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So many people want to come to Office Profile oENVER You need pay only a short visit to Denver to feel the attraction that the mile-high city exerts on almost everyone who comes within its spell. Here is a metropolitan region of nearly one and a quarter million people, offering almost every facility and advantage of urban living that can be found in dozens of larger population centers in the United States. Yet the beauty of its location, where the high plains of eastern Colorado rise to meet the Front Range of the Rockies, is like that of no other city in the country. It is as if a master planner had somehow been at work back in 1859, when swarms of gold-fevered settlers having heard rumors of a big strike put up a scattering of frame huts at the junction of Cherry Creek and the South Platte River, and decided to stay. The mountains lying a few miles to the west were an exploration ground in their search for minerals, and since that time the Colorado Rockies have yielded gold, silver and uranium that have promoted Denver's growth from a crossroads settlement to a metropolis. Water was drawn from the mountains to irrigate the farms that stretch out in a fertile green strip along the foot- Statehood centennial. Columbia Welcomes Colorado to the Union Sisterhood, allegorical painting by Joseph Hitchens, commemorates Colorado's statehood in 1876. (Courtesy of The State Historical Society of Colorado.) hills. Denver in the late 1800s grew into the biggest population center between Kansas City and the Pacific. Its great attraction today for those who seek the good life is the combination of clear, dry climate in this high country and the beauty of the snow-capped Rockies that form the skyline west of the city. Here, when the work schedule permits, you can find the serenity that comes from leaving noise and crowding behind and exploring the vast outdoors. Yet this is all within reach and sight of a dynamic city offering a full range of professional and business opportunities. From top to bottom, the Haskins &. Sells Denver office reflects the pulling power of this region. Howard Kast, partner in charge, came from Iowa, and fell in love with Denver when he was stationed here with the Army in World War II. As soon as possible after graduation from Drake University in Des Moines he sought assignment in Denver, and he arrived here in March 1947 after a few months with our Chicago office. Of the other partners in Denver, only two were born in Colorado. And of sixteen managers, a large majority came from other states. The same picture, although perhaps in