The Meeker herald., 1899-05-27
GOSSIP FROM DENVER
AND THE STATE CAPITOL.

The big buffalo. Bismarck, has been
sent from the City park to Lewiston.
Malne. Two big moose will be sent
from Maine to take his place.
Secretary Of State Beckwith believes
ne has remedy for the financial plight
OF the state. He proposes, in case there
Is an extra session Of the Legislature,
that laws be enacted raising the cost
Of interpretations and other filings in
his Office, which he believes the cor
porations can well stand. He also ex-
poets an immense revenue from the fil-
Ing OF the copper trust in case that Is
made in his office. The fee would be
about 100000.
The general assembly of the Cum
beriand Presbyterian church met In
Denver last week. Rev. j. w. Halsell
Of Texas was chosen moderator. There
were three br dai couples in Attendance
upon the assembly, Rev. f. II. Lilies
and wife OF Denison. Texas: Rev. Chal-
mers Kilbourn and wife. Tehuacana,
Texas, and Rev. Willis Smith and wife
Of Owensboro. Kentucky. There were
ninety-four ministers and seventy-nine
elders as delegates
The Grand county fish hatchery, for
which the recent Legislature appropri-
| act making the appropriation. I'VE
need another hatchery badly enough"
said Commissioner Tom johnson the
other day, but there Is no money in
the treasury for such purpose and
! will not be any. The site must be Sc
lected under the provisions Of the act
by August 1st, and do not intend to
select any site, as 1t will be useless to
do so. 1t Is another one of those apprO-
priations which does not appropriate.
We will place 1.5OO.O0O fish in the
streams OF the state this year Already
JOO,OOO have been sent out from
Brighton, near this city, and on Mon
day we close Brighton shipments for
the season. ! will go TO Durango on
Wednesday and 100000 fish will be dis
tributed from that hatchery. while as
'imany more will be sent out later from
of f.innison."
A dispatch from Washington says:
The work of building the Denver mint
was to-day taken out Of the hands OF
Contractor Mcintyre and placed in
charge of government officials. Treas
ury officials state that Mcintyre Is be-
hind on the contract and shows no dis
position to complete the work within
the time scheduled. They assert that
the Treasury Department has given
him several extensions of time but he
still refuses to hurry the work. An
extension was given him last Decem-
ber because he said that the weather
was too severe and that heavy snow
prevented work. At that time he said
that after May LIST he would have 400
cubic feet of granite on the ground
ench day. Reports from Denver indi-
cate that not more than eighty cubic
feet each day has been placed. Treas
ury officials also state that Mcintyre
has failed in all respects to keep up the
requirements of the contract. The
work will remain in the hands of the
, government officials until it can be
awarded to some. other contractor.
A reservoir occupying $40 acres and
of the capacity of 25,OO0,OOO gallons
will be constructed by the Denver Un-
up the South fork Of the Platte river
from South Platte or Symes. For the
| last five years the company has been
planning the vast basin, and will in q
few days begin work on a dam that is
| to back up the several hundred thou
sand cubic tons that will fill it when
| completed 1t will be constructed
across narrow gorge just below the
junction of Goose creek that flows out
of Lost Park. and the South Platte
The small end of the dam, which is the
base, is twenty feet wide and widens
out with the spread Of the canon, as 1t
goes up. to 800 feet across at height
| of 210 feet. The thickness of the dam
+! at the base is $40 feet, twenty feet on
| top. 1t is to be constructed Of stones
thrown down from the sides of the
canon. The water side is faced with
dry rubble masonry twenty feet thick,
and this again with boiler iron riveted
! to ''T'' beams II iron sunk into the ma
| sonry. The hydraulic outlet valves
have arrived from the East. They will
be shipped to Buffalo via the South
Park line and then hauled by wagon
to the reservoir. which is near Lake
Wellington. The valves will be put
In as soon as the tunnel is done.
Mt. Carmel Catholic Church Of this
city needs money to erect a building
in place of the one burned down a year
ago, and novel method is being
adopted to raise funds. The congrega-
1t was proposed to raise the money by
operating gold mine. To that end
the State of Maine gold mine at
Black Hawk was secured and this is
the mine that will be operated. 1t is
said to be n good mine-has excellent
prospects. AS the church by its cor
porate powers, could not go into the
mining business. 1t was determined to
form a company for that purpose. 1t
was formed and Is called the Western
Italian Proctectory Mining Company.
G. NJ. CastrOni, who says he is an Ital-
ian count; Charles B. Rice and G. NJ.
Bice are the incOrpOrators. The capital
stock Is 100000. 1t is proposed to pay
this up by selling the stock at 81 a
share. OF this the church will receive
80 cents on each share sold. The re-
mainder of the money is to be devoted
to developing in every way the mining
property acquired. The Italians are
said to be enthusiastically subscribing,
believing that not only are they help
ing out their church, but also their
purses. They expect a large return.
| II Ia also declared that the entire &1Q0.