The Lamar register., 1906-12-12
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 Gugeenheim
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
terday he furnished reasons for the
faith that is in him and gave 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..
Guggsnheim is a trained business
man OF sound Judgment and HIS state
ments carry force and conviction.
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 l read several in
terviews in the Denver papers regard
ing n semi-centennial celebration for
this city. l 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 tina. people
who are looking for new locations or
Investments will pass us by unless we
reveal to them the Notwithstanding
possibilities of this state.
when 1 say we can astonish tho
world mean it. l talked with a
building contractor in New York who
was employing men excayating o 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 astonished'
Il recall visiting the first sugar fac
tory NJ Grand Junction six years ago
when it was standing idle, and hear.
ing people say the industry would
never be profitable here Now our fac
tories have a capacity of 10000 tons
of sugar every twenty-four hours
and Eeets are piled in the fields
because the tillers of the soil
have outstripped the hoadlone
pace al which capital has beer
preparing to care for what they raise
1t would take eastern people many
years to accomplish what we nave
done in half dozen years.
Il wish we could exhibit to the
world the marvellous strides in the de
velopment of our agricultural i'nhs
Coming into Denver the other day
over the Burlington l saw scores o.
prosperous farmhouses between here
and Otis, 125 miles east, which were
built in the past year. The short
grass country in Washington ant
Yuma counties is coming into its own
All the way to Chicago I saw evidence
work. 1 can remember the time when
you couldn't find II man selling COLO
RADIO 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
They need such an object lesson a,
an exposition would provide. When
told New Workers. that in the past five
years the area of irrigated land II
northern Colorado had Increased III
teen per cent, while the aggregate
value had actually doubled. the!
thought we were having a boom
told them our San Luis valley irrigated
wacreage 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 NV
per cent, assuI ng them there was nj
land boom nor any effort to make one
You know in the East farm landi
are actually depreciating. If they onl,
realized what we have here, thu
scenes at the opening of a government
reservation would be duplicated. Fivt
years ago what is now called dr.
farming land, was being sold fol
taxes. This was in the short grass
region of eastern Colorado and In the
section far north of Greeley. Now thi'
land sells for $40 and SIS an acre.
THE Union Pacific railroad had fol
years great difficulty in selling Land
for S. an acre. In Kit Carson county
some friends of mine recently paid 81
an acre 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 al
S1.5O an acre; 10000 acres have re
Gently been sold there for $3.50 al
acre.
The Bijou ranch, in Ebert county
10000 acres, has recently been sold
the poorest Of 1t bringing $3.50 and thu
best $40 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 cubit
feet of water n second in the aggre
gate will water $4,000 acres. The lare
est of these bitches, when empty, car
be used for road where heavy wae
ons can easily pass. Five years age
.Routt county was practically cut OF
\ rom the world. Can any man nov
/ living set limit on the possibilitie'
OF Colorado agriculture or say wher'
this steady growth will end? The LAM
in Larimer and Weld counties, once sc
cheap and now hardly to be had al
any price, is an example that aston
ishes all who hear of that agricul
tural marvel.