The Delta independent., 1886-12-28
STATE NEWS.

Greeley on the 21st.
Ex-Governor Pitkin died in Pueblo
| on the night of the 18th.
| The holiday trade has been so per
cent better in Denver this year than last
Seven hundred and fifty feet have
been completed on the Hagerman tunnel up
to date.
Mr.. r. w. Woodbury. has sold the
Times building in Denver to Mr.. Samuel
Lesem for $4,000.
| Monte Vista is having something of
a boom. A large Touring mill and bank
are soon to be started there.
Alice Burns, the girl who murdered
Robert Wright her betrayer, last summer
at Elizabeth, has been acquitted.
The annual meeting of the Inter-
National Range Association will be held in
Denver on the second Tuesday of February,
| 1857.
The big mining suits now on trial in
Denver will cost over $1,000 1t is said
that the attorneys on either side will receive
SO, ,OO0
The farmers, stockmen and dairy
men of Evergreen and vicinity have organ
lied an industrial club, the objects of which
are mutual advancement and benefit, to Sc
! cure better recognition and prices for their
products; improvement In soil, crops, live
stock and all agricultural and pastoral pro-
ducts.
Mr.. ID. Bauman, editor of Mine,
STICK and Rail, has offered to take charge
and make success of the mining depart
| ment in the State Fair to be held at Pueblo
next year. Bauman is a rustler and thor
oughly understands the mining industry
| and will make rattling success of anything
he tackles.
The Santa Fe company's railroad
bridge over the Arkansas river, twenty-five
miles west Of Pueblo, was burned Tuesday
morning. The company is already badly
behind with coal orders, and two big coal
trains are beyond the gap. The company
has over COO miners at work now. Repairs
are being rushed.
A twenty mile skating race for
purse of ESQ and the championship of
America took place at the Leadville ice
rink last Tuesday between Rudolph Goctz,
OF Milwaukee, and William Barnett. of Col
orado, and was won by the latter in hour,
81 minutes, 4oI4 seconds, about six minutes
slower than the record.
The Small Hopes Mining Company
has declared dividend of 40 cents share,
aggregating tloo, 900, payable on Christmas,
The total dividends during the year are
s7s7, 800, and to date s2,5l2, 5Oo The Morn
ing Star and Adams Companies also pay
dividends this month, and the Leadville
Consolidated is expected 10 declare a Seo,-
coo dividend before the close Of the year.
The Denver News says: "a young en-
gineer by thdnamc of Barnes has::astonished
his associates older in the profession by his |
wonderful skill in driving tunnels on the |
Colorado Midland road. Out of some eight |
tunnels run under his direction but one |
missed exact connection, and that by less |
than an inch. That young man has future |
before him." |
The question of taxing mines is one |
of the most important that will come up be- |
fore the Legislature this winter. In regard |
10 II Mr. 'Spruance, the State Auditor SAYS: |
Il have, with some delicacy, ventured the |
opinion that II all our mines which have OBJ |
tanned or applied for Government patents |
were valued at $500, the revenue of the State |
would be increased to large extent l |
find ON file in the United States Surveyor
tions. which, at $500 per patent, would in |
crease the assessed valuation s., '5a, 800"
According 10 the biennial report of
State Auditor Spruance which has Just been
issued, on November 30, 1854, there re
manned In the treasury in cash and securi-
ties sSl3, 1861; there was received from all |
sources during the two years ending Novem-
Der 20, 1870, q, ,sS', 1884, making n total of
E, 80, 5so.S. The total disbursements dur
ing this period were sl,sl5, ,a5l so, leaving a
balance in cash and securities of sSSi, ,57905.
A horrible story of cruelty toward n
young girl sixteen years old is reported
from Red Cliff which resulted In the girls
death. a man and wife named Clark had
brought her there with them as a domestic
on the promise of board, clothing and reg
ular wages. But II reports are correct the
girl has been cruelty oycrworked, beaten
with clubs until black and blue and held up
rs prostitute. She died from her injuries
n few days ago, and lynching party is
strongly talked of to avenge her death.
Frank Mcpherson, contractor on
The Midland railroad, received a check for
900 from the construction company for
work done on the grade. Out of this amount
he paid Leadville merchants $500 for sup
plies furnished and the rest was due his
men. But he seems to have forgotten this
fact for he failed to pay them, in fact
skipped out and left without so much as tell
ing them where he was going. The con-
,truction company. with remarkable gener-
,sity, made arrangements to pay the men
before they even had chance to kick.
"Brick" Pomeroy, President of the
Atlantic Pacific Tunnel Company, has pub
ished an address to the stockholders
through his New York paper. He states
that work will be resumed on the tunnel on
March next, and that It's size will be en-
arged to 15x30 feet. The work is to be car
ried on simultaneously from both ends OF
the tunnel, TO meet at or near the center,
and will be completed on or before June /,
lsa0 Now the question is, how is he going
10 make the east and west tunnels connect?
Work was started at the west end of the
tunnel before the survey had been COM
pleted IL IL nhCut 100 feet higher than nj |