The Penn's Grove record., 1915-04-09
BEAUTIES OF COLORADO DESCRIBED
By A Penns Grove Boy.

DeHVoT, COlOs March, 1910.
DEAR FRIEND ED,
March lst has been designated as ssLet-
ter Day" by the Denver Real Estate Ex-
change, when every citizen is urged to
write at least one letter about Denver and
Colorado to a friend in the East. I am
about to do my duty as a citizen and have
selected you, as | don't think l haye ever
written to you before in my life.
I've been in this state about five years
now and I've seen all the seasons, spring
summer, autumn and winter. | don't
know OF a better place to live anywhere
on this continent. l was back home for
a few months about three years ago, but
folks always come back to Gods country
in the end and l can tell you there is no
place in it like Colorado.
Don't think that l am knocking any
other square foot of earth that smiles
under the Star and Stripes. They are
all good, although as yet l haven't seen
all.
| have been frozen out OF doors in New
England and snubbed indoors by friendly
but frigid folks of those commonwealth.
| have knocked about a little in Philadel-
phia and New York and have always
wanted to sneak back when l had escap-
ed,
There's none of them like Colorado,
there's something out here that's differ
ent. You feel that difference when you
wake in the morning and you train is
climbing the last hill into Denver. You
feel it i'll your lungs then and in your
blood. 1t sings i'll your veins as a song
sings in your heart. You get out of your
berth as though life were a new and I'M
discovered country full Of charm and
promise, and when you leave the train
and walk about in Denver, there's some
thing humping inside you that makes
you want to hold out your hands to tile
purple hills in the distance and thank
God aloud for giving you this glimpse of
inspiring life.
Denver is a great and beautiful city,
clean as a scrubbed floor, and as fresh
every day as a spring morning. Alright
the winds come over it from the hills
and the snow-laced divide, and in the
morning it's a glistening jewel.
It's a busy city, too. There are some
of the finest stores here you will see any
where. And there's a growing commerce
of the big kind beginning to make itself
felt from the southwest with Galveston
as the coming port Of entry for Denver
and all Colorado. There's a vast variety
here, too'in the way of industrial OPEN
ings for energetic men. Mineral mining
OF all kinds, not by thousands OF fortunes
has the last fortune been made from gold
in Colorado. There's cattle rancling
and sheep ranching and horse raising and
breeding and farming and fruit growing.
Some day there will be great potteries
here for we have wonderful clay and in
several counties we have not only vast
deposits of coal, but beds of asphaltum
of All unusual kind, which, are invaluable
in hundreds OF modern industries.
They have adopted a system of farm
ing out here called the dee p tiIlage meth
cd which is working to a scientific certain
ty. The deep tillage farmers just take
their land as God gives it to them and
pillow it with a certain kind of pillow that
turns the sod from IL to IA inches deep at
the first blowing. And, having turned it
SO, they drill in their winter wheat, for
instance, and harrow it over. Then they
leave it. When the first snow comes in
stead Of lying on the surface and evapor
ting it sinks into those l4-inch burrows,
ana the soil drying OH top, keeps it there
all winter like a reservoir. And in the
spring the farmer has his crop. / know
one farmer who has not had one crop
failure on this system in the twelve years
he has been there. That going some,
isn't it?
/ don't want to write you a mere cata-
Iogue and am not selling you anything.
| have anchored here for good and all be-
cause it is the best place l have ever been
in for a man to make his home? And /
am not advising you to sell out and come
here on my mere say 90. Not at all. But