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the price of the bottles made in Denver had to be lowered to meet the 

 competition and hold the customers which the new factory had secured 

 in Denver. None of the materials used in the manufacture of bottles 

 by this factory were brought in from the East. The soda was brought 

 from Wyoming. When this glass company attempted to extend its 

 trade to the southern part of Colorado, territory served by the Santa Fe 

 railroad, it encountered difficulties as the freight rate from Denver to 

 the points in this territory had been raised during the year 1884 and just 

 after the glass factory had started. 1 



Carriages 



The difficulties which the manufacturer of carriages suffered on 

 account of the arrangement of the freight rates were related to the inves- 

 tigating committee of the legislature by Mr. D. K. Wall, a carriage 

 manufacturer who was employing from fifteen to twenty -five men in 

 his factory in 1885. Mr. Wall stated that the freight rate on carriages 

 partly finished in the white as it is called was the same as the rate on the 

 finished product. Carriages made in Colorado were said by this manu- 

 facturer to be superior to those made in the East owing to the greater 

 dryness of the atmosphere and the fact that the timber would in conse- 

 quence be so much better seasoned. Mr. Wall thought carriage manu- 

 facture could be carried on as well in Denver as anywhere as it is the 

 custom for all carriage manufactories to have certain parts used in the 

 manufacture shipped in from points all over the United States. The 

 rate on carriages from the Missouri River at that time was $1.37^ a 

 hundred weight, the same as the rate on carriage wheels in the white 

 or other parts of the vehicle. He stated that if rates were proportioned 

 according to the value of the article, carriages would be made in Denver 

 at a very good profit. Many laborers had come out to Colorado for 

 their health and unable to do heavy work would be very happy to find 

 work such as is required in a carriage factory and which they would be 

 able to perform successfully. 2 



Another carriage manufacturer employing from fifteen to twenty- 

 five men confirmed the testimony of Mr. Wall, stating that everything that 



1 Evidence, Special Railroad Committee, p. 55. " Ibid., p. 157. 



