The Elk Mountain pilot., 1881-11-10

Ing noteS OF your SUNDAY QOlngS,
and he hopes not to have too secu-
lar report to make of them.
THE WAY We GET NEWS
DURING THE CAMP.AIGN
A candidate stepped into our Office
last Saturday, putting and blowing
and in an excited manner he says /:
"Well Capt" to the man who was
putting head on his pencil at the
table. ~ have been round the
horn, (meaning that ne had been over
the county, drunk lots Of cross-cut
saws, old files, played-out drills and
in fact everything that they put in
that internal terantular juice that they
give feIler to drink" The man who
had to suffer all this gibberish desiring
to know something Of the prosperity
Of other portions of the county com
menccd a series of cations as
follows:
Reporter-Well, l suppose you
we're at Pitkin, how is the mining in
terest there?
Candidate-Got 'em dead solid
Capt, stepped into Tim McGinnis'
dive and threw little bug juice into
them and don't you forget they will
come to time on election day.
Reporter-How many mines are
they going to work there this winter7
Candidate-Two hundred majority
dead in the door Boss and don't you
forget it.
Reporter Suppose you visited
Tin Cup, are there many men employ
ed there this winter?
Candldate-Hold "pat" hand
on that berg to dead certainty, but
to come Gown to the long and short
Of it Flip McG;lscr keeps the gol
darncst stuff you ever saw. Some of
the boys said ne got it on purpose
from Kalamazoo, just to make Joe
Cotter make fool Of himself and tell
the boys that he was going to Con-
gress nextyear.
Rcporter-How is the grading get
ting along down the Black Canon
Candidate-Vcte them like cattle
Capt, got on the right side CT the
boss Of the gang by throwing two or
three quarts of biIge water into him.
You see everything went with him.
He didn't give a id. Who ever
flashed up the most dust was the chick
for him.
Rcporter-I suppose they are work
ing a good force on the Sylvanite this
winter?
Candidate played that town
from "soda to hook" and if they
don't give me a rCuser there miss
my guess.
Reporter-Crested Butte has quite
a boom now by the ingress of the rail-
road. l Suppose there will be a
great many men to work in the coal
mines this winter. How is our old
friend Jim Robinson, the Superinten-
den Of the Pueblo coal and iron COM
pany's works7
Candidate-Don't you forget it Jim
is all solid. He and l roughed it here
in 70; but speaking Of Crested Butte
there is Boss Holt, what influence he
has l don't know. 1t is rumored
that he is pretty trickey and will carry
things to suit himself. Well say Capt.
how are things going here anyhow ?
Reporter-Oh! everything is i'm
proving, made good strike in the
Durango the other day. There are
about eight mines that will be regular
producers this winter, and Messrs.
Rose. Reed & Co.'S. Sampler will be
comparatively busy all winter. The
mines are
CandidateAWho said anything
about the mines l mean the election.
Reporter-Oh I! the election, we'll,
the PILoT's ticket, which includes
you will get there, i. e., get majority
III this camp.
The weather at present is quite
pleasant. Roads open for travel and
but very little snow has fell during the
past week.
Eddie Brooks has gone to Denver.