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The old fable of the farmer who was told of hidden 

 treasure just under the surface of his farm, and who 

 dug over every acre apparently in vain, only to find that 

 the treasure came with the increase in his crop, has been 

 paralleled in Colorado, where bonanza tales of profits 

 in sugar beets and alfalfa, peaches and canteloupes are 

 replacing the exciting finds in the mining camps. True, 

 the production of the mines of the State for 1906, as 

 shown in the recently tabulated records of the State's 

 progress, was one of the greatest in its history, but it 

 was so far eclipsed by the records of the farms as to 

 seem of little importance. 



According to the published figures, the farms of 

 Colorado produced in 1906 the enormous total of $101,- 

 000,000, while all the mines together gold, silver, zinc, 

 lead, copper, tungsten and radium could roll up only 

 $50,000,000. Although the coal production has almost 

 doubled in the last ten years, it has not caught up with 

 the combined output of fruit and sugar 1 to sweeten it, as 

 the orchards of Colorado and the beet fields together 

 produced $20,000,000 worth of salable products, while 

 the coal mined in the State brought only $18,000,000. 



The record of the farms becomes of still greater im- 

 portance when it is remembered that a ton of coal or an 

 ounce of gold or silver taken from the ground leaves it 

 that much the poorer, while under irrigation, a farm 

 that produces well this year may be expected to do even 

 better next year. 



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