The Glenwood post., 1908-12-26
THE STATE AND THE CITY"

Under the above caption the Denver
News took up the question Of building
up the state and thus building a great
er Denver A glowing tribute was paid
the whole state and we believe the ideas
of the News are right in the line of
progress.
The News holds that for every three
families that settle in the Grand val
ley, or the Arkansas valley, or the
Cache la Poundre valley, one family set
ties in Denver. For every three men
who go to work in the mines at Grip
pie Creek or the steel works at Pueblo,
one man goes to Denver. For every
three houses that go up in any of the
Thousand Villages and irrigated dis
tricts of Colorado, one house goes up in
Denver. Denver regularly carries one
fourth, a little more than one fourth,
of the population of the state. If we
would get that fact well lodged in our
system, and then look around to see
how the state is prospering, we should
have less difficulty in making the East
ern visitor understand what is support
ing the prosperity of the city. And we
should know better and more numerous
ways of helping the growth of that city
than we can ever find while we keep
our eyes glued to the pavements and
neglect the great mountains and val
lcys and plains outside
In speaking of the growth of
the state and its wonderful resources,
the News editorial says;
'And the growth of the state has
just begun. We have not quite the same
resources which have built up the
states in the East, but we have other
and better ones, The resources of
Colorado are more varied and versatile
than those of any other state in the
Union. We lead the Union in the pro-
duction of gold and silver. That would
be pretty fair foundation for state
to begin with, but it is one of the least
of our blessings. We are the fifth
state in the Union in the production of
coal, and are rapidly closing the gap
that separates us from the first. We
shall within the next five years be the
first state in the production of building
stone, from the coarsest to the finest
We have agricultural wealth that sur
passes even the wealth of our combin-
ed mines and quarries. The apples and
peaches of the western slope are at the
top of the world s. markets. The lambs
| of Fort Collins hold the same honorable
position. The Greeley and Carbondale
potatoes are auarreling about prece-
dence, and the state can well afford to
let them quarrel. And when it comes to
manufacturing, we are equally fortu
nate. We have more water power in
locations where it can be economically
developed than perhaps any other state
certainly we are developing it taste,
than any other. And power mean.
manufactures. Even now, according t,
Carnegie, who may fairly be supposed
to know, Pubelo is the only place OF
earth that can make steel as cheaply a,
Pittsburg. $50, let us get out and
help the state, and trust to the city get
ting its fair share of the states pros
perity. Let us get out of our system
the foolish notion that Denver has any
real prosperity to gain by taking an un
fair advantage of the smaller cite.
of the state. Let us make their caus,
ours-and we shall find that in doine
so we have done excellent service t:
ourselves. AS matter of business nc
less than as a matter of ethics. let u.
forget the city in working for tn.
prosperity of the state.''