The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-30
COLORADO'S RICH MEN.
OVER A HUNDRED MILLIONAIREs
 IN THE STATE.
Large Leisure Class-Names of Those Worth One Hundred Thousand
 Dollars Fill Newspaper Page.
William E. Curtis Denver Letter in the
 Ghinnnn Rannr, k Ierald

William E. Curtis Denver Letter in the Chicago Record Herald.
 There Is no doubt that Colorado is a very wealthy state, but l suspect that some of the figures that have been given me are exaggerated. The news papers and other publications estimate the tangible wealth of the people at nearly two billions of dollars, and a l semi official pamphlet circulated py the Board of Trade and other asso- citations gives the per capita wealth of Colorado at $2.7S0. which seems to be excessive, for 1t Is greater than that of any other of the United States or of any foreign country. The bank de-
 posits of Denver are s4o,ooo. ooo ana | the clearings last year were S232.0OO,- | 900. The First National Bank of this | city has resources exceeding $24,5OO,- 900, and is the largest financial insti- tuition west of St. Louis There Is none in San Francisco to surpass 1t. It
 ranks number twenty-four among the States.
 The assessed valuation of the city of Denver exceeds s100. 900; the job | bing trade last year amounted 10 about | S25, 900, 900, and the products of the sev- | eral manufactories exceeded $l5.O00,- 900.
 | The population of the State accord
 ing to the last census, was 53S,700. It l is now estimated as high as 1OO,OOO, and that seems to be a reasonable hg- ure At least 150.000 people must have come Into Colorado during the five years which have elapsed since the | enumeration. According to the census of 1900 Denver had 13S.000 population: | in 1890 1t had los, ,000. and 1t Is claimed that both enumerations were imperfect. Since 1900 several suburbs with pop
 ulation of about 10000 have been taken | into the city, and the natural increase is estimated at 5000 year. which tnt al
 would bring the total up | ITO. 900 and possibly 175.000 this year.
 The new directory just published shows | n falling of of GOO names from
 last year, which has created great con-
 sternation. At two and one-half per
 sons per name, which IS the Dasis or calculation out here. this means a de- crease of 1,500 people; but the neWspa-
 pers and boomers insist that the di- rectory men have been careless and
 have overlooked many citizens
 1 A large proportion of the population are retired miners. cattlemen ana
 Eastern people who have come out to | Colorado for their health. The latter are familiarly called "remitters." They are people of assured incomes who re- ceiye remittances regularly from their
 investments in the East. Many of them | are 'lungers," as the victims or tuber-
 culosis are called; others have invalid
 wives and children and have been at- | tFaCfe0 to Denver OS lhO -%NN the social and educational advantages.
 Denver and Colorado Springs have the largest leisure class of any cities Tn the United States, except perhaps New
 York, and a large proportion of them are people of independent fortunes. | Over 100 MilliOnaires.
 | The Evening Times recently printed
 a list of the rich men in Colorado
 those whose wealth is estimated at
 s100 oOO and upward. The names fill
 ed an entire page and included lOS mil
 iionaires. whose aggregate earthly aon pos
 sessions were given at $26S'oo0.ooo. The
 Times asserts that no other State can
 make such a showing. which Is proba- blv true, whether the list is exaggerat-
 ed or not.
 "Colorado is a State of vast individ- kual fortunes, outranking any other
 State in the Union on per capita ba-
 sis" says The Times (which Is edited bv United States Senator Patterson.
 it has the further distinction nHsdo ,thsr tha, its boundaries, not alone In mining lbut in the cattle industrys in realty