CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1898-11-10
...HUNTER PALMER
coLoRADo's PROSPERITY.
Unquestiopable Facts Pointing to A
More Healthy Condition Than
Existed In ISo7-The
Banner Year.

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A few weeks ago the Denver News
printed proclamation signed by all
the leading business men of the state,
which termed it a Prosperity Proc
lamation." The text of the document
was statement of the condition oil
business in Colorado as indicated BY
the volume in each respective channel.
No branch of commercial industry
was overlooked, and the deduction
from all sources was that Colorado
was enjoying such business boom as
| it had never known before.
Now, the Denver Times has taken
it upon itself to feel the pulse of the
heads of railroad departments alone.
The railroads are recognized as the
great arteries of the nation. Not tn
slightest change occurs in the com
mercial world but it is immediatel,
noted at railroad headquarters. Bui
listen to what the head men of the
lines doing business in Colorado have
to say of the situation:
President Jeffrey, of the Denver Il
Rio Grande: Judging by the ton
nage statistics of the Denver 4 Rio
Grande for the months of July to
!, October inclusive. there is greater
activity in mining and trade and busi-
ness generally throughout the state
than at anv corresponding period be
fore or since the panic of 1898
General Passenger Agent, J.P. Hall,
of the Santa Fe: business shows
an increase of from i5 to 70 per cent
in all directions. This increase is due
to naturai conditions. and principal
the great improve .;ent tlirous shout the
country, Ii is just the natural i'm
provenlent of the entire business stu
alton. The pas; three months have
been pai ticularly good and show a
material increase over the correspond
ing period of 1897"
l.. G. Cannon, Of the Colorado Mid
land: There j. a general. steady
healthy PROSPERITY upon the country
at the present time hat has made it,
selt felt in our business. There has
been substantial increase in our
business, but to locate it in any one
community or assign a cause for it
would be impossible. | am firm be-
lever in the theory that history re-
peats itself, and for this reason
think that he next ten years at least
will shcw an advancement in all lines
of business and great prosperity. Our
business has increased very rapidly in
the past few months, and we have
been forced to put on more engines,
run extra trains and hire new train
crews"
Frank Trunbull, receiver of the
Gulf: I've are more an satisfied
with cur business; it has shown a
large and healthy increase over year
ago. | rom the first Of January up TO
the present time there has been an in
crease OF 8.39 per cent over a cores
ponding period of 1897. In the most
prosperous times our road has done
very little more business than it has
this year"
c. A. Fripp, of the Missouri Pacific:
That there is a general increase of
business amounting almost to a boom
cannot be denied. From all parts of
our system agents are crying for
more cars and it is impossible to fur
nish them.'
G. NJ Van Law, of the Rock Island !:
"Our business has shown handsome
increase for each of the past five
months, and7while we can hardly say
| it is better than it has ever been, it is
fully as good"
J. f. Preston, of the thicago. Mil
waukee & st. Paul: Our business IN
this terri ory has more than doubled
in the last year.
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