Author: Andrew Morrison

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-24

Total Pages: 155

ISBN-13: 9781330585733

Excerpt from The City of Denver and State of Colorado Sales of $127,750,000 in 1888 represent one fraction of her commerce; a manufactured product of $30,333,000, another. Transfers of real estate during 1888 involved sums apiroximating $42, 000, 000, and the loans made therefor,$20, 000, 000. The 1, 827 buildings erected in 1888 cost $6,000,000. These figures, too, will be very much exceeded by those of 1889. Fortunes have been lavished upon architecture and improvements by the successful mine owners and business men of the city, and Denver, beautified with shade trees and adorned with stately structures - new, bright, clean and modern; with the lofty peaks of the great range in full view, and the most magnificent prospect in the land spread out before her; at an elevation, a mile above sea level, where the climatic conditions are conducive in the highest degree to health and longevity, is one of the most attractive cities of the country and one of the most delightful to live in. The prosperity of Denver is based upon Colorado's wealth of resource, a foundation sure as these everlasting hills, from which have been taken, of gold and silver alone, during the last thirty years, the value of $290,000,000; of lead, $37,365,000, and of copper, $6,745,000. The local consumption of coal is entirely supplied from Colorado measures which have 40, 000 square miles area, and from her own petroleum fields the State spares enough for her neighbors; these, with immeasurable ledges of iron and building stone, and uareckonable water powers, foretoken industrial prestige greater, in time, than Pennsylvania's. Already renowned as a sanitarium; with a population doubling every decade, and with 34,660,000 acres of arable lands soon to be irrigated; with assessed values now of $195,000,000 (including, among other items, 1,500,000 cattle, 500,000 horses and 3,000,000 sheep), it is evident, from the most superficial survey of the Centennial State, that her development has but just begun; that her future canhardly yet be well foretold; that now, while her greatness is a-ripening, the most favorable opportunities are presented for settlement, for labor and for business enterprise. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.