Show CLAIM THE EARTH A special from colorado springs states that president donaldson of the colorado springs mining stock exchange is in favor of a consolidation of bf the salt lake exchange with the colorado springs board his plea being that there should be but one western exchange of which colorado springs is the logical home alleging that this colorado city is becoming the natural center of the mining industry of this intermountain country of all the tommy yot rot emanating from colorado springs concerning its mining share market and its claim for prominence as amiling a mining center this is the worst vorst that has ever come under notice the mining exchange of salt lake city does more business in point of money value than does the colorado springs board and furthermore it has more big high priced and heavy dividend paying stocks on its list than the colorado springs institution ever had or ver ever e will have and we can prove it As for being a mining center for the great mining regions of the west and south the assertion is absurd and ridiculous in the first place it is on the extreme eastern edge of the mineral belt of the rocky mountains moun bains and sierra nevada mountains of which salt lake is the natural center and in years to come lorado colorado Ca springs viewed as a mineral center or as the logical home of any or all stock exchanges of the west will be nothing more than a way station on on the trunk lines line s of the mining world because colorado springs has cripple creek she imagines she has the earth with a fence around it alto altogether ignoring the fact that in utah idaho oregon r montana and washington there are many other camps which are the equal if not the peer of this splendid wealth producing section and that it will be many a long day before they will consent to the idea of beino being controlled and governed governed by colo rado s popular health resort |