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Show 128 MADELYN CANNON STEWART SILVER $2,505 and Silver $2,490 of the company's total capital of $5,000; the remaining $5 was held by the attorney who would serve as the third director. Roberts was president and Silver vice-president and general manager of the new company, which was incorporated January 24, 1934. Harold had little doubt that he could make a success of the enterprise. Although Denver, the Queen City, was a little run down because of the depression in mining, it offered opportu nities for the dynamic and creative young entrepreneur. Within five years, Harold would be an acknowledged business and community leader in that metropolis of 300,000 people. Colorado led the nation in growing sugarbeets. Some 12,000 farmers, 20,000 field workers, and 6,200 processing plant employees were engaged in the state's beet sugar industry. The state had eighteen factories, and Denver was the headquarters for several large firms.' While Harold was securing the business opportunity, waiting with the children in Salt Lake City for Madelyn word of an agreement that would take them to Denver. On was January 3, 1934, she wrote him: "Harold, Harold, you are my beloved. I love you, I love you. You are all I ever hoped for in a husband. My future is safe and glorious in your hands. I am to be spending these days waiting for you." Three days proud later, she wrote: o Harold, these last few days have made me appreciate, The more more than ever, the wonder and glory that is ours. I hear of others' lives, the more precious and rare our love seems. Harold, if we should be poor all our lives, we should still be truly rich in our love. I live for you; you live for me; of our we both live for our children. And the singleness the our of the selflessness love, understanding and desire, appreciation of each other set us apart from all others in the world. Harold, my husband, let me thank you for what you have made of our marriage; for the wisdom, the strength, the tenderness, and the generosity you have brought into our lives." |
