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University of California Berkeley 
 
DEDICATED 
 TO THOSE WHO, 
 
 IN SEARCH OF HEALTH, WEALTH OR RECREATION, 
 SEEK INFORMATION 
 
 REGARDING 
 
 "THE QUEEN CITY OF THE PLAINS," 
 THE METROPOLIS OF THE JIOCKY MOUNTAIN REGION. 
 
 
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, olopado, 
 
 TI?e Queer; City of tlpe 
 
 |(j|HO, among those rough, and in many instances, 
 I ragged miners, and adventurers, who built their 
 '~V~'' shanties around that of General Larimer at 
 junction of Cherry Creek and the Platte river, in the 
 the fall of 1858, could have imagined that the year 
 1890 would see surrounding that spot one of the 
 handsomest, busiest and richest cities of the Union? 
 We will venture to say that the most sanguine among 
 them would have laughed in the face of any one who 
 would have had the audacity to prophesy such a thing. 
 And yet, had such a prophecy been made, how true would 
 have been its fulfillment. Yes, such has been the history 
 of the now famous city of Denver. In October of 
 the year 1858, General Larimer built a log hut on the east 
 bank of Cherry Creek near its confluence with the Platte 
 river. Soon a few straggling huts surrounded him, and 
 the town grew to quite a settlement of miners, who 
 panned the sands of the creek and river for what gold 
 they could obtain. Larimer christened the new town St. 
 Charles, but soon after,, owing to the rivalry of a settle- 
 ment across the river, the place changed hands. (The 
 first recorded real estate transaction in the history of the 
 
 city). Then the two towns were united in 1860 under 
 one name, that of Denver, given in honor of General J. 
 W. Denver, at that time Governor of Kansas. From this 
 the town grew slowly until the Leadville excitement be- 
 gan in 1879, then she made some wonderful strides. 
 From that time there has been a fluctuating growth, now 
 fast, now slow, but always in a progressive direction. In 
 1885 began the most prosperous season Denver has ever 
 known, and the last five years have shown a more rapid 
 and solid growth than any city in the country, until to- 
 day, in 1890, Denver has a population of 150,000, and is 
 a city of wide and beautiful streets, elegant residences. 
 and magnificent public and business buildings. 
 
 The question naturally arises in view of the forego- 
 ing statements, as to what makes and keeps up such a 
 city as Denver; what will be her future support, and what 
 resources has she? To answer these questions we will 
 devote a few pages to a resume of the resources of the 
 State of Colorado, and show what has been their growth, 
 for in whatsoever Colorado is rich, so is Denver, she 
 being the capital and metropolis of the State. 
 

 
 View on Sixteenth Street, from Arapahoe Street. 
 
DENVER, COLORADO. 
 
 Industries. 
 
 The mining of the precious ores has been and always 
 will be, the chief wealth of Colorado. Since the first 
 striking of ore in Clear Creek, there has been a wonderful 
 increase of mines all over the State. Leadville became 
 the most famous milling camp in the world, and since 
 that time Aspen, Ouray, Telluride, Silvertou, Durango, 
 Red Cliff, Silver Cliff, and 'many others have come to the 
 
 front with wonderful rapidity, until to-day Colorado^ 
 stands at the head of the gold and silver producing sec- 
 tions of the country. 
 
 The past year has shown a production of precious ores 
 exceeding in value 135,000,000. The sources from which 
 this production was obtained are the smelters, the mint 
 and the ore buyers who shipped out of the State. The 
 following figures show the amounts from each source: 
 
 SMELTER. 
 
 GOLD, ozs. $20.67. SILVER, ozs. 930. 
 
 LEAD, @ J 3.80. 
 
 COPPER, 
 
 @I2C. 
 
 r^ TV^fi 
 
 82,001 84 
 15.792 57 
 39.748-00 
 ig.nr oo 
 10,600 oo 
 4,223 oo 
 5-677 oo 
 2,886 oo 
 5.210 oo 
 1,859 oo 
 4.43 oo 
 
 6.096,600 
 3,319,547 
 3,367,41-' 
 
 2,318.009 
 1 ,600,000 
 
 1,182,345 
 
 2 , 2O4 , 2oS 
 
 2,312,499 
 
 1,187,106 
 
 525,568 
 683,775 
 
 33,493.341 
 19,6,; 
 
 2.966.6*6 
 
 "l.4oS. 5 6 
 
 
 Boston and Colorado Smelting and Refining Company 
 Philadelphia Smelting Company 
 Colorado Smelting and Refining Company 
 
 16,.;,. 
 11,250,000 
 5,300,000 
 18,475,060 
 21,346,307 
 8,868,000 
 5,602,909 
 2,680,768 
 
 Pueulo .->meltni, anci Kenning ^ompa y 
 
 American Smelting Company 
 
 
 Manville Smelting Company 
 San Juan Smelting Company 
 
 256 . ooo 
 
 
 
 191.538 41 i 24,797,069 oo 
 
 7,5OO OO ; 600,000 OO 
 
 62,922 OO : 16,173 oo 
 
 142,986,720 
 1,000,000 
 
 5,679,010 
 1,000,00* 
 
 
 Mint Deposits 
 
 Total Quantity 
 
 261,960 41 
 
 25,413,242 143,986,720 
 
 6,679,010 
 
 Total Value 
 
 $ 5,414,721 67 
 
 $ 23,634,31506 J 5,471,49536 $ 
 
 801,481 20 
 
 GRAND TOTAL, $35,322,013.29. 
 
DENVER, COLORADO. 
 
 Although to-day the milling of precious ores is the 
 greatest source of wealth in Colorado, yet she has other 
 mineral resources of vast and growing importance. The 
 coal fields of the State, it has been estimated, cover an 
 area of more than 40,000 square miles ; an area as large 
 as that of the whole State of Pennsylvania. These fields 
 comprise both anthracite and bituminous coal, and of the 
 very finest quality. Coal mining is yet in its infancy. 
 The last year saw between two and one-half and three 
 million tons taken from the earth, which at an average of 
 f 2 per ton (the price paid at the mines on board of the 
 cars |, reaches a value of between f 5,000,000 and $6,000,000. 
 The best known and most extensively worked mines are 
 located in Boulder and Las Auimas counties, while large 
 veins and strata are found in Fremont, Garfield, Guntii- 
 son, La Plata, and Huerfano, and smaller and less devel- 
 oped properties exist in Bent, Routt, Grand, Elbert, Weld 
 and Pitkin counties. The veins of bituminous coal 
 average about five feet in thickness, and are of a bright, 
 shining black. Semi-bituminous veins are, as a rule, not 
 so thick as bituminous or anthracite, and are lighter in 
 color. The lignite coal seems to be peculiar to the plains 
 districts, and is considered among the finest in the market. 
 It is if anything less dense, and contains more moisture 
 than other bituminous coals. The anthracite fields, 
 although existing in wide ranges of locality, are at present 
 worked less than anv others. 
 
 fficial 5tatis:i:=. 
 
 The following are the official statistics of coal produced 
 in this State for the last twelve years: 
 
 YEAR. TONS. 
 
 1878 200,630 
 
 1879 322,732 
 
 1880 375,000 
 
 882 
 
 1,061,479 
 
 881 
 
 1,220,593 
 
 884 
 
 1,130,024 
 
 88s 
 
 1,39^,796 
 
 886 
 
 i, 4tf>, 211 
 
 S8? 
 
 1,791,735 
 
 888 
 
 2,185,47- 
 
 889 
 
 2,500,000 
 
 The average price paid to miners throughout the State 
 is 71 cents per ton of 2,000 pounds for mining and tim- 
 bering their workings. The area of coal-bearing sections 
 in the State is now said to exceed, somewhat, 26,000,000- 
 acres. 
 
 The coke production for last year, from Crested Butte 
 and El Moro ovens, was 116,500 tons. 
 
 The iron fields of Colorado are only equalled in 
 extent by those of precious metals. As yet but compar- 
 atively little has been done in the way of development, 
 as there is so small a local demand for the ore. How- 
 ever, there is now in operation in the State the largest 
 iron working company west of the Missouri, manufactur- 
 
DENVER, COLORADO. 
 
 ing pig iron, steel rails, sewer pipe, bridge material, 
 nails, etc. This company The Colorado Coal and Iron 
 Company own and work some of the richest mines. 
 The analysis of the ore from Calumet mine gives an idea 
 of the quality: 
 
 [ Iron 6v2S 
 
 Silica 7.04 per cent. 
 
 Alumina 1.90 per cent. 
 
 Peroxide of iron 59.76 per cent. ), 
 
 Protoxide of iron 26.88 per cent, j 
 
 Bisulphide of iron 1.14 per cent. Sul. 0.61. 
 
 Urae 1.59 per cent. 
 
 Magnesia 1. 70 per cent. 
 
 Phosphoric acid 0.016 per cent. 
 
 Titanic acid trace 
 
 Total 100.026 
 
 Lead, zinc, copper and other metals are produced in 
 paying quantities all over the State, while limestone, 
 marble, granite, red and brown . sandstone are found in 
 unlimited quantities and of the finest qualities. 
 
 Tne i! fields. 
 
