Mike and his dog were out for a walk near the nether land home. When he stumbled upon an abandoned mine. Falling. 40 feet down the shaft below. There with two skid marks over the edge of the snow. The dog injured his back leg. And under went surgery. But survived. That mine has since b sealed off to make sure no one else falls again. It could have been a kid that fell in. Back in the late 18 hundreds. There were thousands of these small Mining Operations across the state. But today only a handful are still in operation. Which is why so much work is being done to close them to the public. The Colorado Division of reblg reclamation. Has been sealing up mines since 1980. This is 6 thousand acres. So far today we have found 350 within here. Estimated 23 thousand abandoned mines in the state. This isnt the thousand foot hole. Over the past 36 years. Only 8 thousand rr so have been sealed up. This hole is huge. Not only is the work time consuming and dangerous. Its also expensive. Easily abo
cnbc contributor. a lot to get with with dan. absolutely. let s get to our road maps this morning. the markets reversal after four straight days down after highs earlier this week and now chatter about september. trying to batten down the hatches? and are the federal officials having any impact on what ben bernanke is going to say in jake s jackson hole next week? and you know who owns a lot of facebook? morgan stanley. first, the dow and s&p coming off the worst numbers in a week. all three indices are still in positive territory with the dow clinging to some gains. but will september give the bulls something to threat about? we know september s seasonally week. there will be a lot more speculation about jackson hole. is there a good reason to get long into the weekend? our working assumption is we ve had a terrific rally over the last four weeks. admittedly that s come every day whether the stock market has gone higher or lower. it s been better than we expected but
economy that 170% consumer and higher unemployment rates that stay high, and say they stay at 9% or 10% and have the stimulus unwind out of the system, that is a risk. in my view, interest rates in all likelihood are not going up in the next six to ninety months, so in the short term, negative surprises in ton employment market will hurt us. the bull have good news, and good retail news, and you said, intel, financials from the jpmorgan and csx and you have it across three real spaces of great importance to the economy, inflation data remaining low as well, and a quick thought on that hard to fight the positive economic news. well, it is hard to fight it. and we are in a situation where all of the negativity is going away and people are feeling positive about the markets, and it will be hard to stop it. well, that is where we will stop it, because the dow jones industrial average goes out with a 100-point gain. and the s&p 500 closing above 1,200 for the first time sinc