CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1903-08-20
THE ONE THING MEEOFUl
A Great Field for Manufactur-
ing Enterprises Open to
All Investors.


thing else to develop its vast natural
resources and to attract hither . great
industrial population are manufsctur-
ing enterprises Of thousand kinds, the
raw material for which exists here in
an abundance unknown elsewhere in
the country. and which in the very
nature OF things 10 destined to be ex-
plotted to the profit and advantage Of
shrewd, far-seeing capitalists and busi-
ness men at no very distant day.
= There are innumerable opportunities
In this state for remunerstive invest
ments along the lines indicated, some
that the average dweller in this favored
section OF the Republic has not even
thought Of. and Of which the great
mass Of the American people have no
conception. To others there comes
from time to time faint inkling OF the
fact that away along in the yeaIs OF
the future greatness will grow out OF
conditions that are now unconsidersd.
or only in the most rudimentary stage,
that will place Colorado in the very
forefront OF the manufacturing and in
dustrial commonwealths Of the Union.
II 10 true that something has already
been done In this ield OF enterprise at
Pueblo and other poirts, but It Is only
an sugury lof what may be expected
when the wise men Of the East" real
iIe the richness Of our resources and
their poten siaiities a. dividend payers
to the capitalist who devotes his money
to their development. There are
hundreds OF articles which ent-r large
ly into the economics Of life that can
be made as chesply here A. anywhere
else. but which our people in their en-
deavors TO reclaim the state from its
primitive condition have not had time
te take up.
In hardly any other place sre %
many Of the raw mAteriis ths. may be
fashioned into the commodities OF
els ilirAtion to be found as here, and
their exploitation for the benefit OF
claim the attention they 90 richly de-
serve. Iron and coal. the two grestest
assets of moderen Industrial life, exist
In this state In juItnposiiion and TO
an extent unknown elsewhere, and
they invite the enterprise of the
capitalist and the ingenuity Of the
iaborcr TO turn our hidden resources
Of mine and forest into q myriad of
articles OF domestic utility. These
minerals offer to the man of brains
and mon. y the opportunity for making
all the steel drills that are being used
by the miners In the vast Rocky
Mountain country and Alaska; all the
sledges that strike these drills and the
anvils upon which they are sharpened.
Here should be made all the plows.
harrows and other implements used by
western farmers. Here should be
made the mining machinery, holsters.
engines, pumps, elevators. chains. wire
of all kinds, nails, bolts, cutlery. picks,
shovels. garden tools, plumbers tools,
bridges, structural iron. roofing. archi-
tecturnl columns. railroad locomo-
tives, cars. traction engines. and scores
OF other things in which iron and wood
and steel are the chief components
Colorado ships great quantities OF
wool to the East to be made into car
pete. clothing and other textiles In
Philadelphis, Lowell, Manchester and
other places. then shin. IL back again
for the use Of people in Denver. Pueblo,
Colorado springs and in the towns and
vill.ues of the .tn,e, We do ab.o.
luteiy nothing in many lines OF manu-
featuring in which we could excel
Ohio or P.nn.vlvanin or New England
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