 One of Colorado's youngest, though by no means 
 smallest industries, is found in her oil fields. Within the 
 last two years the oil wells of Fremont county have been 
 developed until to-day they supply not only Colorado 
 with oil, but also Utah, New Mexico, Wyoming and 
 Montana. There are several companies in operation, the 
 largest shipping about 1,000 barrels daily. 
 
 Trie Cattle Business. 
 
 All departments of stock raising have had a prosper- 
 ous year through 1889. Cattle raising has advanced 
 materially. A few years ago the cattle business was con- 
 
 fined to running herds on ranges of native and Texan 
 stock. To-day it has greatly changed. With the open- 
 ing up of agricultural lands, there has been more atten- 
 tion giver, to fine breeds of cattle, until in 1890 Colorado 
 can show some of the finest herds of fine bred cattle in 
 the west. 1890 finds 2,500,000 head of the best breed of 
 cattle in the farms and ranges throughout the State, 
 reachiuga valuation of $25,200,725. It has been estimated 
 that the number of cattle killed for shipment and home 
 consumption in 1889, was 210,000. The revenue from 
 this source alone was $3,500,000. Add to this the dairy 
 product and the value of the hides and live cattle shipped 
 away, and some idea can be gained of what the Colorado 
 cattle business is to-day, and it is still in its infancy. The 
 day will come when Denver will be the market of the 
 vast West for dressed beef, canned beef and all other 
 products of the bovine. The present status of the cattle 
 trade is altogether satisfactory and the future is full of 
 grand possibilities. 
 
 Sheep and 'Wool. 
 
 The sheep and wool growing industry has grown up in 
 Colorado to its present proportions in the past fifteen 
 years. Prior to that the flocks of the State were few and 
 of diminutive size. In 1870 there were but three flocks 
 of fine wooled sheep where there are now five hundred 
 and upwards. The industry that to-day represents thir- 
 teen millions of wealth dates from the introduction of 
 the railroads in 1869. Possibly no other pastoral industry 
 has accumulated wealth so rapidly as has that of sheep 
 and wool. 
 
STATE CAPITOL BUILDING. DENVER, COLORADO 
 
DENVER, COLORADO. 
 
 ^(gri culture. 
 
 It has often been said that Colorado has no farms nor 
 farmers. However true this may have been in the past, 
 it is far from the truth to-day. The fact is that thous- 
 ands on thousands of acres of what was supposed to be 
 arid land, have, by the introduction of irrigating canals, 
 become rich and productive farms. No soil in the world 
 exceeds in richness the soil of the plains and valley's of 
 Colorado, and what was once considered the Great Amer- 
 ican Desert, is now covered with waving fields of grain, 
 rich garden tracts and flourishing orchards and vineyards. 
 The wheat, oats and barley of Colorado have no equals 
 in the vast territory of the United States. The kernels 
 are more plump and heavy, while the flour produced is 
 of the finest quality. Fruit raising is yet in its infancy, 
 but the Arkansas, San Luis, Poudre and Grand River 
 Valleys, can show some of the finest young orchards of 
 apples, pears, peaches, plums and apricots to be found in 
 the country. The orchards in the Poudre and Arkansas 
 Valleys are the most advanced. Colorado fruit is far 
 superior to that raised in California, being more juicy and 
 of much better flavor. The vineyards of the Arkansas 
 Valley are the pride of the State. Grapes of all varie- 
 ties are raised and grow as luxuriantly as in California, 
 and far exceed those varieties in flavor. As yet no wines 
 are manufactured, owing to the great local demand 
 for fresh fruit. 
 
 One of the most productive crops in the State is 
 alfalfa, a very nutritious grass, which grows luxuriantly 
 
 and produces from three to four crops a year. The 
 I'reuch and Spanish name is lucerne, while it has been 
 called for many years in the south-west, Chilian or Cali- 
 fornia clover. Its roots strike very deep for water, and 
 is thus especially adapted to arid countries. It often 
 yields as high as $80 per acre. All other varieties of 
 grass are grown with success, but alfalfa is the best pay- 
 ing crop. Vegetables of all kinds flourish exceedingly, 
 and Denver markets are never without them. 
 
 Railroads. 
 
 The history of the railroads of Colorado is almost the 
 history of the State, and to give that is not the purpose 
 of this review, which is intended to show only the pres- 
 ent growth and future prospects of the great systems of 
 railways that have made Colorado an empire and built a 
 city at the foot of the Rocky Mountains which is the 
 marvel of mankind. The railroads of Colorado, whether 
 built by local enterprise and capital or extended from the 
 East across the intervening and almost uninhabitable 
 places, stand to-day as the criterion of Colorado's great- 
 ness and the guaranty of her material worth. Their iron 
 trails have stretched across the wide plains and wound 
 their tortuous ways through all the dark defiles and 
 gloomy canons of her eternal mountains, distributing 
 her hidden wealth among all nations of the world. 
 
 Ground was broken for the first railroad in Colorado 
 May 18, 1868, on the old Denver Pacific, now a part of 
 the Union Pacific, and to-day the State contains nearly 
 
View on Lawrence Street, from Fifteenth Street. 
 
 II 
 
DENVER, COLORADO. 
 
 5,000 miles of track, with hundreds more under con- 
 struction. The end will not be reached until every valley 
 in the State shall be accessible to the iron horse. 
 
 Colorado to-day has eight main lines of railroad 
 which, with their branches, aggregate 4,503 miles within 
 the State, as follows: 
 
 ROAD. MILES - 
 
 Union Pacific ..................... : > 2 7 2 
 
 Denver S: Rio Grande ................. I >54 6 
 
 Santa l-'e ....................... 4*3 
 
 Denver. Texas ft Fort Worth .............. 253 
 
 Burlington ...................... 4^3 
 
 Colorado Midland ................... 2 53 
 
 Missouri Pacific ................... ! 75 
 
 Rock Island .................... l68 
 
 Total ...................... 4,5<>3 
 
 There are also forty-six miles of the Rio Grande 
 Western within the limits of the State, which makes a 
 gratid total of 4.549 miles of track. 
 
 Strictly (Lolorads 
 
 THE DEXVKR S: RIO GRANDE R. R., "THE SCENIC LINE 
 OF THE WORLD." 
 
 The Denver & Rio Grande Railway is in every essen- 
 tial a Colorado enterprise, and Colorado is indebted to it 
 for a great part of its prosperity. It has been the aim of 
 this railway to reach all the mining districts and other 
 centers of industry within the field of its operations. 
 From its main line, north and south, it has deflected to 
 the west and south-west with its numerous branches until 
 
 it has extended itself like a fan over these portions of the 
 State. The northern extremity of the Rio Grande is 
 Denver, and the southern Santa Fe, New Mexico. \Vest- 
 ward, it extends ria Salt Lake to Ogden, where it con- 
 nects with the great railway lines of the Pacific slopi". 
 liy its various extensions its main stem is connected witn 
 Leadville, Glenwood Springs and Aspen, Guiitiison, 
 Grand Junction and Ouray, Lake City, Alamosa, Duran- 
 go and Silverton, and many other representative towns 
 in the agricultural and coal and mineral mining regions 
 of the State. The company is now engaged in broad 
 guagiug its line through the Grand Canon of the Arkan- 
 sas, and canons of the Grand and Eagle rivers, and when 
 completed will run through broad-guage trains to Salt 
 Lake and Ogden via Leadville and Glenwood Springs, 
 and will have through car service with the Burlington, 
 Missouri Pacific and Rock Island Railroads. This line 
 offers the tourist more of scenic attraction by way of 
 mountain passes and canons than any other line in the 
 world, and the new line now being built for the broader 
 gnage will pass through a country equally as attractive 
 as that which gave the old line its world wide reputation 
 of "The Scenic Line of the World." 
 
 THE COLORADO MIDLAND. 
 
 The Colorado Midland Railway is a local enterprise. 
 Starting from Colorado Springs westward, coursing its 
 way through the rugged mountains, passing under the 
 brow of the famous Pike's Peak, thence running west- 
 ward to Leadville and Aspen, it crosses the Continental 
 
DENVER, COLORADO. 
 
 Divide and drops down into the great coal fields of Gar- 
 field county, of which Glenwood Springs is the capital. 
 Its traffic is confined mainly to the coal and mineral mining 
 industries of the sections above named, but with the early 
 completion of the Grand Junction Railway, arrange- 
 ments will no doubt be made by which the trains of this 
 road will run through to Salt Lake and Ogden. 
 
 With the exception of the Rio Grand and the Mid- 
 land, the mileage of the roads as enumerated above con- 
 stitute but a very small proportion of their total mileage. 
 It is estimated by competent railroad men that the roads 
 entering Denver embrace a total mileage of 28,400 miles. 
 In other words, Denver in 1890 has that number of miles 
 of road directly tributary to her commercial demands. 
 This mileage may be approximated as follows: 
 
 MILES. 
 
 Union Pacific 7,ooo 
 
 Santa Fe 7, 
 
 Missouri Pacific 4,oo 
 
 Rock Island 4,000 
 
 Burlington 3,ooo 
 
 Pan-Handle Route 1,500 
 
 Rio Grande 1,600 
 
 Midland 3 
 
 Total 28,400 
 
 And the railroad business does not stop here; for 
 hundreds of miles are now building forming branches to 
 those already in operation, and 1890 will see a vast in- 
 crease in mileage over 1889. 
 
