Cañon City record., 1906-11-29

the best small town in business way
in the state The people are pushers,
They get things They have the agri-
$50, 900 Y. NJ G. A. building. Last
year they up $1,000,000 sugar beet
plant. Last summer they raised $751;
600 for an electric railway while We
were getting ready to start in Canon.
They have fine big hotel. as good as
the Strathmore, and a new system of
water works.
Five years ago l was up there and l
didn't think Fort Collins half as good
a town as Canon, but they have been
going after things and getting them.
Fort Collins has a fine $4,000 Elks
Club building There is no bar in the
Fort Collins Elks Club. Greeley has
a nice Elks Club also. which has no
bar Neither town has saloons.
Fort Collins has a live daily paper,
The Courier. 1t is no better than The
Daily Record, but it is lots better pat
ronized The Daily Courier carries
more advertising than any weekly in
Canon City. The people OF Fort Col
Inns are noted for being the best ad-
vertisers in the state. The merchants
are of that sort who go after business
and they get it.
D. G. Kersey, who ran the Golden
Rule in Canon City ten years ago, has
developed into a big advertiser. He
began advertising in a limited way,
but found that 1t paid, and he now
pays the Courier alone about 800 a
onth for space.
The merchants of Fort Collins help
ed establish the Daily Courier just
like they go after everything else-in
a liberal manner. They say that The
Daily Courier has been a great bene-
fit to the town; that one daily will be
a benefit to any town but they don't
want any more dailies. Besides The
Courier there are two first class pros
porous weeklies-the Express and the
Democrat. Both are we'll filled with
ads.
The publishers OF the weeklies are
satisfied to let the Courier have the
daily field. Both of the weekly pub
fishers told me that it was necessary
to have a daily in the town to keep
out new competition, but that they
were glad the other fellow run it as
they were making more money out
of their weeklies than he was out of
the daily.
Boulder has two dailies and neither
is half so good as if there we're only
one in the town. Boulder isn't big
enough for two daily papers, but
neither paper is willing to get out.
Boulder is fine residence town,
better in some respects than the other
forged ahead in the past few years
like Fort Collins and Greeley.
Boulder has the state university.
She is just now building fine Y. NJ.
C. A. building.
You notice a difference in the coun
try as soon as you get on the train
at Denver going north. The c. & 8.
trains are all local and they are al
ways crowded with local people, all
friendly, good natured people. easy OF
approach.
Coming south from Denver the
trains are nearly all through trains,
and the passengers are mostly tourists
going through to the coast
Coming down from Fort Collins the
other morning on the same train was
the Denver University foot ball team.
The boys had just defeated the Aggies
the day before, and although they
were mostly all more or less tied up
n splints and court plaster, they made
IN pretty happy bunch.
They did about everything they
wanted to do In that coach. Finally
hey learned theatrical troupe that
had played in Fort Collins the night
before was in the front coach. and
they went in after them.
They brought back a quartette. Had
to bring them one at time on the
shoulders Of the boys, but they came
all right Then they forced them to
sing, and We had very jolly morn
ing Of It. The quartette was made
mp Of young fellows, and they enjoyed
the sport after being initiated.