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Show New Year Promising For Gunnison Valley The new year 1924 smiling and with promises that would make the most skeptical feel jubilant, has been duly ushered in and business has now settled down from the turmoil of the busy holiday season and the trials and tribulations that have been met during the rjTar just past. Never in the history of the valley could conditions look more prosperous. Emerging from a three-year depression, during which everybody was striving for the restoration of business conditions in the great endeavor to again direct affairs to the normal channel, a great success has been achieved. While yet there is a long road to travel before farming and the general business is fully restored, there is no other section in the entire west that gives more promising future than the Gunnison Valley. The year just closing did not prove a bad one here. In fact, through the efforts of the progressive farmer and beet grower and owing to the fact that a splendid price was obtained from the sugar beets, the financial condition of most was materially boosted and the money circulated did much in liquidating the "old note" and it aided in paying the taxes and supplying needs for the home. The dawning of the new year gives even a better promise for higher returns than the year just closing. And a few sound resolutions, resolu-tions, made sincerely and followed to the letter, will make a banner year for the valley. A first resolution should be the banding and cooperation of building a greater and bigger valley. Water, land and climatic conditions are here in abundance. What is needed need-ed is more people and progressive farmers. There is ample room for 500 progressive and industrious families right in the Gunnison valley. Let us all resolve to work to the end of inviting settlers here. Let us resolve to support the big sugar factory which graces the valley. You growers who grew ten acres last year resolve to raise twenty. The man who grew twenty, let him double and raise forty, and so on up the line. If you have a grudge at the factory raise beets and make the management keep the old mill going for five months at least. Make them squeal with an overproduction. It won't of course make them mad, but it will make them work like fury. But then you will see the result instead of some $300,00 being circulated among the farmers, there will be something like three-quarters of a million dollars. Another resolution that is suggestive at this time. Don't think the other man, or your neighbor has not the same right to live and prosper. He has. Work and confer with him and consolidate every effort into a great big one and it is a safe guess that not only a few ,but every one in the valley one year water will be blessed with more prosperity than ever before. |