La Junta tribune., 1907-01-05
var 70 MAKE
COLORADO GREAT
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0GieS Austin Bates
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have been given the subject. The
WY to Make Colorado Great
cannot tell you how TO do it
and ii ! could. you could not do H.
The difficulty is. that the good
Lord Himself attended to the matter
a lew thousands OF years before any
of u were born.
agreed to come out here to talk
10 you because | had something dei-
mite and distinct TO say. ! MAS all
the more willing TO do this. because
I am interested in Colorado. and my
interest is : selfish one. In spite OF
the fact thar | live in New York. |
wan, to be considered a citizen OF
Colorado.
II in my talk there is too much OF
the first person singular, you must
pardon me, because this is distinctly
not an oratorical effort but simply
plain business talk by business man
To other business men.
don't suppose that you can realize
il. but. to nine-tenths OF the people
IN the East. Colorado is a mere spot
ON a map. Ii is a geographical di-
vision OF the United States, and moth
ing more.
II you ask the average Eastern man
what Colorado produces. he will tell
you-silver Colorado il known as a
silver siate-in many places a. .
Populist state. and that. in the minds
OF . great many people. Is term of
reprozch.
Two years ago knew about as lit
iie of Colorado ss the majority of
Eastern men. Then began to study
the state. and. to my enormous sur
prise. found that IL wa. a. large as
New So-t and Pennsylvania eombin-
ed. but ihsi u he'd only cnc-twcnticfh
Of the po- uiatiou oi these two states
fpund. what oi course j. an old
story To yor. that Colorado j. the
greatest gold producing state IN the
Union iornd that IN les thar
thirty yc1r- leadville bad produced
over ;h-ce hundred millions of dol
lars. and aiout there was where |
began - sii r. and take notice
\ yea- ago last June. made my
first visit e. Colorado, and then |
Discovered sugar heels. alfalfa. fruit
posa.p~s md irrigation.
found ont then = small pa-t ~ 'he
things which you all know. and which
makes Cnio-1do g-eat
found that Coia~aSn was no; \
-iNff ~ ANiA ~tdtfs ~ - tNal
state. but that II was all these to-
rr'her. aud several other things be-
sides
! want u tell you that the reople
t1ek East haven't a. good an idea oi
Colorado as they have OF the Heaven
" kinedom-they actually and li.er-
ally know nothing about your state
orr state.
IN tell vow how ] came to know
about il. and ! will probably tell you
something abou, the state tina; even
you do not know.
II i aimos, equally true that the
people OF Colorado have a very scanf
idea Of the resources and possibil:-
ties of their own state.
have talked to at least fifty men
who might be considered leading oifi-
zcns. and not a blessed one OF them
knew about what Is positively the
biggest thing in this big state.
There j.. in Cunnison eornty. the
largest and only reliable continuous
deposit of fine white marble in the
world. In has been thee Tor a long
time " u exactly what ] .sy IL i.--
the largest and finest de osit Of white
marble in the entire worid-and the
world has never been adequately sup
piled with white marble--not since
the Greeks began TO quarry marble.
q few thousand years before Christ.
This marble in Cunnison county u