The Glenwood post., 1909-12-25
Garfield County Commercial Association
Holds Interesting Session. ---Reports
From Chicago Delegates
COUNTY WELL REPRESENTED

At last Garfield county has started
right. Her own progressive people are
getting closer together and becoming
better acquainted with each other. Com
mercial organizations and individuals.
now fully awake to the resources AMI
possibilities of this county, are bestir-
ring themselves in the important task
of placing her advantages before the
eyes of the world outside her own
sphere.
Primarily, the big meeting and ban
quet at Grand Valley last Tuesday
night was called for the purpose of
hearing from the men who went to the
big United States Land & Irrigation
show to repre- cnt Garfield county. Tho
people had heard much of their work
in a round about way. but they wanted
themselves. SO Lee Haney. advertis-
ing agent of the Colorado Midland at
Denver, w. p. Clough of Rife. Frank
+. Sweet of Carbondalc and mis- part
ner, Lou u. Sweet of Denver, were IN
Nittd to cone over and tell about the
Chicago show.
Frank +. Sweet. the Carbondalc po-
tato expert. gave a very intere sting
talk along the lines of scientific spu2
raising. and his remarks, coming as
they did from n man of his experience.
were listened to with absorbing in
tcrest Mr.. Sweet said in part:
Frank Sweet Talks spuds
evening. feel that we are all much
benefited by these gathering. We
scarcely realize yet how much bene-
fit we will receive from these district
and county commercial organizations.
in which we can work for our common
welfare. After attending the Chicago
Land and Irrigation exposition | feel
satisfied that there is no better state
than Colorado and no better county in
the state than Garfield county. There
is no county with better people; better
soil; better water rights: better drink
ing water; better fruit, vegetables. or
climate. Our one great draw back is
that we have not enough people in the
county, and not enough people know
where the county is. Had we more
people on our farms. we would have
more people in our cities. In our cities
and on our farms we would have more
modern improvements. Larger cities
would afford us better facilities for
transacting business, and Garfield would
receive the benefit of the thousands of
dollars sent away annually. With
larger cities, we would have better
class of help from which to draw in
harvest times
However, several thousand peopl"
learned at the Chicago show that Gar
field county is on the western slope.
Many of them already knew of Glen
wood Springs but they did not know
that Garfield county is the county of
which Glenwood is the county seat.
Glenwood Springs has been advertised; ;
Garfield county has not; and the many
hundred inquiries we received 'Where
is Garfield county, show that Garfield
county needs advertising. We told the
people where we were located, and they
now know that it is great county,
with a great river flowing through it,.
and that the greater part of the Grand
Valley is in Garfield county. But the
public cannot realize what quality anil
quantity of vegetables can be grown
here on an acre of ground. No one
knows. not even the people who have
lived here twenty five years, what our
possibilities are. After talking with
hundreds of farmers at the Chicago
show. have become so enthusiastic
over what can be grown with our soil,
sunshine and water to be applied when
needed, that ! cannot find words to ex-
press myself. 1 wish all you people
could have been there; then you would
realize what a great state you live in,