The La Jara chronicle., 1907-02-15
A Symposium Of Our Nature
Resources.

was lavish with his gifts. He Gre
ated valleys and plains of mex
haustible richness: mountains
filled with treasures and of incom-
parable grandeur. Colorado is
mighty republic within itself, and
is perched upon the highest pc
destal of the American continent.
The valley and parks along every
mountain stream are the most j.
dealistic places for the homes of a
contented and happy people. The
mountains, the grandest expression
of Nature, reveal to the seeing
eye, the work of millions of years
of Natures collective forces in
gathering the minerals into veins or
deposits for our use and benefit.
The depositions of minerals seem
to have been made with the inten-
ton that we should not discover
and exhaust them, but that they
should serve not only our wants,
but those of many, many genera
tions in the years to come.
In the farming regions nature
has been do rmant for thousands of
years, allowing the land to lay fall
low and to collect and store the
mineral salts and mineral elements
so conducive to the production of
plant life, thereby fortifying the
soil so that generation after gener-
alton will find its fertility unex-
hausted by the continuous growth
of crops. In the richness of our
soil, in the waters led captive, in
the mineral resources of our state.
in the Incompatible scenery of our
mountain domain, in our geogra-
phical position, in all, the magni-
ficient blessings that Divine Prov
idence can shower upon a country
surely this glorious land of ours
is blessed above all other states of
the American union. Blessed as
our state has been in all of the
natural resources and gifts, it is
even more blessed in the general
character and makeup of its pop
ulation. No other part of the
union can boast of Il people more
cosmopolitan in character than
ours.
They are a most progressive and
energetic people from all other
parts of our country, with per-
centage OF the same class from
over the sea, who, not contented
with the crowded conditions of
their home environment, pushed
their way into the west, here to
assist in founding and building
"A state upon plans big enough and
broad enough to come up to their
expansive ideas, and right well
have they performed their task, for
the upbuilding of Colorado from its
desert conditions to what we find it
to-day has been the work of one
short generation. Many of us can
remember the time when this sec
ton was an uninh abited desert
with few struggling towns and
mining camps. The magnificent
change has been brought about by
men of our own generation, and to
their credit be it said that in do
ing this work they reserved the
most attractive sites for school
R;iouses. Our state, blessed as it is
with all the divine gifts of natural
resources the creator could give,
with its patriotic and progressive
population, with its Incompatible
climate, its central location, is des-
tined to be one of the most pros
porous states of the Union.
Taking the farming industry.
See to what mighty proportions it
has grown. Thirty-tive years ago
the man who would have said
that the railroads of this state
would be blocked with the traffic
of fruit produced in our valleys