Colorado Manufacturers' Association - 1906 Visit to Telluride, Colorado

THE COLORADO

MANUFACTURERS

They Pay Telluride A Visit and Citizens

Meet Their Train A Hundred Strong

With Band and Escort Party to

Hotel Speaking at Court

House Reception at Club.

Wednesday evening the Colorado Manufacturers' association, seventy-five strong, accompanied by the Cook Drum corps, of Denver, reached Telluride by special train promptly on schedule time — at 7:30 — and were met by a large crowd of our business men, headed by the Telluride band, and escorted to the Sheridan hotel for dinner. During the meal the local band and Cook Drum corps of forty experts rendered their best music in front of the hotel surrounded by several hundred people who desired to pay their distinguished guests the homage due them.

After a good, hearty meal, the association was taken to the court house where a program had been arranged for speeches of welcome by Telluride speakers and responses by our guests, Mayor C. E. Kracaw presiding, as only the mayor can do on occasions of this kind. The program lasted over an hour and certainly impressed the visitors with their welcome, which was implied time and time again both in their responses and privately to friends whom they met last evening and this morning.

While the representatives of the manufacturing industries are out for a good time. Along with it they are making notes of conditions affecting the business interests of the state, and trying to arrive at a conclusion which if put into practical effect will better conditions, and make the patronage of home industries exclusive, if such can be done. They are trying to impress on the people that they can get just as good goods just as cheap in Colorado as they can get by sending away for it, and in doing this will try and correct any fault which may work to a disadvantage to the consumer. Several intimations offered concerning exorbitant freight rates brought from Traffic Manager T. C. Scott, of the association, the reply that the association had under consideration the matter of freight rates and freight discriminations, and that he would use his efforts to cheapen and equalize the costs to shippers.

Frank Semple, representing the D. & R. G., was with the party and it will be an easy matter to reach the power behind the throne through him, if the matter is put in the right light.

After greetings were over and the meeting had adjourned the association representatives were invited to the Telluride club where they met and talked with Telluride representative business men until a late hour.

When time for separation came some of the representatives were shown the town by gas light and another impression, or set of impressions, were made on them by the wide open manner in which the town is run. There were some side issues on for their amusement which added zest to their entertainment in which a sacred (?) concert at the opera house was not the least attractive.

This morning at 8:30 the special left Telluride bound for Montrose, and a number of the citizens were at the train to bid the party farewell and wish them many happy returns, and while they were complimented and thanked by the guests for the cordial manner in which the association was received and entertained.

The various firms were represented as follows:

Hallack & Howard Lumber Co., by I. F. Downer; A. T. Lewis & Son D. G. Co., by Fred T. Lewis; Bartelders Seed Co., by C. R. Root; C. Walbrach, capitalist; Fritz Thies Merc. Co., by Fritz Thies; Denver Credit Men's association, by H. A. C. Mayhew; Hewitt Candy Co., by George D. Hewitt; Lewis Jewelers Supply Co., by T. J. Lewis; Cuban Cigar Co., by Jos. Orrnchi; C. D. Griffith Shoe Co., by Chas. D. Griffith; Morey Mere. Co., by Donald Reid; Littleton Creamery Co., by H. S. Johnson; J. S. Brown & Bro., Merc. Co., by R. R. Gillette; Davis-Bridaham Drug Co., by L. R. Bridaham; Smith-Brooks Printing Co., by John P. Brooks; Denver National bank, by J. W. Hudston; Daniels Ink Co., Plattner Impt. Co., by Sam Pluttner; Struby Estabrook Merc. Co., by O. B. Myer; Fairbanks-Morse & Co., by D. P. McDonald; Colorado News Co., by F. J. Arnold; U. S. National bank, by Gordon Jones; Underhill Manufacturing Co., by W. P. Yoiter; G. W. Prior Hat Co., by Geo. W. Prior; F. M. Davis Iron Works Co., by R. J. Cary; Daniels & Fisher Stores Co., by John Heck; Lindquist Cracker Co., by T. E. Williams; Colorado Conds. Milk Co., by William O'Neil; Knner Pickle Co., by Karl K. Mayer; Chicago Great Western Railway, by R. A. Belding; American Surety Co., by Newcomb Cleveland; Denver Gas & Electric Co., by Frank C. Farrar; Otto Brohm, capitalist; Colorado Telephone Co., by W. F. Brown; R. M. Davis Photo Supply Co., by R. M. Davis; Denver Rubber Co., by R. A. Kincaid; A. Booth Packing Co., by W. R. Cambridge; Denver Type Foundry Co., by L. F. Willoughby; First National Bank, by Theo. Smith; Proudfit-Ormsby Com. Co., by Fred Green; McPhee & McGinnity Co., by W. P. McPhee; Joslin Dry Goods Co., by H. G. Cross; Fred J. Chamberlain, capitalist; Western Chem. Mfg. Co., by F. R. Ashley; Western Glass Mfg. Co., by M. W. Gano; The American Steel and Wire Co., by F. A. Pattison; Knight-Campbell Music Co., by H. J. Carlson; Denver Post, by E. L. McCullough; Denver Republican, by Luke J. Kavanaugh; Rocky Mountain News and Times, by G. K. Silversmith; Raymond A. Eaton, press agent; Denver & Rio Grande R. R. Co., by Frank Semple; W. A. Stickney Cigar Co., by George Morrison Reid; Colorado Manufacturers' association, by Thos. C. Scott, and the famous Geo. W. Cook's drum corps.