DENVER AS A MANUFACTURING CENTRE

" Clamorous labor knocks with its hundred hands at the golden gate of the morning."-Newman Hall.

     Factories follow population westward.

     In 1870 the manufactures of Denver did not exceed $250,000 per annum.

     In 1897 the output of Denver's manufacturing enterprises, including the three great smelters, was $40,000,000.

     The smelters of Denver, though running mainly on Colorado ores, receive considerable quantities of ore from the entire mining country extending from British Columbia to the Republic of Mexico.

     Denver concerns manufacture mining and ore treatment machinery extensively and ship same to the mining districts of all the Rocky Mountain States; also to Alaska, British Columbia, Mexico, Central and Southern America, and other countries.

     Denver-made cotton fabrics are extensively exported via the Pacific ports.

     Denver possesses the following requisites as a great manufacturing centre:

     FIRST: --Abundant and suitable raw materials, readily accessible.  SECOND: -- Cheap fuel.  THIRD: -- Abundant intelligent and skilled labor.  FOURTH: -- Ever growing market in its tributary country.

     There is now a growing disposition on the part of the railroads to regard Denver as an originating and distributing point rather than as mainly a consuming point, and present indications are that the manufacturing industries of Denver will witness great development.

     The leading industries are brewing, tanning, chemicals, clay goods, flouring, foods, leather, metal, packing, paints, paper, sewing, smelting, soap, stone, textile, wood, etc.