Gilpin observer., 1919-08-28
State Mines Association Appeals
for Moral and Financial Support
(By Hugh O'Neill)

IOTWarQ INVITATION ana appear IOT
the financial and moral support
of all the men in the fruit grow
ing, grain growing and stock rails
ing counties contiguous to the
mining districts of Colorado.
The State Mines Development
association is a new organization
of business men, investors and
financiers for encouraging, pros
pecting and developing the nat
ural resources of Colorado on a
scientific system, for purchasing
partly developed prospects of the
right kind and in opening up other
sound mining properties upon
which work has been halted by
the lack of capital.
In other words, the State Mines
Development association is COR
poration organized for putting
mining on commercial and in
dustrial basis and doing that by
making its methods of finance
democratic instead of centralized.
Already ten district organiza-
tions of this association have been
created in ten of the best mining
areas of the state.
The directors and advisers of
the boards of these ten districts
are bankers, merchants and min
ing engineers of sound credit and
unquestioned ability.
These ten boards are already
mapping out actual working plans
for their several districts and the
State Mines Development associa-
tion is receiving generous and JUS
titled financial support from Dem
yer and the other large cities of
Colorado as we'll as from the min
ing centers.
Now, however, the association
is making an appeal to the fruit.
grain and cattle raising portions
of the state and this appeal is
sincere and meritorious.
The miner is a producer of prec-
ious metals and valuable ores.
Wherever he goes he carries in his
wake railroad men, mechanics and
engineering workers of one kind.
and another. The results of his
labors are self evident in the
smoke stacks, the derricks and
the pyramids of tailings about his
mines.
But the miner is not self-sup-
porting from the economical stand
point.
He grows no fruits, no vege-
tables, no corn or other grains, no
stock of any kind.
For all of his food stuffs; for
his bread, his fruit, his vegetables.
his meat and his clothing he is de-
pendent upon the farmers, the
stock raisers, the manufacturer
and the merchants who handle
such products. And, so it is that
wherever successful mining
community is created, close to it,
or in its proximity there grows up
an area of farming, stock raising
and merchandising which, in them
selves, become the producers and
the exchangers of other wealth.
The successful mining town, al
so, offers one great advantage to
fruit growers, farmers and stock
raisers.
1t offers the advantage of an
immediate market which is free
from the problem of high freight
rates and which invariably be-
comes the beneficiary of system
of low freight rates to distant
markets which the railroads seem
always ready to grant to miners.
Therefore the farmers, the fruit
growers and the stock men of Col
orado have a personal and a close
financial and general interest in
this great and legitimate enter
prise which has been put upon its
feet by the State Mines Develop |
ment association. And, in con-
sidering these matters, two fur
ther facts of vital interest to in
vestors should be kept in mind:
The first is, that the State Mines
Development association is an en-
terprise created within and by the |
laws of the state of Colorado;
The second is, that, instead of |
being controlled by more or less
Independent governing body in
Denver or Colorado Springs or
some other large city, its enter
prises are all under the direction
of the district boards organized |