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Show Fertile Lards of Colorado. The traveler who visits Colorado for the first time is surprised and impressed with the opportunities the state affords in agricultural agri-cultural pursuits. The mineral wealth of the state, with its many famous mines, eems to have become fixed in the minds of strangers, crowding out all knowledge of her wonderfully fertile soil. Little thought U ever given to the 12, COO miles of irriga-gation irriga-gation canals that have been constructed, and the 2,000,000 acres of land which have thus far been made productive. Yet, out out of 371 exhibits from Colorado at the world's fair, eighty-one special premiums were awarded, covering all kinds of fruit and produce. The wheat exhibit attracted wide attention, and twenty-five awards were given it alone, the largest number received by any one state in the Union. The fruit industry has reached $4,000,000 a year and is yet in its infancy. Sugar beet culture is a profitable industry. The min eral wealth of the state, which leads all other states in the Union in the output of gold and silver, does not compare with her agricultural wealth. A handsome and profusely pro-fusely illustrated pamphlet, entitled "The Fertile Lands of Colorado," has just been issued by the passenger department of the Denver & Rio Grande railway, and gives detailed information of the lands and their location, and may be had upon application to S. K. Hooper, general passenger agent, Denver, or H. M. Cushing, traveling passenger pas-senger agent, 58 West Second South street, Salt Lake City, Utah. |