The daily sentinel., 1910-11-02

that this percentage will have risen
to rs per cent by 1920 The west is
assured of long period of extraor-
dinary agricultural and industrial
expansion.
In the Rocky Mountain states the
process of unfolding and utilizing
the immense natural resources will |
be carried on more zealously, more 1
successfully and on greatly more |
extensive scale than is commonly |
imagined at the present day. Accel- !
Grated development of the various /
branches of agriculture and mining |
must of necessity cause rapid null |
tiplication of manufacturing enter |
prises. So must, likewise, the build |
ing OF new steam and electric railroad |
mileage, the inevitable equalization
of freight and express rates, and the
augmenting number of large and
small towns.
The growing disposition among in
dustrial interests in the east and mid
die west to study more diligently the
opportunities held out to them in
Colorado and neighboring states is a
significant sign of the times. 1t does
not require an exceptionally acute
mind to recognize clearly that in
these regions any number of addition
al industrial undertakings could be
successfully conducted. The manu-
facture OF steel, wool, glass, cement,
agricultural implements and furni-
ture suggests itself with particular
insistence. The profitableness of
these and subsidiary industries per-
mits of scarcely any doubt. After
the railroad and express companies
have seen fit or been compelled to
abandon their practices of oppressive
discrimination against Rocky Noun
tain points, notable industrial
movement toward the west is certain
to materialiZe.
The chief tendency of emigration
from the east continues Pike's-peak-
ward. This is graphically denoted by
the impressive rates of growth being
shown in the. census returns so far
given out for numerous cities of the
mountain and Pacific states. The
majority of intelligent people in the
east well realize that the far west
still must be regarded as the land
offering the best chances to gain
firm foothold in life. They cannot
be deceived with glowingly romantic
descriptions of land and life in Mex
leo and Canada.
Even If they have no personal
knowledge of conditions and oppor-
tunities, they see the indubitable ev-
licences of western wealth and devel-
opment in the building and earnings
of railroad companies. census returns.
the increasing number of banks, the
monthly statements of our foreign
trade, the keen demand for irrigated
and also good dry-farming tracts, the
upspringing of new towns and the
magnificent exhibits of the products
of field. orchard and mines at land
and fruit shows.
Besides. they know that every COM
petent and impartial observer of the
trend of things economic will, if
asked where the most important
growth will be seen in the next ten
years, unhesitatingly declare: "Out
west. 1t still remains the land of
promise. If you have the desire, the
strength and determination to sue
ceed, go west, by all means; and, If
you have some means, buy a little
land-you will never regret it,"
No wonder, therefore, that they
come; that the number Of Denver in
habitants is augmenting steadily;
that Colorados agricultural land is
being sought with increasing eager
ness and rising in value that it's
wealth and productive capacity is
challenging the admiring attention
of the east.
There's no Ineligible reason for
Americans to go to the uncouth do
minions of Porfiro Diaz. If they go.
it is ten to one that they will meet
with losses and disappointments.
Only a week ago Clarence A. Miller,
United States consul at Tampico, re-
ported that bitter want exists among
the numerous Americans who had
bought and settled on small tracts of
land in that section OF Mexico
They had been. victimized by land
sharks. who had fhsefted glamorous-
ly-worded advertisements in Ameri-
can newspapers and magazines con-
tanning promises of wealth to all who
would purchase their dishonesty
overvalued' acres and go into the cul-
ture of sugar. rubber, oocao, pineap-
Piles and other tropical products about
which the average American knows
as much as an Eskimo does about
wine growing in the Rheingau. The
consul earnestly warns all Americans
against reckless purchases of land in
the republic to the south of us un-
doubtedly possesses interesting agri-
cultural opportunities, it cannot be
truthfully held that ii is an inviting
field for the American farmer. Con-
ditions, people, language, customs
and government are alien. In many
sections the climate is uncongenial.
Market facilities are lamentably poor.
Mexico remains attractive chiefly to
the promoters of railroads and mines,
cattle kings and industrial interests
that see great profits in the utiiiza-
tion of peon labor.
If the misguided Americans, re-
ferred to in the consul's report, had
bought irrigated land in Colorado,
and started to grow familiar things
under familiar conditions. they weu q
by this time be within sight Of easy
street" There can be no question
but that the intensification Of the
hunger for land in the, copgested re-
zions OF the east is bound to keep
land eharDers busy and in aTiuante q