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should step in each year distract attention from
business, but it does. No deny the fact
that business is usually dull during a campaign
nor they deny the fact that capital is usually
tied up and timid awaiting the returns. The Buck
lin bill scare did a great deal to prevent capital
from entering the state temporarily but but this
will al! blow over. Such papers as the Denver Re
publican always make it point to do harm to the
state in matters of this kind whether there is
ground for fear not.
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But it is all now and the people of Idaho
Springs should take up a proposition that
means fully as much and more than any political
battle that might be fought-reference is made to
the old, old story of the need for new hotel where
people who desire to pay the city visit find
accommodations that will give them good inn
preston of the place.
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A few weeks ago I received a letter from one OF
the hotel proprietors this city in which he used
this language: Get a new hotel if you want one
but do not keep knocking the hotels here all the
time" The Idaho Springs hotels have not been
knocked by the press of the city. The correspond
ent is thn-skinned and afraid to sign his name to
the communication. Had he been blessed with
brains and nerve enough to have signed the COM
munication it would have appeared in full but for
the purpose of illustration it this week, or
the extract from it 1t would be foolish to state
that the hotel accommodations here what they
ought to be or what they will be when the people
succeed in getting hotel that will present some
appearance of a hotel for the entertainment and ac-
commodation of guests who visit the city. The
hotel people here are doing the best they un-
der the circumstances. They not blessed with
modern buildings and could not make the accom-.
modations what they should be matter how
strong their desire might be to do this. We hope
this is plain enough.
Idaho Springs must place herself in a position
where she can invite people here who are accus-
toned to the best accommodations to be had any.
where. Men with millions, as a rule, demand the
best of treatment and when they run up against a
cheap hotel they apt to permit their estimate
of the city be made from their impression of her
hotels.
The people must build for the future There
time when it was stated that Cripple Creek
would never grow in proportions, there was time
when the same thing said about Leadville but
you hear this no more. AT the present time it is
question whether the most optimistic citizen OF
Idaho Springs really appreciates what the future
has in store. Were to say that the city would
become one with population of 10000 people
within the next decade, and perhaps within half
that time, those who have lived here longest and
ought to understand the district best would laugh
the hardest, yet we believe this no, only possible
but really probable. We believe that five years
from now will find road from here to Yankee
Hill. That it will find the city on transconti-
mental line to the cost that it will find street car
l;ua
ing to the music of prosperity and rapid growth.
When this time arrives Idaho Springs will be in a
position to ask for millions and millionaires. At
the present time she cannot.
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The key to the future of success, however can
be found in a modern tourist hotel and in having
every citizen put their shoulders TO the wheel so
that business will move. Every fellow must help
little and whole lot of Titles make a grand
total that cannot be moved or Jared or even
marred by the hammer of the knocker.
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believe the city should stand ready and will
ing to accomplish everything possible that will
tend to establish hotel here. 1t requires little
effort to prove the profit that will be derived The
taxes on the investment in years to come will be
derived. The taxes on the investment in years to
come will be an important thing to take into con-
sderation. Then there is another consideration
that should not be forgotten-f hotel here will
add as per cent to the valuation of the property
in the city it would, of course, add much to the
assessed valuation in the city and enough would
soon be returned to the people and to the city to
more than pay back whatever the city might in
vest in proposition of the kind.
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Let every fellow bend his energies at the pres
ent time to obtaining the great thing to be de-
sired in Idaho Springs-an excellent hotel where