 (Colorado's dlimate. 
 
 Colorado is not unknown for her sunny and health 
 giving climate, and although so much has been said and 
 written in regard to the subject, we feel that too much 
 can not be said in its favor. Often has she been com- 
 pared to Italy, and even far-famed Italy can not boast 
 with truthfulness of such a sun-shiny and health-giving 
 climate as Colorado. Situated at about the same parallel 
 of latitude as Washington, Colorado has the benefit of 
 the warm Southern sun throughout the winter, while 
 during the summer its fierce rays are tempered by the 
 high altitude and ever present breezes from the snow- 
 capped mountains The table given below is an extract 
 from the meteorological summary for the year ending 
 December 31, 1889, showing the temperature and aver- 
 age cloudiness for the year: 
 
DENVER, COLORADO. 
 
 MONTHS. 
 
 TEMPERATURE. 
 
 Mean Temperature. 
 
 6 a. m. 
 
 6 p m. 
 
 Number of Days. 
 
 Month- 
 ly. 
 
 Below 
 
 14 
 
 Below 
 32 
 
 Above 
 
 4 i 
 
 Above 
 
 50 
 
 Above 
 59 
 
 Al>ove 
 6S 
 
 Above 
 
 Above 
 
 90 
 
 
 16.4 
 22.4 
 32.1 
 
 31.2 
 34.9 
 51.2 
 58.0 
 61.5 
 70.2 
 
 79-9 
 70. i 
 68.0 
 58.1 
 34-0 
 42-5 
 
 27.2 
 29.6 
 43-3 
 51.' 
 
 55-5 
 64.3 
 72.0 
 72.8 
 60.0 
 51.8 
 32-4 
 40.5 
 
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 4 
 
 
 
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 4 
 
 28 
 16 
 
 
 
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 13 
 
 4 
 
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 17 
 25 
 27 
 29 
 
 31 
 
 31 
 30 
 27 
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 17 
 
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 16 
 8 
 
 
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 March 
 
 
 41.7 
 46.6 
 54.6 
 61.2 
 59-4 
 47-1 
 30.8 
 25-7 
 33-4 
 
 May 
 
 
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 November ... 
 December 
 
 
 
 
 
 63 
 
 239 
 
 IIS 
 
 116 
 
 61 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 
 Annual Means 
 
 40.0 
 
 55-7 
 
 50.0 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 The State affords great variety of climate and one 
 must not judge of the entire State by reports on one city 
 or location. For instance, some time since, while the 
 writer was visiting in New England, the papers there 
 were filled with an account of terrible loss of life in a 
 fierce snow storm in Colorado. The dispatch was dated 
 at Denver and a gentleman totally ignorant of the coun- 
 try, remarked that he pitied people who were forced to 
 live in such an arctic climate as Denver's must be in 
 winter. The fact of the matter was, that in the moun- 
 
 tains some 300 miles from Denver, and at least 7,000 feet 
 higher elevation, a stage in crossing the range was 
 caught in a terrible snow storm and the passengers were 
 frozen to death. While at the same time the writer 
 knows that at the city of Denver there was not a particle 
 of snow on the ground and the street sprinklers were 
 running to keep down the dust. One great advantage to 
 the invalid in Colorado is the variety of climate. As the 
 summer grows warmer, one can by a short ride in the 
 
DENVER, COLORADO. 
 
 MONTHS. 
 
 TEMPERATURE. 
 
 
 Average Cloudless, 
 (o to 10) 
 
 No. of Calms. 
 
 NUMBER 
 
 OF DAYS. 
 
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 Mean 
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 Range. 
 
 No. of Days. 
 
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 6 a. m. 
 
 6 p. m. 
 
 Mean 
 b 
 
 
 26 
 17 
 23 
 30 
 1-10-17 
 9 
 3 
 
 22 
 25 
 30 
 5 
 30 
 
 40-3 
 42.0 
 56.3 
 62.5 
 67.0 
 77-3 
 85-9 
 87.7 
 74-9 
 65.4 
 43-5 
 52.5 
 
 14.0 
 17.3 
 30.3 
 39-7 
 44.0 
 51.3 
 58.2 
 57.8 
 45.0 
 38.1 
 21.4 
 28.5 
 
 52 
 68 
 52 
 49 
 5i 
 55 
 50 
 52 
 64 
 60 
 57 
 62 
 
 26.3 
 24-7 
 26.1 
 
 22.8 
 2|.0 
 26.O 
 27.6 
 2 9 .8 
 29.9 
 27-3 
 22.1 
 24.0 
 
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 9 
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 12 
 
 2.7 
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 3-5 
 2.9 
 4-0 
 
 3 '2 
 3-6 
 
 3-8 
 4.6 
 6.0 
 6.6 
 7-3 
 6.4 
 5-0 
 5.9 
 3.6 
 5-0 
 
 2.2 
 2.1 
 
 3.2 
 
 4-3 
 4.6 
 5.8 
 6.6 
 4.6 
 4.7 
 5.3 
 3-9 
 4-6 
 
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 19 
 
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 18 
 
 22 
 
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 18 
 
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 18 
 
 6 
 
 5 
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 10 
 
 13 
 
 6 
 4 
 
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 6 
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 8 
 6 
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 10 
 12 
 12 
 
 10 
 6 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 3 
 
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 4 
 7 
 
 6 
 
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 March 
 
 April 
 
 May 
 
 
 July 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 62.9 
 
 35-7 
 
 
 25-8 
 
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 33 
 
 82 
 
 214 
 
 69 
 
 9 
 
 2.? 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 
 
 3-7 
 
 4-9 
 
 4-7 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 B. Mean of the averages. 
 
 cars, reach a spot a little higher up and sheltered in the 
 mountains where the air is always cool hui never ex- 
 tremely cold. Or if the sudden changes of winter are 
 too severe, a lower altitude can be found, within a half 
 day's journey in palace cars, where the grass is green 
 almost the year round. Denver has mild weather the 
 year round, but enough of variety to purge the air of 
 
 infectious disease and to keep the blood moving freely 
 in the veins. No summer night is comfortable without 
 blanket coverings on one's bed, while winter's days are 
 largely spent in the open air without extra covering than 
 an ordinary business coat. Invalids ride in the open air 
 the year round and parasols are the companions to ladies 
 in their winter afternoon rides. 
 
DENVER, COLORADO. 
 
 The moderate temperature (neither cold in winter nor 
 hot in summer), dry atmosphere, high altitude and light 
 winds, make the climate most healthy. The following 
 table from the report of the Health Department of the 
 
 City of Denver, showing the mortality for 1889, with 
 causes, etc., will be interesting when the population of 
 150,000 is taken into consideration: 
 
 ! 
 
 DEATHS BY 
 SEXES. ' MALES. 
 
 FEMALES. 
 
 
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 CONSUMPTION'. 
 
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 January . . 156 100 56 68 32 
 
 31 
 
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 19 
 
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 February . . 130 7$ 52 53 25 
 
 33 
 
 19 2 7 
 
 31 
 
 23 
 
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 March .... 114 85 29 68 17 
 
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 April .... 112 61 
 
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 May 141 
 
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 June . 137 77 60 34 4^ 
 
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 11 
 
 28 i 
 
 7 iS 
 
 17 
 
 
 3 
 
 August . . 158- 
 September . . 178 
 October . . . 187 
 November . . 177 
 December . . 167 
 
 4 
 
 III 
 1:8 
 
 112 
 113 
 
 74 56 
 67 78 
 69 78 
 6 5 67 
 54 8. 
 
 28 
 
 33 
 4<J 
 45 
 32 
 
 28 
 
 34 
 
 i 
 
 46 6 
 33 5 
 
 37 ' 
 33 2 
 18 3 
 
 6 34 
 4 34 
 7 32 
 
 1 / 
 
 19 
 
 13 
 24 
 20 
 26 
 
 O 
 
 4 
 O 
 
 
 6 
 3 
 6 
 M 
 6 
 
 Totals. . ; i, 812 [,132 6So 733 399 
 
 339 
 
 34' 34 
 
 71 3'3 
 
 247 
 
 9 
 
 57 
 
 The 
 
 ditu. 
 
 Denver has very properly been termed the "Queen 
 City," for, as a beautiful queen sits upon her jeweled 
 throne, receiving honor and tribute from her subjects, 
 
 ruling them injustice and without prejudice, so Denver, 
 the most beautiful city of the West, from her lofty and 
 jewel studded throne, receives tribute from her Western 
 sisters, ruling them without prejudice and receiving honor 
 and praise from all mankind. The "Queen" is undoubt- 
 
 10 
 
DENVER, COLORADO. 
 
 edly beautiful in all that goes to make up a city's beauty. 
 Wide streets and avenues, shaded by verdant trees, and 
 lighted by electricity at night, palatial residences, mag- 
 nificent public buildings and elegant business blocks. 
 Her throne, the greatest range of mountains on the 
 American continent, lifts her 5,196 feet above the sea, 
 while it is studded with millions on millions of wealth in 
 gold and silver. Tribute is paid her in the thousands, aye, 
 millions of dollars which have flowed into her coffers 
 from all parts of the country. She rules without preju- 
 dice in that she is always willing to lend her assistance 
 to her weaker sisters, and she is praised by all men for 
 her many virtues. 
 
