The daily sentinel., 1899-01-16


Examiner, while not exactly correct, is
worthy OF being reproduced, because it
is true tale in regard to many people
in this community.
The editor of the Examiner is not we'll
informed OF the effort made to obtain a
smelter in the city in 1891. At that
time tho citizens Of Grand junction met
the proposition to locate smelter in
this city with great liberality. A fund
of ten Thousand dollars was subscribed
and paid.
A promoter by the name OF Duncan
received the major portion OF the money
to endeavor to promote the plant, but
he failed. 1t has never been known pos
itively whether Duncan spent the money
to god purpose or simply bled the
Grand Junction people, who had SO lib
orally put up their money.
He came to this city highly recon-
mended by Henry Wolcott and others of
prominence throughout the state. but
his after actions looked very much as il
he had had a pretty good time with the
money and did little work, as he never
showed up in the town more than once
or twice, after he had received the major
portion of the funds.
However, in every community there
are people who would be the greatest
beneficiaries of any scheme Of the mag
nitude of smelter or beet sugar fac
tory, who are the last to give and who
frequently do not give at all. These
people are parasites on a community
and little can be expected from them,
and they are very rarely counted on to
do anything.
Grand Junction is now in a fair way
to secure beet sugar factory. and the
success Of the enterprise depends on the
people of that town and county them
selves The company has been incor-
porated with ample capital to build and
mair tain plant of sufficient capacity
to handle the product Of the county and
has signified it's willingness to begin the
erection OF the buildings and plant by
the Goth of the present month. In the
articles of agreement between the COM
pany and the e--citizens Of Mesa county is
the stipulation that the company is to
secure l,5OO acres OF land throughout
the county as a bonue for the capital it
10 to invest, and now comes hitch in
this part of the proceedings, after the
company has fulfilled its part OF the
contract up to date, and the time has
come for the deposit 10 escrow Of deeds
to this land, and here seems te be the
only point which can defeat the es
tablisbment of this industry at that
the people Of that town and county have
in the past greatly retarded the progress
of that section by Just such unwise &C
tions Manufactures could have been
secured to that city years ago had not
the people been niggardly in Offering in
ducsmeuts to capital Had they even
made a start at the beginning Of the
present decade by inducing the estab-
lishment OF manufactures of some kind
others would have followed Of their own
aCSOE0 0u0 NSdoy shO tOWA WOuAo w =
manufacturinajpoint Of no small preten-
tions and the smelling point for the
entire western slope. No place in the
state offeSs the natural advantages, coal
and water facilities, railroad advantages
and cheap operating expenses as does
that city. Had tho people there opened
up their purses in 1890 and secured
smelter At cost Of few thousand dol
lars they would have had their money
back long ago, and . number Of manu-
facturing plants in operation which
would be employing large amount Of
labor and putting handsome monthly
pay roll in circulation, and the town
would be double its present size.
The establishment Of . bect sugar
factory there mears much to tho people
Of that CO unity both directly and indir-
ectly and would be the Soeerunnsr Of
better things. It has been demonstrat-
ed that the soil and climate 10 particu-
larly adapted to the raising Of sugar
beets and produces = larger percentage