The daily sentinel., 1910-09-07
HAyT'S TRIBUTE
TOGRAND VALLEY

AS evidence of the widespread and
substantial publicity that is accruing
to Colorado and the western slope in
particular, recent events in the east
speak with eloquence. Whenever a
Colorado man is assigned for remarks
on program at banquet or other
public gathering he is expected to
tell of the wonders of the west and
the glories OF his state.
Coloradoans are recognized as loyal
to their own state and vet conserva-
tive in their claims and accurate in
their statements.
Recently the Chicago Irrigation as
sociation held its first banquet at the
La Sale hotel. Chicago. Among the
participants on the program were
men with national regulations on ir-
r1gation and land cultivation by no
means the least of these being Hon
Charles ID. Hayt, formerly supreme
justice of the supreme court of Colo
RADIO, and one of the recognized legal
authorities of the country. During
his remarks he had the following to
say regarding the western slope and
the Grand valley:
My friend from Washington has
told you something about the yield
of these irrigated farms. If | show
better yield in Colorado, he has
promised not to dispute what | say
He told me when | came in that he
would vouch for any statement that
| would make, but II is only fair to
him to say that he has only known
me for a few hours.
Il can find apple orchards in Colo
rado-and ! know you have them in
Washington-tha have repeatedly
yielded a thousand dollars an acre,
and | can find them that have yield
ed l.50O an acre. Over on the Rio
Grande road. in the Grand river val
ley and western Colorado, where
was eight or ten years ago, | can find
fruit orchards that have yielded up
wards of 500 an acre for several
years during the last five years, and
from three to four and five thousand
dollars an acre with the growing
trees in bearing-upon land that you
or | would not have located 20 years
ago; it looked like barren, worth
less ash-heap mixed with alkali. But
| have occupied enough of your time
| want to say that | must vouch for
my friend from Washington in his
statements of these matters. and fur
ther, that we are all contributors to
the city of Chicago. Every dollar
that goes into improvements in the
state of Colorado. every family that
locates there, intermediate between
Colorado and the city of Chicago. is
tributary to the city of Chicago. Why,
we all have to come here, whether
we love to come or whether we don't
we cannot get away from II. When
| ever we start from Denver to go east
we land in Chicago. and there the
train stops. ftLaughter.) And we
have got to make arrangements to
| buy another ticket before we can get
| out. So that our interests are mu-
tual. We don't want any worthless
or questionable irrigation securities
dumped upon your market or any
other market. 1t would be an injury.
of course. to the buyers. but it would
be infinitely of greater injury to us
and a greater injury to the whole
subject of irrigation and to all mer-
| itorius propositions. And so | say It
is fortunate that you have formed
this association for the purpose of
studying these questions. for the pur-
pose of studying these questions. for
the purpose of advising your people
as to which are meritorius and which
are not. thank you. (Applause. }"