 Denver is well and systematically laid out. On the 
 original plat, or Congressional grant, the streets were 
 surveyed north-west and south-east, with intersecting 
 streets south-west and north-east. As the city grew, 
 however, it was deemed advisable to lay out the new ad- 
 ditions north and south, and east and west, so that to-day 
 the larger portion of the streets run in those directions. 
 The principal business streets are Fifteenth, Sixteenth 
 and Seventeenth, running north-west and south-east, and 
 Wazee, Blake, Market, Larimer, Lawrence, Arapahoe, 
 Curtis and Champa, running north-east and south-west. 
 The wholesale business is confined to those streets north 
 and the retail south of Larimer street. Sixteenth street 
 is the principal retail street. No city west of Chicago 
 can equal Denver in the size and elegance of her retail 
 stores. Even Sin Francisco, that city famed for her ele- 
 
 gant shops, must concede to Denver the precedence. 
 Here is the shopper's paradise. Fabrics of all kinds, 
 from the cheapest to the most expensive, are displayed in 
 profusion. In the wholesale districts are found immense 
 establishments: grocers, agricultural implement dealers, 
 hardware merchants, mining machinery houses, dry and 
 fancy goods dealers, and almost all other lines are repre- 
 sented. The residence portions of the city begin on the 
 north with the Platte river, west with Fourteenth street, 
 south with Stout street, and east with Eighteenth street. 
 Of course these boundaries are changing as the city 
 grows, and each year sees the business streets encroach- 
 ing more and more upon those of the residence portion. 
 
 "Public Buildings. 
 
 Denver takes pride in her public buildings. The new 
 post office and Government building now Hearing com- 
 pletion, on the corner of Arapahoe and Sixteenth streets, 
 is an imposing structure of gray sandstone. The new 
 State Capitol building, standing on Capitol Hill, at the 
 junction of Colfax Avenue and Broadway, is fast assum- 
 ing shape. It will cost, when completed, over ji,ooo, coo. 
 Built of fine Colorado granite, its massive proportions 
 loom up as a land mark for miles around. Its dimen- 
 sions are: Length, 383 feet n inches; width at centre, 
 313 feet 10 inches. There will be 160 rooms in all. The 
 Arapahoe county court house, occupying the square be- 
 tween Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets, and Tremont street 
 and Court Place, is one of the finest public buildings in 
 
DENVER, COLORADO. 
 
 the city. Standing in the center of green lawns, it 
 looms up 168 feet to the top of the figure on the dome- 
 The extreme length is 220 feet; extreme width 98 feet. 
 The material used is Morrison red stone and Canon City 
 gray stone. From the dome may be obtained a very fine 
 view of the surrounding city and country. The key is 
 obtainable from the janitor, who is always in the building. 
 The City Hall is another fine edifice on Larimer street, 
 at the foot of Fourteenth street. The building cost 
 $190,000, and has a frontage of 100 feet on Larimer street, 
 and 225 feet on Fourteenth street. The rear is used as a 
 police and fire departi'ient headquarters. 
 
 The U. S. Branch Mint, on Market street, corner Six- 
 teenth street, is the only public building in Denver to 
 bring shame upon the city. Although Denver is in the 
 heart of the gold and silver country, yet this antiquated 
 and much painted building is used simply as an assay 
 and purchasing office, no coining being done here. 
 
 The Chamber of Commerce and Board of Trade build- 
 ing on the corner of Fourteenth and Lawrence streets, 
 is a handsome four story structure of lava and red sand- 
 stone. The Chamber of Commerce, as an organization, 
 dates back to January, 1884. There had been various 
 "boards" previous to that time, the first being formed in 
 November, 1867, and to this body was assigned the task 
 of connecting Denver with the outside world by railroad ) 
 which it accomplished in 1870. In 1880 a new " Board 
 of Trade" was organized to further the mercantile inter- 
 ests of the growing city. This board was incorporated 
 
 in February, 1881. In the latter part of 1883 a movement 
 was set on foot to organize a Chamber of Commerce, and 
 this was effected in January of 1884, and in March of the 
 same year the two the Chamber of Commerce and the 
 Board of Trade were united into one body. Since that 
 time this body has been very active in furthering the 
 City's interests. 
 
 Another prominent and very strong organization is the 
 Real Estate Exqhauge, composed of the leading real 
 estate men of the city. This organization is ever ready 
 to join hands with the Chamber of Commerce and the 
 citizens of Denver in anything to further the City's wel- 
 fare. The Exchange has a fine hall in the Lewis block 
 on Arapahoe street, where its daily meetings are held. 
 
 The Colorado Mining Stock Exchange is Denver's 
 youngest enterprise. It has several hundred members, 
 mostly old mining men, and has, since its organization 
 in the Fall of 1889, been a very active factor in pushing 
 Colorado's mines to the front. At present the Exchange 
 is using the large hall of the Chamber of Commerce for 
 its meetings, but active steps have been taken for the 
 erection of a special building for its occupancy, and 
 before another year it will own as handsome a building 
 as any in the city. 
 
 (Ln.u.rcHes and ,lnstitu.lioris of .^earning. 
 
 Denver has mor- than seventy churches representing 
 all denominations. Within the last year several elegant 
 structures have been completed and others started. 
 
DENVER, COLORADO. 
 
 Among these the Trinity M. E., the Christ M. E., the 
 Central Presbyterian and the I'nity churches, and St. 
 Mary's Cathedral take the lead. Denver's pulpits are 
 occupied by able and brilliant men and the congregations 
 are large. 
 
 The Young Men's Christian Association has just com- 
 pleted a most successful year. No city in the country of 
 150,000 people has a larger or more active organization. 
 The present membership is 1,221. They have a good 
 gymnasium, library and reading room and conduct eve- 
 ning classes for the benefit of young men who are 
 employed during the day. Their lecture courses are 
 popular and through their various agencies they are 
 enabled to do a great deal for the young men of the city. 
 Fifty-eight thousand dollars have been subscribed towards 
 a new building to cost $200,000. 
 
 The pride of Denver is her public schools. Not only 
 has she an excellent system, but the school buildings 
 themselves are of the latest patterns in all that goes to 
 make them useful and ornamental. No city in the 
 country can excel Denver in this direction. The percent- 
 age of improvement made in school buildings in the last 
 five years has been phenomenal. New school houses 
 have risen as if by magic, and the high school building 
 is palatial. When one compares these lofty modern 
 structures with the original log school-houses, which, 
 but a few years since, were Denver's centers of learning. 
 he realizes more than ever how swift and strong have 
 been her strides of progress, and how great a factor of 
 civilization is the public school. 
 
 Denver has also numerous private schools, academies 
 and institutions for the higher branches of learning. 
 Prominent among them are: The Denver University, 
 comprising a classical college course, English and sci- 
 entific branches; a Normal training school, and the 
 Cbatnberlin Observatory (under construction) all under 
 one school government; Wolfe Hall, a young ladies semi- 
 nary; Jarvis Hall, a military school for boys; the Baptist 
 College; St. Mary's Academy, for young ladies; the Lo- 
 retto Convent (under construction), and the Jesuit College. 
 
 Banks and Banking. 
 
 The banking business of Denver has shared, with other 
 lines of business, their wonderful prosperity. The city 
 now has twenty one banking institutions, the princi- 
 pal are: The First National Bank, German National 
 Bank, Denver National Bank, State National Bank, Colo- 
 rado National Bank, City National Bank, People's Na- 
 tional Bank, American National Bank, Commercial 
 National Bank, Union Bank, Mclntosh & Mygatt, R. H. 
 McMann & Co , Hayden & Dickinson, Colorado Savings 
 Bank and People's Savings Bank. The Denver Savings 
 Bank, a new institution, has been lately started under the 
 auspices of prominent business men. 
 
 A never failing barometer of commercial activity is 
 found in the bank clearances. Taken by the week the 
 exchanges show a steady gain, as compared with a year 
 ago, of 45 l 2'r, and in no instance do the weekly state- 
 ments show a decrease from a year ago. The aggregate 
 for the year is 1194,759,647.20. 
 
 13 
 
DENVER, COLORADO. 
 
 CLEARI KG BY MONTHS. 
 
 .MONTHS. 1887. Ksv 
 
 1888. 
 
 January f 
 February . . . . 
 
 March 
 
 7,885,241 57 $ 
 7,092,430 01 
 0,611,229 39 
 0,906,637 46 
 0,890,017 23 
 
 O,I22,I1Q 40 
 
 9, 132, .166 64 
 9,87 8 ,433 43 
 0,040,609 94 
 0,812,442 80 
 0,002,981 16 
 0,214,996 81 
 
 7,589,505 84 $1 
 
 9,508,607 49 
 9, S7 2 , 366 50 
 0,486,247 70 
 0,920,441 43 
 1,194,230 28 
 1.366,474 61 
 
 0,689,295 12 
 
 1,145,664 07 
 1,281,866 65 
 2,804,031 14 
 1.923,030 03 
 
 3,072,954 39 
 13.965,209 41 
 
 IA< . 
 
