Telegram-herald., 1890-02-19
DENVER INDICATED
J ID. Dillenback Takes Up the Cod-
gel and Goes for Tuttls.
FACTS AID FIGURES VERSUS FlyClES
GrsBd ks pics Euaigrsnts whO nAse hAa
Their feeliaEs LAcerated-A DIT
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Busy Capital
Corespoadeuee o. De Tllssr.a HErns.

lds nov living ia Denver, and Ihey ali
take somewhat violent exception 10 the
statements made IN letter byF Emery
futile. printed ia the TELEGRAM-HEs-
AID last month, and purporting 70
give a description OF tins city. IL l. al
their request that 1 write YOU.
Ills first statement, that the popula-
ton Is estimated at from 1900 TO
80, 600. IS correct. am consefya-
tive, and think the former figures are
too low and the latter too high Nor
can we object TO what he says about
the erection of new business blocks.
The State Capitol, now above the base
ment, Will cost more than 5000, 600;
the Henry c. Brown hotel building not
less than 81 100000; the Kittridge
Block, Masonic Temple, Boston Build
ing, Earnest Block, Charles Building
and county jail, each over $50, O0O.
Each OF these are nearly completed.
Ground has been broken for another
opera house, To cost 100000 or up.
ward. There are many other fine
buildings IN process of erection. The
men who are investing such immense
sums here have evidently not consulted
Mr.. Tuttle.
II Is true that we are to have a
Y. VI. c. 4. building. Nearly 500, 600
probably more at this date-have
already been subscribed toward II.
No other city of the size of Denver
has so many or so extensive cable lines,
electric lines and dummy" lines. We
are proud Of our rapid transit, which
makes it possible 10 live five or six
miles from the business center. and vet
reach IT sooner than could be done over
one-fourth the distance by horse car.
The cable hnes employ not forty men,
as Mr.. Tuttle states, but nearer 400
There can be no doubt about the fact
that our schools and churches are
highly creditable TO the city.
1t may be a depressing feature"
that people are diving here at the rate
of 100 per month. But as that only
amounts to 1900 year IN 4 population
of over 10000, or about ten deaths per
annum per thousand Inhabitants, it
must continue, unless some of the
people are to rival Methuselah. If we
could eliminate those whose cOnstitu-
ton have been ruined in the East. and
who come here too late for help, only
TO die, we would show as low a death
rate as any city III the world.
There are usually two or three weeks
each year when the business street are
sloppy. and those whore the he's lest
traffic exists VIII soon be paved. Inc
resident streets in most parts of the
city Will never need paving, as they are
already, 10y nature, the finest Of gravel
roads.
The fact that lots are narrow and
prices high * inseparable from the
other fact that this Is prosperous and
growing city. That il should disgust a
real estate man to see farm lands
plated miles beyond any improvements
ls certainly astonishing. | saw the
same thing in Grand Rapids last sum-
mer, and it can be seen in all growing
cities.
Now let me give You few facts in
regard to the business of Denver: The
smelters employed SIG men last year.
and paid them SSl6, 420. The railroad
shops employed | 800 men, and paid
them 81 ,404,O 900. Altogether. there
were over 5000 persons engaged in diff
ferent kinds of manufacturing, who
received nearly So 600, 900 in wages.
The number of loaded cars received
in Denver during lsSS, over the
eighteen railroads centering here, ex-
elusive Of express cars, was lj1,7l6. 1t
Will be perceived that a good many
men must have been employed in
handling their contents.
That a good deal of money has beer
handled here IS shown by the fact that
the Denver Clearing House reports for
lSSS show aggregate clearings for the
year of Sl33, 90. .209.4I. Compare that
with Grand Rapids and other cities.
Last week the bank ClcarinCS We're
Si.9i2 CAB as against S63l 800 in Grand
Rapids. Denver, Judged by this PLAIN
business test, was last week the SIX
tecnth CITY in importance in the United
States. leading Omaha, St Paul. Mn
neapOllS. Buffalo and Cleveland. A
city with 10000 inhabitants doing
seven times the business OF Grand Ran
IDS is surely not i'm o bad way at present.
The building permits granted in tie
CITY proper last wear we're Is27 I'm num-
ber AZ AN estimated value of &C. .0o0. 600
~ fttfNf Nhif "a tf-Aht WfAF tAhNitf
buildings. all the rest boing brick or
stone. The number Of large, expensive
and elaborate residences IS something
almost marvellous
ON December 81. tho deposits IN sovcu
of the Denver h1nks-tbe1e arc five
other bank, private whose reports !
do not have ~ hand-accrogafed SIf.-
30- .lP7. What would the Grand Rapids
banks S7v 20 that2
IT, CONCLUSION. 7 VIII say that have
lived 'n Denver for ten wears and seen
lt more than qualruple rs sze. Ie-
Eeve that Colorado : not surpa ssed n
ts nst1r8l resources hv any state i1
the MON. including coal. iron. silver.
gold. lead. copper. petroleum. binding
stone and mI Hons of acres of fort 'e
s0I and that Denver. although NAV
have occasoua back-sets as even Cni.
caEo has bad will rapidly increase ne
population I'D more tha0 half p m lion
ur1- - ere collected here should Ire
the alI0frd three score and teii. may
SOC That tn1e
The - mate Cf Michigan nearly
killed mes [ aave ree'v- rcd largely n
Colorado. rs have many o+rer Nrr
gan raonIe uaom rrr z ~a0-e-
When 3 see nY friend Tatte SHAH
assure hm that hs sra were
Zln1Tef whe be was Denver and
t0at enen r. comes a-s1 P take
showing
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