The Elk Mountain pilot., 1880-12-30

expanse of water known as Lake Bren.
nand. This body of water covers an
area of sixty acres and is surrounded
by dense forest of tall spruce trees
which grow to the edge Of the lake,
whose calm bosom presents the per.
feet synonym Of peace. Located 50
far above the level of our town its po-
sition readily indicates the use to
which it can be put, and the question
of our future supply of water is settled
ere it is discussed. This lake contains
no fish, the supposition being that
they cannot get up over the falls Of
Anthracite Creek. Of which this lake
is the head.
OFFICERS.
Our present City Officers are ]. c.
Brown, Mayor John Mccormick,
Clerk and Recorder and Police Magis-
trate ; ]. M. Mccormick, City Mar
shall; L. L. Harding, Treasurer
Willet Rose, Thos. Collins, N. G..
Shurtleff, and L. L. Harding, Trus-
tees.
Our Precinct Officers are, John
Mccormick, John w. Dollison, c. A.
Pierson and w. r. Whittlesey, JUS
tices; and D. ]. Mccormick, Thos.
Allison, U. NJ. Curtis and ]. E. Car
son, Constables. This Precinct cast
the largest vote Of any in Gunnison
county.
PRICE OF LIVING.
Many Of our single men who own or
rent cabins, board themselves, which
makes their cost of living $3.50
per week and upwards. OF course
they do their own cooking. This
style of living obtains very generally
in our camp, lawyers, doctors, mer-
chants, mechanics, miners and labor
ers generally adopting this plan.
Our camp is abundantly supplied
with all kinds of provisions, every
grocery store being filled up with
every variety of eatables, while miners,
supplies, clothing, boots and shoes,
hardware and every other class of
merchandise is on hand in superabun-
dant quantities. Prices are very low
considering the cost of transportation
and impress the casual observer with
the idea that OUT merchantsare running
their stores more for the sake of doing
business than to make profits.
The price of living here, when the
enormous cost of transportation istaken
into consideration is extremely mod
crate, our hotels only charging two
dollars per day for transient board
and lodging, and ten to eleven dollars
by the week, and they give the very
best fare that the market affords.
Our restaurants set first class meals
tor from fifty to seventy 6ve cents, land
furnish day board at seven to eight
dollars per week.
HEALTH.
The pure atmosphere incident to
the great altitude of our town is con-
ducive to its extreme healthfulness.
1t is with feeling of pride that we
refer to its sanitary condition, which
recommends itself to the tourist, in
search of health. Only two deaths from
natural causes have occurred here since
the organization of the town. The
first was a man named Michael Roach,
who died at the Elk Mountain Hotel
on the and day of last October, of
pneumonia, caused by carelessness
and exposure, while recovering from
an attack of mountain fever. The
other was that of Mrs. Richard Rounds
who died on the 18th of the present
month from premature labor.
A mining camp is supposed to be
the rendezvous of thives, murderers,
and every species Of outcast generally,
resort so to speak, of the purleus OF
society, but it is with a feeling of
no small pleasure, that in scanning
our criminal docket we find recorded
there but one death as the result of
violence, that of Cicero Virgil, a mi
ner and prospector, from Memphis,
Kansas, who was stabbed to death by
Larry Brennan on the night of the 9Th
of last September.