 $ 14,466, 167 61 
 I3,'99,i76 28 
 17,712,903 93 
 13,776,500 39 
 13, 579,813 06 
 I 6 ,33 8 ,574 43 
 14,222,427 20 
 20,178,5^5 32 
 15,035,447 92 
 17,251,423 53 
 20,166,359 65 
 18,812,267 88 
 
 *I94,759,647 20 
 
 
 
 June . ... 
 julv 
 
 August 
 September . . . 
 
 November .... 
 December .... 
 
 Totals .... $1 
 Inc 
 Inc 
 
 re'se over 1888 
 
 . . 45J4^ . . 
 
 1 
 
 
 The report made by eight Denver Banks (all obtaina- 
 ble at time of writing) to the Comptroller of Currency, 
 in December, 1889, makes a splendid showing of the 
 solidity of her financial institutions. Compared to a year 
 ago they show an increase of $ 801,839 ' n capital and sur- 
 plus, $4,100,871 in deposits, $2,648,497 in "cash and ex- 
 change, and $1,084,883 in loans and deposits. 
 
 The statements were as follows: 
 
 CAPITAL AND SURPLUS. 
 
 First National $ 736,066 
 
 Colorado National 530,028 
 
 German National 504,255 
 
 City National 385,048 
 
 Union 216,431 
 
 State National 381,606 
 
 Denver National 462,4^0 
 
 People's National 321,941 
 
 Total $ 3,537,805 
 
 Increase over 1888 801,839 
 
 DEPOSITS. 
 
 First National j 4 
 
 Colorado National 
 
 German National 3 
 
 City National . .' . i 
 
 Union 
 
 State National i 
 
 Denver National 2 
 
 People's National 
 
 Total j , 8 
 
 Increase over 1888 . . x 
 
 444,602 
 305,337 
 282,888 
 481,081 
 961,171 
 
 865,953 
 320,756 
 746,290 
 
 408,078 
 100,871 
 
 CASH AND EXCHANGE. 
 First National .................. f 
 
 Colorado National ................ 
 
 German National ................ 
 
 City National ................. 
 
 Union .................. 
 
 State National ................ 
 
 Denver National ................ 
 
 People's National ............... 
 
 Total 
 Increase over 1888 
 
 2,035,973 
 
 1,325,334 
 
 1,197,606 
 
 642,506 
 
 404,083 
 
 1,011,219 
 
 1,048,439 
 388,721 
 
 $ 8,460,88! 
 2,648,407 
 
 LOANS AND DISCOUNTS. 
 
 First National . . . ................ $ 2,655,124 
 
 Colorado National ................ 1,718,063 
 
 German National ................ 1,774,432 
 
 City National .................. 1,012,252 
 
 I'nion ....................... 760,663 
 
 State National .................. 1,161,357 
 
 Denver National ................ 1,442,773 
 
 People's National ................. 621,093 
 
 Total ................... $ 12,143,757 
 
 Increase over 1888 ............... 1,084,883 
 
 14 
 
DENVER, COLORADO. 
 
 COMPARATIVE BANK STATEMENT. 
 The following table is a comparative statement for 
 the past seven years: 
 
 YEAR. 
 
 
 CASH. 
 
 LOANS. 
 
 CAPITAL. 
 
 DEPOSITS. 
 
 Dec. 883 
 
 
 $ 4,592,266 
 
 * 4,982,991 
 
 $ 1,646,457 
 
 $ 8,085,979 
 
 Dec. 884 
 
 
 4,486,696 
 
 4,603,639 
 
 2,070,076 
 
 7,220,470 
 
 Dec. 88s 
 
 
 5,249,344 
 
 5,763,489 
 
 2,139,649 
 
 9,089,324 
 
 Dec. 8S6 
 Dec. 887 
 
 
 5,641.565 
 5, 2 35,8.3o 
 
 7,399,384 
 9,544,557 
 
 2,296,575 
 2,357,250 
 
 10,889,715 
 12,542,693 
 
 Dec. 888 
 
 
 5,8:2,474 
 
 II ,060,8^4 
 
 2,735,966 
 
 14,307,197 
 
 Dec. 1889 
 
 
 8,460,881 
 
 12,143,751 
 
 3,537,805 
 
 18,408,078 
 
 Three new national banks have started through the 
 year: The People's National, with capital of $300,000; 
 Commercial National, with capi'al of $250,000; and 
 American National, with capital of $250,000. 
 
 ies. 
 
 The city is rapidly becoming the manufacturing cen- 
 ter of the vast section lying between the Missouri and 
 the Pacific coast At the same time the advantages it 
 possesses have not all been secured. There is room for 
 enterprise in a hundred directions. The smallest novelty 
 factory and the largest rolling mill will find ample scope 
 and opportunities for establishing their plants. Capital 
 held by Denver business men has always beii ready to 
 come to the aid of foreign manufacturers desiring a loca- 
 tion here, providing they offer a practical working basis. 
 This is found to be the case upon examination of the 
 lists of officers and directors of Denver corporations. 
 
 The appended table, compiled by the Chamber of 
 Commerce in March, 1889, gives the statistics of the city's 
 manufacturing interests up to the begining of that year, 
 which is reproduced with amendments, additions and 
 comparative statement: 
 
 KIND OF MANUFACTURE. 
 
 NUMHER OF ES- 
 
 TABLISHMKNTS. 
 
 NUMBER OF EM- 
 PLOYES. 
 
 AMOUNT OF 
 WAGKS I'AID. 
 
 YALrE OF PRO- 
 DUCT. 
 
 
 I 
 
 3 
 3 
 3 
 
 2 
 
 6 
 6 
 7 
 
 2 
 
 5 
 27 
 
 2 
 
 4 
 2 
 II 
 
 I 
 2 
 
 9 
 
 i 
 5 
 3o 
 i 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 17 
 
 1 
 
 74 
 
 27 
 29 
 
 10 
 l6q 
 768 
 32 
 345 
 270 
 320 
 7 
 13 
 iSs 
 276 
 
 86 
 218 
 14 
 17 
 9 
 8 
 
 '5 
 
 $ 2,000 
 9-500 
 39,920 
 28,080 
 5,720 
 51,140 
 15,592 
 15i705 
 
 7,200 
 152.840 
 
 344,838 
 15,922 
 275,000 
 
 l8,oco 
 126,528 
 5,000 
 10,200 
 123,437 
 80,442 
 4.56o 
 44,78o 
 86,227 
 9,443 
 9,500 
 5,080 
 6,864 
 6,450 
 
 $ 6,OOO 
 48,800 
 113,700 
 44.500 
 19,800 
 135,200 
 IIO.OOO 
 
 65,200 
 30,600 
 1,197,310 
 667,570 
 
 29,000 
 718,000 
 130,000 
 
 3 I! ,720 
 
 10,500 
 28,000 
 392,618 
 265,350 
 
 56,890 
 
 306,000 
 624,670 
 
 53.927 
 
 35,000 
 I j.OOC 
 
 12,580 
 
 1 17,000 
 
 Baking powder, extracts, etc. . 
 
 
 
 
 
 Bottling soda and mineral . . . 
 
 
 
 Broom makers . 
 Building material, sash, doors 
 
 Carriages, wagons, etc 
 Cement works 
 
 Cigar manufacturers 
 Cloak and dress making .... 
 Coffee and spice mills 
 
 
 Crackers and bread 
 
 
 
 
 
 15 
 
View on Larimer Street, from Sixteenth Street. 
 
DENVER, COLORADO. 
 
 KIND OF MANUFACTURE. 
 
 NTMUKR or ES- ! 
 .TAULISIIMENTS. 1 
 
 NTMIIEK OF KM- 
 TI.OVES. 
 
 -- ? 
 
 It 
 
 I* 
 
 ",S6o 
 66. 80 
 2,295 
 362,783 
 4.200 
 13,480 
 56.070 
 1. 200 
 780 
 2.340 
 48,640 
 9.000 
 8. 200 
 21,556 
 63.585 
 500 
 5.72 
 
 62.580 
 II ,000 
 71.000 
 37,688 
 1.452 
 17.250 
 395.286 
 
 1 
 
 a 
 
 $ 
 
 < ~ 
 
 ;,;o,ooo 
 1.706,973 
 5,000 
 976.855 
 28 , soo 
 
 53.980 
 
 184.000 
 
 7,500 
 5,500 
 
 8.000 
 150,35 
 31.000 
 38.000 
 82,350 
 212.600 
 3,ooo 
 14.000 
 49,785 
 105,000 
 45,000 
 106,000 
 159,000 
 
 9.122 
 
 35.000 
 1.055,000 
 
 4.200 
 
 63,230 
 
 544.485 
 
 5,000 
 5,000 
 46,330 
 40,000 
 6,500 
 
 20,000 
 
 3.385 
 497.100 
 
 2 
 I 
 I 
 11 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 I 
 
 2 
 I 
 9 
 i 
 3 
 
 12 
 
 M 
 
 i 
 
 2 
 
 I 
 
 5 
 
 2 
 2 
 
 4 
 
 i 
 
 2 
 12 
 
 56 < 
 
 87 
 IO 
 489 
 17 
 
 IS 
 
 82 
 
 2 
 
 I 
 
 6 
 74 
 IS 
 
 16 
 
 24 
 119 
 
 10 
 10 
 
 118 
 16 
 94 
 
 '6 ' 
 
 2.5 
 
 461 
 
 
 Floor and sidewalk tiles .... 
 Foundry and machine shops . 
 
