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ALLEY, COLORADO 



MONTE VISTA is in the center of the largest continuous body of irrigated 

 land in America 500,000 acres under cultivation last year 2,000,000 acres 

 can be made available, and hence we must grow. 



MONTE VISTA is not only a city of homes, but the city of the great San 

 Luis Valley. Its population would double normally in the next few years, 

 because of the tremendous prosperity attending the surrounding irrigation 

 country, but it will treble and quadruple because of the new sugar mill and 

 new railway about to be built. 



I COLORADO 



Colorado produced two million dollars 

 more of farm products last year than its 

 total mineral output. 



It has the most [perfect climate in the 

 world. Because of its altitude and its 

 continuous golden sunshine, invalids are 

 made strong men, and take their places 

 in the ranks of the hardy fighters of the 

 West. 



Colorado stands for health, wealth, and 

 happiness. 



The Irrigation Congress meets at 

 Pueblo i the gateway to the San Luis 

 Valley Sept. 26-30th of this year. 

 Already great newspapers of the East 

 have their scouts out all over Colorado 

 lining up for this great gathering, and 

 publishing hundreds of columns about 

 the golden state. Magazines will devote 

 page after page to Colorado's wonderful 

 scenery, to its attractiveness as a living 

 place, and finally to its evei increasing 

 prosperity from its millions of irrigated 

 acres. Where once the desert ruled, 

 waves rippling fields of grain, and the 

 sweet scent of the field pea blossoms 

 perfumes the air. 



Colorado, although as big as two or 

 three ordinary states, has only 700,000 

 people. The OPPORTUNITY for you 

 is here. Will you BE ONE OF US ? 



SAN LUIS 

 VALLEY 



The San Luis Valley is in south central 

 Colorado. Leaving Denver or Pueblo, in 

 a night one crosses a range of mountains 

 and finds this vast valley, level as a 

 floor, 150 miles long and 66 miles wide. 

 The magnificent sweep of the mountain 

 range, with its snow capped peaks, com- 

 pletely encircles this beautiful valley, 

 and a great writer has tried to prove this 

 the orignal Garden of Eden. Forty-three 

 streams and rivulets bursting from the 

 breast of the mountain range water this 

 terrestrial paradise. 



All kinds of crops peculiar to Colorado 

 and noted all over the country, are 

 grown. The newcomer is astounded at 

 the beautiful homes, in many cases paid 

 for by the farm produce of a single 

 year. 



There is still government land here to 

 be obtained, or one can acquire tracts of 

 low-priced deeded land. The land of the 

 San Luis Valley has not yet been cut 

 into small tracts, nor intensive farming 

 begun. 



Think what the new sugar factory 

 means to this valley. Write and we will 

 tell you about it. 



MONTE VISTA and 



"Sunnyside Addition" 



"Sunnyside" is an addition to Monte 

 Vista, the city of the San Luis Valley, 

 building in the only direction the town 

 may logically grow. 



A representative of the Irrigation Age 

 after careful investigation vouches for 

 the fact that sugar beets, planted in the 

 San Luis Valley this year, show up as 

 well as in old sugar sections in Colorado, 

 and that the sugar factory at Monte Vista 

 and the new railway to run north from 

 Monte Vista will handle the output from 

 6,000 acres of beets already contracted. 



The table given below shows the in- 

 crease in Colorado towns where sugar 

 factories are located. We will furnish 

 verification of these figures on request. 



THE OPPORTUNITY in the West is at 



the beginning. Write us now. fc ft, 



I he Monte Vista Securities Company. 



Monte Vista, Colorado 



IF YOU ARE AN IRRIGATIONIST already, you will know what this 

 means. If you are not, we will tell you it means OPPORTUNITY. 



Get into a new country where prices are still way down. 



Send us your name and address and we will send you FREE our beau- 

 tifully illustrated Souvenir Booklet, telling you more about Monte Vista and 

 Sunnyside. 



The Monte Vista Securities Company 



Monte Vista, Colorado 



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