 WFM President Charles Moyer had portrayed the Colorado City intervention as unnecessary,p.90 and certainly many had seen it that way.p.50 Peabody appointed three individuals to an investigative team, two of whom had already recommended intervention.p.91 The union was not consulted during their investigation, and, among those consulted, only Sheriff Robertson and Mayor Shockey spoke out against intervention.The commission concluded that a "reign of terror" existed in the district, and intervention was justified.The Cripple Creek Mine Owners' Association agreed to secretly finance the troops.p.92-93 By the end of September 1903 nearly a thousand soldiers were guarding the Cripple Creek District mines and patrolling the roads.