 Furnace makers 
 Furniture 
 Gloves and buck goods .... 
 
 
 Harness and saddles ....... 
 
 
 
 
 
 Lapidaries 
 Lead pipe and sheet lead . . . 
 
 
 Lithographing and electrotyp'g 
 Mfg. stationers and binders . . 
 
 
 Marble and stone works .... 
 
 Mattresses and carpet cleaning 
 
 I 
 
 19 
 I 
 I 
 
 6 
 I 
 
 2 
 I 
 
 I 
 
 M 
 
 30 
 300 
 5 
 
 2 
 22 
 4 
 
 3 
 
 2 
 2 
 18 4 
 
 15,000 
 194.005 
 700 
 1 ,040 
 21.463 
 2,400 
 2,580 
 1.300 
 480 
 122.013 
 
 Mince meat, preserves and jelly 
 
 
 Oleomargerine factory 
 Ornamental plaster works . . . 
 Ornamental wood works . . . 
 
 1'aint and papur hanging . . . 
 
 
 H 
 
 V. 
 n 
 
 ~ 
 
 6 
 
 M 
 
 
 - * 
 
 : f. 
 
 | 
 
 t.? 
 
 c 
 
 KIND OF MAM-FACTTRE. 
 
 a * 
 
 * - /: 
 
 "a 
 
 
 
 
 - o 
 
 y. _- 
 
 gS 
 
 
 ? t 
 
 |1 
 
 2 fs 
 
 ^ r 
 
 
 z 
 
 g 
 
 < 
 
 ^ 
 
 Pattern makers 
 
 Photographers 
 
 Pickles, vinegar, etc 
 
 Picture frames 
 
 Plumbing and gas fitting . . . 
 
 Plumbing supplies 
 
 Portable gas lamps 
 
 Pottery ware 
 
 Printer's rollers 
 
 Railroad shops 
 
 Roofing supplies 
 
 Rubber stamps 
 
 Shirt manufacturers 
 
 Show cards 
 
 Show cases 
 
 Soap works 
 
 Smelting and refining 
 
 Stained glass works 
 
 Steani heating 
 
 st<_am heating apparatus . . . 
 
 Table sauce ... 
 
 Tallow 
 
 Taxidermists 
 
 Tents and awnings .... 
 Tin. sheet iron ^; copper works 
 
 Trunks and valises 
 
 Umbrellas 
 
 Washing Machines 
 
 Whims". . 
 
 Total 
 
 153 
 
 70 
 
 $ 2,080 
 
 30,895 
 
 27,300 
 
 3,060 
 
 102,429 
 
 > 2.500 
 
 123.334 
 
 165.000 
 
 25,800 
 
 524.380 
 
 128,961 
 
 5,000 
 
 12,000 
 
 3,600 
 
 5,000 
 
 5,600 
 25.000 
 
 6,500* 
 
 25.000- 
 
 262.556 
 
 16,448.840 
 
 24,000 
 
 ,-,7.920 
 
 5,000 
 14,400 
 
 5.457 
 
 5,000 
 
 I3,i5 
 
 307,980 
 
 65,532 
 
 63,230 
 
 3,500 
 
 14,400 
 
 j 8,409 | 5-829,348 ' ? 30,333.360 
 
 3 ',500 
 
 1.404.070 
 
 i i 
 
 900 
 
 - 3 
 
 1, 860 
 
 2 I 3 
 
 12,000 
 
 2 ! . . . 
 
 
 i ' 18 
 
 10,000 
 
 54 
 
 35.650 
 
 Si6 
 
 816,420 
 
 I q 
 
 6,000 
 
 I 18 
 
 7,420 
 
 l 3 
 
 
 I 2 
 
 936 
 
 1 6 
 
 2 3 
 
 3,SIO 
 
 1.872 
 
 3 ,,7 
 
 21 .497 
 
 17 130 
 
 93,048 
 
 2 17 
 
 1 1 , 928 
 
 I 30 
 
 15,000 
 
 I 2 
 
 1,560 
 
 I 3 
 
 2,340 
 
 The estimated increase of the past year over iSSS, are 
 detailed in the summary below. The figures are based 
 
 10 
 
People*' National Bank. 
 
DENVER, COLO ADO. 
 
 on careful calculations on data obtained from reliable 
 sources, and present a conservative statement of the ex- 
 isting manufacturing interests of Denver: 
 
 
 1888. 
 
 1SS9. 
 
 INCREASE. 
 PER CENT. 
 
 Number of establishm'ts . 
 Number men employed . 
 
 398 
 8,409 
 $ 5,829,348 
 
 497 
 ",352 
 $ 7,869 63 
 
 25 per cent. 
 35 per cent. 
 
 Value of product 
 
 30,333,360 
 
 40,453,269 
 
 36 per cent. 
 
 * Average rate a little higher than in 1888. 
 
 In round numbers too new firms employ 3,000 hands, 
 pay out in wages more than $2,000,000, and exceed a pro- 
 duct of $ 10,000,000. 
 
 The value of work done in railroad shops not enter- 
 ing directly into the manufacturing market is not included 
 in this total. When the Union Pacific shops are in op- 
 eration there will be an additional 1,000 men employed, 
 who will seek homes in this city. 
 
 A large cotton mill will be in operation inside of twelve 
 months, employing at least 1,000 operatives. 
 
 The various factories give evidence of steady prosper- 
 ity, and orders are flooding them with work. Yet there 
 is plenty of room for more. Large enterprises should 
 and will continue to come to Denver. Manufacturing is 
 a sure foundation of a lasting city, and wealth has always 
 been with it. 
 
 Denver's Sewerage System. 
 
 Denver is now possessed of a sewerage system that 
 would be a credit to an older and larger municipality, 
 and when existing contracts have been completed, in the 
 matter of sewerage the city will be splendidly supplied. 
 There are now in Denver 28.91 miles of sewers, thor- 
 oughly covering the business part of the city, and the 
 residence portion also a great distance out. During the 
 past year contracts were awarded for the laying of thirty- 
 four miles more of pipe, and much of this work is now 
 in progress. 
 
 The sewerage of the city is emptied into tlie Platte 
 river south of Thirty-first street, and is at once carried 
 away. 
 
 ^Denver's 'Water Supply. 
 
 Denver is well provided with water for its general con- 
 sumption and irrigation purposes. At the pre.ent time 
 one company is depended upon for the entire city supply, 
 but there is a new corporation in the field, backed by 
 unlimited finances, who are now engaged in putting in 
 a larger plant. 
 
 The oldest concern is the Denver City Water Com- 
 pany, a combination of the Denver Water Company and 
 the Denver City Irrigation and Water Company. This 
 amalgamation was formed in 1882 and has a city contract 
 expiring in 1891. 
 
 17 
 
DENVER, COLORADO. 
 
 Last March there was a disagreement among the 
 stockholders, and some of the financially strongest with- 
 drew and incorporated the Citizens' Water Company, 
 with an authorized capital of $3,000,000. They have 
 completed cribs and galleries at the mouth of the Platte 
 canon, where their source of supply is located, and under 
 the efficient direction of W. D. Allen, superintending 
 engineer, are laying pipes extensively throughout the 
 city. 
 
 In addition to these large corporations, there are the 
 Beaver Brook Water Company, which so effectively sup- 
 plies the town of Highlands, and a part of North Denver; 
 and the South Denver Water Company. There arestill smal- 
 ler private concerns, many ditch companies and the like, 
 which supply the outlying additions with irrigation water. 
 While in the past there may have been complaints as to 
 the character of the service furnished to the citizens of 
 Denver in this respect, still the future promises sharp 
 competition between two financially strong concerns, 
 which, with the improvements promised by others, will 
 give employment to many laborers next spring and sum- 
 mer, and result in great benefit to the city. 
 
 Street Transportation.. 
 
 Denver can equal any city in the country in street car 
 lines. There are now in operation, besides the extensive 
 horse car lines, two cable companies and three electric 
 roads. 
 
 THE DENVER CITY CABLE SYSTEM 
 
 The Denver City Cable Railway Company owns and 
 operates fifteen miles of double track cable road. This 
 is divided into three distinct lines. 
 
 One operates from Fortieth street on Larimer to the 
 Platte river and on West Colfax avenue to Sloan's lake. 
 A second operates from the Union depot on Sixteenth 
 street to Welton, and on Welton to Thirtieth, Thirtieth 
 to Gay lord and Gay lord to Thiity-eighth street. The 
 third operates from Colorado avenue in North Denver to 
 the City Park, traversing Goss street, Sixteenth street 
 and by Court Place to and the entire length of Seven- 
 teenth avenue. 
 
 THK TRAMWAY SYSTEM. 
 
 The Denver Tramway Company's system of eight 
 miles of double track, includes three distinct lines also. 
 One runs from Gallup avenue to Fifteenth street, on 
 Fifteenth street to Broadway and on Broadway to Ala- 
 meda avenue. 
 
 A second operates over the same trackage west of 
 Broadway and from that thoroughfare eastward on Colfax 
 avenue to a point parallel with the City Park, to which 
 a loop in the track runs. 
 
