The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1906-11-23

their own. Tney think that if they en-
courage the investment of money in
som ebody else's proposition they may
not be able to get what they need for
themselves.
Gentlemen, tell you that there is no
more mistaken idea in the world. There
is enough money in the east to promote
every dormant enterprise and resource
in this great state of Colorado and it
will be put into the state quickly, will
lingly and cheerfully if only the truth
can be told convincingly.
1t cannot be done in a few months.
If campaign of education is started.
it must be started with the idea of
maintaining it over period of years.
There is prejudice in many eastern
minds against the state of Colorado.
The work that we have done in the
past year and half has helped to re-
move this prejudice, but, what we have
done is only drop in the bucket, to
what should be done.
We have found that in interesting
people in our marble enterprises. we
had not only to tell them about marble
in general, and our marble in particular,
but we had to teach them the geography,
history and geology of Colorado.
We have interested four hundred peo-
pie, as shareholders in our enterprise.
and these people at least believe in
Colorado and its prophets.
In interesting these four hundred peo-
pie. we have probably addressed one
hundred thousand people. We have sent
them letters and literature persistently
and continuously and we cannot help
believing that a good many of them
think better of Colorado now than the y
did when we started.
The work that we have done will
make it easier for the next Colorado
enterprise to secure eastern money. and
when our four hundred shareholders get
to spending their profits, that will help
a whole lot. But all this is slow process.
The climate of Colorado is extremely
healthful, but do not believe that any
Of US will live more than three or four
hundred years. and, at the present rate
of progress, it will tske just about that
long to bring Colorado to the point at
which she should arrive within ten years.
There are two things that Colorado
needs-people and capital and they must
come together and from the same source,
that is, from the east. There are peo-
pie and capital plenty. People who
would come here and capital that would
be sent if the truth were only known.
l wonder if you have even faint con-
ception of what Colorado would be if it
had the population of Pennsylvania?
In my own mind l always compare
Colorado to Pennsylvania for the rea-
son that most of the wealth of both
states is in the ground. In coal, stone
and minerals, Colorado has everything
that Pennsylvania has. and in addition,
its wonderful and continuous produc-
ton of gold and silver.
There are seven millions of people in
Pennsylvania. Can you picture Colorado
with that many people? Can you see
Denver with a million inhabitants and
Fort Collins as big as Denver now is?
Can you even imagine the total pro-
duct Of the farms. mines. quarries and
factories under such conditions? Why.
it would make the great state of
Pennsylvania look small.
With seven millions of people. Colo
rado would be the richest and most
wonderful state that the world has ev-
er known.
Population and capital can be Sc
cured. There is no question about it.
1t looks like large order. but it can
be filled.
There is already made, and right at
your hands. power through which the
truth can be driven home. 1t is the
same power that builds up all the great
businesses of the world. 1t is the
power of advertising. exemphtied main
ly in the daily press of the country.
Advertising well done and properly
followed up is the greatest engine in
the world. You can move anything
with it. The morning papers will ad-
vertise your dry goods, and before the
doors are open the people will be wait
ing to break in and buy.
The possessions and resources of Col
orado ought to be advertised on the
same principle that merchant
advertises his stock of goods. or man.
ufacturer tells of his product
l do not by any means mean that
newspaper or magazine advertising
will do it all. The work that has been
done in the way of travelling exhibits.