The Delta independent., 1888-10-02
COLORADO CONDENSED.

The Salvation Army has abandoned
Leadville to its fate.
The signal station on Pixies Peak
viii be closed on October l.
Yuma will soon be supplied with
water by the Holly system.
Durango now claims 10 be the water
melon center OF the San Juan.
The library of the State Agriculture
Cnl!ege contains / I,G9o volumes.
he Farmers mill at Fort Collins
is grinding flour at the rate OF $50 sacks
day.
The Midland railway expect to carry
5000 cattle from Cardlfr during the present
month.
Ionte Vista is elated over the strike
Of fine flow of artesian water 4, depth of
100 feet
A man supposed to be Tascott, the
Chicago murderer, has been arrested in
Dsnyor
A new refinery has commenced oper-
s,ions al Florence. thss capacity OF
LOO barrels day.
A few miles below New Castle a
vein OF coal has been discovered 80 feet
thick and the foot well no. yet reached.
Dates for the Montrose fair have
bscn fixed for October o, 10 Gnd II. Wok
1l the new race track has been com
menced.
General George Clark thinks that an
appropriation of about tsOoooO is all that
will be necessary 10 complete the ttg.c
capitol build ng.
lsom +. Anderson, the man that
robbed the La Jun,a bank OF i3GJ0 In
broad day light on the Ii,h OF July, has
been arrested near the Texas line.
The energetic people of Dallas have
an army Of carpen;ers a, work, and larger
and better buildings are rapidly approach.
ing completion on the site OF the burned
village.
Dan Hanahan. n telephone lineman,
fell from pole thirty feet high on East
Fryer hill In Leaivilie, AMI struck on his
head sustaining serious and perhAps fatal
Injuries.
The military display Mt the Pueblo
state fair mex, week promises TO be an in.
teres,ing feature. Five companies of reg
alar troops from Fort Lyon will be en-.
camped on the ground during the week.
Senator Teller has secured favora-
n.
Lands on his bill TO create three additional
land Offices in Colorado. It is not expect, d
that the measure can be passed at this ses.
sion.
There are 100 ovens at Cardiff and
contracts are let for the building OF fity
more The works altr getler now employ
between 30 and 100 men. The output Al
present is abou, . 800 tons per month and
the new ones Will increase II TO about 3 800
tons.
The Gunnison Review Press says
On the 18Th the prohibition OF the game law
relative TO the killing OF deer expired, aud
our local hmniers are taking advantage Of
the fact and The markets are full OF venison.
On Thursday Sam Wells brought in the
hind quarters of three very fine and fat
deer killed by him in the SawtOoth range,
south OF town.
A corps OF Union Pacific surveyors
Is a. work locating The line over the Mos
quito pass and will come into LoAdyIlle
down Evans gulch. Ii Is rumorcd tina, the
same company is surveying line via Twin
Lakes ncross Independence pass to Aspen
which, IN connection with the above named
line, win make 1t over 100 miles the shortest
route between Aspen and Denver.
1t is now settled fact, says the
Durango Herald, that winter wheat can be
grown TO the greatest degree of perfection
without irrigation on the high meaa of
southwest Colorado and MOI ithern New
Mexico. This fact has been amply dcNou.
stra,ed by this seasons yield. IL Will he
but short time until the sou Invest will
raise all her own breadstuhs and havJ
plenty to spare.
Tho report of the Signal Station
shows that the amount OF precipitation foI
lsss is thus far nearly four and hall
inches less than the average for the CORES.
ponding months since the office was cs'ab.
lished In 1871. In other words, this hns,up
to this date. been an exceedingly dry year,
The record is also evidence against tie
opinion that tffe rainfall In the vicinity ol
Denver is increasing. rhe fact appears to
be that In respect to the amount OF pre-
cipitation there has been very little change
during the last seventeen years. 1t Is not
probable that there has been much change
slnce the state has been inhabited by white
men. This Is, however, not saying that
there has been no increase In tho rainfall OF
eastern Colorado, hundred miles or more
from the mountains. On the contrary, II is
probable that there has been an increac
out there. But II this be true, tho increase
is due, not to the advance of the rain
belt" ACROSS the plains from the Missouri
river, but to the evapora tion from the irri-
gated districts near tho mountains. s.--Den
yer Republican.
Tho Denver News says: ''Mr. f. a.
Marcher has the honor OF making the as
cent OF Pixies Peak on bicycle which he
did Sunday last. He made the ascent in
five hours and half A mile and falf OF
the distance he was compelled to walk, us
the dust and tine rock retarded mis- progress.
He describes the descent as thrilling in the