 The third operates on the same trackage east of Tre- 
 ruont, then on Tremont to Eighteenth avenue, on Eigh- 
 teenth to Huinboldt, and on Humboldt to Twenty -second 
 avenue, and thence by a loop several blocks are traversed, 
 the line finally rejoining the main track. 
 
 ]8 
 
DENVER, COLORADO. 
 
 THE ELECTRIC SYSTEMS. 
 
 The electric systems are owned and operated by the 
 Denver Tramway Company, the University Park Railway 
 Company, the East Denver Electric Railway Company, 
 and the Eastern Capitol Hill Railway Company. The 
 electric roads are using the Sprague system of overhead 
 wires with the exception of the East Capitol Hill line, 
 which uses storage batteries. 
 
 Denver's Theatres. 
 
 The Tabor Grand Opera House, corner Sixteenth and 
 Curtis streets, has for nine years been the wonder of the 
 West, but 1889 was the last of her reign supreme. The 
 Metropolitan Theatre, on the corner of Fifteenth street 
 and Cleveland Place, was completed in the Fall of 1889, 
 at a cost of nearly $95,000, and has proved a successful 
 rival attraction to the Tabor. The new Broadway Thea- 
 tre now building on Broadway and Eighteenth avenue, 
 will be a magnificent edifice and promises to surpass all 
 theatres in the West in elegance of appointments. 
 
 Denver's Betels. 
 
 Denver is well supplied with hotels, having about fifty 
 with a total capacity of about 10,000 persons. The first- 
 class houses for tourists are The Windsor, The Albany 
 and The St. James; rates from $3.00 to 4.00 per day. 
 Cheaper houses from (2.00 to {3.00 per day The Mark- 
 ham and The American. European plan The Henshaw. 
 The new Hotel Brown at Broadway and Seventeenth 
 
 streets, is under construction and when completed will 
 have 300 rooms, will be most elaborate in its appoint- 
 ments and will be one of the finest hotels in the West. 
 This building will be entirely fire-proof, no wood enter- 
 ing into its construction. Its cost will be, when com- 
 pleted, $i, 500,000. A new hotel with a capacity of 100 
 rooms will soon be built at the corner of VVazee and 
 Seventeenth streets. 
 
 enver's libraries. 
 
 Denver has two free public libraries.- The Mercantile 
 is in the Chamber of Commerce building and contains 
 15,653 volumes. The other is the Public Library in the 
 east wing of the High School building. Besides these 
 there are three large law libraries, viz: The Charles, The 
 Symes and The State, open to lawyers and others in the 
 City. 
 
 Real estate is the barometer of a city's prosperity. 
 By its rise or fall an unerring judgment can be reached. 
 Its very name of real implies the value which is placed 
 upon it. In this branch the record of Denver for the 
 year that is closed is one that is unequaled. No other 
 city has approached it. The advance in values, not prices 
 merely, but absolute values, has been enormous, and 
 the demand is constantly increasing. It may be said 
 with absolute truth that no man has lost a cent by buying 
 property, no matter in what part of the city he invested. 
 The fact is that no judgment could be poor enough to fall 
 into error, because there was no error. Of course some 
 sections have gained more than others. 
 
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DENVER, COLORADO. 
 
 The year opened with a feeling of confidence that has 
 proven to be well grounded. As events have moved from 
 every quarter to increase the sum of Denver's prosperity 
 this confidence has become greater until it is now practi- 
 cally unbounded. There is not a local capitalist who is 
 not constantly watching for a chance to pick up choice 
 pieces of land. But without question the most striking 
 feature of the year has been the influx of Eastern and 
 European capital. This has been poured in by millions 
 and invested, not only in lands, but in permanentimprove- 
 tnents of the most costly nature. The sale of the two 
 large breweries alone brought in about $2, 000,000, nearly 
 every cent of which was invested by the recipients in real 
 estate. The most satisfactory points in the year's record 
 are the rapid concentration of the railroad systems of the 
 entire West in this city and the remarkable growth of 
 manufacturing. The former has been brought about by 
 the irresistible force of circumstances; the latter is owing 
 to the wisdom of Denver's people and the energy with 
 which they have pushed out in every direc.ion. Both of 
 these branches are treated of separately. 
 
 The population of the city, which was estimated ayear 
 ago to be about 125,000, is now about 150,000. During 
 no month has the increase fallen below 2,000 persons. 
 This is in itself sufficient to account for the building of 
 thousands of homes and the stretching out of the city 
 for miles. 
 
 The greatest advance in actual valuation has of course 
 been in the business district, and in the territory imme- 
 
 diately around it. The place of honor for the greatest 
 proportionate increase is contested between the southern 
 part of the city and the lands to the west, which were 
 regarded as acre property a year ago. The former has 
 gained steadily and rapidly the whole year; the latter 
 have gone up with a bound since the West Colfax cable 
 was assured. It is certainly one of the cases where good 
 business instinct in investing has brought a rich return. 
 The laud lay close in. Its only defect was that the Platte 
 river presented an obstacle to easy access. Those keen 
 enough to foresee the effect of the overcoming of this 
 obstacle have profited. The district to the south-west 
 has scarcely kept pace with its neighbors to the east and 
 north, for the reason that transit has been defective. 
 Owners have recognized this fact, and are now building 
 railways and attractive residences, which is working a 
 revolution and bringing this district into the prominence 
 which its nearness justly entitles it. To the east, stretch- 
 ing beyond thecapitol, lies a magnificent territory, which 
 has always been regarded as choice. It is mostly in the 
 hands of the wealthiest firms of the city. The great 
 independent system of water works which has just been 
 commenced, and the further improvement of rapid tran- 
 sit lines, which is also begun, will assist in maintaining 
 this section in its position. 
 
 When the building of the Union Pacific shops was 
 announced near Swansea, the effect was electric. Prices 
 have since advanced TOO per cent, and fortunes have 
 been made. The additio* of several thousand persons 
 
DENVER, COLORADO. 
 
 to the population by the shops and olher factories which 
 are to be established, justify this advance. The building 
 of the Larimer and Welton street cable lines has also 
 been an important factor. Of West Denver, North Den- 
 ver, Capitol Hill, and the heart of the city, nothing need 
 specially be said excepting perhaps of North Denver. 
 Though parts of it are among the old settled parts of the 
 city, it did not, for a time progress so rapidly as on the 
 other side of the river. During the past year that has 
 been changed, and there is no place where more building 
 his been done or where a more solid advance in values 
 has taken place. The three older divisions named have, 
 of course, enjoyed the full benefit of the city's growth 
 for miles beyond them. 
 
 Cable road extensions have played an important part 
 during the past year, and will be even more important 
 during the year to come. Electric feeders have also 
 been built. 
 
 For the past ten years the amount of real estate trans- 
 ferred reached the tremendous sum of $181,319,966. The 
 volume of transactions by warranty deed for 1880 aggre- 
 gated $ 5, 638,000, and for 1889 the figures attained the 
 height of $60,392,098. Compared to the number of con- 
 veyances the transfers, as a rule, show the same relative 
 fluctuations in volume. 
 
 By years the total considerations of real estate trans- 
 fers were as follows: 
 
 1880 ........................ $ 5,638,000 
 
 1881 ........................ 6,712,090 
 
 1882 ........................ 7,513,660 
 
 1883 ........................ 8,508,040 
 
 1884 ........................ 5,338,490 
 
 1885 ..................... 5,080,083 
 
 1886 ........................ 11,021,208 
 
 1887 ....................... 29,176,752 
 
 1888 ........................ 4'*939,545 
 
 1889 ....................... 60,392,098 
 
 Total transfers, ten years ........... $181,319,966 
 
 Shov/ing Recorded Transfers by 
 
 3/ContHs for 1SSQ 
 
 The recorded transfers for 1889 are given below. The 
 transactions are classified into districts, which are de- 
 scribed below. A careful study of the table will show 
 the fluctuation, decline or increase in the volume of bus- 
 iness for any given section throughout the year: 
 
 21 
 
DENVER, COLORADO. 
 
 BUSINESS IN REAI, ESTATE FOR THE YEAR 1KS9. 
 
 MONtHS. 
 
 No. of 
 Warranty 
 Deeds. 
 
 KAST SIDE. 
 
 NORTH SIDE. 
 
 SOUTH AND 
 \VKST S1DKS. 
 
 ACRKAC.K. 
 
 MISCELLANE- 
 OUS ARAP- 
 HOK COUN- 
 TY. 
 
 1889. 
 
 
 , 4 6S 
 
 ; 4,407,565 
 
 $ 658,346 
 
 J 518,160 
 
 $ 697,381 
 
 $ 64,940 
 
 t 6,346,392 
 
 
 46 J 
 
 4,098,758 
 
 6-50,279 
 
 555,57' 
 
 S76,883 
 
 513,970 
 
 6,375,441 
 
 March 
 
 ,348 
 
 3,487,877 
 
 6"5,282 
 
 805 , 900 
 
 1,102,335 
 
 49,635 
 
 6,111.029 
 
 Apri . 
 
