The Delta independent., 1888-03-27
COLORADO CONDENSED.


A farmers and stockmen's conven-
tion has been called TO meet at Pueblo on
AprilS.
'hc business of the Trinidad post
once has increased 100 per cent in the
last year.
Inc numerous stamp mills on Four
Mile creek are poluting the water supply
VI fB0ulder.
Governor Adams has pardoned
Thomas Kerwin,a life prisoner in the eni-
tsntiary.
The owners of the Hot Springs prop
ertyns Gienwocd have commenced extern
size improvements.
The insane asylum at Pueblo is so
crowded that fifteen patients are Obliged
10 sleep on the floor.
Sutclitie, the man known as the
Hermit of Platte Canon" is to be released
from The Insane asylum.
Both the Union Pacific and the Den
yer 4 Rio Grande put s35 round trip rate in
effect between Denver and Ogden April !.
party is being organized to thor
oughly explore Mancos canon, the home OF
the nieient cliff dwellers, this coming sum
mer.
Great improvements are being made
AT Cascade Canon, the new resort of the
Midland railroad little way above Mani
tou.
Mr.. Rollo Kirk Bryan. the wonder
fnl temperance ''ehalk ,alker," lec;ured at
Denver on the 2lst, and greatly delighted
The Denveritcs.
MIR. V. p. Wilson, of the Longmont
Press, will remove to Denver and print a
paper devoted 10 the interest OF North Den
yer and Highlands.
The Denver. Texas & Gulf railroad
has published a tlrir which reduces the
cost OF freight from New York to Colorado
points about 30 per cent.
Governor Adams has called con-
vention to meet In Denver on the 2sth of
this month for the purpose OF considering
the best methods Of promoting immigra-
tIon.
By the settling Of the track an engine
was thrown from the rails OF the Midland
rsiiroad above Aspen and the fireman was
instantly killed and brakeman fatally
injured.
Mr., c. +. X. Hayward, for the last
four and n half years managing editor OF
the Denver Republican, died Monday after
noon Of pneumonia lie was only twenty
nine years old.
State Engineer Greene reports that
the snow fall in the mountains has been
much less than usual the past winter and
he advises all irTigators To water their fields
well rs early In the season as possible.
The book of poems by Mrs. II. l..
wason, of Wagon Wheel Gap, entitled
Letters from Colorado" has received n
very complimentary notice from SO high an
authority as the North American Review.
The Commissioner OF the Land Office
has prepared statement for Congress
showing that the area of public land sur
veyed In Colorado is 5;,lsi,s5o acres. Of
which IL, 366 acres have been disposed
of. thus leaving surveyed and undisposed
OF 3, so, ,ss4 acres.
A special TO the Denver Republican
says Senator Bowen has introduced bill
N Congress TO establish the Royal Arch
Park Of 5000 acres In Saquache county.
The land Is valucless for agricultural pur-
pose, while the scenery and natural won
ders are said to be remarkable.
The Grand River Coal & Coke COM
L. ,,,tn
erection of 100 two TO hve.rocm houses at
Newcastle as soon as the track is laid to
that point The buildings are for the
miners and will be built on the west side OF
Elk Creek, near the coal mines.
The assessment rolls of 1887 have
passed the ordeal of the state board of equal.
ization. Most OF the counties show large
increase In the amount OF Assessable prop
erty. The three counties which show the
most gain are Arapahoe, Pueblo and III
Paso. The total value OF the state is placed
at sl4i, ,sl4. .829, which Is only about sSk per
cent Of Its actual value.
Tho board of managers of the state
capitol building met Tuesday afternoon
and compiled the bids offered for the con-
struction Of the basement work OF the new
capitol building. The lowest bid was by
Gaddis Il Seerie OF between $4,000 and
10000. A resolution was passed that they
be given the stone contract, provided that
the details arc all satisfactory.
There are in Colorado 7,04O people
who pay special taxes under tho internal
revenus laws, and they are classified as fol-
lows: Recttfiers,6: retail dealers in liquors,
Ana wholesale liquor dealers, 81; manu-
ffcturers Of cigars, a; dealers IN leaf ,obac-
co, 4; dealers In manufactured tobacco,
4,6li; brewers, -; retail dealers In malt IL
quors. o.; wholesale dealers in malt liquors,
a. The total amount paid as special taxas
last year was &sa.4i912.
A meeting Of the Democratic State
Central Committee will he held at tue
Markham Hotel, In the city Of Denver, on
Tuesday, April ., 1888, at 10 o'clock n. M,
for the purpose of fixing n time and place
for holding n state convention TO select
delegates to the National Democratic Con.
vention to he held IN the city OF St Louis,
June 8, 1888, and to apportion delegates to
the different counties Of the state. A full