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MANUFACTURES AND TRADE 



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WHEAT does seem to have a "future" 

 after all. 



A FINAL survey of the Pecos valley rail- 

 road is being made. 



THE millers, the dressed meats interest 

 and various manufacturing interests urge 

 Congress to restore the reciprocity 

 treaties. 



A RAILROAD is to be built from Colorado 

 Springs to Cripple Creek which will place 

 the great gold region within five hours 

 of Denver. 



THE National Pump Co. of Kansas 

 City, Missouri, has been reorganized with a 

 capital stock of $50,000, to manufacture 

 the Wonder pump. 



AN irrigating pump with a capacity of 

 7,200,000 gallons every twenty-four hours 

 is being built by the Pueblo Foundry and 

 Machine Works. It will be the largest 

 pump in Colorado and will weigh about 

 100 tons. 



A CONGRESSIONAL committee is to in- 

 vestigate the immigration question at 

 Castle Garden, New York, and we predict 

 that as usual it will do nothing whatever 

 to stop the flood of foreign paupers who 

 are driving out honest American work- 

 men. 



THE latest official statement of the 

 visible supply of grain is as follows: 

 Wheat, 67,998,000 bushels, decrease, 947,- 

 000 bushels; corn, 7,647,000, increase, 

 1,493,000; oats, 6,615,000, increase, 246,- 

 000; rye, 1,554,000. increase, 22,000; 

 barley, 3,246,000, decrease, 305,000 

 bushels. 



THE memorials of the Chicago Live 

 Stock Exchange and the National Live 

 Stock Exchange, calling the attention of 

 Congress to the discrimination made by 

 foreign governments against the meat 

 products of this country, and asking legis- 

 lation relative thereto, have been pre- 

 sented and referred. 



A BILL has been introduced in Congress 

 constituting Andrew Carnegie, George A. 



Kelly, Charles W. Batchelor, C. L. Ma- 

 gee, and twenty- six other persons a cor- 

 poration, under the name of the Lake 

 Erie and Ohio River Ship Canal Com- 

 pany, with power to construct and main- 

 tain a canal connecting Lake Erie and the 

 Ohio river. 



IT is significant that President Baker's 

 address, outlining the policy of the Chi- 

 cago Board of Trade, contained no al- 

 lusion whatever to option trading. The 

 Elevator Combine and the bucket shops 

 will be fought. President Baker is per- 

 haps waiting to see what Congress will 

 do about an anti-option bill. Many mem- 

 bers of the Board are in favor of abolish- 

 ing the gambling feature. 



THE Crippen Lawrence Investment Com- 

 pany, of Denver, has been taken out of 

 the hands of the assignee and reorganized. 

 The Denver Land and Water Storage 

 Company is also going to be reorganized. 

 Austin G. Gorham, the receiver, is well 

 pleased with the outlook. The company 

 owns 17,000 acres lying southeast of Den- 

 ver. The water for the land is stored in 

 the famous Castlewood dam. These in- 

 stances would seem to indicate better 

 prospects for the various land, investment 

 and irrigation companies that have been 

 struggling along the past two or three 

 years. < 



A BILL has been reported in the TJ. S. 

 Congress for the appointment of a non- 

 partisan commission to collect information 

 and to consider and recommend legisla- 

 tion intended for the best interests of 

 labor, agriculture and capital. The report 

 which accompanies the bill states that in 

 six years there has been a loss of $34,- 

 000,000 to employers of labor owing to 

 disturbed and unsettled conditions, and 

 that this is but a fractional part of the 

 real loss sustained by employers and em- 

 ployed and others whose interests are 

 affected indirectly. The better labor is 

 protected in all its rights, the better wil 

 be the security for earnings. 



