Gilpin observer., 1899-10-26
WESTERN: NOTES.

Twenty-Five houses are being built n
Hartsville, Wyoming.
The old Brainard & Beebe hotel a
Creede burned ON the 21st.
Manzanola, Colorado, held a very
successful autumn festival last week.
s. p. Graybill, Rio Grande fore
man at Pueblo, was run over and kill
ed on the goth.
The cattlemenof Chaves county have
raised fund from which they will pay
special bounty on coyotes and wolves
Fourteen carloads of machinery
from the abandoned car shops of the
Santa Fe railroad at San Marial have
been placed in the Ration car shops
where the force will be greatly in.
creased.
John Baldwin, wealthy ranchman
of Colfax county, New Mexico, believes
the greater portion of that part of the
territory is above an underground
stream, and will drill several artesian
wells to test his theory.
The Indian office is preparing plans
and specifications for n school on the
.Iicarilla reservation, New Mexico. to
accommodate 100 pupils. There are
5.OoO children of school age on the res
ervation and no school facilities.
Game Commissioner johnson has re-
ceived a letter from the fish king
OF Durango. who says that next year
MS nsh hatcheries will be much en-
larged and that he will be enabled to
donate 100000 fish to the state.
Sheriff Layne of Ogden has captured
one and probably two of the robbers
who held up the Union Pacific passen-
ger train at Wilcox, Wyoming. on June
md, at which time they blew two of
the cars to pieces, and escaped with u
large amount of booty.
The circumstances surrounding the
escape OF james X. Stratton from the
penltentiary on the night of October
10Th will be sifted to the bottom Both
warden Hoyt and the board of peni-
tentlary commissioners have decided
upon an Investigation.
Senator Clark of Montana has de
cided to increase the output of his coal
mine at Clarksville, New Mexico, fully
I5 per cent. The force now employed
at the mine numbers $50, but by spring
will be increased to 300. There is not
n saloon at Clarksville or within a mile
of it.
An accurate test made of the flow of
the large artesian well recently bored
In the Pecos Valley & Northwestern
yards at Roswell shows that the well
discharges 2,6G4 gallons n minute, or
has velocity Of 1,5OO feet per minute,
making it by far the largest and most
powerful artesian well in New Mexico.
Years may elapse before the provis-
ions in the will of the late George w.
Clayton, who beQueathed a million dol
lars for the establishment Of an or
phan boys school in Denver can be
carried out. Litigation will be insti-
tuted which promises to continue at
length and possibly through all the
courts of the state. A brother of Clay
ton intends to contest the will.
A phenomenal onion yield is report
ed from Greeley. On the farm of
Charles Camp, consisting of thirty
three acres. in Pleasant Valley, 1900
sacks of onions have been gathered,
1888 of which We're grown on five
acres. These onions bring on an av-
erage 30 cents n sack. The waste in
the culling alone would supply le-
gion of rain belters with fine onions
for the winters use.
A trust is being formed to control the
output of all the turquoise mines in
New Mexico. Hon. j. Il. Victory of
Santa Fe is working up the combina-
tion. to which most of the turquoise
mine owners have already subscribed
and which will practically control the
output of the world, as the turquoise
mines in Saxony. Egypt and Persia
have pinched out. The headquarters
of the trust will be ut Boston.
Southern Santa Fe county mining in
terests are enjoying boom such as
they have never experienced before.
1t has been known for years that the
Colorado Fuel and Iron Compay held
controlling interest in the coal mines
at Cerillos, and 1t Is now stated upon
reliable authority that the company
will eXpend S1.O00.OO0 next year in i'm
provements and that there will be n
complete change in management and
that work will be prosecuted upon u
much larger scale than heretofore.
There is great Indignation among
the miners in the Mogollon district on
account Of an order of the Department
OF the Interior limiting the cutting of
timber on the ella river forest reserve
to 500 worth for mining purposes
Heretofore the miners were allowed to
cut all the timber necessary for the
development of the mines. The miners
will continue to cut timber freely for
that purpose and If arrested will make
test case. which. II necessary, will
be carried to the United States Su
Preme Court.
The beet sugar plant at Grand June
tion is to be started in n few days
All the machinery has arrived on the
grounds, according to latest reports
and men are engaged night and day In
putting the intricate parts together
The delay was occasioned by diff
Guilty In having orders filled by the
eastern manufacturing companies
While the output of beets in the valley
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