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A-MERICAN BEE lOimNAL 



Oct. 2 1902 



somethitig for all to become interested 

 in and know about. 



I hope while you are in the city of 

 Denver, if there is anything that I can 

 possibly do for you, you will not hesi- 

 tate to call on me at my office, and I 

 shall be glad to extend any courtesies 

 or do anything for you I maj* be able 

 to. I thank you. (Applause.) 



Mr. Harris — I again have the ex- 

 treme pleasure of introducing to you 

 Mr. Malone, president of the Denver 

 Chamber of Commerce, one who is 

 always on the alert to do everything 

 for every one who is interested in the 

 State of Colorado, its people or its in- 

 terests. President Malone. 



Address of Mr. Malone. 



Mr. President, Ladies and Oentlemen : 



It is a pleasure to me to be with you 

 to-night, although rather suddenly 

 called upon. I, as president of the 

 Chamber of Commerce, the largest and 

 oldest commercial body in the State, 

 extend to you who come from other 

 States, a hearty welcome to our State. 

 To you who come to Denver from our 

 State, let me also extend a hearty wel- 

 come, and at our Chamber of Com- 

 merce — were it not that our home has 

 been burned — we would be glad to re- 

 ceive you and extend to you any cour- 

 tes)' or favor that we might be able to 

 grant, or that you might be able to ask. 



On Saturday we are going to take 

 the Letter Carriers' Convention to the 

 Globe Smelter ; a train has been char- 

 tered by the Chamber of Commerce, 

 and I see no reason why it should not 

 be a pleasure to you, as it certainly 

 would be to us, to have you join us on 

 that occasion at 1:3U p.m., when we 

 leave the Union Depot. 



In regard to bees, I must confess I 

 am ignorant upon the subject. I have 

 had brought to my mind to-night, by 

 the song that was sung about sitting 

 upon the bee, the only incident where 

 I have any remembrance of having had 

 experience with bees. In my childhood 

 days I was venturesome, and they told 

 me that honey was good ; that there 

 was a lot of it under the sidewalk that 

 the bumble-bees had placed there. I 

 went after it, and I remember the busi- 

 ness-end of the bee ; I had both eyes 

 blackened, and everybody believed I 

 had been in a fight, and, in fact, I had 

 been, and I got the worst of it. From 

 that time I have never robbed a bee- 

 hive, but one has suffered, as my friend 

 Krueger, here, knows. 



At the Letter Carriers' Convention 

 the other night I had occasion to say 

 that it was our duty, as well as pleas- 

 ure, to gather information throughout 

 this State, and to extend that informa- 

 tion not only to our own citizens, but 

 throughout the United States and 

 Europe; and in England at onetime 

 our Chamber of Commerce had an 

 office in London, and our literature was 

 distributed there. At that time the 

 letter carriers were discussing the 

 question as to whether Uncle Sam 

 would raise their wages from £1000 

 (which is the salary he pays) to $1200. 

 I told them it made me think of the 

 story of the preacher who had been for 

 many years in a small country town. 

 He came one Sunday night and said to 

 his parishoners : " It is with regret 

 and sorrow that I must to-night make 

 an announcement to you," and tears 



began to flow as his voice trembled. 

 He said, " I have received a call to a 

 neighboring town, and I must leave." 



The old deacon in the rear arose and 

 said : 



" Parson, how much are they going 

 to pay vou over in the new town ?" 



"SI260." 



" And we pay you $1000 ?" 



"Yes." 



"Parson, that's not a call ; that's a 

 raise 1" (Laughter.) 



I then said to the letter carriers, 

 if you are struggling with Uncle 

 Sam — the most liberal government 

 upon the face of the earth — to get a 

 raise, and you don't get satisfaction in 

 your Eastern and Western districts, 

 come to Colorado and join our agricul- 

 tural industry, our manufacturing in- 

 dustry, our mining and our grazing 

 industry. I left out the bees, and I 

 will tell you why. I then saw by statis- 

 tics that I had, that a man had put in 

 six acres of potatoes which had earned 

 him a net profit of $900, and from 

 which, at a better time, he could raise 

 from $1000 to $1200 worth. Again, the 

 Hon. Governor sent to the Chamber of 

 Commerce statistics showing farmers 

 in his district were earning year by year 

 from $3000 to $9000 a year on their 

 farms from 40 to 160 acres of land. 

 Since I came into this room to-night I 

 have learned that there is in your 

 midst one who has a great number of 

 bee-hives, and who has netted from 

 one colony in a year $22.50. I know 

 that that party worked at the business. 



