TTTFi BEE: OMAHA. TTTFRSPAY, ,1 ANTIAKY Cfi.
Colorado the State of ODnortunitv
Where Even,- M,r.i i;y Do Hii Clns?n
Work ?.r,d Prosper.
AGRICULT'uT.F. I A? f? ESI INDUSTRY
Mlnrs lnitn.f Million if mrtn and
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rrnft Pari it lh
tfttr'n ttrelth.
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'Mmrti"r nf nT(i1o
V.lira1ri nffor n ? man "in
rtion work to ii n1 p io1 pv fur -l'Mm
It. Th rrsnur'p of tat ar nir
vaH1 tlin tht of sriv nthM' American
rnmmnn elt h. nl It v nrr a kt
thev ar xarlom 'nlnrnrtii h rh vl hM
pnfi rn!nn. thp rha mr1on fruit orchard.
1h bannt-r whom riHl. tl araml! nnd
moat eaaily a-1 p?Mili rvrnr. nl iotn
tlally the rV arx"! vnn-rr for nianufa tur-In-
nf the ivholc I'nlt'il HlmtPx. Hf.t of all.
Colorado offt ra th chincc not onl to
worV and profit, h it. to lh. Th iatp ha
vry Kind of iMimat. rxfrpt an unhialthy
pno.
Th a-fatct Indnatry of th ftatf la
agriculture; tha moat varied and prod tr
agriculture in tha world. Colorado ran
produce everything that Canada ran pro
duce; and neatly eeiyth1n that South
Carolina ran produce. The only reason w
Jn not rroa cotton In thin tate la that
other crop pay ui better. Cotton grow
her all right. The different elevatluna of
tha agricultural landa of the atate give ua
every climate from almnat anbtroplcal to
real aubarrtlc.
Irrlarntloa Raala nf Aarlrallare.
Irrigation la tha haala of moat of the
agriculture of Colorado: though more and
mora land la being aucreaaf ully worked
without Irrigation. The atate haa already
nearlly I.OnO.ono acre tinder ditch; and yet,
not a bit mora than half the Irrigable areaa
of tha a tale la at praaeot being watered.
Tha grain rropa produced under Irrigation
rag from two to three ttraea a much
par acre aa tha crop ralaed In the older
tatea without Irrigation. Colorado's
orchard are without a rival In tha world.
Orchard land In full bearing In this atate
ia held at price varying from ll.MO to W,0U
per acre-and paya a big Income on that In
vestment. Colorado orchardlata have learned
to handle every problem that confront! the.
Industry, Including tha froat problem; for
though cropa fcava been loat through frost
la thla tat, tha asparlanca of thoe who
uaa tha orchard heaters prove that such a
lose la unnecessary.
Prices avad Market.
Tvo remarkabla thing about Colorado'!'
farm and orohard product will repay atudy
y tha man who aspects ts change his reel.
dene or hi a occunatlon. On la tha hih
prtcsa which Colorado stuff command..
v V. w. uu w wuvn, wiviaua caniamupei, Col
orado fat lamba, Colorado feeder steers,
Colorado applea, Colorado paachea. Colo
rado cauliflower, Colorado - potatoes, all
bring th top of th market They have no
rivals. Thay do not hav to sell as cheaply
a other stuff of th sam sort. They are
better In quality, they are known to be
batter and consequently thay will bring
more money. That extra lift la prices ex
plans a good deal of th farming prosperity
of Colorado and will give aa equal prosper
ity to three or times, aa big agricultural
population aa wt hav now.
Th other thing to not la th ready and
waiting markets. For th article named,
their quality bring a market, makes a
market anywhere. . For .mora ordinary
thing th market la still ready, provided
by our large tourist, mining and railroad
population. This atate, which la peculiarly
favored as a dairy and poultry country, Im
ports about 18,000,000 worth of tha two
claaaas of producta every year. With th
growth of mining and quarrying operation
which la now fairly under way, th demand
will Increas stiU further. .There Is no pos-
everatocking th market.
lavveeavi
Irrigated farming la what la
Ing. This branch of ag
riculture, which consists In uaing a small
rainfall so as to make It go a long way,
haa been thoroughly tried In Colorado and
has proven a success. This year v.as an
exceptionally dry one, even In th arid re
gions; yet the farms who rightly handled
their land In the dry eastern countlee of
Colorado ralaed twenty-five bushels of
wheat to the acre twice the average yield
of tha United State. Those dry farming
counties have Increased over DOO per cent In
population In th last ten years.
