Word: colorado
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These figures do not include the recently discovered vast Alaskan coal fields (which can supply the Pacific States for 1,000 years), the imperfectly explored coal fields in Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and the Rocky Mountains generally, or the deep lying coal deposits which at present there is no profitable means of mining. Neither does the estimated consumption consider the saving of coal which may be effected by more efficient mining and consumption. It is calculated that a saving of 600,000,000 tons a year is possible. Moreover, the United States is now supplying 50% of the world...
Returning by Colorado Springs and Pikes Peak the party will complete the circuit with an inspection of the Rocky Mountain Park in Colorado...
Governor Sweet of Colorado, the much-advised, appointed a Senator to succeed the late Samuel D. Nicholson. Ex-President Wilson, William G. McAdoo, William J. Bryan and General Leonard Wood all made suggestions. Governor Sweet chose to select his own man, Alva B. Adams, son of the late Governor Alva Adams. Governor Sweet's party label is " Progressive Democrat." So it was expected that he would appoint a Democrat of radical tendencies-a Democratic La Follette, another Dill. It was understood that the La Follette group wanted him to appoint ex-Congressman Keating, now editor of Labor. Instead...
...loss of a Senator from Colorado, and the quite possible loss of one from Minnesota, seriously endangers if it does not wipe out the Republican majority in the Senate next December. To be sure, conceding the loss of both seats, the Republicans will still have a paper majority of six. But a paper majority is not a voting majority, when it includes La Follette, Brookhart, Norris, Frazer, Norbeck...
...fight to beat either of these." In addition there will be the seat of Alva B. Adams to contend for. Of the 17 Republicans whose seats will be in question, at least seven will be hard fights: Edge of New Jersey, Ball of Delaware, McCormick of Illinois, Phipps of Colorado, Bursum of New Mexico, MacNary of Oregon, Sterling of South Dakota...