The Delta independent., 1888-01-31
COLORADO CONDENSED,

up with settlers.
There were e,213 tons of ore shipped
y fsuni Aspen last week.
Charles H. Morgan, Of Gunnison, has
Aivented flying machine.
Another extensive cavern has been
discovered near Manitou.
The Santa Fe road has commenced
ysinfin9an arteslan well at Larkspur.
An Omaha man bought fifty car
'oaos OF potatoes in Greeley last week.
A steck company is being organized
at La Junta to erect $40, 900 opera house.
Mr.. John d. Miller has been elected
president of the Pueblo Board of Trade.
There are between seven and eight
hundred miners ut work in the Aspen mines.
Ten thousand car loads of stone
we're shipped out Of Larimer county last
year.
Pueblo is making an effort to secure
the new smelter which Mr.. Holden is going
TO baild.
The Jefferson County Farmers Insti-
tn'e will be held at Golden on February I'd,
ID and 4th-
The large drug establishment of r. J.
Brusssr x Co., at Pueblo, have made an as.
sigu1nent.
Ben Chase, editor of the Denver
Journal Of Commerce, died In Arkansas
last Thursday.
A man was arrested and fined the
other day in Aspen for whipping his IL
year old dasghter.
New springs containing valuable
medheAnal properties have been discovered
WiAtn few miles Of Boulder.
The pleasant little village of Arvada,
a few miles from Denver, has raised a 800
with which TO found q college"
Holyoke wants creamery. build
ing and loan association. board of trade,
ai0Sn Incorporation and a cemetery.
Mr.. George Ady has been appointed
General Passenger and Ticket Agent OF
the Deliver, Texas 4 Fl Worth railroad.
Tbs new blast furnace at the Besse-
mer Steel works will be finished in about
thSee weeks. Its cost is close to seoo.ooo
Denver proposes to hold the bigges,
kind of a celebration upon the complet tion
OF the Denver, Texas g. Fort Worth rail-
spad.
There is prospect Of large immi-
xrafaon To this state next spring from the
oltkxard-cursed regions OF Dakota and Mon.
ana.
Bills to the amount Of Is. OBS. OF have
been presented 10 the commissioners of
Arapahoe county for the capture Of New
vorcc.
= Senator Teller has introduced bill
In Congress To give our State School Of
Mines an endowment fund Of O,ooo acres
Of land.
The Yale Club Of Colorado offers to
help any young man from this state who
wants to go to that university TO the amount
OF eso year.
John B. Kearney tho murderer of j.
J. Burt At Aspen, has been found guilty of
murder In the first degree and has been
sentenced to be hung on February IL.
The steel works at Bcsscmcr have
complstcd the contract Of six thousand tons
NJ rails for the Denver, Texas & Fort Worth
rAAroad. and they have been shipped away
M. T. c. Henry and the men whom
: he WIN assist on their new farms In ,hc.Ar-
kansas valley and in the San Luis, will In
the coming spring plant ten thousand acres
TO alfalfa
A mule with the blind s,aggers was
the sshsation Of Colorado Springs las,
week. Before he was secured he had
smashed several plate glass windows and
made ''pi" Of = crockcry store.
Wonderful deposits of marble have
recently been discovered ten miles west OF
Fort Collins. The number Of coiors and
tints Is reported rs something remarkable.
Steps will be taken to develop the quarry nj
once.
A correspondent Of the Pueblo Chief
tain from Arlington says: "From one point
on the edge Of the hill near town, 65 claim
houses were counted the other day, and they
are still going mp. Last year there was
only one 70 Be- seen."
A disgracefnl prize fight between
couple OF negroes recently took place no,
far from Denver, which II Is said, was nt-
tended by so OF that city's prominent citi-
zcns. The Grand Jury Of ArApahoe county
threatens to indIct every ono OF them.
The Midland proposes in the early
spring to build lis line from Carbondale TO
the marble and coal beds up Rock Creek.
This line will be about thirty mites long
and will OPEN sup . vast :and rich mineral
country As we'll rs the marble and coal.
The milk Of over l,40O COWS has boon
promised I'd Q. o. Barnes Of the Fort Col
Inns cheese factory. This 10 more than
double the amount that Mr.. Barnes expect
ed 70 secure 10 start on. The prospects
now are that he viii be compelled to double
the capacity Of his factory before II has
been running year.
Mr.. Hagerman says that &c, ,00G. 900
Of foreign capital has been expended In
Colorado in constructing, equlpplng and
operating the Midland road, and that It had
asked for no concessions, such a. most roads