The Springfield herald., 1906-12-14
WONDERS OF COLORADO.
The World Should Be Informed Of Its
Marvellous Resources.

The World Should Be Informed Of Its
Marvellous Resources.
In New York, where he spent three
weeks recently, Simon Guge geenheim
of the American Smelling and Rein
ing Company. found eastern investors
eagerly looking for places Of sound in
yestment, and when he returned to
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
ter1ay he furnished reasons for the
faith that is In him and gave n won
derfully 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 a trained business
man OF sound judgment and his state
ments carry force and conviction.
II 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 l read several in.
terviews In the Denver papers regard
ing a semi-centennial celebration for
this city. am heartily in favor OF 1t.
! 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
to become citizens of the state The
great need of the people of the 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 Notwithstanding
Of ct at
when l say we can astOnish the
world mean it. talked with a
building contractor in New York who
was employing men excavating base
ment for s125 a day. When / told
him the beet growers of Colorado
would pay $500 day for those men
and board them. he was astonished
II recall visiting the first sugar fac
tory at Grand Junction six years age
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 ton.
OF sugar every twenty-four hours
and beets are piled In the fields
have .outstripped the headlonl
pace at which capital has beer
preparing to care for what they raise
It would take eastern people man!
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 o.
prosperous farmhouses between herr
and Otis, 1876 miles east, which wert
built In the past year. The short
grass country in Washington ant
Yuma counties is coming into its own
All the way to Chicago saw evidence
that the Colorado land agent was a
work. can remember the time wher
you couldn't find a man selling Colo
RADIO land If yoa were to tell the
wonderful advance of the prices of as
ricultural lands Of Colorado to east
ern people they would not believe you
They need such an object lesson al
an exposition would provide. When
teld New Workers that in the past f1vt
years the area of irrigated land II
northern Colorado had increased fl
teen per cent. while the aggregate
value had actually doubled, the!
thought we were having boom
told them our San Luis valley irrigated
acreage had increased twenty pc
cent. and that over on the western
slope and down in the Arkansas val
ley the irrigated acreage had doubled
and the value increased twenty fiv'
per cent, assul 'ng them there was n,
land boom nor any effort to make one
"You know in the East farm land'
are actually depreciating. II they onl!
ren1iEed what we have here, thu
scenes at the opening of government
reservation would be duplicated. Fiv'
years ago what is now called dr.
farming land, was being sold TO
taxes. This was In the short grass
region of eastern Colorado and in thu
section far north Of Greeley. Now thi'
land sells for $40 and SIS an acre:
"The Union Pacific railroad had fo
years great difficulty in selling Liant
for s. an acre. In Kit Carson count!
some friends OF mine recently paid 81
an aero for land that the railroad
wanted to sell five years ago at an!
price. Two years ago ranches out II
Adams county were going begging a
$1.5o an acre; 10000 acres have re
Gently been sold there for $3.50 al
acre.
"The Bijou ranch, in Elbert county
10000 acres, has recently been sold
the poorest of 1t bringing $3.50 and thu
best $40 an acre. Three years ago $
an acre was the highest offer the.
cOuu get III Mohtiooe so"hty, 90
result of the government tunnel, lant
which absolutely had no value few
years ago is selling at an average price
of $40 an acre. Over in Routt count,
four big bitches carrying 1900 cubi,
feet of water a second In the asgre
gate will water $4,000 acres. The larg
est OF these bitches. when empty. cal
be used for n road where heavy was
ons can easily pass. Five years age
Routt county was practically cut OF
from the world. Can any man nov
living set limit on the possibilitie:
of Colorado agriculture or say wher'
this steady growth will end? The lant
in Larimer and Weld counties, once 81
cheap and now hardly to be had Al
any price. Is an example that aston
ishes all who hear of that agricul
tural marvel.