
| ley the irrigated acreage had doubled
and the value increased twenty five
! per cont, assuring them there was no
| land boom nor any effort to make one,
you know in the East farm lands
are actually depreciating. If they only
| realized what we have here, the
scenes at the opening of a government
| reservation would he duplicated. Five
years ago what is now called dry
| farming land. was being sold for
taxes. This was in the short grass
| re gion of eastern Colorado and in the
! section far north of Greeley. Now this
| land sells for $40 and sl5 an acre.
"The Union Pacific railroad had for
years great difficulty in selling land
for s. an acre. In Kit Carson county
| some friends of mine recently paid $40
an acre for land that the railroad
wanted to sell five years ago at any
price Two years ago ranches out in
Adams county were going begging at
81 so an acre; 10000 acres have rc-
Gently been sold there for $3.50 an
acre.
"The Bijou ranch. in Ebert county.
| 900 acres, has recently been sold,
the poorest OF it bringing $3.50 and the
best SO an acre. Three years ago 81
an acre was the highest offer they
could get. In Montrose county, as
result OF the government tunnel, land
which absolutely had no value few
years ago is selling at an average price
| of $40 an acre. Over in Routt county
| four big bitches carrying 1900 cubic
| feet of water a second in the aggrc-
| gate will water Is 900 acres. The lare.