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tude slightly over 6,000 feet, shielded from severe 

 storms and extremes of temperature, with pure, 

 dry, invigorating mountain air and the purest of 

 mountain water, entirely free from alkalies, it is a 

 natural health resort and an ideal place in which to 

 make a home an unpeopled valley, luxuriant 

 in wild vegetation and threaded by crystal streams 

 fed by the inexhaustible snows of the giant Mt. 

 Sopris and surrounding ranges, transformed in less 

 than twenty-five years into one of the garden 

 spots of the globe. This, in brief, is the story of 

 the Carbondale district, a story that typifies the 

 highest achievement of natural resources and hu- 

 man resourcefulness and cooperation." 



One of the most popular booklets ever published 

 about the potato, if popularity can be judged by 

 demand, is that issued by Mt. Sopris Farm en- 

 titled "A Modern Delicacy." Because that pub- 

 lication is not now obtainable it is being practically 

 reproduced in the following: 



A MODERN DELICACY MT. SOPRIS 

 FARM POTATOES 



Next to bread and meat, the most important 

 article of food to the Anglo-Saxon race is the 

 potato. Notwithstanding its importance as a food 

 product, comparatively little attention has been 

 paid to the development and improvement of the 

 potato until recent years. The writer, having spent 

 a number of years in trying to grow varieties of 

 potatoes that would be of such quality and perfect- 

 ness in economical conformation as to command the 

 highest market prices, and having met with a fair 

 degree of success, is constantly appealed to by 

 growers for information as to methods and by con- 



