The Delta independent., 1888-01-10
COLORADO CONDENSED,
Denver has n toboggan slide.

Denver has n toboggan slide.
Yuma has seventy-eight business
houses.
The Y. M. C. A. of Denver has one
thousand members.
There are fifty-three school districts
In Arapahoe county.
The mineral production of Lake
county for 1887 was s12, ,5oO,c coo.
Nearly 100000 acres of public
land were filed on in Colorado last year.
General Superintendent Kicker OF the
Denver& Rio Grande railroad has resigned.
An addition 6Ox1U0 feet and three
stories high has been made to the Golden
brewery.
A colony is to be settled on 1a.eOO
acres of land recently purchased for the
purpose near Triridad.
The new opera house at Montrose
was opened Tuesday night with a ball by
the knights OF Pythias.
During the year 1887 there were
shipped rom Georgetown COS cars contain
ING 1913 tons of ore from the camp.
All the buildings on John Wilson'S
ranch, thirteen miles from Deer Trail, were
destroyed by fire on the 4ih. Loss, 5000.
Prof. Seebright, principal OF the
public school, and Mr.. j. A. vanuken have
taken lease and bond on the Georgetown
Miner.
Congressman Symes has been given
aplace on the Committee on Territories
and on the special Indian Depreciation Com
mittee.
The gamblers and tin-horns who
have been driven out OF Denver by the
sdiet OF TIE Mayor are overfiowing into the
rnourtr.in towns.
L. Z. Downer while hunting near
F0t Garland was mistaken for deer and
shot in the arm. The shattered limb had to
be amputated.
The Supreme Court has decided that
the ditch companies have no righ, to charge
royalty or bonus for the privilege of buy
ing wa'e- of them
Two freight trains on the ID. & r. G.
were wrecked short distance above Pueb-
10 on the End. Eleven cars and an engine
were dltched. but no one was injured.
Jim Bush, who shot man named
Aibuckio In Leadville nearly nine years
ago, Is 10 have new trial, according TO a
recent decision of the Supreme Court.
There are 240 manufacturing cstab-
shments In Denver which give employ.
rncnt TO about 5000 men. The value OF tie
product Of these factories was at least $50
doa.ooo las. year
The New Years edition OF the Dem
yer Republican was an unusually valuable
number. II contained articles on all tie
various industries OF the state written by
specialists. II should be widely circulated.
Although the season thus far has
been unusually free from snow in the val
cys and on the plains, the mountain dis.
fricts are well supplied with tho article
which insnres an abundant; supply for ir.
rigstion purposes next summer.
The work of cxcavating for the big
copper plant nj the Pueblo smelter still
goes on, and n large section of the hill is
being goug.d out. The work OF erection
has not yet begun. 1t is not expected that
the works Will be ready for operation TIL
June.
Mr.. G. B. Hobson has recently sur
vcyed n five mile ditch for MoIcy, Hayden,
ct al. which is to water 5000 acres OF land
when completed. twill be known as the
West Pueblo Ditch, and will irrigate some
Of the bes, land in the country. Just west OF
the city Mr.. Hobson is also superintend-
ing the construction OF twelve mile ditch
on The liuerfano, which will be known As
tho Pueblo Ditch s. Reservoir company.
and which, VIXEN completed will water
from 5000 to 5000 acres OF land. This
ditch will include several reservoirs, in |
Guiding the welton Lakes,-Puebie Chief
tain. |
Mr.. John Pritchard. while recently |
ont hunting on the Spanish peaks, says an |
exchange, made strange discovery. lie |
was hunting deer, and while going along |
the foothills through the snow foot and
half deep, he suddenly found the snow
hcaved up and melting. This seemed to be
caused by n hot current of air. which was
also generating steam. Sometimes these
spots were four feet ncross,nnd 100 feet long |
The snow was rapidly melting and the
bushes dripping with water, while at other
points II was freezing hard. Mr.. Prltchard
is greatly puzzled over what he saw, and is
anxious TO have some OF Colorado's scien- |
iiiic men explain this phenomenon.
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