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Show HI'KMW Mdllr IN (OVIi CAMP vimat iiimmi with im: miin PltlMKItn Colo Sept 21 John D Itockefelter Jr. slept In a oontl camp tonight After a bus) dn) of, Inspeitlon In the course nf which lie swung a pick In tin Kreelerlck mine and ate luncheon on thc porch of n rustic mountain cabin tinder towering, pines nt Htonewnll the Standard (fl magnate late In the afternoon reached the Prlment camp Tired out with ten hours of motnrlnr and tramping Hetckefcller announced that he would nut return to Trinidad, hut would spend the night with the men In the camp llefore retiring he nle dinner In the miners hoardlnk house then spent the earl) evening talking with the mm who had Just come from the un dergroutid workings. Ioii Overalls nnd .liininr. i Km ki feller s da) of Inspection be gan nt the iViderlek mine nt Vnldcx,. about fifteen miles west of Trinidad There he donned blue overalls mull Jumper and trudged through two or. three miles or narrow tunnels, per-' haps a thousand reel below the crest or the hill Into whl h the mine Isi driven In one or the rooms' where miners nre tolling nt the granite like face of the coal, llockefeller borrow) d a pick and chopped awn) Instil) until un-til e hunks of coal came rattling down to the rioor, to his Immense delight. Prom Vnldis the Itockereller part) motored to Stonewall, rt summer resort re-sort In the shadow of the Sangre de Chrlato Mountains, and almost rift) mile west of Trinidad Tin re llockefeller llocke-feller was guest of honor at 9 lunch-iwmglvitib) lunch-iwmglvitib) r J Itndford chairman of the state committee which expend-1 expend-1 d 11 hundred thousand dollars of the Itoikefellir foundation money for the relief or iinemplo)ment after the recent re-cent coal coal strike was called off Aflir the luncheon Itoikefiller addressed ad-dressed the part), which Included n number of Trinidad buslhess men Inferring In-ferring to the relit f work, he said Vim gentlemen have expended this mom) In 11 wit) that may well be taken as an 1 xnmple for charitable organisations all over the world. You have given no man n penny If ha wus able to work for It The men )uii linve ulilid were allowed to eurn ever)' tent the) received, thus the) were not pauperlml nor mude objects of, char-It). char-It). This magulflient roud on which we have come from Trlnldail Is proof that the work done b) them was profitable prof-itable nnd Hint the) need not be ashamul of having uce pled their wages." The party returned as far as Be-gumio Be-gumio where llockefeller continued his minute Inquiries Into working conditions. con-ditions. The next stop was nt Prime Pri-me ro, where Ilooke feller and W, I McKenile King dpent the night. |