The Delta independent., 1886-11-23
COLORADO CONDENSED.

Golden is to have glass works.
1t was l2degrees below zero at Aspen
a few days ago.
A brass band has been organized at
Glenwood Springs.
Six million cigars are. manufactured
yearly in Colorado.
An Odd Fellows lodge is soou to be
established in Sterling.
Ground has been broken at Idaho
Springs for new smelter.
| The Union Stock Yards of Denver
are doing hourishing business.
The transactions Of the Denver
Clearing House for last week amounted to
&, ,94a, $3.50.
The Alva Adams club, of Pueblo. in
tend attending the Inauguration of Governor
Adams in body.
The Denver Street Railway Company
are building an addition to their barn at an
expense of $4,000.
| Eugene Burleson. a homesteader, was
|
| ing cattle near Sterling.
William Parker, one of the oldest
and best known miners in the State recent
ly died in Idaho territory.
There has been recruiting Office
| opened In Denver for volunteers for fill
clustering expedition to Mexico.
1t is expected that the Grand Hotel
at Pueblo will be opened to the public in
sixty days. 1t is to be furnished at cost of
$4,000.
Another young man ont hunting near
Satank shot his companion thinking 1t was
deer. Such accidents are becoming al
together too frequent.
A party Of eastern capitalists. .includ
Ing J. +. Studebaker and NJ. W. Durham.
recently purchased the Percheron- Norman
horse farm near Denver for 10000.
A dozen men and several teams left
| LOngmont for Lamar last week to con-
mence work on the Las Aninas and Big
Sandy ditch. There will be waving wheat
fields instead of buffalo grass there next
year.
The first train on the Midland passed
over the trestle work at Colorado Springs
| on Wednesday morning. Track-laying has
progressed at such favorable rate that it Is
! expected that trains will be- running 10 Man
itou by the first Of next month.
The Glenwood Echo SAYS: ..Nenisun
is so plentiful in this market to-day that it
| can be bought for n song and the CARCASS Of
whole deer was picked mp in the road n
| half mile from the city last Sunday. Hunt
ers are coming in almost hourly with loads
| OF game
The apex question at Aspen is fur
nishing employment to n large number of
| mining engineers. The case will be very
hotly contested. 1t will be called at Lead
vile on the 18th and should the apex people
lose the suit Aspen will have one OF the big
gest celebrations ever seen In Colorado.
The total transactions of the Denver
Clearing House for the year ending Novem-
Der 10 amounted to sl7o. l66, ,0335i. or an ave
rage per month OF s4, lso. 5a3G3. The largest
clearings were In October. when they
amounted to $40, .os, ,G34.s.. The lowest was
in February, when they amounted to sla,-
s97, ,l3I.O.
The annual meeting of the State
Teachers Association will be held in Colo
RADIO Springs on the 18th, 29th and S0th of
December. There will be large number of
papers upon practical topics and some cx-
cellent evening lectures. A meeting Of the
County Superintendcnts Is also to he held
at the same place beginning at o'clock
Monday, December -. and closing at noon
on Tuesday.
There is n prospect of the biggest
kind of war between the Rio Grande and
Midland people when either road com
menccs grading In the canon of the Grand.
There is room for but one track and both
roads claim the right of way. 1t is said that
toughs from Denver and Leadville are al
ready being engaged and sent forward TO be
ready for the conflict 1t bids fair TO entire
ly overshadow the great fight for the Grand
Canon OF the Arkansas.
The Midland road will be 400 miles
In length, and will be the best equipped
road operating In the State. The freight
cars will have capacity of 5000 pounds.
The first shipment of heavy, consolidated
freight engines for the Midland will occur
the asth of this month, from Schenectady,
New York. Northwestern Colorado will
have something to give thanks for; the
motive power of the Midland is shipped on
an nuspicious day.
The compilation of school statistics
for 1876 has been almost completed by Su-
perintendent Cornell. The figures show
many interesting and encouraging changes
as compared with those Of 1854. The total
number of children of school age In the
State is now 90, TBS, or an increase of 4, $50
over the figures for 1854. The number of
school houses Is 6Sl. The number Of school
districts is now 6S5. The number of pupils
enrolled is 40,69o, The total valuation of
school property In the State is sa,3,3,asa.
Hon. b. S. LeGrange of Grceley.who
was appointed Assistant Land Commission
or for the purpose of selecting the school
and college lands in the Arkansas Valley,
has returned from trip to that section He