The La Jara chronicle., 1906-12-14
WONDERS OF COLORADO.
The World Should Be Informed Of Its
Marvellous Resources.

yestment, and when he returned 10
Colorado he realized more fully than
ever that there is no other state or
territory which offers such induce
ments as his home state Yes
terday he furnished reasons for the
faith that is in him and gave a won
derfully interesting survey of the gi-
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 it has yet
good way to go 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
recent visit to New York" said Mr..
Guggenheim. During the three
weeks ] was away | read several in
terviews in the Denver papers regard
ing a semi-centennial celebration for
this city. / am heartily in favor of 1t.
1 DtaltNe we SHo" INC WIN
what Colorado has to offer. Our great
need is people who will come here with
money to invest or who are ambitious
Ito become citizens of the state. The
great need of the people of the East
lis opportunity for investment and
Employment. 1t is certain thai people
lwho are looking for new locations or
investments will pass us by unless we
reveal to them the Notwithstanding
possibilities of this state.
when ! say we can astonish the
world | mean it. talked with
building contractor in New York who
was employing men excavating base
ment for s1.25 a day. When | told
him the beet growers of Colorado
would pay $500 day for those men,
and board them, he was astcnished.
It reminded me of the days when Colo
rado people doubted the men who said
the sugar industry in this state nau
great future.
II recall visiting the first sugar fac
tory ut Grand Junction six years ago
when it was standing idle, and near
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 beets are piled in the helds
because the tillers of the SOIL
have outstrlpped the headlone
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 dozen years.
Il wish we could exhibit to the
world the marvellous strides in the de-
velopment of our agricultural lands
Coming into Denver the other day
over the Burlington l saw scores OF
prosperous farmhouses between here
and Otis, 1875 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 l saw evidence
that the Colorado land agent was at
work. | can remember the time when
you couldn't find a man selling Colo
rado land II you were to tell the
wonderful advance of the prices of ag-
ricultural lands of Colorado to east
ern people they would not believe you.
tThey need such an object lesson as
Ian exposition would provide. When
old New Workers that in the past five
years the area of irrigated land in
northern Colorado had increased nj
teen per cent, while the aggregate
kalue had actually doubled, they
thought we were having boom l
told them our San Luis valley irrigated
acreage had increased twenty per
cent and that over on the western
slope and down in the Arkansas val
Jey the irrigated acreage had doubled
and the value increased twenty hVe
per cent, 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 be 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 SIS an acre.
1.-THE Union Pacific railroad had for
years great difficulty in selling land
for s5 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
s15O an acre; 10000 acres have re
Gently been sold there for $3.50 an
acre.
THE Bijou ranch. in Elbert county,
80. 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
seet of water a second in the aggre-
gate will water $4,000 acres. The lars
est of these bitches, when empty. can
be used for road where heavy wag
ons can easily pass. Five years ago
Routt county was practically cut off
from the world. Can any man now