Daily camera., 1898-05-03
He 5 NO Ah0|d
O[ 0 Boom
FEARS NO BOOM.

FEARS NO BOOM.
Talk With q Business Man Who Regards
Boulder's Future Great.
Boulder need not fear a boom" said
Mr.. Thomas R. Mann. manager of the
big mill at Culbertson, and prominently
identified with the Colorado & North.
western. This was a few days before
Mr.. Mamie for Pennsylvania on fly
ing business trip. Boulder will stand
and should welcome an expansion of one
hundred per cent during the next two or
three years. She is now able, by virtue
of her great and diversified resources,
her natural advantages of location, eli
mate and nearness of material comforts
and necessities, she is now able, at this
minute mean, to sustain population
of fifteen thousand. am no boomer,
but have looked into your resources
more carefully, perhaps. than your old.
est inhabitants, because it has been to
our interest to do so. We didn't come
here with railroad and mill before look.
ing closely into the future of Boulder
and the great county behind it. You
don't begin to realize what you have.
You don't know how Pennsylvanians,
who thought they were smart and really
content before they saw Boulder, are be.
ginning to feel about this section of the
world. Some of my friends back east
(Mr. Mann runs bank and an ak fact
ory, bearing his name) thought Mr.. Blair,
Mr.. Thompson and l were coming out
into the wild and woody west, where peo-
pie pick their teeth with buffalo horns
and bowie knives. long hair and revolv-
ers are the pass words to society. Last
time was there told them that in the
mines of Boulder county l could meet in
one day more intelligent men than l
could in certain towns l named in the
east in the course of month. You see,
we have done expanding back east, and
the star of Empire which travels west
ward is attracting capital now, where
only before it caught the fancy of the
poor, discontented. ambitious, nervous,
but intelligent eastern man or boy"
We were standing in front room Of
one of the big houses the Pennsylvania
company is finishing at Culbertson, look
ing out upon Ovens lake, pretty sheet
Of water, with fine little sea rolling, a
speck of a storm coming up. but day
N April such as Colorado alone can
boast. Across the lake, nearly halt a
mile, stood, the almost completed stamp
mill of the company, whose red bulk
presented the first view of manufacture
and commerce known to that peaceful
slope.
To the left of US sat three pretty cot
lages, just few of a number the COM
pany will have for the use Of its EN-.
ployes when the great mill is stamping |
night and day the values from the sui
phide ores Of Ward and Eldora. These
pretty houses and the commodious board.
ing house, where Mrs. c. F. Herrick of
Sunshine will preside over the wants of
The men, the officials and guests of the
have been built on the little
neck dividing Ovens and Weisenhorn's
lakes, and have commanding view.
Mr.. Rutherford. the company's superin.
was setting out trees and build
ing a road around the former lake and
there was an appearance of enterprise
On every hand. had seen the mill, with
its huge boilers in place, its perfect en-
gines, its great bunkers for the storing Of
ore as it falls from the elevated railroad
track into the mill, and had been i'm.
pressed with its magnitude and the
nerve of its builders. Half million feet
Of lumber. largely Oregon pine, had gone
into this structure. Everything had been
built on the principle of automatic work.
ing. From railroad car to ore bin. bin to
crusher to elevator. elevator to
hopper and screen, over plates to Wifi
(ley table or Frue Vanner. labor saving
had been the annimating purpose and
the contractor, William Feigel, had
wrought well his part. The mill would
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