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<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />1 <br />1 <br /> <br /> <br />i <br />LJ <br /> <br />1 <br />1 <br /> <br /> <br />1 <br /> <br />1 <br />raise money to purchase sugar beet processing equipment. Despite <br />early failures the crop eventually became widespread. Sugar <br />factories to process the crop opened in Grand Junction, Windsor, <br />Ft. Lupton and Longmont (Great Western Sugar Co.). The boom <br />brought thousands of acres of land under cultivation. <br />Another factor that helped revolutionize rural life at the <br />time was the introduction of the gasoline tractor which allowed one <br />person to till more land than had been possible previously. <br />Despite these improvements after 1920, local farmers faced <br />difficulties as crop prices fell when European farms returned to <br />production after World War I. A decade later in 1929, the nation <br />began a slide into the Great Depression. By 1937 and 1938, with <br />the Great Depression and another drought at the same time many <br />Boulder County farmers were just able to survive with massive aid <br />from the federal government. World war II led to a complete <br />reversal of that situation and attempts by the federal government <br />since the war to stabilize the farm economy led to a somewhat <br />easier life for the area's farmers until recently(Mehls <br />1989b: XVI:1-2; Athearn 1976: 253-278). <br />3.2.5 Quarrying and Urban Growth and Development, 1870-1900 <br />Denver and northeastern Colorado experienced rapid growth <br />between 1870 and the mid 1890s. During the later part of the <br />period real estate promoters in the city began to turn their <br />attentions to the open farm and ranch lands that surrounded Denver <br />as locales for urban development. In downtown Denver speculators <br />such as Donald Fletcher and Samuel M. Perry began to buy properties <br />and replaced older wood and brick buildings with ones made of <br />stone. Their activity was part of an overall real estate boom in <br />Denver that made many paper millionaires. Near the Study Area, <br />land changed hands from an agriculture use to quarrying for <br />38 <br />