Then there I another sort of dry farming
of which leas la heard which offer splen
did opportunities to the settlor. This Is
farming In the higher altitudes, where the
rainfall Is grt-at enough to dlapena with
th need of Irrigation. Th soil of our high
mountain valleys la extremely rich, and
some crops produced In those high altitudes
are better in quality and command a higher
price than anything that can be grown
nearer sea level.
The manufacturing Industry of th state
is just started. Colorado waterfalls offer
a chance for cheaper power than can be
had anywher else on the continent. Only
a fraction of this power Is at present being
developed, but It all ran be developed and
profitably used. All that Is needed Is for
manufacturers to Irarn that It pays better
to ahlp some clauses of goods rather than
to ship fuel. I know of one electrical power
plant that contracted to acll It rntlr out
put at a rent a kilowatt hour.
4-lal life of Itate.
The social features nf Colorado ought to
nvlte the best class of population. This is
a iiiia kr nomea inn srrinAii and n Minn
grounds. Irrigated farming doesn't make
for tha tenant population; the man who
owns land worth from 1400 to $4,000 per acre
wants to he cloae to It and know how ll is
getting on.
Th achoola of Colorado are equal to
those of any part of the country, and bet
ter than most. Th state of Colorado
owns some very valuable land which It
holds In truat fur th school fund. Dur
ing tha last seventeen montha enough of
this land was aold to yield tha school fund
I3.SOO.000. Th state maintain a splendid
system of graded schools and high schools,
with a state university at th head of the
system, Th Colorado Stat university Is
ranked among th beat conduoted Institu
tions of learning la th I'nited Siatea. Be
stdea this atate college, there Is on uni
versity and on colle, both of high class,
supported by private endowment. Techni
cal education Is wall cared for. Th atate
normal school keep up th needed supply
of trained teachers Th Stat School of
Wines of Colorado has students from all
over th union and a good part of Europ
and Asia. Th 8tat Agricultural colleg
is ona of th moat practical and helpful
Institutions of Its sort In tbs world. Thar
is no place whr a boy or girl ran get
education with lesa troubl than right her
In Colorado, and it make little difference
wl.at aort of education Is demanded. The
siat has them all.
jf -o4 HmIi t amaalia.
Almost alon among th newer states of
th union, Colorado haa seriously under
taken th task of making good roads.
Ther la, a State Highway commission,
which la a littl less thaa a year' list
en c haa rva Itself a of tha bt la-
will Increas still furt
slblllty of overstock!!
Dry t-'araula
Resides the Irrigate
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GREAT FALLS IS BOOMING
E. W. Fettibone, Booster at Land
Show Predict! Wonderful Things.
GREAT RICHES SURROUND IT
tfaa' Kmt-tlinnl
era I l ani'a and
alrr'l'unrr, Mln
Kallroad Karlltltra
I'nnnlry tlinwt la l.eiitil of
Oppjirf anltlea.
Kew of the viaitora at the l.anil Show .
Tail to secure aon;o eouvt-nir f tiipat
I'alia. Tli'j cltv haa m Inriri- mid lntuost- '
'he, -x 1 1 1 1 i t .lust In from of the ata;o in I
the A iilitui linn and lifie the Ureal Kalis
hooator are lu' pansing out anuvenlr
liooka and button. K. W. f'ettihone, the
reprraenl Ht i e of Hie Ureat Knlla hoard
of I'limnifiip, who haa charge of the ex
hlhlt. p-aka of Mm city and th" country
urouml ll aa a "!uiid of wonderful oppor
tunities " lie nays "there la more op
portunity to the s'lutire Imh in Montana
than there la to the square foot in the
eastern states.''
