Crystal River current., 1886-12-18

commissions have been issued to Caleb A.
Newton at Monarch. and JOHN Bertholf at
Plateau, Colorado.
There are over 200 graders at work
on the Denver and Rio Grande on Two Elk
creek, at the foot of the west slope of Battle
mountain. and the contractors are complain
ing because they are unable to get enough
| men.
Ground has been broken at Golden
for the erection of glass-works in that city.
The Globe says that there will be five pots,
| each having a capacity of 1900 pounds of
melted glass, and the building to be erected
| will be eighty feet square.
"Jumbo,' the fat steer at the Colo
RADIO Agricultural College, has now attained
the enormous weight of 1850 pounds and
odd. Many people who have seen the
fatted OK are doubtful about his ever reach
ing a weight to exceed $500.
The Leadville mines supply funds for
the maintenance of over fifteen thousand
people. whose entire supplies are drawn
from the western agricultural and eastern
and southern manufacturing and cotton
growing states, amounting to over S5,0OO,
600.
The anthracite mines of Gunnison
county, near Crested Butte, are being
worked to full capacity to meet the con
stant and increasing demands. There is no
reason why this coal should not find ready
market over all the territory between Kan
sas City and San Francisco
The coroners jury at Fort Collins
which investigated the causes which led to
the death of Mcdonald, the sheep herder
who was found dead on the prairie the other
day, decided that he came to his death from
hands of Adam Frederick. The latter was
Immediately arrested.
Two monster siNty-ton engines for
the Midland Railway Company, have ar
rived i'll Pueblo and are now being placed
in running order at the Santa Fe Railroad
shops in that city, preparatory to shipping
them to Colorado Springs. The engines
are models of workmanship, and they are
built for speed and strength
William b. Miner. the Republican
candidate for the Senate from the Fort Col
lins district, has served notice on Judge
Ballard, his competitor, that he would con-
test his right to the seat in the Senate. The
grounds of contest are that persons were
allowed to vote who had not been registered
in certain precinct in North Park.
The Tribune-Republican of the 9th
says: "When the jurors in the Aspen
mining case filed into their seats yesterday
morning. no small amount of surprise was
manifest on their rcOuntenances at what they
saw before them. 1t was Aspen mountain
in miniature. 1t occupied that part of the
courtroom where the witness box usually
is. Its base was about eight feet square,
and it was as high as All ordinary writing
desk. 1t was brought into court by the
apex men, and was made of terra Gotta, be-
ing divided into a dozen sections. Its
weight is over 900 pounds. 1t represented
that part of the mountain on which the con-
troverted properties are located, and was
made according to careful measurements,
the scale being fifty feet to the inch. BY
removing the upper sections the inside
workings of the Spar, Washington, Emma
Aspen, Vallejo and Durant mines were eX-
posed to view. The points where the var
ious shafts reached the contact We're repre-
sented, as were the drifts, uprises, inclines.
slopes and WINES. The model proved a
great benefit to the jury in aiding them to
get complete understanding of the case.
A B,s Rel E-,a r,a,sf r.
Special to Tribune Republican.