Gilpin observer., 1915-11-25
TABOO MINING
FOR PLAYGROUND
LANE RESPONDS TO DENVER RE-
QUEST TO PUT REGION IN
PARK SYSTEM.

The first actual step in the move
ment to make the Mount Evans re-
gion a national park was taken by
the federal government yesterday
when Franklin K. Lane, secretary of
the interior, issued an order for an
investigation of the region. 1t will
determine tentative boundaries after
which MAPS will be prepared. Then,
will follow the drafting of a bill to
be approved by the departm of
interior and agriculture, after which
it will go to the committee on pub
lie lands, which will present it to
congress for enactment into law.
a preliminary to favorable action
on the bill will be a levy of $780,
600 by the city of Denver for the
construction OF a highway link.
The fact that Secretary Lane had
authorized the investigation came in
a telegram to X. A. Pence, acting
chairman of the mountain parks ad-
visory commission, from Warwick NJ
Downing at Washington.
The communication sent by Mr..
Downing to Secretary Lane follows:
I'VE desire to request you to in
vestigate the Mount Evans region,
lying Immediately west of our munich
pal mountain parks, to determine
whether it would be suitable for a
national park, either separately or in
connection with the Rocky Mountain
National park or the proposed Pixies
! Peak National park"
Following the receipt of the tele-
gram from Mr.. Downing yesterday a
communication was sent by Mr.
Pence to Mayor Sharpley and the
other city commissioners, urging the
necessity of the appropriation of
100000 asked for by Commissioner
I Greenlee to construct road to the
proposed park.-Denver News.
The Observer has from time to
time called the attention of its read
ers to the secret conclave of Den
ver's recently imported automobile
faddists, who have no more concep-
ton of what built and maintains
their city, than Zulu chief has of
the heavenly bodies.
This very section that Denver's
mountain park and motor club wish
to convert into an additional nation
al park, has produced more than a
half billion dollars in mineral wealth.
birth, stood as godfather at its christ
ening into a village, nursed it with
the wealth from our mountains when
it was weakling, and our mineral
| the mining interests withdraw the
stream of gold that daily pours into
/ her mint with all it's attending in
fluence, and Denver will wither and
still retain her stool pigeons" to
prey upon the unsuspecting, but there
will be no rich picking for their
gaunt and emaciated form. Denver's
only manufacture & industry of note
Is that derived from mining. and re-
move this and the whole fabric col
. lapse's. Her over.zealous people are
not only an enemy to herself, but
to the whole state.
The men of brains who founded
this great state, and who safely guild
ed 1t through all the intricate or
deals incident 10 new land, were
residents of this section and rose to
either national or state fame. This
! particular section which these "latter
day saints" wish to isolate and rob
os its mineral wealth has produc-
ed U. s. senators.6 governors, sew.
eral congressman, L. S. judge and
hosts Of brainy men who built wisely
and WELL Compare this array Of tai
ent and wisdom with those who are
now engaged in pauperizing the state
by secretly conniving with the aid
of Denver's daily press to have the
government withdraw all its rich
: mineral lands and convert them into
national parks for the pleasure seek
ing few. and you have Mark Twain's
comparison between the blooded stal