Daily camera. [volume] (Boulder, Colo.) 1891-1928, 1897-11-12
SHOULD Be In BOULDER !!
The Huge $50 r=ssttaEnp Mill Can Be Sc
cured for This City~as Well as ..
For Ovens Lake.

w
ton stamp mill, with ample facilities for
water for their tables and outlet for their
tailings and shines. The reason for 90
ing to Owens lake is that the company
has been advised that there will be COM
plants and lnjunctions against them for
pulluting the stream, should their mill
be built beside Boulder creek.
Here is pretty how-todo. Who will
complain? What will be the basis of
the complaints and what the measure of
damages. if any? If there is any priority
In water rights, save of that of pure
water for human consumption, it is not
apparent.
And who are these men that some inn
ae,rary col plainant would seek to him
der? TheTcompany, according to General
Manager Blair. desires to build in Boul
der. 1t is satisfied with its Owens lake
acquisition as an investment. 1--WE paid
but $1,000 for that 100 acre tract" said
Manager Blair to Camera reporter.
land the investment will keep. We want
to build our mill IN Boulder, but will
Boulder protect US against injunctions
and other proceedings?" Il
Here is class of men Boulder needs.
Men who come here seeking investment
anu to build their homes in our midst.
Who are they?
J. T. Blair. general manager Colorado
& Northwestern, a railroad being built
by private capital and covering our hills
with net work of steel rails, revving
confidence and spending vast sums of
money! ]. T. Blair was formerly presi.
dent Of the Pittsburg, Shenango and
Lake Erie railroad and latterly general
manager of the Pittsburg, Bessemer &
Lake Erie. Right hand man of Andrew
Carnegie in many an enterprise. has
purchased lots in University place addi-
ton and proposes to build his residence
here.
Hon. w. c. Culbertson, of Girard, Pa,
lumber manufacturer, seven times a
millionaire.
Thomas R. Mann, banker of Lock
Haven, Pa, and member of the Mann
AK company.
c. w. Macky, prominent New York
attorney and president of the Franklin
Steel Casting company, member of the
Mann AK company etc.
]. T. Odell, vice president of the Pitts.
burg, Bessemer & Lake Erie railroad
and Ione time general manager of the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad.
Colonel S. B. Dick, of Meadville, Pa,
chairman board of directors and largest
owner save Carnegie. in the Pittsburg,
Bessemer & Lake Erie road.
Thomas R. Mann and his Rock Haven
friends own majority interest in the
American mine at Sunshine and the
gentlemen above named are rapidly &C
curing interests here, planning for
hotel to be built by their friends and
business associates and otherwise identi-
flying themselves with Boulder.
! What shall they receive by way of
greeting-the glad hand or the marble
heart? Shall they be told to build their
mill here and add to the pay rolls of this
town, its taxable property, its material
prosperity, or shall citizens mildly &C.
quiesce in their enforced RELOCATION to
the valley point, the longer haul. and the
dissertation of the enterprise from Boul-
der?
This matter means a great deal to
Boulder. Already contracts for mill and
machinery are being let by Mr. Mann
and some steps should be taken to con-
vince these gentlemen that their Boulder
tract is the proper location for it and
some assurance given that Boulder citi.
Gems will protect them against damages
arising from polluting the stream. There
are many ways to obviate pollution of
the stream, many practical means to take
care of the waste of the mill and a citl.
zens meeting should be called at once to
devise ways and means and make clear
the mutual interests involved.
There is plenty of vacant land, where
the shines can be easily taken care or
Let us have the mill in Boulder
FATAL MISSED HOLE.