48 UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO STUDIES 



IMPORTANT TO MANUFACTURERS 



Colorado Railway Association 

 Union Pacific Railway 

 Burlington and Missouri River Ry. 

 Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Ry. 

 Denver and Rio Grande Ry. 

 Denver, South Park and Pacific Ry. 



Office of tfte Commissioner 



Denver, Colo., Jan. 27, 1885 

 R. W. Woodbury, Esq., President of the Denver Chamber of Commerce and Board 



of Trade, Denver, Colo.: 



Dear Sir: I am instructed by the managers of the lines, members of the Colo- 

 rado Railway Association, to say to you that they will be glad to use every means 

 within their power, consistent with a broad commercial policy, to encourage manu- 

 factures in Colorado and to foster and build up her home institutions; and to this 

 end they will be pleased at all times to meet through their representatives, com- 

 mittees of your association or others for the purpose of discussing means for the 

 advancement of such interests, believing as they do, that the interests of the people 

 of the state of Colorado and of the railroads, members of this association, are largely 

 identical, and that whatever legitimately advances your interests must advance the 

 interests of these railways. The association invites, through your Chamber of 

 Commerce, the attention of manufacturers of the United States to the natural advan- 

 tages of the Rocky Mountain country for the establishment of industrial enterprises. 1 



'In the light'of what happened in the years succeeding the issue of 

 this circular, it has been said that it was not issued in good faith. This 

 would probably be hard to prove. It is true it was issued at a time when 

 an investigation of the freight rate question was being conducted by a 

 legislative committee and the fear of adverse legislation might have had 

 some influence on the minds of the railroad managers. However this 

 may be, it is certain that the high promises concerning the establishment 

 of manufactures in Denver and Colorado generally that are apparently 

 embraced in the provisions of the letter were not fulfilled by a favorable 

 adjustment of freight rates. 



1 Second Annual Report of Chamber of Commerce, 1884-85, p. 21. 



