Helped in Time of the Great Depression

In spring of the Great Depression, unemployment had risen from 8 to 15 million. This was about one-third of the non-farmer workforce. In Denver, one out of every four adults living in Denver was out of work. The unemployed men that were affected by the depression worried Mary Reed and she saw it as an opportunity to be unselfish.


She “ordered that one of her mines in Cripple Creek to be opened to provide jobs for men with families”(Landers).