The La Jara chronicle., 1909-06-25


necessary to join in an assault up
on competitors. 1t is going to do
nobody any good and may work
great deal of actual harm to the
movement which was so well under
way. A pretense of zeal to save
possible investors from risking
their money in this or that enter
prise is not going to excuse an
assault that is certain to spread
abroad the thought that there is
something wrong with Colorado
farm lands and that the sale of
them is in some way associated
with fraudulent methods.
The whispered word of fraud
will not stop at the enterprise or
locality at which it is aimed; the
unfortunate feature is that it will
spread to every corner and taint
every land project in the state.
That is inevitable: there is no
stopping it, no getting away from
it. Volumes of assurance that one
section is all right cannot do one
tenth as much good as the single
word that another is all wrong
will do harm. 1t is the way of the
world; business law that there
must be perfect confidence MAIN
tained between buyer and seller.
1t is mistaken idea that the
buyer is unable to protect himself
and needs to be warned. The man
who has known enough to make
his money can be depended upon
knowing enough to take care of it.
He is so eager to take care of it
that rather than risk it where the
taint of fraud exists he will get as
far away from it as possible and
venture it into something against
which there is not the breath of
suspicion.
Every man engaged in opening
Colorado lands to irrigation owes
it to himself to speak good word
for every other man similarly en-
gagged, taking pains only to insist
always that whereas all are good,
his is the best. That is the way
to get settlers, and considering the
miracles that have been and are
worked in raw lands all over the
state, the marvellous productiveness
of the soil, the gains made, the
fact that no man has yet lost a
dollar in their purchase provided
only he gave his land time to work
out its destiny, he must indeed be
a wise one who can say positively
which is the better buy, much less
condemn any land as either worth
less or too high in price,
Not many years ago certain
section of this state was spoken of
as one in which "a county of it
would not support "A cow" That
same land sells to-day by the hun
dreds of dollars an acre and every
piece the size of garden patch
supports family in modern day
comfort. He would need be a
wise man who would undertake to
define the limitations of Colorado
soil.
Will G. Spencer says it won't
make much difference if the peach
crop is a failure in the valley this
year: Judging from the way, wheat,
oats and other things are climbing
up out of the ground.
Mrs. G. l.. Seabright will attend
to fitting eye glasses, repairing
spectacles and such work during
the absence of DR.. Seabright.
Will be in office at Ellis drug
store on Monday, Wednesday and
Saturday afternoons, or at any
other time by appointment.
Someday, unless the practice
called riding the train" is dis
continued, we will be obliged to
print an item something like this:
"a. Youngman while taking Joy
ride the other evening, hanging to
the steps of the outgoing train,
missed his footing and fell to the
ground. He plowed up the cinders
with his face for while and then
rolled under the wheels. Both
legs were cut off and he will now
be a burden on his family and
friends for the rest of his life"
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