Gunnison news-champion., 1917-08-31
WHY Is THE "JINX?"
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Then com Marble Twr,vc mil
lJon- or dora a.. in.,.trd here in
0uarp.- and Gushing plant Of the
Co'orado-IuI.~M ~Marb., company, be
sides thou and upon thousands in
-t"r"+ and homes. When the editor
Of this paper came to Marble. in
March, 1911. thcr" was not a house
to b" had here for love or money. Pco-
pI" were living IN tents, all houses be
ing full to the limit, and in piano box
rs. rhrk-n houses. barns anywhere
that they could find shelter. Eight
hundred mon were working for the
Coloraao-IuIe company. Hundreds OF
other mon were in other lines OF bust
ness and activity here. Now there
are scarcely fifty men in Marble. Our
former citizens have scattered TO the
four points of the compass; some are
in Vermont, some in California, some
are in Canada. some in Texas and
Georgia. By the time Winter sets in
thcr" will be fewer than 100 persons
men, women and childrcn-left in
Marble.
Can anyone say why this valley, so
favored of Nature, has been so un-
lucky? There is no question of the
failure of the resources that were here
in the beginning. Crystals mines are
in their very infancy. 1t would take
a million men a thousand years to ex-
haust the hills up that way of silver
copper, lead and zinc. The coal at
Redstone was not exhausted. 1t was
a quarrel between powerful interests
that stopped the town, not the failure
of the resources. There is ample coal
at Coal basin to keep Redstone lively
town of 1000 people for several hun
dred years.
Everyone knows the turbulent his
tory of the Colorado Yule Marble COM
pany, but no one will say that the
marble beds became exhausted or suf-
fered in quality as development pro-
gressed. In fact, it is the other way
about; the quality and extent of the
wonderful deposit became more valu-
able as development proceeded. The
marble is still there, mountain of it.
1t will not run away and the passing
OF time will not affect it.
In short, then, the coal is still at
Redstone and Placita, the minerals at
Crystal and the marble at Marble, but
all the towns mentioned, where once
were happy, contented people, are now
either entirely deserted or well on the
way toward that end
1t is pitiful to contemplate such
hard luck. In the case of Marble, for
instance, it can be truly stated that no
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