In speaking of t.ireat Kails Mr. Pettlbone
aas: "Great Kails la destined to become
the largest elty between Omaha and
Seattle. It Is located In the heart of one
of the best agricultural reglona In the
entire northwest. A great platesu country
that hs been demonstrated to be the rich
est wheat land in America atretrhes away
from the c ity to the west for seventy miles,
to the eaat fur 4CK) miles and north to the
International boundary line. 150 miles.
5ohn RShafroili - Oov.of Goloradc
vestments th stats svr mad. This com
mission Is now building SO0 miles of itate
highways, and has 4,000 mllei mora on the
sohedul to build aa fast as thy can be
reached. Th stats pay one-third of th
piio on most of thes roads, and the
counties traversed pay two-thirds. Put
ting th construction under th charge of
th stat commission has resulted In get
ting better and cheaper construction, and
In unifying the echem of road through
out the state. This state has already be
come the nation's playground, snd will
tak higher and higher rank In that re
gard as the year go by. It Ii planned
to eventually have good roads to every
part of tha atate, road which will rival
In usefulness though not In cost the fa
mous roads of Francs.
Th stat Is using its convicts In road
building, and using them under, a system
which makes guards unnecessary and helps
th convict as well as ths stats. Every
convict who Is deemed worthy to be put
In a road gang gets ten days off his sen
tnc for every month he works on th
road. Th result Is' ho guards. himself,
doe splendid work, averaging to produce
better results than the gangs of paid la
borers working on the sam general sort
of task, and goes out of prison at th end
of hi shortened term abl and willing to
far the world and earn hi living. 11 has
no "prison pallor" and no "prison gait."
He Is a man. with good, hard muscles,
and h la ready to tak a man' plac.
Millleaa In Mlalna;.
Th mines of Colorado have produced
nearly fJO.OOO.OOO of gold during the year
1910, besides over fl4.000.0O0 of other metal.
Th mining Industry has advanced tre
mendously In this state In tha last two
years; yet th advance haa just begun. It'
Is possible that within five years a single
camp will produce almost as much gold
per year sa th whole stat does now; and
even so, that camp will hav to hustle
to keep first plac. No stat In th union
offers such opportunities of profit to the
mining Investor as does Colorado. TVtld
tatting has been nearly wiped out. and no
man need be sw mated in mining opera
tions unless h la looking for th chance
to be swindled. Th chamber of .com
merce of the different mining ramps will
always warn the Investor of bad schemes
If h will give them a chance to do so. .
Ther is not a single worked-out mining
district in ths stat of Colorado. Th old
est diatflcta. which hav been producing
steadily for th laat fifty year, ar still
producing and still paying dividends. And
moot of th mining part of th state has
been hardly mors thaa acratrhad.
in thl list of mining, no account la mad
of coal. Colorado Is fifth. If not fourth. In
th list of coal producing state of the
union, and th opening of Routt county
will soon push th tat up to third plac.
It Is atimatd by the geological eurvey at
Washington, D. C. that ther re STl.Orfl.
000.000 ton! of coal In Colorado. The
world's consumption of coal Is I.O0O.000.OJO
tons per annum. Henc we have enough
coal to supply the entlr world at the
present rat of conaumptlon for 371 years.
Where the Wosiea Yote.
Women vot in Colorado, and partly as a
result of women'! interest in political
questions, there haa never been a child
labor problem la this state. There never
will b one. If one ever ahow Itself, it
will be solved befor It reach tha di
mensions of a real problem.
All that I hav said la but a repetition
nf th first statement, that Colorado is
the stat of opportunity. The state has
104.000 ofiuars miles snd only MO.OnO popu
lation. Not mors than harf Ita Irrigable
area la now under water. Iess than halt
Its dry lands are being made to yield any
thing Ilk their proper returns. The state
ha th best markets In the world for It
own. and has the cheapest land. too. when
land la measured by what It will produce.
A fr home, with a cook In the kitchen
and a fir in th grate, ts no more to b
had In Colorado than anywhere else. But
th chance to earn a home and collect It
when on has earned It-or a little before
Is better In Colorado than In any other
state I know. The state maintains an
immigration bureau; to furnish Information
free from bias t prospective settlers.
