The silver star., 1897-09-16
COLORADO BRIEFS.

Walsenburg is to have telephone
exchange.
A company has been orgaized ut Den.
yer to make collins.
A double elopement of two married
women. from Pueblo is reported.
A Woman's Christian Temperance
Union has been organized at Central
City.
Judge Moses Hallett has been elected
vice president for Colorado for the Ma
tional Bar Association.
Two burglaries were committed at
Monument ON the night of the 18th, but
the amount obtained was small.
President william f. Slocum of Colo
RADIO College, in an open letter to the
friends of the institution, has an
nounced his decision to decline the call
to the presidency of Oberlin College.
The fourth annual camp meeting OF
the State Holiness Association Will De
held at Pleasant Valley (half way be
tween Erie and Longmonp September
10th to Goth, in one of the hnest
groves in northern Colorado. Mrs.
Amanda Smith of Chicago, the African
reviyalist. of many countries, powerful
in faith, weird and thrilling in her
songs and words, has been engaged for
this meeting Many Christian workers,
evangelists. pastors and gospel singers
will have part in the meetings, that are
interdenominational i'll character. Inc
attendance ut the camp meeting mas Ill
creased from the first year. Ihe lars
est days attendance last year was esti-
mated at $500 people.
Congressman John G. Bell, Bell
Brothers and Captain William b. Upton,
among the most extensive fruit grow
ers of the Grand Valley, have just con
tracted their entire crops of peaches,
plums and pears. now ripening upon
their orchards, to Il buyer from Iennes-
see, who will pick, pack and ship the
products east. This is the first instance
in Montrosc county where the orchard
crops were contracted for on the trees,
and is the method all of our large fruit
growers will adopt for perishable fruit.
The same system that is adopted IN
Michigan, Delaware Florida and Cali
forna by commercial growers. The
prices paid were satisfactory to the
growers A car of peaches was ship
ped to Denver Sunday. The peach crop
is n magnificent one this year. The fruit
is large, firm and high Favored.
Engineers comprising Il corps from
the office of State Engineer Field have
returned to Denver after making n
thorough and complete survey of the
boundaries of Eagle and Summit coun-
ties. In the vernacular of the civil en-
gineer. they have run lines that cut off
from Summit county about fifty square
miles of territory and given 1t to Eagle
county. Thereby hangs lengthy liti-
CATION. as residents of Eagle county and
their elective officers all favor n law
suit to ascertain the ownership of the
fty-square-mile- strip. Ex-State Engi-
neer Sumner, who headed the expedi-
ton. has reported that after three
weeks of work the lines had been un-
doubtedly correctly established. Much
of the country in the Sheephorn Creek
Valley has been long claimed by Sum-
init county. but the new lines show that
Eagle county is entitled to the land.
For many years the two counties have
prolonged fight over the proper lOca-
ton OF the boundaries and 80 far as
the state engineers office Ia concerned
the dispute is settled.
The New York News Bureaus sum.
mary OF financial and commercial
news. the leading newspaper published
In the interest of Wall street. says Of
Vne OUTLOOK Ill SoIoTHuO. NO HDpTe-
hension need he felt regarding the fu-
ture Of Colorado on account of the de-
probation in the price of silver. 1t is
nm erroneous idea that the fortunes Of
the state are linked to anything ap-
preaching n vital extent with the rise
or fall in the price of silver. Colorado
contains widely diversified sources Of
wealth. including millions OF acres Of
land Of the greatest fertility. adapted
and largely being utilized for the cult-
walton Of grains and fruits. Cattle
raising and coal mining are only few
Of its sources. Colorado is prosperous
| and Its prospects are not only very fav-
| orable. but the state has actually gone
ahead. About the only losses that
have been sustained In the state have
been experienced by real estate BOOM
ers. who paid $4,000 lot for $1,000
lots. The autput OF gold in Colorado
in the next year will be very large and
will more than counterbalance any
losses that might result from the de-
cline In the price OF silver"