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Otto Mears and the San Juans by EF Tucker Soft Cover
Otto Mears and the San Juans by EF Tucker
Soft Cover
138 pages
Copyright 2003
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction 1
Chapter 1 - Work or Get Out' 4
Chapter 2 - That Pyramid of Enterprise9
Chapter 3 - The Toll Road King27
Chapter 4 - Speaking Ute with a Heavy Russian Accent50
Chapter 5 - Joker in the Republican Deck68
Chapter 6 - Audacious Little Narrow-Gauge Lines85
Chapter 7 - Keep that Nugget and You'll Never be Poor112
Chapter 8 - The Ubiquitous Mr. Mears 120
Notes 130
Bibliography 132
Index135
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Mears' Saguache Home12
Otto Mears, Early Days18
The Road to Sneffels40
Bear Creek Falls Bridge44
On the "Million Dollar Highway"49
Chief Ouray and Otto Mears58
Colorado State Capitol Building73
Otto Mears, "Governor Maker" 82
Corkscrew Gulch Turntable94
Mears with Locomotive 10098
Clearing a Snow Slide109
Silver Lake118
Mears' Silverton Home124
Otto and Mary Mears126
Memorial Tablet at Bear Creek Falls128
MAPS Otto Mears' Toll Roads36
Otto Mears' Railroads101
ON THE BACK COVER:
A friend of Otto Mears described him this way: "Mr. Mears is a man who always said `I can'; and he did.'' His accomplishments are mind-boggling. Mears' trading business led directly to his building toll roads. His newspapers touted Saguache, Ouray, and other new towns to bring in more business across his toll roads for his hardware stores. His political contacts enhanced his friendship and ability to work with the Utes, but at the same time he was a supporter of the forces that pushed the Utes out of Colorado. His railroads helped move his goods to distribution points, haul out ore from the mines and deliver it to his own and others' mills. He used dirty politics to fight hard and sometimes viciously to prevent unionization of his railroad workers, but he was one of the first businessmen in the West to institute profit sharing with his employees in the mines.
A visionary, yes, enigmatic, no doubt, but also a man of his times. Otto Mears was an adventurous, poor, uneducated and underprivileged immigrant from Russia who dreamed big dreams and made many of them come true.
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