Th opportunities of the stat ar almost
beyond cataloguing. We can support five
or ten times our present population and
support them well.
Fire in Sioux City
Federal Building
Instruments and Many Secordi
Weather Forecaster McDow
ell Destroyed.
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SIOUX CITT, la., Jan. SB. (Special Tel
grsm.) Fire In the weather bureau In fed
eral building this morning destroyed valua
ble records and river correspondence In
Forecaster McDowell's desk and threatened
the federal building. The Instruments In
the forecaster' office were destroyed in
the blaxe.
etlers Klork In.
"During the last year millions of acres
of this land has been settled upon by
thousands of home seekers, and there yet
remain millions of aires more for settle
ment. "The development of this aat agrl-
tultural region ia alone reason for the
building of a mighty city, but there are
other good reason why tireal Kails
should make the best city between here
and the coast. Aiiioiik these reasons men
tion should he made of the Immenae. Vater
power of which the city booata. The Mis
souri river here is over l.wo feet wide and
has a total fall in a distance of six miles
of feel. The development of these
(alls will give 3O0.0MI horse power, which
Is tha greatest available water power In
the United States. Seventy-five thousand
horsepower has already been developed,
and a dam haa been begun which will de
velop 104,000 additional horsepower.
Mineral Wraith Fahslaat.
"A third reason for th growth of Great
Falls Is the wealth of mineral resources
found In the mountains south and west of
th city. Lying 100 miles west of the city
Is the main rang of the Rocky mountains
and thirty miles south Is the Kelt range.
All of ths mountains In these ranges are
mineral bearing, having rich deposits of
copper, silver, gold, lead, zinc and Iron.
Ilanla to City Short.
"From every existing camp and many that
will be developed In the near future, the
haul to the city la short and the grade
down from the mines. The necessities to
the cheap reduction of these minerals Is
an abundance of water, ' cheap motive
power, cheap electric current, cheap fuel,
lime and gravity plant sites and Great
Falls haa each of these advantages, and as
a natural consequence will become a grea'
mineral reduction and refining and metal 1
manufacturing point, and aside from the 1
reduction and refining of the more coatlv
of the precious and commercial metals
will be a Kre.it steel and structural Iron
works renter 1.lng north of th I'elt
nioun'alns and underlying the foothills and
plateaus there are over square miles
underlain nith a heavy seam of bituminous
coal that has a hard sand rock roof and
flour There are now three large coal
anii' within a few miles of thla rlty that j
are extracting coal from thl measure, j
their output for the last year having been
approximately !.:" 0i4 tons of merchantable
coal. In the same area there are great 1
desalts of carbonite and cretaJlxed lime,
extensive beds of fire clay and wide meas- i
lires of c 1 mint shale of the highest grade
With such mineral resources what can pre- j
vent iif.it Knlla becoming the nitshurg of '
1 the west'.'''
Added to the foregoing reasons f ir lis
development. Great Kalis is deatlned to be
the. railway renter of Montana. Already
the Ureat Northern and the Unrllnaton
have lines radiating from the city in six
directions. The Great Northern Is at pres
ent constructing a ritt-off line from the
eastern boundary of the slate directly to
the rity and with the completion of thla
line and the line that they are also build
ing iit the Sun river west of the elty,
Great Fall will be on the main line of
the Great Northern. The Milwaukee rail
way is building Into the rlty from both
the eaat and the west, having secured
rlfht-of-way through and a very central
location In the rlty for its depots, and on
the weat side for Ita yards, shops, etc.,
and as soon aa this line la completed, on
account of Its low grades and shorter dls-
tance, will become the transcontinental line
of that railway. The city Is also assured
the 800 line, coming In from directly eaat
and running south of the Missouri, within
the following year.
"Great Falls Is at the extreme western
gateway of the Itockv mountain ranse and
evrry northern railway seeking a way to
the coast ran traverse 400 miles of Montana
over a comparatively level prairie country,
being In position In that distance to tnp
any mining ramp or coal ramp to the aouth
paralleling mountain ranges, enter Great
Kails, a point of perpetual and great east
ur.d west freight produrlng cnpaclty, and
go west through the- mountains over any
of a half dozen possible routes and these
advantages will bring the city s-vcral ad
ditional transcontinental railways.
