The Monte Vista journal., 1916-02-26
IOG ROAST INESTIMABLE
AS GREAT ADVERTISER
FOR SAN LUIS VALLEY


Roast at Monte Vista were extended
he courtesy of auto rides to various
harts of the valley from this point
nd all expressed their admiration
For this section of the state, its
hatchless climate and wonderful op-
bortunities. Among the visitors were
bress representatives and their
brinted reports of their visit are the
best advertising that this valley
tould possibly receive.
N H. Sutherland of Chicago, pub
icity agent for Clay, Robinson &
Co., was one of the speakers at the
banquet. From his write-up in the
i've Stock Report, a publication of
ereat circulation, we quote the fol-
lowing:
"If there is one section of the
country where the hog has come into
: his own, it is the San Luis Valley of
Colorado, that wonderfully level
Sract of 5000 square miles in the
6outh Central part of the state, ly-
! ng at a general altitude of $500
feet above sea level. Hogs here are
hot an adjunct" they are "a lead
sources of revenue, the foundation
bf much of the prosperity and peace
that at once impress themselves up
bn the visitor, and to which much
homage is paid as matter of course.
"The valley, like every other sec
tion of the country that is opened
3lp, has been cursed by unscrupulous
Spectators and real estate dealers
who have lured the unsuspecting and
the uninformed into buying lands at
badly inflated prices, and whose vic
fims after making a dreary failure,
have gone away broken in purse and
Spirit cursing the new land and con-
tlemning it to others wheresoever
(hey went. The land vultures are
pot now much in evidence, and it
tan be truthfully said that the val
ey is making that slow but sure
progress toward the condition of sol
ldity from which there is no danger
pf retrogression. You feel it in the
atmosphere, you see it materially;
t is audible as we'll. 1t is real and
not imaginary; it is substantial and
not tieeting; it is concrete, not alb
9tract Unquesionably there is op-
portunity there. And it is a happy
life. Its climate is all that could be
aesired, its people are the Lords.
Inc lure of the land is there. There
lodestone that draws you ire
Blstibly and when you go away you
go reluctantly. This is not "boos-
lers paid tribute; it is an honest,
heartfelt, open, sincere expression
passed on two visits to that valley"
w. N. Fulton, editor of the Denver
Necord-Stockman, was another Wis
Tor who had not before made a trip
70 this valley, and his write-up of
the Hog Roast and his impressions
oi thls section covered two pages of
'ast weeks issue of that paper. Mr.
ulton says, in part
The Denver boys who made the
Trip to the San Luis valley last week
" attend the annual hog roast of
'ne monte Vista Hog Growers asso-
natloh, returned to Denver Satur-
uaN are still talking of the good
'ilhe they enjoyed and of the excel
rent reception and entertainment ac-
corded them by the people of the
"'ley' A sixty-mile drive through
ne north end of the valley opened
'he eyes of more than one member
Vi the Denver party. Past fine coun-
wy homes, well-kept farms and stock
'nches' over roads that were about
as ilne as any country roads could
''past well-equipped country school
'uSes' showing that the people of
ne valley are not overlooking the
N"'ation of their youth, the trip
was made by a roundabout way to
Center.
After visit of an hour or two
'oulo the town of Center, the re
"n TRIP was made by another route
A. ''oh'e vista. Several stops along
way were made at various places,
mn "One them the party stopped at the
'h farm of the Colorado Valley
lana company. of which How EropL