The Fremont County record. [volume] (Canon City, Colo.) 1877-18??, 1881-09-10
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o. G.. Etaaley. Esq., Chairman .,
the Executive C0nssittee o T Cation
City on the State Howse Qusstion
SIR-As your committee hsve un'
der consideration the question of the
permanent location of the seat Of gov.
ernmsnt for Colorado in which every
citizen OF the state, however humble,
go pueA xu1esef0up - eocnr - ~
on the subject in the hope that the
widows mite" may not be altogeth.
er lost in the great sea Of thought
that illuminafes your committee.
By an act of the last legislature OF
the state provision was made for sub
mitting to its qualified electors at the
November election the question Of
the permanent location OF the seat OF
government for Colorado.
Denver, the former temporary site.
through her able and numerous daily
aud weekly press aud board of trade
asserts her right to the permanent
location-offers O bonus of . large
body of land to the electors of the
state as . consideration for their
votes in her favor. aud claiming to
bc the largest and most wealthy city
of the state, considers her title clear,
notwithstanding her location at .
distance Of one hundred aud sixty
miles north, by rail, from the terri
torial and popular center Of the state.
Colorado Springs and Pueblo are
also willing to accommodate the
state with site for the seat of gov
ernment, but have the modesty and
good sense to submit the question TO
the decision of the electors of the
state without AN appeal to their pock-
cts or offers Of land or money as .
consideration to warp their judge
ments from the line of public interest
and public duty. Silver Cliff, South
Arkansas and Lcadville are also gen.
erous enough to offer their hospitali-
ties TO the state, but they feel and
know that the mountain water
spouts, "washouts" and foods that
frequently drown the narrow. deep
tain passes, carrying away their
railroad bridges and tracks and for a
time SO obstructing public travel as
TO make it improper for them to urge
the people of the state to erect their
public buildings at either of those
beautiful towns with prospects of
great property in the future. The
true line of battle 10 therefore be-
tween Denver at the north pole of
lhe- slafa and Canaan ,Giss - si.-.--r--,
lation. mincralogy, property ana
railway transportation now aud pros
pcctiyely in all time to come. Now
10 the onset between Denver and
Canon City. To borrow cogent and
beautiful thoughts from Comstock,
the sage of the Silver Clin Mining
Gazette:
.If our readers will take . map OF
Colorado and, using Canon City as
the central point, draw circle 500
miles in diameter, 1t will not only in
cludc all the chief cities of the state.
the coal fields Of Ell Moro and Trini.
dad. but all OF the explored and de-
welcomed mineral districts, the produc-
ton of W hich in 1880 was valued At
about 92S ,O0O, 600. Every productive
dissrics within that circle 10 now, or
soon will be connected with It's CEN
trial point by the mountain divisions
Of the Denver and Rio Grande rail-
way, and at or near that point, vast
sums of capital will ultimately DC
| concentrated, and the most periect
mechanical appliances for the treat
mcnt of complex and rcbeiiious ores
win be brought into use on q scale SO
grand rs to dwarf all previous con-
ceptions."
| Within this magic circle also in
Guiding tho center of population,
transportation aud convenience oi
access for . large majority of all the
| counties while The pass into and up
the mountains through the Grand
canon accommodates with railway
transportation to Leadville In the
uorthw est, South Arkansas and Gun
uison City in the wcst, Poncho Springs
Saguache, Del Norte, Alamosa and
Durango In the south, while Trini'
| dad and Ell Moro are reached by way
of Pueblo, and the northern tier o
counties by the Denver road. Thus
| Il is seen that all tho principal cities
and towns and all the principal inter
eats and railroada Of tho whole peo
ple of the state fall into tho bosom o.
the ArkansaA valley 1t the mouth O
lthc Grand canon and At Canon CITY
and cluster around her like tho crown
Jewels OF England around the brow
or her Empress Queen. Yet NOR
than all thie nature has 90 contrivet
THAT the pass up The Grand cahol
leads mot alone to northwestern
western and southwestern Colorado
but also is the best mountain pass II
Utah and New Mexico and has bee,
adopted by Deuvcr herself ~ tn
grand railroad approach TO all tn
country westward to the Pacific ans
southward to Old Mexico hersel
whore tho northwestern railway sys
tsm 10 now tending. From the fa
west and far south - well as IRON
the great plains OF tho east, transcou
tiuontal railroad access TO Canon Cit,
10 moro easy and direct than 70 an.
other city OF the state and it 10 ap
parcnt that the mineral kingdom .
tho western mountains traverscd B.
tho narrow gauge railways aud tn
broad gauge movement ff0m the cast
eru and southern connections nus
meet and break bulk ~ the Graht
Caion city, whore the narrow ~
broad gauge systoms terminaee
Hero must Be the great city cf distrt
button for tramountane co@merce
Here In THE ricA and leautltas vallo
ebounding IN maRni6cent perks an
Wide valcs for . distance Of ~ mllea
must the oolnmerce Of the AlaAtie
Pacific ard interior states 49,
break bulk, rsship And pese or e it
1 anal destinations decree Of the law