100 years ago: Advertisement encourages land-buyers to look west to Colorado / LJWorld.com

From the Lawrence Daily World for Feb. 1, 1911:

[Advertisements] “5000 Acres Irrigated Land - Eastern Colorado - February 7th Excursion. Will leave Santa Fe Depot, Lawrence at 10:46 A.M. Arrive Pueblo 6 o’clock next morning. This tract of irrigated land is one of the best, if not the best in the United States today, and it is within twenty miles of the growing city of Pueblo, which has a population of 65,000.”
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100 years ago: Advertisement encourages land-buyers to look west to Colorado