Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-09-29

spend his wealth than in the Q1een
City Of the Plains
There IS plenty OF room aud the
opportunities for getting rich are as
plentiful as you will find in any spot
on the earth. Denver has 500 miles
OF streets of the general width of so
feet, of which II miles IN the bust
ness center are paved with asphalt
aud nearly 3lmiles with stone blocks
and we expect to add 10 additional
miles Of asphalt IN the very near fu-
ture. We have 227 miles of sewers
making as good drainage as can be
found anywhere IN the world.
The Denver Union Water Company
has 400 miles of water mains within
the city Unite, and supplies 200 gal
loas OF pure drinking water per cap
ita. Denver hes $50 miles of electric
and cable street railways, which, dur
ing 1897, carried 10 million passen.
gers and The cars travelled in the sg-
gregate 6 million miles A COMPARE
sou of the excellenCies Of the Dan.
YER street car system with that Of
other cities always results in our fay.
or. Denver is q city Of brick aud
stone We have III our mountains all
kinds of the finest building stone,
and our facilities for manufacturing
the best of brick are lllimltable.
Denver may well be proud of her
enviable reputation for excellent
schools, and educatlonsi buildings in
in the city are superior to those OF any
other city of It's SIZE in the union
Denver possesses over 60 Of the finest
public school buildings to be found
IN the world. la addition to winch
there are three high schools and a
manual training school. And whlle
proud Of her public school system she
takes equal and commendable pride
n the LIST of private schools which
contains Methodist, non sectarisn,
Two EpiscopalIan, two Catholic, a
Presbyterian, and Baptist college
nil well pstronized. She has medi-
cal schools in abundance. While in a
stones throw of the city of Denver
are located the state university, the
state school of mines, the state agri-
cultural college, state normal school
and Colorado colleges.
She has two public free libraries
containing between them 10000 VOL
umes.
Denver is the leading banking cen.
ter between the Missouri river end
the Pacific ocean. In March, 1892
(the year before the pauic), II Nation
Al banks add four state banks in Dem
YER had 81 million dollars of deposits.
In February, 1898, nine national and
state banks and ons trust COMPANY
had rs million dollars Of deposits and
they are still increasing.
Denver is the Western headouart-
ers of all the great insurance com.
psnies, mortgage, investment and lr.
rigation companies and the great ma
jority Of the smelling and ore treat
ment comnsnies operating in Color
ado. In 1859 Denver was over 700
miles west OF the nearest railroad. In
JDne, 1870, the first railroad reached
Denver, being the Denver Pacific,
connecting with the Union Pacific,
at Cheyenne, In August of the same
year the Kansas Pacific railroad also
reached Denver.
Colorado now contains 5000 miles
of railroads, all radiahDg from Den
YER, and furnishing easy access from
Denver as the hub to practically every
tanning and mining district in the
state, Eight trunk lines run Regular
trains into Denver, connecting us
with every part of the habitable
globe.