The Delta independent., 1890-01-07
STATE NEWS.
A newspaper is to be started at Es-

Tho Denver City Cable Company
employs 400 men.
: Pueblo expended IS, 900. 900 in new
y sDplldings in 1850
Mr. W. E. Pabor has moved his
Ffuita Stor to Grand Junction.
Colorado Springs spent over mil
lion dollars in new buildings last year.
Tho average number OF inmates at
the State peni,entiary last year was 44s.
The aggregate cost Of new buildings
erected in Denver last year WAS $40, ~, III.
ALongmont farmer has just threshed
576 bushels OF wheat from field Of eight
scres.
james Lees was killed Monday in a
mine near Georgetown by = premature ex-
plosion.
Gold Hill in Boulder County has
had sixty two inches of onow 20 far this
winter.
Denver clearings for 1889 showed
an increase over the previous year OF 451S
per cent
Hon. b. +. Rockafellow, Of Canon
City, was thrown from his buggy and ser
iously injured.
The Oasis Hotel at Greeley has been
sold and will In the future be conducted by
Kansas parties.
The estimated output OF gold and
silver in the State last year was q trifie
over $50, ,0oo, COO
There were 9. 2.S63,l75 acres OF gov
ernment land taken up by private parties
in Colorado Inst year.
The Iron Springs motel property AT
Manitou has been sold TO the Pixies Peak
Railroad Company for slio,uu.
The army officers nj Fort Logan,
near Denver, are protesting against the
opening OF saloons near the reservation.
Mayor Rhone. OF Grand Junction
has been removed from Office by the city
council. The town site complications were
the cause OF the removal.
The ne, proceeds of the South Chey-
cnne canon toll gate for lsss are reported
20 bc sa.5p. The number Of visitors TO
sotNSu -
Governor Cooper mas addressed a
letter TO the Board OF Control OF the Golden
reform School asking for q reply 10 the
newspaper charges OF cruelty and immor'
slity In that inst!iu.ion.
Peter McCour,, OF Denver. has pub
lIshcd serious charges against the Mining
Exchange OF that city. According 10 his
story the Exchange is simply al organ
iIcd attempt TO work sucker
Frederick Green. late OF Denver.
superintendent OF the Copler reduction
works, near Ouray, while out riding with
his wife on Christmas day, fell frcm his
hor,c, fracturing nis skull from which he
died to-day.
Hunters the other day found in the
vicinity OF Chico an insane man, wear
ing very little clothing. no hat and half
dead from cold and hunger. Tho man
says his name is Pat o. Lane, but can give
no further account OF himself.
The attorneys for the Durant in the
famous Aspen mining case have Med mo.
tion for u new trial with the clerk Of
tne lnttEu ok1Vs NsirNult SouT1 ssehSh%
tonai charges arc preferred against n. n.
Atkinson, J. f. Bcebc and G. c. Clement
thrcc OF the !urymcn.
Tho First National Bank OF Salida
opened for business Januarye. The fol.
lowing are the officers and directors: l..
w. Craig, president; +. u. Jones, vice
president; i. o. Stead, cashier; A. NJ.
Algcr, ]. Is. Bovine, L. X. Naylor, J. G..
Hoilcnbcck, b, II. DcRemcr.
A boiler OF sixty-horse power has
been put In at the reform school, prcpara-
tory 10 heating the school by steam, also
for pumping water from y well 40 feet
below and from the school, 20 ~ TO fur.
uish sufficient water supply. A rcser.
voir Of 81 900 gallons capacity ID IN the
course Of construction.
Ranchmcn OF tho South Park pre-
dict great loss Of cattle unlcss the deep
snow leaves soon. The entire park Ia
covered with from eight to sixteen inches
Of snow and no range feed. Stock is al
ready dying, aud snow still falling. Its
. the hardest wintor on cattle that stock.
men over experienced in the park.
Professor Lakes OF the State School
Of Mines has for the last ten days been
assiduously at work delving into tho terti-
sry strata OF South Table and Green
mountains, says the Golden Trdnsorsp:
The results have surpassed anything hero.
toforc done In this direction. and vast do
pss!.s Of palms, Of thrco species Of per-
s,mmon trees, hgs, magnolia, smil AK,
buckthorn, olna, maple and sycamorc have
rewarded his ssAroh.
There arc si7 patients In the insane
asylum.. At Pueble--ill males and 70 70.
males. rhesc were admitted during last
year III, oeswhich number there wore So
malea and r females, representing $50 per.
sons under care durin9 the year. From
this number thsro were discharged ~ re-
covered % males and IL fcmalcs, making
61 aisrhAfxed ~ recovered and two maics
~ improvsq. TIE expenses Of tho asylum
for the year ending November 30, 1889
amounted y ese.sts.N.
The Glipi1 Tramway company have
received tAelr new locomotive, "Quarts
.Hill," wAieA \ hsina set up for use and
viii - pl1csA - the main line by next
sTuesdas. yThis gives them thrcc locomo-