The Delta independent., 1906-11-23

SNeI ' udnu, q lOl Ol Soou W iedo IL.
. same time instructive. The first
Ie way thru. Read it and imbibe
asm of this Eastern booster. Mr..
limited demand for it.
Only few people in Colorado knew
of the existence of this marble, or its |
value and they didn't know exactly |
what to do about it.
To cut it short-the owners of the /
marble came to US in New York. to
raise money for its development and l
undertook the job. We raised eight
hundred thousand dollars The quar-
ries at Marble City are now opened and
operating and our standard gauge rail-
road will be running to Marble City in
q few days and in the spring we will
complete the fifteen miles directly up
to the quarry. We will put about a
quarter of a million dollars more into
the business. The result will be that
in less than two years Marble City will
be town of fifteen hundred to two
thousand people.
You would think that with so tangible
a thing as marble back of the enter
prise. it would be easy to raise the
money for it and the chief reason why
it is not easy is the fact that the people
of the east do not know Colorado and
dc not believe in it. Colorado is way
out yonder IN the wilderness .1t is
a Free Silver state" 1T is a mining
state ''lt is too far away to be of
any account.
thEe are thousands of people who think
there is nothing of any account west of
I tn Hudson river and that the world
css,-ainly comes to an end at Chicago.
Now this is partly their fault and
l2rgely yours.
rlght sort land, just to clear the at
r1esphere. want to say here that am
no longer in the advertising business
and that dor't want the job.
What | do want is that Colorado
shallbek knownin the east for what she is.
To accomplish this two things are
necessary: First, a broad. liberal. per-
sIStent campaigE of education. through
alvertisirg. Second. some method to
stop the everlasting. vicious and malici-
ols knocking by come of the people of
Colorado.
The most trouble that We have had in
securing money for Colorado enterprises
has been caused by the people right here
in Colorado. who. in reply to inquiries.
send dunthinkiuE. unfavorat,le and unfair
rrports about properties. enterprises
ard people, of which they know ab-
So.utely nothing.
It is mystery to me why this should
I've so. but tell you that almost invari-
ably an inquiry sent from the east to
colorado. about any Colorado proposition
VIII bring forth an unfavorable reply.
Possibly; the eastern people do not
write to the roper places. but they
write to their frienSts, their relatives,
their business associates, :::iQ ,ney are
tod to keep out.
he most fragrant case that we met
with was this, A man in Ohio had
bought some of our bonds. He made
curry of an acquaintance in Denve' ~
WAS salesman for machine- y borna ~
lhs salesman utterly and ,co,cr,a:,
our propositic.n. s,r;n,r ,,
'nere was no marble in Gunnison ceru,,' ~
ana 'nat his friend had better kae,nn,
II "-ppened that We had been buv;rr
some thousands of dollars wortb s
gu arrying machinery from this rau,
and we found when we callsS
lor showdown that the man had n,rau
D'i' ia 1unnison county. he had nsv.r
made the slightest investigation bad I
'e'er made an inquiry in the CITY ,t t
Ienver, or elsewhere. befor. -:
rs letter of condemnation. The result
course. was that he lost his frisnG
no would have lost his lob if w,r
OF lnterceded for him. ~ we
But the thing that agitatesr
mere we are able to loca.
se. there are u thous,
orking against US all ,eii
mot find and c , one
ems to be in tt "A ths
So far as g ,:,re II
e two cla~ TN. y nc
ockinp .orree. ..e.
vs. v . at,,,osp"ssu,, ,,
:, ~ SSure 1T su,' ~
.s Of people NS ~
,sS. on. is made up ts,sA IL
:. .a,se ~ ou. here w of
no c" sInoun'