The La Jara chronicle., 1910-10-21
PEOPLE MAKE A TOWN.

hhcIcldi way tiidh lhc
ability of the people of the town
make it.
The day is past when natural
advantages cut much of a figure
in the upbuilding of community.
All over the United States towns
with manifold natural advantages
have relied solely on thier condl-
tions to build them up, and those
towns have undergone a slow ex-
perience of being embalmed.
There are also many towns that
starting with no producing area
around them, have extended ar
teries of business into more dis
tant fields and have grown to be-
come places of importance, by the
determination and business abil-
ity of their people.
Somewhere in the San Luis val
ley there is going to be town
that, in general business, in in
dustrial enterprise, in jobbing
trade and all the various inter
ests, will be pre-eminently the one
big town of this inter-mountain
country. The country to-day is
newly developed, for one to say
with certainty where that town
will be. 1t may be any of the
present thrifty towns Of the val
ley or it may be that the town
is yet to be started. But where
ever it is it will be the people of
that town who will push it to
pre-eminence. There is not
town in the San Luis valley that
could not start now, and inside of
ten years be the undisputed me-
tropolis of the San Luis valley.
Blanca has a location that is
very favorable for it. 1t is so To-
Gated that the San Luis valley
spreads out before it, like an open
ian, to the south, west and north
From it the San Luis Southern
railroad penetrates the south cOun-
try; a country rich in agriculture,
stock raising, mining and lum-
Der resources, where new areas
are being developed by the planter
and where the other numerous
resources are being eagerly and
earnestly made into permanent
producers. The jobbing trade of
that country will go to the people
who 20 and get it.
To the west of Blanca the Den
yer & Rio Grande extends west
with a cross line both north and
south. If Blanca makes it worth
while the business of that entire
area of the San Luis valley can
be made tributary to the town,
but it cannot be done by our peo-
pie sitting down and complacently
saying that we have a good To-
cation and that the business ought
to come here.
At the present time Blanca is
not in position to attract the at
tention of the big institutions, but
there are scores of smaller indus
tries that could be operated here
at profit, that would give en-
ployment in each to ten or twenty
men. These are the industries that
it is up to Blanca to get in here.
There is no doubt that planning
mill would do well in Blanca. A
small packing plant and ice plant
would get the trade of the valley.
A canning factory should make
money if it depended alone ON the
trade of the San Luis valley.
All over the valley broom corn
grows in splendid luxuriance and
a factory would do exceptionally
well. There are scores of other
industries, that starting in "A
small way could grow with the
growth of the valley and in the
near future, these industries
would give employment to forces
of men that alone would be suffi-
cient to make the town they are
located in, the metropolis of the
San Luis valley.
1t is futile for individual effort
to attempt these things. 1t calls
for the united and untiring effort
of all and that effort must be
through a commercial organization
The business man and property
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