The Bessemer indicator., 1894-02-17
Mr.,sra N,x. No,ss.

AdptHiu nusNcii, u o'osN" '-s
at La Veta, was robbed of a, 600
while at Omaha last week.
The Suntlowcr Valley creamery,
near Trinidad, is kept running to its
full capacity with profitable results.
Columbia coal mines at Newcastle,
Wyoming, are to be run to their full
est capacity during the balance Of the
winter.
The strike of miners at Yankee Hill
has been settled the men accepting a
reductio of % cents, They will now
get s2.75.
A big meeting of women was he d
in Denver last Tuesday to discuss
ways and means for encouraging home
industry.
The Walsen, Colorado, mine has re-
sumcd work after three months sus-
pension and is now shipping coal to
the Pueblo steel works.
Near Canon City, Colorado, a big
deal in coal lands has been concluded.
A railroad company has purchased
several thousand acres.
A jefferson, county, Colorado,
dairyman named Q I. Feltch, reports
his cows as yielding revenue of $9i
each during the past year.
The Colorado Assembly has received
an invitation TO visit the Winter
Fair at San Francisco, and it is quite
probable that number will go.
4 coal and metal miners convention
has been called to meet February 10
in Pueblo to organize the miners of
Colorado into the group system.
Lake City, Colorado, prospectors
who went into Southern Utah last fall
report some startling discoveries in
the way Of new gold mining regions.
1t is reported that the miners at
Cripple Creek will try to prevent the
men at work on the railroad grades
from working more than eight hours a
day.
DR.. Field of Rock Springs attempt
cd to commit suicide few days ago
as result of having lost money on
the Corbett- Mitchell fight. He will
recover
Pla,,eville, Colorado, is agitating
the question of building city hall
1t is said to be the only incorporated
town in the state unprovided with a
city hall.
At Colorado City the Midland round
house employees are permitted to work
only three days out of seven, and the
machine shop men have been reduced
to half time.
The Colgate relief parties which
went out from Montana and Idaho
last fall to search for the lost men have
returned, having been driven back by
severe storms.
Eddy, New Mexico, will manufac-
ture ice and have an electric light
plant in operation in few weeks
hence. The machinery has been
shipped from the East.
The Denver Chamber OF Commerce
is considering plan for having DEN
yer cut off from Arapahoe county and
have the city and county governments
consolidated to save expense.
The Gulf officials have issued an or
der cutting down the train service on
the Cheyenne & Northern to train
each way on alternate days. Hereto
fore there has been daily service.
The Cripple Creek miners stand
firm for eight hours and none of the
nine-hour mines are running. d. II.
McfEat, speaking for the mine owners,
says that they will never surrender.
Santa Fc enjoyed sensation last
week. The husband of woman who
had been slandered by the Santa Fe
Democrat compelled Colonel Albright
of the Democrat and III. S. Brownlee
of the Ners to sign retraction
Brownlec is recently from Denver.
The Colorado Silver League has is
sued an appeal for funds with which
to spread Information on the silver
question. 1t calls attention to the
fact that the work must be done soon,
, q ,l,o r,yrrn.s ,I,,,al ,oxt ell ill
probably choose a president in 1896.
One of the four large buildings COM
prising the plant of the Standard smell
ter at Durango, in which were the con-
vertcrs and copper furnaces, caught
fire at 10 o'clock Monday night and
was gutted. The fire service was in
efficient and the flames threatened for
time to spread to the new lead fur
naces now nearly completed.
The city Of Casper, Wyoming has
closed contract with the Michigan
Pipe Company Of Bay City, Michigan,
for a complete gravity system of water
works, which are to be in operation by
june / next Eikhorn Creek will be
damned and a reservoir holding half
million gallons of water will be con
structed on the hill south of the town,
which will furnish ample pressure for
all purposes. The Michigan Pipe
company has contracted to furnish all
the material and labor for the system,
and take in payment the $50, 600 city
bonds voted last season.
Fish Commissioner Schnitgcr OF
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