. The great West: a vast empire. A comprehensive history of the trans-Mississippi states and territories. Containing detailed statistics and other information in support of the movement for deep harbors on the Texas-Gulf coast /by Dana. ave no stone unturned to accom-plish this great purpose. Any student of the situation will mark thisproject as the keystone of the future. We are as a harbor withoutdefenses, constantly liable to attack from without, and to be seriouslydamaged, if not destroyed, by neglect to fortify against such contin-gencies. Nothing can be more patent to observing men,
. The great West: a vast empire. A comprehensive history of the trans-Mississippi states and territories. Containing detailed statistics and other information in support of the movement for deep harbors on the Texas-Gulf coast /by Dana. ave no stone unturned to accom-plish this great purpose. Any student of the situation will mark thisproject as the keystone of the future. We are as a harbor withoutdefenses, constantly liable to attack from without, and to be seriouslydamaged, if not destroyed, by neglect to fortify against such contin-gencies. Nothing can be more patent to observing men, that tosucceed in founding a manufacturing center here, and therebyfortify the city against formidable dangers, the foundation must bemade of iron—pig iron. With the ore within easy reach, and sur-rounded by all the auxiliaries to successful manufacture at a cost that The Great West. 133 will enable us to compete with Ohio, Pennsylvania or Alabama, whatis to hinder success? Nothing but defective management. There isnot, in all the West, certainly nowhere else in Colorado, so grand anopportunity as this. And if Denver business men fail to work itssolution, they will at no distant day discover how great is the mistakethey have Residence of Peter Gottesleben, Denver, Colo. While our iron workers have been measurably prospered underdisadvantages which few but themselves can appreciate, they cannotadvance far beyond the present limit of production, certainly cannotinvade outside territory with much force until they can be suppliedwith cheap pig iron directly from our own mines. We have brieflyindicated how this may be done, and leave the problem and the re-sponsibility where it belongs. If this project liad received the at-tention it so richly merits live years ago it would have given this citya great power, which it does not now possess, through the location offoundries, rolling and nail mills, with many kindred industries, whoseexport trade could have been extended in al
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