Arizona silver belt., 1893-07-29
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 Whilo the incorporate language used by Governor Waite and a few others in the recent silver convention At Denver is very generally regretted by the friends of silver, yet it must be admitted tbat the dep,orAble condi- ton of the miners and other industrial workers in Colorado and other portions of the West IS such as to drive many to desperation
 The Eastern press attempt to under rate the paralyzing effect of the closing of the silver mines, and quote statistics to show that the products of the farm. of manufactures, of the coal mines and of the cattle industry, far exceeds the output of the silver mines in Colorado. 1t is but flimsy argument, and who'll ly untenable, when the influstrial struct urs of the great State of Colorado is thoroughly understood. The fact has been overlooked by these disparagers of silver that gold, copper and lead are largely associated with silver in the ores mined in Colorado, and . large part of the avlus of these metals produced in Colorado must be added to the silver output to truthfully represent the product of the silver mines.
 Silver mining has always been the foundation of Colorado's prosperity, and all other industries in the State are to a greater or less degree dependent upon its success. Therefore, following naturally and closely the demoraliza- ten of siiyer, there has come serious disturbance in every other industry, causing a heavy falling off in the con sumption of all kinds of supplies, man. ufactures as we'll as food products, and very great shrinkage qf values. Rail roads, too, are great sufferers from tho decline of freight and passenger traf- fc, and are discharging many employees.
 A Denver dispatch of July 2Oih tells tho story of distrsss. It says; "The closing down of many of the silver mines and smelters and the reducing of working forces of coal mines, rail ways aid manuiacturiesin this State be- cause of the price of silver has caused deplorable condition of affairs among the laboring classes It is estimated that today there are in Denver ten thousand men unable to secure em- ploymeat There are twenty thousand in outside towns in the same condition, orte half of whom are making their way to this city where they will soon become public charge if things do not change fn order to avert this condition, all commercial bodies in the city yill meet with the representatives of the eastern railways at o'clock this afternoon when the latter will be asked to make S5 rate from here to the Missouri river for this class of people. It is ar gusd that these men are not paupsrs, but if they can get into agricultural districts they will be able to secure em- Ployment in the harvest fields where men will be in demand.
 The Eastern people must sooner or later understand that such condition of affairs cannot long endure, and that the distress pYeraihng,in the West must seriously affect every portion of the Union; like the ripple made by stone thrown into the water it viii reach the furthermost shore. Already the toIe- graph tells us that the orders for East. ern goods countermanded by merchants in Colorado, Utah, Montana and other Western States and Territories aggre- gate in vald5 ovsr $12,00O, GOO.
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