The state herald., 1899-11-03
DENVER GOSSIP.

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next Fourth of July. That the build
ing will be completed by that time, the
board thinks highly probable. ,tle last
contracts, amounting to $4,000, and
including the windows In the dome,
are now under way and unless some
thing unforeseen should occur, will be
completed In the course of eight or nine
months. The corner stone of the
building was laid on the Fourth of
July, 1880. and by the time all the bills
nre paid the building will have cost a
little less than $3,OOO,OOO in round num-
bels.
Two wrecks. fire ana the fatal In
| jury of n switch tender, are the results
of n series of rapid incidents in the Rio
Grande yards at Pueblo on the 24th.
Edward Walpole, the switch tender, so
| years old, Is badly crushed and will
| probably die. Seventeen cars of an
extra southbOund Rio Grande freight,
which was switching at A,ssemer, got
loose and came down the hill into the
Pueblo yards at rapid rate. They
struck switch and crossed over the
northbound track; striking the tail end
Of train that was being switched by
engine 513. Within moment or two
thereafter yard engine came down
from the Bessemer hill with twelve
cars of steel rails behind her and ran
bodily into engine 573. In the mixup,
the switch shanty in which Walpole
was sitting became the center of the
wreck. and either fire from his stove
or from the caboose started n blaze
which destroyed two box ears and the
caboose. The two locomotives were
jammed together and twenty cars are
Off the track. Walpole was dug out
from beneath the wreck and taken to
his home where surgeons dressed his
injuries.
A Washington dispatch gives reports
or decisions by the Supreme Court
concerning land grant cases. The first
was an opinion handed down by JUS
tice Brown In the case of the appeal of
the United States rom the decision of
the Court of Private Land Claims In
the case of the Cuyamungo land grant,
In Santa Fe county. New Mexico. The
land court decided that the title to the
grant was properly held by Maria de
In PaZ de Conway and associates, and
declined TO except in the decree lands
covered by patents issued to Pueblo
Indians covering large portion of the
grant. The decision rendered by the
Supreme Court holds that these lands
should nave been excepted. and accord
ingly reversed the opinion of the lower
court. The court affirmed the opinion
of the Private Land Court in the case
of the claim of the town of Real de Do
lores del Orc to land also located in
New Mexico, affirming the decision of
the Court of Private Land Claims. In
tlis case the Supreme Court found
that the land in controversy was in
cluded in the Ortiz mine grant and
that appellants We're without legal re-
dress. The court reversed the decis-
Ion OF the Supreme Court OF Arizona
in case involving the title to the
Sonvito grant, Arizona. This title was
at issue between Santiago Ainsa and
the new Mexico X Arizona Railroad
Company. The reversal was based
upon the ruling of the court below that
the case could not be tried in the or
dinary courts,
II Is an assured fact that the Ameri
can Beet Sugar Company, with a capi.
tai stock OF S30,OOO,OOO, and now con.
trolling four beet sugar plants In the
United States, will erect In the imme-
diate future n million-doilar beet sugar
factory In the Arkansas valley, n short
distance from Rocky Ford. During
the past three months this company's
experts have been looking over the var
ious districts of the valley. and In their
recent report state that the Arkansas
valley Is an ideal spot for the produc-
tion of the sugar beet. and that II far
exceeds the land controlled by the COM
pany In other localities where the sugar
beet Is now being cultivated. j. G.
Hamilton. vice president OF the COM
pany, and j. A. Davis. industrial agent
OF the Santa Fe railroad. have been In
conference with G. Il. Schmidt, agent
for the Suburban Land 4 Investment
Company's lands under the Bessemer
ditch, which are reported 10 be super
ior TO those OF any other section of the
valley for beet cultivation. Mr.. Hamll-
ton states that as soon ms 5000 acres
have been secured for the cultivation
OF sugar bects work will be commenced
on the new factory. and VIII he pushed
so as to have II completed In time TO
utilize next seasons crop of bccts. Two
thousand OF the 5000 acres to he select
ed VIII bc under the Bcssemcr ditch.
Tn" American Company Will pay 81
per ton for bects averaging u per cent.
sugar, and 81 1-3 cents per ton for each
additional i per cent. or. In other
words. beets averaging Is per cent.
sugar Will bring 81 per ton. Recent
tests OF sugar beets cultivated on lands
under the Bessemcr ditch show nm nv.
vernge OF Is per cent sugar with 81
per cent. co-efiicicnt OF purity. No sam.
pies ran below III per cent.
ules ready by January Ist
War VIII soon he declared between
the county assessors OF the stat. and
the State Board Of Equalization. The
assessors are now doing lot OF think.
Ing and comforting In person and by
mall; and their leader. Assessor Ames
or Arnpahoe county, VIII probably re-.
slst the order OF the board. II Is nil
over the order recently issued by tho
State Board OF Equalization 10 the sew
cnty-frc county assessors In reference
TO raising the valuation OF certain
kinds OF taxable property, and lower. |
Ing the valuation OF other kinds. Not |
but that. In the opinion OF certain MS. |
SCISSORS. valuations might lie raised or |
lowered without harm. where clrcum. |
stances might seem 10 Justify the State
Board OF Equalization In tnklng such
action, hut the assessors claim ihnt, ms |
NIL the tax schedules must bc rcndy for
the various county trcnsurcrr by Jan
'inry LIST. II N now too late to make the
changes In the schedules because of tho !
enormous amount of clerical work In. |
volvcd. and particularly In the NOR. |
thlchly settled counties. II IN the gen.
crnl opinion among those who nrc
watching the trend Of affairs In county
circles, TINT the nsscssoru win resist |
tho order nnd that. too. with consider. |