Show CONDITIONS IX COLORADO Urn Strike Inaugurated In That State Slate a II There Is ls an Impression In tho the country east ant of oC Chicago that Colorado Is In a 11 abad abad bad hall way Its principal Industries Ind vir virtually Ir ruined by lIy labor laor strikes and It Its business going to the he bow boo bowwows bowwows wows soto to says lea Gen Frank Hall hail In the Denver Post I ost This Impression lon aba has been created tell by hy I several vi vicious clone cious and In the tile main grossly exaggerated ua communications that have ap op appeared In Colliers Weekly Boston Transcript and ono one or two other papers In which the tho writers appear to have relied upon their Imagination for their facts or obtained their notes from Crom purely pu rely malicious sources That Colora Cobra Colorado do has been boon Impeded by strikes Is true trul Nearly every other state north of ot Ma Macon Mavon II von Ion and Dixons lino line has hils had similar l Poole come of ot them theta even een ex ox during tho the past year eari there thore therefore fore forc the disturbance of ot labor conditions hero Is In no exceptional It may be he stated as ns an nn fact however how er that every oVery strike called call d dIn In this state slate during tho the vast past 12 months has taIled failed of ot Its purpose Beginning with tho the last summer Much Inconvenience resulted re but only two establishments were sere suspended on that account One of at these beIng old and sis Willi permanent anti and will be bo dismantled the operators had no desire to continue It having other and bettor better smelters smellers to care for tor the tho supply of or mineral minerai Long before be Core tho the close of ot 1903 1503 1 3 tho tIm smelters were ero prepared to handle all the ore oro pro produced produced In this state and are arc now running full time with full complements of oC em employee playeR The rue strike In III Cripple Creek began Aug 10 All Alithe the tho mines milles and ami mills were closed for tor n a time but gradually reopened reopen d trod before the tho close clO of Decem December December ber her all were ere running antI and the tho tion tl n nearly up to th the he normal 11 i Two strikes occurred In Telluride district but thero there nt ot the present tIme Is favorable and although some ot of tho the mines are aro not fully tully manned they will 1111 be before the tho middle of oC the tho cur current current rent month Tho The strike In the th coal fields has hu been less les than represented All mines In the tho northern Held fIeld resumed last fall full and the tha southern field is Ia pro producing clueing sufficIent for local demand al nl although though the tonnage for export expert Is less lesil than that formerly Thorn Thern has hns been boon no ma shortage of ot fuel during durin the win winter winter winter ter At the tho present tIme It Is abundant I I for nil all purposes As to o the thc mines tho the production on all nil sides shies Is fully up to the normal and In Cripple Creek our great gold Kold Held field the tho situation was as 11 never flavor more encouraging The long series Aeries of ot remark remarkable able disclosure dIsclosures since the time first of Janu nry ary excites the tho belief bellet that the bullion output of ot the tho district dl this year will sue sur surpass ur pass II mass S nil all nl previous records Thin Timis opinion Is III founded foundell upon the tha condition nf ot nil all the tho principal mines mints supplemented by the time ninny many new producers as os the tha work of oC development proceeds U is very ory productive ami al pros prosperous The situation thero has Imn not been interrupted by disturbances In nil the tho other fields the conditions are aro decidedly Improved We Wo enter time tho spring therefore under highly favorable auspices The manufacture of or all nil manner of ot mining machinery Is IB active The Tho Improvements undo menlo In methods of oC ore treatment have havo bated the production of oC mineral The Thelow Thelow Thelow low grade problem has luw been solved by b the application of at new pro copses that are simple cheap chelp and ef effective Some Bomo oni bright Inventors have haye been at It work vork and anti some ot of them hav brought Into use tue exceedingly eXCl valuable aids to the saving of ot values New Mew mills embracing the tho latest Improvements have havo been built others are In con course r no of ot erection and stilt more are aro projected for tor forthe forthe the summers work I Colorado needs no general outpour outpouring I Inc ing of ot sympathy for the struggles she pho has ban had because her lIer people unable Inn hie to take tako care caro of the troubles that conic como comens ns nil they arise If It this was time tho only state mate to bo be disturbed it might be causa tot for exceptional comment Our ties tiel have havo been met and mastered and we wo ve do mb not apprehend allY any recurrence this year Nr BusIness U Is l quito quite nn nR pros Droll prosperous porous here hert no mm It Is elsewhere Every Everyone Eor one Is confident of at the tho future and aM there thore Is Pm reason ren on for It II The Inter vinter h hu has s been hen exceptionally mild and favorable for tor all nil outdoor pursuits resulting In III not only nn an enormous amount of at development underground but the discovery of or ninny many new sources that tha t will cut nn ne Important figure nure from froni this Ihl Ilma forward |