 .'44 
 
 3. 197. "6 
 
 404,713 
 
 494,084 
 
 354,386 
 
 26.IOS 
 
 4,476,407 
 
 Mayl 
 
 ,039 
 
 3,047,034 
 
 269,624 
 
 362,028 
 
 149,441 
 
 45,905 
 
 3,874,032 
 
 
 999 
 
 2,435,144 
 
 449,028 
 
 493,720 
 
 79.270 
 
 4', 8/3 
 
 3,500,035 
 
 lulv 
 
 94 2 
 
 1,682,018 
 
 49 s , 659 
 
 5M,oSi 
 
 214,289 
 
 42,813 
 
 
 
 ,066 
 
 2,398,525 
 
 353,315 
 
 591,281 
 
 549.631 
 
 48,837 
 
 3,941,589 
 
 
 ,236 
 
 3,490,217 
 
 1.500,612 
 
 1.028,382 
 
 379,921 
 
 124,498 
 
 6,523,630 
 
 
 ,3> 
 
 2,433,82 
 
 537,8 
 
 1,064.784 
 
 464,222 
 
 83.J75 
 
 4.584,029 
 
 
 ,251 
 
 3,330,806 
 
 692,368 
 
 801 ,641 
 
 896,90; 1 
 
 92,623 
 
 5.SI4.345 
 
 December 
 
 ,533 
 
 3,295,547 
 
 873,UO 
 
 I , 116,322 
 
 325,910^ 
 
 83,400 
 
 5,804.309 
 
 Totals for 1889 
 
 14,806 
 
 f 37,304,469 
 
 $ 7, 533, z 
 
 $ 8,344,954 
 
 $ 5,791,576 
 
 $ 1,218,877 
 
 't 60,392,098 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 The East Side embraces all the platted property lying south and east of Platte river and east and north of Cherry creek. 
 The North Side is the district of platted ground bounded on the south by the Platte river and West Colfax Avenue. 
 The South and West Sides include all ttie platted ground lying south of West Colfax Avenue and south and west of Cherry creek. 
 Acre property means unplatted ground anywhere in Arapahoe county, and miscellaneous property takes in the platted property of all the 
 towns in Arapahoe county outside of Denver. 
 
 Another interesting fact to the investor in realty is 
 the small percentage of trustee sales and foreclosures. 
 From the records, the yearly number of trustee sales, or 
 foreclosures, were as follows: 
 
 1880. 
 1881 . 
 1882. 
 
 34 
 55 
 50 
 
 188} 
 
 88 
 
 1884 
 
 119 
 
 1885 
 
 72 
 
 1886 
 
 74 
 
 188" . . 
 
 106 
 
 1888 
 
 97 
 
 1889. . 
 
 84 
 
 Total for ten years 779 
 
 2-2 
 
View on South Fourteenth Street, from La VeU Place. 
 
DENVER, COLORADO. 
 
 Five years growth of Denver in clearances, popula- 
 tion, realty transfers, loans and buildings, is as follows: 
 
 Clearings .... 
 Population . . . 
 Realty transfers 
 
 Loans 
 
 Buildings .... 
 
 54,ooo 
 
 5.080,083 
 
 3.932,874 
 
 790.980 
 
 Clearings . , . . 
 Population . . . 
 Realty transfers . 
 
 Loans 
 
 Buildings . . . . 
 
 U6. 
 
 85,668,027 
 72.012 
 
 II .021 .2oS 
 5,5 8 r,309 
 2,OOO,66l 
 
 133,965,209 
 
 91.001 
 
 41.939,545 
 
 15.851.700 
 
 6,049.386 
 
 117,589.505 
 
 80,217 
 
 29, >?6, 752 
 
 12,046.406 
 
 4,007.050 
 
 1888. 
 
 194,759,64? 
 150,000 
 60,392,098 
 29.234,634 
 10,777,17? 
 
 The building boom in 1889 has been wonderful, and 
 1890 promises more than ever. Thousands of new houses 
 have sprung up on what was, but a short time ago, bar- 
 ren plains. No city in the west can show more elegant 
 mansions or tasty cottages. Houses costing from $1,500 
 to $50,000 have grown up all around. One feature has 
 been the building of numerous tasty and elegant city 
 fclocks of houses. We give an engraving of one of these 
 
 in "The Athelstan," designed by J. J. Huddard, archi- 
 tect, aud owned by R. A. Long and H. V. Johnson. 
 What more elegant home could be imagined? New 
 business blocks of from five to nine stories have been 
 completed and others are in process of construction. 
 
 The Boston, Masonic Temple, Kittredge, Eruest- 
 Cranmer, Arapahoe. McPhee, Railroad, Pioneer, People's 
 liank, Broadway Theatre, Denver Athletic Club, and 
 others, all of which we give engravings, show what 
 elegance and money has been put into this class of build- 
 ings. The new church edifices, new school buildings 
 and public halls, have also drawn large amounts into the 
 pockets of contractors and builders. Aud still the work 
 goes on. Architects' offices are full of orders. Contract- 
 ors have many new contracts, aud the question arises, 
 when will this stop? As one who has lived in Denver 
 aud seen her wonderful growth, knowing her immense 
 resources and the active business men who compose her 
 population, the writer can not limit this progress. Some 
 said several years ago that Denver had reached her 
 growth, but how little they knew. The writer can only 
 say that the future promises more than the past and in 
 his belief no mistakes can be made in making any in- 
 vestment in Denver realty; it is bound to increase in 
 value as the years roll by. 
 
 23 
 
DENVER, COLORADO. 
 
 Building operations in Denver for ten years: 
 
 VEAR. AMOUNT. 
 
 1880. . .' * 3,517,362 
 
 iSSl 3.5,483 
 
 1882 2,838,488 
 
 1883 1,578,995 
 
 1884 1,900,426 
 
 1885 790,980 
 
 ,886 2,000,661 
 
 !887 i 4,007,050 
 
 1888 6,049,386 
 
 1KS9 10,777,177 
 
 During the year 1889, nearly eleven million dollars' 
 worth of new buildings were erected within the fire limits 
 of Denver. Estimates, which come from official sources, 
 place the value of the building operations in the suburbs 
 of the city beyond the fire limits, at $2,000,000, or 20 per 
 cent, of the building operations within the fire limits. 
 This would make the total building operations in Denver 
 and its suburbs at nearly $13,000,000 for the year. This 
 shows that Denver is enjoying a building boom which is 
 
 by far greater than the building operations of such citie 
 as Kansas City, Omaha, Minneapolis or St. Paul. 
 
 The following table, carefully compiled from the 
 Building Inspector's books, shows the operations within 
 the limits of the city proper: 
 
 January . . 
 February . 
 March . . 
 April . . . 
 May .... 
 June . . . 
 July. . . . 
 August. . . 
 September . 
 October . . 
 November . 
 December . 
 
 72 
 
 90 
 
 219 
 
 I?6 
 219 
 23' 
 221 
 
 123 
 
 166 
 
 419,000 
 
 434,350 
 
 764.550 
 
 883,650 
 
 1,411,945 
 
 1,329,774 
 
 I ,006,410 
 
 964,906 
 
 1,285,695 
 
 755,385 
 
 5'3,965 
 
 1,007,547 
 
 149 
 
 81 
 99 
 
 201 
 
 244 
 295 
 
 a6o 
 
 1 66 
 263 
 
 9 
 
 5 
 '5 
 27 
 15 
 
 IS 
 
 Totals 1,911 $10,777,177 2,445 > 'So 
 
 If the foregoing pages have answered any the of 
 questions which have arisen in your mind as to the 
 Queen City and her resources; if they have .shed any of 
 the light of knowledge for you, the task of the author 
 has been successful. He knows that his little work is 
 
 far from a literary perfection and he disclaims any pre- 
 tensions in that direction, but he has aimed at truthful 
 statements of facts covering some of the many points 
 which are constantly arising in conversations with people 
 who have never visited Denver. 
 
A. W. Chamberlin'a Residence. 
 
 Hon. M. B. Carpenter's Residence 
 
DENVER, COLORADO. 
 
 Colorado is a terge field; Denver is an ever growing 
 city. There is room in the State for millions of popula- 
 tion, and room in Denver for thousands more than are 
 here to diy. All will receive a warm welcome who 
 co ne to visit either, and those who come for investment 
 will find large and lucrative opportunities, while those 
 who come for health, if they delay not too long, will 
 surely find strength and renewal of life in this glorious 
 climate. But one word to the invalid: Don't put off too 
 long; don't rely on the hope that your's "is only a slight 
 affection of the throat," or similar complaints. Come 
 now and grow strong. To the farmers we have to offer 
 some of the choicest grain fields in the world. Millions 
 
 of acres yet open for entry and thousands of acres 
 already under ditch, which can be bought at very low 
 prices. To the manufacturer, we offer a location, the 
 centre of a vast non-manufacturing countrv. A country 
 where fuel is cheaper than water power; where the raw- 
 material is at vour very doors, and where there are thou- 
 sands of laborers ready for employment. To the capi- 
 talist we offer no bait except in the invitatio.n to come 
 and visit us. We know that all men of means who 
 come to Colorado and to Denver, leave something of 
 their riches here, invested in one way or another. Come 
 now while the State is young and while the city is yet 
 in its first growth. 
 
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 CHAS. F. BLACK. 
 
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