The Greeley tribune., 1906-06-28
SEE A LIGHT
FARMING SECTIONS COMING
INTO THEIR OWN
Agricultural Resources of State
Gradually Given the Recog-
milton They are Deserv-
ing of

The people of Colorado, especially
those in public and semi-public life,
are gradually coming to concede that
the agricultural resources of Colo
RADIO are those upon which the real
prosperity and wealth of the state
rest. Heretofore the mining inter-
estS have been the only ones to re-
ceived serious consideration. Every
thing has been, what was being done
at Cripple Creek and other mining
camps, while the farming interests
have been practically ignored. The
fact that the value of the states
farm products for several years has
overshadowed that Of the mine
products is finally drawing attention
to the greater and better wealth of
the state.
The following editorial from the
Rocky Mountain News would indi-
cate thar the farms and farmers are
at last to receive share Of the
credit for making this one of the
greatest states in the union:
''Coloradoans themselves scarcely
realize the strides made in the de-
velopment of the states irrigation
com do
cade. But throuhgout the east
widely spread irrigation propaganda
has created surprising interest in
the general subject Of irrigation, and
has fixed perspective clearer and
more rational perhaps than ours.
Imagination has made poetry" of
some of it, but the comparative and
salient superiority of irrigated agri-
cult is now conceded practically
everywhere there.
Statements of the large net pro-
ductive returns and the high figures
on Colorado lands; stories OF our at
tractive specialties-Greeley pota-
toes, Rocky Ford cantaloupes. Pali-
sade peaches, Furita Jonathans,
macaroni wheat, alfalfa, sugar beets,
etc. are printed in hundreds OF
periodicals and read by hundreds OF
thousands. The interest excited Is
akin to that which invests Southern
California with its glamor, and has
melted it's unparalleled progress.
The eastern reader carries mental
pictures of our inter-mOuntain val
leys. filled with orchards, gardens
and delightful homes, as beautiful
and as charming as the scenes ID
Moorish Spain described by Irving
half century ago.
''Monotonous and uninviting, in
deed. to the traveller who has visited
the Grand valley orchards, or has
seen the Rocky Ford gardens and the
beautiful farms of northern Colo
rado. appear the vast stretches OF
nrairie and field of Iowa and lll1-
nois, In all the east there cannot
be found so high an order OF agrlcul- :
tural development as ours, nor ever
will there De. NJ ooii %
bacon-fed landlord can ever aspire
and succeed to the plane OF lnteih-
gence, happiness or essential pros,
peritv maintained by the skilled
owner of a typical Colorado farm.
And at length the logical results
are at hand. The delayed but IN
eyitable, fruitation in prices has
come The farms and orchards OF
California are intrinsically no more
v,,nable than our own, and CONNER
c,allv we shall soon equal theirs.
We have entirely outstripped the
rich prairies of the mississippi, ana
far surnassed the famous valleys OF
the Genessee and the Susquehanna.
eft is no wonder, therefore. that
lands in Northern Colorado are be-
Ginning TO sell for 5000 to s4oo per
acre gardens in the Arkansas valley
, at $500 to $500 per acre; .orcharus III
the Grand at 5000 TO 81, 900 per acre.
And instead of the figures receolhs
they will continue in the future III
definitely to advance.
"Appreciative home builders are
willing and now ready to pay tne
nrices which will enable them te
Share our ideal and unique advan,
t,ces. for nowhere in all the "loe
/, ,snrId is offered to life richel
t meaning or deeper value t''a'
, right here in our Colorado valleys.
Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Wylie went u