The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1906-07-21
Immigration Men Study Kansas
and Colorado Resources.

and Colorado Resources.
Among the party OF Missouri Pa
cific Immigration Agents who have
just returned from tour Of the ag-
ricultural fields and scenic points of
Kansas and Colorado. was Mr.. II.
Il. Clark of Simms, one OF the 800
hustlers, who under the direction of
manager w. &. Barnes, of the Mis-
souri, Pacific Immigration Bureau,
are working for the development of
the unoccupied lands of the South
west. The trip was one of instruc-
ton rather than pleasure, though
the party had a most pleasant out
ing. 1t was taken for the purpose OF
acquainting the members with the
resources and opportunities of the
country SO that they could impart
the Information thus gained to the
prospective homeseeker.
Excursions are taken each year by
the immigration workers into some
locality desiring hOmeseekers. Last
year the party visited Texas and the
year before q study was made of the
opportunities OF Louisiana. Follow
ing these visits hundreds of Land buy
ers are sent into the country and the
sales consumated as a result Of the
immigration mans efforts aggrega te
millions of dollars. Similar results
may be expected from the more re-
cent tour of Investigation.
Leaving st. Louis, headquarters of
the bureau, Sunday morning, June
10, the special train bearing the i'm
migration agents arrived at Kansas
City the same evening and at Scott
City, Kansas. the following morning.
Here short stop was made and the
visitors were taken In carriages
through the wheat fields and alfalfa
farms surrounding the city. Scott
City Is In that part of Kansas at one
time considered beyond the farming
belt, but the breaking of the soil has
increased the annual rainfall. and i'm
proved methods have understanding
highly successful.
Further on at LeOti, KAN, the
great steam plows were seen at work
on the prairies. The machines have
a capacity OF breaking 12Q acres Of
ground In "a hours and they are kept
running night and day. It. IL upon
this scale that the farmer does things
In Western Kansas.
Shortly after crossing the Colorado
State line, the smoke stacks OF the
beat sugar factory at Sugar City pro-
claimed a new industry that has been
established on =. the plains through
the aid of irrigation. Here a beauti-
ful valley was made tillabIe by the
application OF water taken from the
Arkansas river. thirty miles away
and distributed through a system OF
bitches to the. farmers for miles
around. Sugar beets are the princi-
pal crop In this vicinity and at Ord
day, five miles farther west, both
melons fruit and alfalfa yield big prof.
its to growers and are extensively
cultivated.
At Psubio the .semi-annnal conven-
tion OF the bureau was held. presi-
dent u. HIS Payne occupied the chair
and addresses were delivered by for
mer Governor Adams, Hon. A. f.
vandeventer of Morrillton. Ark, Mr..
G.. A. Lyman of Denver. Judge Geo.
H. Heard. of Little Rock Ark, and
Others. The visitors were treated
to a NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. the city, shown
through the great steel mills and at
night given a banquet by the local
business mems association.
The next day was spent at Denver,
the business men OF that city. taking
the party In charge, showing the WIS.,
itors over the. city and through
the parks In automobiles. and Gov.
Mcdonald rendering q reception at
the State house upon the conclusion
OF the sightseeing trip. At night the
immigration men assembled at n ban
uuet as the guests of the Colorado
Commercial Club, the Denver Board
OF Trade and the Denver Real Estate
Exchange.
On the next day the hunt for the
farm resources was forgotten In the
exploration Of some OF the scenic
beauty of Colorado, and train was
taken over the Hoffat line to Corona
on the crest OF the Continental Ill
vide, returning to Denver In the even
ing. The next morning found the
members in their special train at Col
orado Springs, "the City OF Pleas
ure." A trip was made to the sum
nit of Pixies Peak $4,000 feet abov'
the sea, to the Garden OF the God
and other nearby points OF interest
the entire day being devoted to thu
inspection of the wonderful scener,
here displayed.
/. was intended that Glenwoot
Springs. should be the western terml
nus OF the excursion, but Senator DE
Long and others interested In tn
great irrigated regions on the Yves
tern slope, persuaded President Pnyn
and Manager Barnes to extend thei
itinerary to Grand Junction. Her
the members visited some OF as ric
farm land as there is In the word
some OF the irrigated fruit orchard
in the Grand Valley being valued q
5000 per acre.
Glenwood Springs and Canon Cit
were visited on the return. AT Tn
time Glenwood Springs was holdin
n great strawberry festival. Th
fruit farms, vineyards and garden
about Canton City were revelations
Fifteen families, or so people, wer
found, who subsisted and were grow
Ing rich on 160 acres. The TIL
through this district exposed more {
Colorado's scenic beauty. the rid
through the Royal George being on
OF the features OF the trip.
Salina. Kan, was reached on MOI
day June Is. Citizens met the trai
with carriages and a hurried ride wa
taken over the beautiful metropoli
OF the Kansas grain belt. After
ride of 500 miles through the bes
farm lands OF Kansas and Missouri
the party arrived at st. Louis Tue
dav lime 10, s.- st