The state herald. (Holyoke, Logan County, Colo.) 1887-1921, 1891-01-02
STATE HAPPENINGS.
La Junta is to have u National bank.


Hunter & West, Greeley bankers,
have failed.
Leadville is to have IN electric
street railway.
Serious forest fires have been rag
Ing near Boulder.
1t is reported that the Denver Times
Is about to change hands.
There are 81 passenger and 157
freight elevators in Denver.
There are 27O patients in the Pu-
eblo insane asylum at present.
\ A big meeting in the interest Of
FREQ coinage was held in Denver FRI
day night.
The different schools OF medicine OF
Denver are having an interesting
fight over tho control OF the county
hospital.
The town Of Yuma has added
double action force pump capable OF
throwing water 100 feet high to its
fire equipment.
There Is said to BIO less snow on the
mountains Mt present than has been
known TO DO there this late In the
season for years.
Charles Mcdonald, an electric light
lineman, accidentally touched an un-
insulated wire in Denver the other
dry and was instantly killed.
In Colorado trout eggs require
forty.ive days to hatch, although they
show the eyes and outlines OF the
youngster in three weeks.
The difference between the sMikcrs
ut the Walsen mines and their en-
ployers has been amicably settled and
the men have gone to work again.
The total deposits in ten Of the Dem
YER National banks was, on the 10th
of December, nearly $4,000 900.
This does not look like hard times.
There will probably be from one TO
three more grist mills in the San
Luis valley at the close OF 1891. Moi
fat, Harrison and Mosca are all in
the race for mill, and with fine
prospects OF success.
The machinery is on the ground
just below the viaduct between Palmer |
Lake and Greenland TO commence
prospecting for coal and oil. The |
prospecting company is strong one
and they propose to sink hole 1000 |
feet deep unless they strike some
thing in paying quantities sooner.
Experts are emphatic In their state
ments that oil and coal both exist in
large quantities and at no great depth
from the surface, all the way from
Palmer Lake to Larkspur.
On Christmas Day the -year-old
son OF William Anderson, about four
teen miles north OF Arickaree, was
accidentally shot and seriously in
iurel by an older brother with n 32-
caliber revolver. Three children
were thought to be playing soldier
with three old and supposed empty
revolvers. When one Of them drew
his revolver on his brother In u Jesse
james manner and pulled the trigger.
the revolver unexpectedly went of,
the bullet entering the left side OF TIE
unfortunate child and taking an up.
ward course.
John McNeal. State inspector OF
coal mines. has filed the concluding
portion OF his biennial report with
the governor. The record for the
year that is just concluding shows u
large increase over any previous
y.ar tho tntul ausn,,t u,,n,,.,i,.. a., |
3,075.7si tons Of coal. The total
value of the output Is placed ut g..
75l,7lOF. The average number OF
persons employed In the coal mines is
reported 10 be G,l72. The average
price per ton paid miners is 73.i
cents. The average wages received
by miners is $500 per day. There
we're q fatal accidents and 100 non.
fatal accidents In the coal mines dur.
Ing the two years. OF the So coun.
ties OF the State II are regular coal
producers.
In the report OF the State Dairy
Commissioner TO the Governor 1t IL
stated "there are about 1000 COVE
In the State employed In producing
butter. cheese and milk. that the |
capacity OF those under present modes
OF treatment Is about 100 pounds per
head per annum. II the entire pro.
duct were manufactured into butter II
would make about 100000 pounds
OF butter per year. but MS about one
fourth OF the cows are used us mich |
cows. the aggregate In butter Is cut
down TO less than 100000 pounds. |
The estimated consumption Of butter
for the entire population per year IL
placed At 1900. 900 pounds. leaving u |
shortage In production for home con.
sumption OF 100000 POUNDS. Tc
supply this deficiency there is shipped
into Denver alone more than ZOO. 00C
pounds from foreign markets. Their,
are eigh, cheese factories and clever
crcarneries In the State"
In his speech on the iron and steel
industry 1T the banquet OF the Manu-.
faeturcrs' Exchange In Denver the
other day. Mr.. Nc-ml,h said; ..Five
hundred tons OF pig Iron per day. then.
may be hereafter be tho Colorado
Coal and Iron Company's pig iron
producing capacity. This In the year
would equal i75. 900 tons In year oil
$50 days run. As the per capita con.
sumption OF pig Iron In the United
States averages something like one
Ton for cach seven persons. md with |
nm output ms above estimated, the
Pueblo mills could thus supply Iron
Iron and steel 10 1925, 900 people. OF
less than one-sixih Of the population |
west Of the Missouri river. A there
nrc s.000.O00 people west Of tho Mis-.
souri,. We have thus $3.50. $50 unpro. |
vided for. and which wc should sup.
ply. assuming, OF course. that we can
produce Iron md steel ut lower cost
than can amy city east Of the Missouri.
which We can surely do"
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