CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1909-01-07
THE new YEAR k,lL BE
ONE OF GENERAL PROSPERITY
Tie OsAook foc Canon City and Fremont County Never
More Eneossas1ng than at Present. Next Twelve
Mooths Fsausht with Great Possibilities for
the People of Tits Community.

CAnon Clty enterS upon tne NC"
Year with high hopes and ambitions
Dnfdsntly expecting great things
and great achievements during the
aext twelve months. The belief that 1t
= standing ut tho threshold OF q new
0a OF material growth and progress
b based upon something more sub
stantial than . mere fancy. born OF an
Gals wish. The anticipation OF its fu-
tnre Is predicated upon a logic that is
aa once irresistible and irrefutable.
Canon City possesseE more OF the ele-
pents OF greatness than almost any
ether community that can be named.
East or West, and. in the very nature
se things, must 60 onward by its own
impulse.
Janus-Iike It sits at the doorward
q the new year and is able to look
Both backward and forward-upon its
History and upon Its future-and
0omplaisantly regards both its retro
spective and its prospective views.
There may be some ;hings in It's past
aDr which there 10 regret and disap-
0ointment. but there II NO portend
Il trouble or disturbance In the years
b come: the horoscope is clear and
hOrison Of It's future Is bright with
Oromise. With It's magnificent re-
sources of 6eid. garden and orchard; !;
e ecsasry and climate; OF health and
wealth. Canon CITY must inevitably
. on 20 the splendid destiny which
Unts has dscreed for II.
4 In SPITE OF the financial disturbance
WHICH had tts beginning In Wall
street. ysar ago last October. and.
vAfcA placed its palsisd hand upon
Os business OF che country paralyzing
- Industries and its enterprises from
sae extreme to the other. Canon City
saRsred but little from It, indeed. II
xAs hardly felt here. Except for the
has OF the fruit, crop here last spring.
ths year Just passed would have been
IN unusually prosperous one: per-
haps the very best In the history Of
the community. That the misfortune
vas not calamitous Is evidenced by
the fact that there has been NO loss OF
cath in the community as a horticul-
sarai center: ,ha, prosperity has not
DEPRECATED In price and that conf
4Suce In the riches OF Pomona were
lsver greater than now. The year up
"a which we have just embarked will
- the queen OF the ages and the peo-
Die OF Canon City will receive their
full share OF It's blessings.
The twelve months Just passed was
Q period OF business and commercial
stAGnation all over the land. but a
better day has dawned and activity
will take the place of Incidence In all
q the avenues OF human endeavor.
The wheels OF industry will revolve
with quicker motion and energy will
supplant idieness In a thousand
aDrms. Work win seek the unemploy-
I'd in the great cities and everywhere
there will BE- that contentmert and
satisfaction which characterizes n
busy people.
Canon city. more than most places.
Will be q participant in this splendid
revival and will forge rapidly to the
front in all material matters; imbued
with . determination to realize the
BOOSTERS ambition OF $500 popula-
tion in 1912" The coming year means
Tor Canon City a new waterworks