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ter a Clear Complexion
Digestible Foods Are ImpeiatiYi
Maltisl Milk Itrantl romhino more nutri
tive lngredlcnta than any other brand, am!
It's R near prrdiKpafr-rl ns It Is pomiM to
make Prrad making It eay to astmllatr and tun 1 pi"'ut
into nerve strength, blood corpuscles.
It has a rich, sweet, distinctive rimer
5 and 10 cents per loaf.
liione your grocer. If lie can't a.ipply 1c
us know.
gave th I.abls.
SUNDGREN'S BAKERY
720 South 28th Strett
Fhons maraty 3657; Xnd., A-3817.
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Railroad nnlldlng.
"With railways radiating from the city
In every direction, with mineral resources
abundant and near at hand, with unlimited
waier power, and with 20.000,000 acres of
tributary agricultural land there ran be
little question but that Great Falls will
soon become the metropolis of the inter
mountain states of the northwest."
Sis I'aaarnsers In Biplane.
taTU'ZY. Ardennes. France. Jan. 26
Roger Sommer took up six pHCaengera In
a large biplane today and. after circling
the aerodrome at a height of 100 feet, flew
to llomllll and return, and began a world
record for a cross country flight with pas
sengers and a new mark for total weight
lifted.
Nobdy Is Too Old
o learn that th sure way to cure cough
r cold Is with Dr. King's New Discovery,
c and $1.00. For sale by Beaton Drug Co.
The
Three Forks
Commitry
A fertile district in Southwestern
Montana cmprisin; the valleys
of the Gallatin, Madison and Jef
ferson rivers, which here canvcrjje
to form the Missouri. The new
Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget
Sound Railway has pened this
district to the markets of the world.
A mild climate, clear dry air, pure water snd the
general beauty of the surroundings, make this dia
trlct a desirable pl-aoe of residence. The fertility of
the soil and favorable climatic conditions account'
for the extraordinary yields of small grains. Wheat
yields per acre from 30 to 46 bushels, oats from CO
to 90 bushels, barley from BO to 60 bushels, pota
toes 200 to 400 bushels. Other crops In proportion.
Apples, pemrs. plums, cherries and small fruits bear
regularly a fine quality of fruit. Commercial orch
ards In this district are a success.
This remarkable country is worthy of Investigation.
Write for illustrated booklet giving full informa
tion regarding the Three Forks Country.
CHICAGO
Milwaukee and St. Paul
RAILWAY
CEO. B. HAYNES
F. A. MILLER
0nral Fassngr Agnt
CHICAGO
Immigration Agant
T50 Marquette Building
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r writ. "I wish to xpra my ao
prcl'.ioa ef th great good I drtv4
from Foley' Kl4ny Remedy, which I
.r a ha1 caa of kidney troubl.
fi bttl did th work most affec
tively sad proved to me beyond doubt :l
la lb most reliable kidney medicine 1
hav vr Uses," SoU by ail drvggU'a
Utah Day Program Swedish Blight Program
3 f. ivi. 8:30 IP. IVfl.
Special music and interesting lectures. Swedish Societies will attend in a body.
Montana Day Program German Turners' Wight
4 IV2 Athletic drill on big stage by Omaha
Turners at 9 p. m.
Daily Amusement Features at the Land Show
TWO MOVING PICTURE SHOWS-Running all the time.
THE SWEET SINGERS FROM HAWAII Every Afternoon
and Evening.
MISS LORA NETTIE RIETER The World's Greatest Cornet
Virtuoso Every Afternoon and Evening.
CONCERTS BY THE LAND SHOW CONCERT BAND George
Green, Director At 2 to 3 p. m., 4 to 5:30 p. m., 7:30 to
8:30 p. m., 9:30 to 11 p. m. daily.
A BEAUTIFUL IRRIGATION PANORAMA Showing Irriga
tion and Power Producing Methods.
Realistic Indian War Dances by Twenty
Sioux Braves Every Afternoon and Evening.
Open Each Day 10:3
A Hundred Interesting Features
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