Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-27
COLORADO'S VAST RESOURCES
Land Show Lecturer Tells Of the Great
Wealth of the State.
AGRICULTURE OUTSKIRTS MINES
Many Have Become rich in Colorado
who went There for Their
Health and Then Planted
Orchards.

W. G. Brandenburg. experimental far
mer and lecturer. IL at the Land show as
a representative OF the state OF Colorado,
and to give out information to the visitors.
Naturally. he thinks that Colorado Is the
greatest state In the union
Colorado's past reads like romance. II
seems but yesterday, and all OF us have
had a hand in It's making In less than
fifty years Colorado's mineral output has
amounted to nearly 1900, 1900. increasing
every year, and has long stood first In the
production OF gold and silver.
while mining was the basis Of the
commercial uplift of Colorado, agriculture
in recent years has far outdstanced Il In
point OF revenue to our people. Last year
Colorado's farms, orchards and ranges pro-
duced more than $50 100000 worth Of prod
ucts. Our peculiar climatic condition, con-
tinuous sunshine, irrigation and superior
soil have been responsible for the pro-
ductlon of certain crops on a scale OF
profit and production unknown In nearly
any other part Of the country.
Take for example the sugar beet indus
try. German experts say that In no other
portion OF the world are conditions so ad-
mirable for sugar beet culture as they are
in Colorado, and It is confidently predicted
that lands well adapted 20 beet raising will
become among the highest priced lands in
union within a few years. II is a we'll
known fact that beets grown by us contain
more sugar than those produced in any
other part OF the world. Though the In
dustry is only eleven years old in our state
last year we produced more sugar than
even Louisiana, and yet the enormous
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lent to last the American people the short
period OF fifteen days. So you can see that
there is not much danger Of the sugar beet
industry being overdone
Need More Factories.
while we now have sixteen enormous
factories which pay to our farmers more
than $4,000 900 last year for beets, we will
undoubtedly have many more factories
within the next few years Five Of these
factories have been promised to the San
Luis valley during the next five years, and
the industry Is only in its infancy in our
state. The net returns to the Colorado
sugar beet grower, covering a period of
five years past, has been In excess Of sS
per acre annually.
Alfalfa. according to the reports Of the
Agricultural department at Washington
gives the most nutrition of all grasses
grown by the American farmer Our state
has profited possibly more by the growing
Of this crop in recent years than any
other. The great success of this forage
plant in Colorado is due to soil and climatic
conditions and the employment OF intelli-
gent methods
Colorado. according to the government
agricultural reports, produced more wheat
to the acre than any other state in the
union last year. II is not an uncommon
thing for a large field in the various irri-
gated sections of our state to yield from
sixty 70 seventy bushels per acre, while the
heaviest oats are raised with us In higher
attitudes. The San Luis valley, for exam
pie, frequently produces oats scoring better
than forty-eight pounds per bushel, and
yields in excess Of 100 bushels per acre
are frequently recorded 81.
THE Colorado potato is in class by it.
self when it comes to both quantity and