" " " Annual Expense 43,758.00
" Net Annual Profit. . $34,866.00 If the Denver Office handled Criminal Detective Operations exclusively, the net Annual Loss
would be $32,838.00
Far from Losing, THE DENVER OFFICE
PROFITS ANNUALLY 34,866.00
WHICH IS A CLEAR DIFFERENCE OF $67,704.00
The Denver office of the Pinkerton Agency therefore has an income of $67,704 a year, absolutely independent of its income resulting from bona fide criminal operations. And can there be any questioning the source of this large income ? As well question the existence of the sun at night BECAUSE IT IS NOT VISIBLE, AS DOUBT THAT THE PINKERTON AGENCY IS MAKING MILLIONS AT THE EXPENSE OF THE PUBLIC BY FOMENTING AND KEEPING UP CONSTANT STRIFE BETWEEN ORGANIZED WEALTH AND ORGANIZED LABOR.
The following little story is interesting as a character study of an operative who "made good" under circumstances that would have made most men despair of success.
Sometime during the year 1904, the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company called on the Pinkerton Agency at Denver for a union iron molder operative to work at their foundry in Pueblo, in order to keep watch on the movements of the Pueblo Iron Molders' Union.
The Agency secured the services of a Denver union iron molder, and was about to send him forward to Pueblo, when the new operative informed the Agency that he could not take up the work, as the Denver Iron