Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-24
COLORADO AT The LAND SHOW
Representatives of State Arrange for
State Exhibit.
SEssAGE TO DENVER TIMES.
Associate Editor TELLS the People Of
the Air Of the western Land
Product Exhibit to ne
Held NJ Omnha.

Bide Dudley. associate editor Of the
Denver Times was in Omaha yesterday
securing for his paper information concern
ing the plans for the Colorado exhibit at
the coming Omaha Land Show. The Denver
Times tomorrow will say:
Colorado Is to be decidedly well repre-
scented at the Western Land Products FIX
hlbit to be held in Omaha January Is to
Is, inclusive. Alfred Patek Colorado state
immigration commissioner, stopped in
Omaha on his way to Chicago recently
and arranged for 1870 square feet OF exhibit
space in the Omaha Auditorium, where the
Land Show is to be held. The Colorado
exhibit will be on the stage in such a pos,
ton that II will attract more attention than
any other in the building
In the rear of the stage will be CON
structed a papier mache mountain. From
the mountain will run streams OF real
water These will "irrigate" imitation
fields. Electrical effects viii be used in the
plan to add brilliancy. Products of Colo
RADIO soil will be shown, too. The Colorado
exhibit will be the largest and most attrao-
tive at the show.
Mr.. Patek has elaborate plans for the
Colorado exhibit" said c. c. Rosewater.
general manager of The Omaha Bee and
one Of the foremost boosters for the Land
Show. I'VE are particularly anxious to
have Colorado we'll represented, as It is to
the interest Of Omaha, as well as Denver
to have people attracted to that state"
Ten states will be represented at the
Omaha show They will he Nebraska,
Colorado, Wyoming. Washington, Califor-
mia, Idaho. Montana, Utah Oregon and
Nevada. The slogan Of the show is: See
the whole west under one roof"
Arrange Colorado Day.
A Colorado Day. Is being arranged for
On that day, II he will consent to the plan,
Governor shafroth will speak at the ex-
hibit. Other ColoTadoans will be invited
to make addresses also.
There is a distinct object to this show
that concerns Colorado vitality" said c. c.
Rosewater. Tn the Missouri valley there
is always a surplus Of money in the hands
of the farmers. Many of these farmers
keep investing their surplus money in
land. At this time they are buying Okla
homa and Texas or Canadian land. The
movement Of this money is either north
or south. 1t should go west naturally.
In this country the general trend Of every
thing is from east to west The object OF
this Land Show will be to educate the
people along the line Of what the west
can do in farming way.
Colorado, to my notion, is a great state
Of opportunity. Its resources, to use an
| old expression, have hardly been scratched.
It has untold millions in it's land posi-
bilities All It needs is people. The farmer
in the Missouri valley with IS 1000 in excess
money is the fellow Colorado needs. The
state profits. undoubtedly, when an east
erner puts 100000 in Colorado, but it does
not profit nearly 50 much as It does wheri
that same sum is put in by twenty men.
The twenty men go with their money, as
rule, and that means population.
Nebraska need not be Jealous II Colo
, RADIO gets the farmers from It. This state
has no abandoned farms, as have some of
the New England states. If a Nebraska
farmer goes TO Colorado he will do so
only after he ras arranged for someone
to occupy his farm. Nebraska loses moth
ing. On the other hand. it gains because
Omaha counts Colorado in it's territory
80 far as various commercial products are
| concerned. Denver Is the commercial cen
ter Of the intermountain district and will
always grow and prosper, but Omaha will
always do business in parts OF Colorado.
Therefore, the more people Colorado has,
the better off both Denver and Omaha will
be- Both should boost for an increased
population for the state.
This land exhibit" continued Mr. Rose
water, will afford Colorado a great op-
portunity to show these Missouri valley
farmers what mistake they are making
by putting their money in Canadian OF
southern land instead OF investing in Col.
orado and the west. It Is decidedly to the
interest of Colorado to make a good show.
Ing at the Omaha Land Exhibit and, judg-
ing from the plans Of Mr.. Patek, the state
will be deliberately represented"