Show they should N Es famished taMi shed CT THE A profit of per cent to be made millions in it home capital an iron quinace fu inace what we county remarked superintendent in probert to an ENQUIRES man yesterday you ask these iron men what pig iron is worth in colorado and they will tell you a cent a pound what does it cost to get it here about two centa per pound now theres a profit of per cent what else can you find that there is suan a profit in and if the people could only be persuaded to tadd a hold ot it we wont need to bring in any capital to start a furnace it wont cost much A small I 1 arnace can be started for if we can start an enterprise with local capital why then dont yon see weye biot everything and all butu but u we bring in outside capital why the profits of the business go outside of the county but now dont you see get focal capital outside capital isacke next best of course at first we would want to go on a kind of a modest scale yon know kind of feel our way if the railroads should discriminate against us why our local foundries would take all wo could supply A A noon the veteran iron man was the next person we struck on iron iron why the people of thia county are blind to their own interests ther is nothing else that would give a profit like an iron furnace pis iron in colorado ia worth 20 per ton aal the freight here is 35 to 40 per ton A small blast furnace with a capacity of ten tons ocr day could be built for 25 03 this is not a speculation with me 7 t know it larger ones could be established for and upwards ind rolling mills run into the millions our local foundries can use ten tons per dainow an could use that aisch more if they could get it As it is they have to use old scraps ron and whatever they can get ts we want stove works but we cant acet them until we fas baras iaras the of bourse we haye that in abundance chere are millions of tons of iron to tha west of us and we can get coal and bolce as cheap if not cheaper than they can in colorado all we dp i to take action io the matter and success is assured |