I see no reason why the bee-industry 

 should not be better advertised than it 

 is. If you will give to us at the Cham- 

 ber of Commerce statistics so that we 

 can get them out for you in pamphlet 

 form ; or, if you will give them to me 

 this week, I will see that they get in 

 the letter carriers' journal of the 

 United States, which will go into the 

 home of every letter carrier in the 

 United States'; 105,000 men will dis- 

 tribute that throughout the broad 

 lines of the United States. 



A few years ago I was in business in 

 this city, and I remember with pleas- 

 ure when a friend whom I see in the 

 rear came to me and asked why I didn't 

 buy the honey that I was shipping in 

 Colorado, and I said, "They haven't 

 any to give us ; they couldn't sell me 

 the quantity I want." He said, " Will 

 you let me sell you some?" I bought 

 from him, and I think there was never 

 a year threafter that I didn't buy all of 

 his surplus. I shipped from the State 

 of Colorado over three cars to firms in 

 which I was interested, from here to 

 Chicago. At one time I shipped three 

 cars of honey, and at another time I 

 had bought for them out in Idaho as 

 high as ten cars of honey, because I 

 couldn't get it in Colorado. 



Ladies and gentlemen — because I 

 feel the ladies can do this as well as 

 the gentlemen — if you will put your 

 shoulder to the wheel, and take the 

 trouble to give us some statistics, we 

 can show you that it is possible to do 

 great things for the bee-industry in 

 Colorado. Let us assist you, and I am 

 sure that Colorado will never have to 

 go to Idaho again to buy ten cars of 

 honey to ship to the East. 



And, as I have said before, the 

 Chamber of Commerce, the Board of 

 Trade, and the city of Denver, stand 

 ready to offer to you not only the glad 

 hand while you are here now, but for- 



ever after, at any time that they can be 

 of service to you and to your industry, 

 as well as all other industries not only 

 of Denver but of Colorado. Call on us, 

 and you will not only favor yourselves 

 but you will favor us. It is to our 

 credit to assist you, and we want to 

 assist ourselves as well as you. 

 1 thank you for your attention. 



Address by President Harris. 



Mr. rrisident iinil Mnnbers of tin- Xalhimd 

 Ute-Kteperti^ Assttrlathit : 

 I feel proud on behalf of the State 

 Bee-Keepers' Association of Colorado 

 to greet you here to-night. We have 

 in this State a large honey industry, 

 which, by the probable statistics next 

 year, will amount to nearly $800,000. 

 Within the nest two years I think we 

 will be shipping out of the State of 

 Colorado something like 200,000 pounds 

 of honey. The industry in the past, 

 perhaps, has not been recognized as it 

 should have been, for the simple rea- 

 son that it has not been known how 

 large the industry has grown. You 

 come from the East, you strike the 

 borders of our State, you strike the 

 cattle on a thousand hills, and away 

 on the barren peaks from one side of 

 our State to the other you find there 

 are mines from which millions of dol- 

 lars have come ; and yet the mining 

 proposition is in its infancy. We have 

 a State here that is yet a baby, only 22 

 years old. Making comparison of it 

 with any other State in the Union, 

 with its unbounded resources, and I 

 will say to you it is simply remarkable. 

 You take the agricultural sections of 

 the State, you take Greeley to the 

 north on the potato proposition, and 

 hundreds of cars each year go away, 

 and bring back to the farmers much 

 money. Take it on the west and south- 

 west, in the rocky country, and there 

 we have the Rocky Ford cantaloupe 

 that is known the world over, hundreds 

 of cars going East each year to the 

 markets. 



Take our coal industry in this State ; 

 we have coal enough in the various 

 counties to supply the world for years. 

 Take the city of Denver, grand in it- 

 self, and in its welcome, the people 

 from the outside all know of it as the 

 great convention city. You then go 

 from the city of Denver to the city of 

 Pueblo, where we have a monster ris- 

 ing up. Then go into the sections on 

 the western slope, where you get the 

 great fruit interests. From that sec- 

 tion, taking Montrose, Delta and Grand 

 Junction, there will be over 600 car- 

 loads of fruit this year. 



Taking all these into consideration, 

 you can have some conception of the 

 immensity of the resources of the State 

 of Colorado, young yet. as I have 

 stated before. With an inter-State 

 canal that will cover something like 

 200,000 acres of land, there we will 

 successfully land 10,000 people, or 

 10,000 families, in other words ; and 

 where there is a barren desert to-day 

 it may be grown up in flowers, and the 

 fanners will be reaping the alfalfa, 

 and the crops, and bees gathering the 

 honey from the same, and car after 

 car of honey will be shipped, as well 

 as from the other districts. 



The half has never been told of Col- 

 orado. The people in the East think, 

 in a manner, that we were but a few 

 years ago a set of barbarians. To-day 



