The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-29
COLORADO IS FREE FROM DEPRESSION
  State Is Not Affected By the Financial Strlngency
DENVER IS BUILDING UP
Colorado Makes Plenty of Steel Rails For Street Railways In Eastern Cities-Other Great h.
 dustries Thriving.

Denver. April 2S.-(Special)-Pro perity abounds in the state where the democratic national convention assem- bles next July. While wages are no higher here than before, yet prices or everything raised in the fields are at the topmost notch of the market. Farm hands are commanding $50 month and board and farmers are com plaining that they cannot get help There will be a million dollars spent 1 this year by the city of Denver for public improvements In every section of Colorado immense irrigation pro- jects are going forward and the coun- try is being rapidly settled up. The bank deposits amount to more than s200 per capita, the highest of any state in the Union. Everybody seems busy and everybody is making money.
 When the framers of the democratic platform meet to "view with alarm" there will be little to point out in the state of Colorado that is worthy of at- tention from anyone looking for cause for complaint in the industrial situa- tion.
 Prosperous City.
 Denver will impress the visitors with the fact that it is the most prosperous city in the United States. An immense number of new buildings have been erected during the past year and the visitors and delegates to the conven- tion will see more buildings under con- struction than can be seen in any other section of the country.
 For many years mining has been considered the chief resource of Col orado. Last year the mines produced $50,0O0,000 and the manufacturing in- dustries three times that much. The l state is being rapidly settled up and 1 the vast irrigation projects, conducted by the government and by private en- terprise. are bringing thousands of acres of land under water which was valueless except for grazing. In a few years the agriculture of the state will be of vastly more importance than either the mines or the factories. Making Steel Rails.
 Steel rails are made in Colorado and
  in Pittsburg, Pa, and Joliet, H., 1 which were heretofore supposed to 1 be the centers of the rolling mill indus l try. The Colorado rolling mills make i them cheaper than they can be made else | where because of the abundance of raw
 material The foreign markets of the i Orient are being opened by Colorado steel 1 rails, Colorado canned meats and Colorado
 f1our-three products produced at less cost
 here than any other place in the world.
 Colorado will not only greet the dem- 1 ocratic delegates with a full dinner pail, l but will have something left in the cub l board for the exercise of true western | hospitality. The delesa ates will be invited
 to inspect the state that has performed
 such industrial marvels and politics will i be forgotten in the attempt to impress
 the visitors that climate an7 scenery is
 not all that there is to be admired.
 Sectional Division.
 Denver will be laid off into sections
 for the reception of each of the state l delegations. Former citizens of every state in the union will have charge of l special receptions to the delegation and visitors from that state. AS fast as the
 delegations are named b. state conven- ] tions the delegates and alternates are 1 being allotted to Denver residents who l formerly lived in the sar4e section of the i state the delegates are coming from. The warmth of the welcome extended will l be limited only to the a,pth of Denver S l purse for there will be a considerable
 sum spent to show the visitors a good 1 time.
 | Just what the democratic platform will 1 contain nobody seems to know at this l time. It is certain that there will be l nothing to cast cloud on the proceed l ings in the prosperous and busy environ- 1 ment in which the convention meets. If
 the platform is in any way affected by l the circumstances under which it is adopt
 ed it ought to take a very cheerful view l of the world for every effort will De
 made to make its framers happy while I they are at work. More than $100000 has | already been spent to that end and an l additional sum, almost as large, will be 1 laid out in the coming weeks in prepara- 1 tion for the monster reception.
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