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made in Denver could not be marketed north of the Union Pacific nor 

 south of the Santa Fe. One of the prominent lumber dealers in Denver 

 stated that in 1882 he could make doors and started in the business but 

 the Chicago firms got the rates lowered so that in 1885, doors could not 

 be made in Colorado. In 1885, the rate on glazed sash from the Missouri 

 River to Colorado common points was seventy-five cents; on window glass 

 the freight rate from the River was one dollar. Therefore glazing could 

 not well be done in Denver. At that time only odd sizes of sash and the 

 like were made in the city. These sizes did not compete with the product 

 shipped in from the East and the manufacturer was therefore allowed 

 to sell them north of the Union Pacific railroad. His market could not 

 be extended to the towns within a short distance of Denver such as Long- 

 mont, Colorado Springs or Pueblo. The freight rate on such goods 

 from the East to these points was the same as the rate from Denver. ' 



Mr. Henry C. Taussig, a manufacturer of packing-boxes, stated that 

 the freight rate on such boxes complete in the knock-down shape from 

 the Missouri River to Colorado points was the same as the rate on the 

 rough lumber of which such boxes were made. There was also consid- 

 erable waste in the manufacture of these boxes. Mr. Taussig stated 

 that this rate was special to certain dealers in the city. Some makers 

 of crackers and soap were getting their boxes from the East in 1885. 

 The rate had not recently been lowered, but the classification of packing- 

 boxes had been changed. He could not sell to the soap factory in Pueblo 

 as the rate from Kansas City to Pueblo was the same as the rate from 

 Kansas City to Denver. The rate on lumber from the mountains of 

 Colorado about 75 miles distant was $1.65 a hundred weight, while 

 the rate on lumber from Kansas City, 600 miles, was fifty cents. 2 



A broom factory was started in Denver in 1880. The market was 

 mostly local owing to the unfavorable freight rates from the East as 

 compared with the rates from the Denver manufactory. Brooms were 

 shipped from various points between the Missouri River and Denver 

 to points in the Mountains at $40 a car. The rate on brooms shipped 

 from the Denver factory to the same points in the Mountains was $130 to 

 $150 a car. Manufactured brooms were also shipped from the Missouri 



1 Evidence, Special Railroad Committee, pp. 73, 79, 81. * Ibid., p. 33. 



