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Show DAVID H MOFFAT. Colorado ia in mourniog because of the death of one af her industrial kings ; one who for a generation genera-tion past haa been central figure ground which the heaviest financial transactiona have circled ; one whose approval of any enterprise gave it, prima facie, a mighty prestige of success; one upon whose wisdom the shrewdest .leaned; who waa the financial barometer of Denver and Colorado. He toiled to the last and died in harness. His hut great work waa the undertaking to link Denver to Salt Lake City by s direct cable of steel, and it is a pity that he eould not have lived to accomplish that great work) to be t him of all things, the most appropriate monument, for that road when completed will be a most meet illustration of his life obstacles overcome, ,- rough ; places , made smooth, and all fhst new fields might be opened and cultivated, and the people and products of an empire given swift and safe transmission. "On the one hand representing the severe logio of pitiless figures, on the other the imagination which, looking look-ing over a rugged . and savage landscape sees smooth paths, smiling fields, limuntains pierced or hewed down and furious torrents bridged, and over hundreds of milea of savagery aee the homes and temples of civilization take form. D. II. Moffat will be greatly missed in Colorado, and in the list of strong men who were her pioneers hia name will for all time bear an honored place. |