Colorado
Colorado: Then and Now "Gold! Gold!! Gold!!! Gold!!!! Hard to get and heavy to hold." (Coel 1) Headlines in 1858 when gold was found along the Platte River. Which started abooming economy in mining. Some struck it rich and some moved on. Some did farming and ranching, while others started a new business and some saw the money in tourism. In time some of these people have continued to become successful and others have found wealth. But what has really happened to the businesses of Colorado as a whole? Mining, farming and ranching, and tourism were important parts of Colorado around 1900 at the turn of the century, but many wonder if at the start of a new century is it the same. As many people look back at the beginning of this century they say mining is what built Colorado. It is true, but it has also hurt us in the future. The positive side of mining is that it brought great revenue to Colorado. It also built cities andhelped businesses grow. A great example of this is the town of Leadville. It did not seem like Leadville would grow in 1876 because, "the region itself was like an empty beach, washed by two tides of mining activity and littered with abandoned sluices, empty cans, and rotti
Ranchers and some miners started to build cabins to rent to the tourists. One industry that helped keep the miners going was farming and ranching. Mining helped make this state grow in great strides and has helped the economy, but has hurt our environment in this present day. It has been found in Leadvillethat kids that have played in the debris have increased chances of heart problems, cancer, and developing a learning disability. It was not as commercialized as it is now and some things were not around yet, but it was the best place to go in America. Most of the tourists came to hunt, fish, hike, go to the hot springs, and do adventures on horseback or stage-coach. Many early explorers offered guided summer trips to the mountains. What every we have today we owe to the early 1900's for helping attract people to this wonderful state. Meeker was quoted in the Denver Tribune saying that, "the immoral values that these shops brought could not help start a town, but only hurt the town. These were only summeractivities so the pure businesses on tourism knew that they needed something for winter. Farming has slowed down with restrictions on use of water. Meeker wrote an article in the New York Tribune discussing the process of irrigating Colorado to make it a productive farming state.
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