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duty to protect prospective land buyers and home-seekers 

 from unscrupulous land sharks. 



Through its commercial club and real estate exchange 

 Alamosa invites and will co-operate with outside capital 

 to establish two needed industries in the community, namely, 

 a pea canning factory and a packing plant with sufficient 

 capacity to handle hogs and sheep in large quantities. 



There exists also in Alamosa a propitious opening for 

 a wholesale grocery and jobbing house. With its unequalled 

 railroad facilities and its location it is the natural dis- 

 tributing point of the valley; and is destined to become a 

 wholesale center of great importance. At the present time 

 the retail merchant of the San Luis Valley is dependent 

 on Pueblo and Denver for his groceries and other mer- 

 chandise. 



Deposits in the two banks of Alamosa aggregate over 

 $800,000; Roper's Insurance Agency, which has been es- 

 tablished for over 25 years, represents 30 of the world's 

 leading insurance companies and is the largest agency in 

 Colorado ; the firm of Galbreath Brothers, operating a saw 

 mill, find a steady and gratifying demand for lumber and 

 building material for the many new buildings in the course 

 of construction, over 100 residences having been erected 

 in the year 1911 ; in city and suburban real estate trading 

 is, and has been, very active during the past three years 

 and Mr. John Gerteisen, the town clerk and manager of 

 The Gerteisen Company, reports that the values are increas- 

 ing substantially. The Alamosa Steam Laundry is con- 

 stantly increasing its force of employes and its field of 

 operations is gradually extending to every section of the 

 valley. 



Alamosa has excellent hotel accommodations; it sup- 

 ports four progressive newspapers and the post office re- 

 ceipts exceed $10,000 a year assuring free mail delivery. 



There are several main canals furnishing water for 

 lands around Alamosa, the principal ones being the Com- 

 monwealth, Costilla, Excelsior, San Luis and Hickory Jack- 

 son. The yearly assessment is from $10 to $15 for 160 

 acres. The supply of water from the Rio Grand River, 

 which flows through the town, is ample to irrigate every acre 

 of land. 



Alamosa has 140 strong flowing wells, from which the 

 entire water supply of hundreds of houses is taken. It is 

 possible for every house owner to have his own water 

 works at home. By drilling a well an inexhaustible supply 

 of the purest artesian water is obtained by its own pressure. 



All crops subject to cultivation at an altitude of 7,500 

 feet are successfully raised in the Alamosa district. Many 

 prizes have been awarded to the products of the San Luis 

 Valley at various fairs and land shows. Wheat, oats, 

 sugar beets, flax, cabbage, barley, potatoes, onions and 

 alfalfa have been among the prize winners for the valley 

 products and the San Luis Valley is acknowledged to be the 

 chief pea feeding section of Colorado. This industry averages 

 a profit of from $35 to $50 an acre. 



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