The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-05-02

| not to take longer than one hour and
thirty minutes, and the fare is not to
be greater than 81 for the round trip
The road will be operated by steam.
The principal shareholders are L. JEFF
ferson Coolidge, Major Tuttle, George
! Volney Meyar, Henry b. Twombley
and George ii. Proctor. The general
manager of the road is A. n. Crocker,
formerly with the Burlington. o. X. d
N, and A., Il. &, S. Il. railroads.
The Colorado Board of Agriculture
met at Fort Collins on the 25th The
minutes of the December meeting
We're disapproved and the clause re-
appointing DR.. Aston ELS as presi-
dent of the State Agricultural College
was rescinded, on motion of Governor
| Thomas, by n vote of . to 4. Z. +.
Sharp of Pueblo was elected president
| of the board by a vote of D TO 4. Il.
NJ Hawley of Canon City was elected
secretary of the board. and q. A.
Webb of Fort Collins treasurer. The
matter of the election of successor
| to Dr. Ellis was deferred until the
evening session. The candidates dis
cussed are Rev. Barton Aylesworth,
Rev. Bayard Craig, Chancellor NC
Dowell of Denver, Professor l.. q.
! Carpenter of Fort Collins and Profes-
sor Johnson of the Longmont College.
Al
lam f. Mcdowell of the University of
| Denver was elected to succeed Presi-
dent Ellis. 1t is not known whether
Chancellor Mcdowell will accept or
not.
An explosion by which five miners
lost their lives. occurred on the 21st in
the Cook & White coal mine at Madrid,
| New Mexico. The men were coming
nm out of the mine for dinner when the
eInlosion occurred. The explosion
damaged the machinery and five men
were left in the mine. For three hours
nothing could be learned of the fate ~
the entombed men. Several attempts
were made by the miners to descend
the shaft but they were driven back
by the poisonous atmosphere. When
the mine was finally entered the five
men were found dead, death resulting
evidently from suffocation, as no
marks of external violence We're viI-
| ible. The men were Poles. 1t is
| claimed by the mine management that
the men violated orders by carrying
open lamps into the mine. Open lamps
were found near the bodies of the dead
men, but it is not known who took
| them into the mine. Orders that none
but safety lamps be used by the miners
We're very strict, and because of this
later in the day, held the mine man
ayers blameless for the accident.
The movements and prospective op-
erations of the Burlington company
| in Wyoming are being watched with
great interest, not only by the public,
but by other railroad companies. 1t is
reported on fairly reliable authority
| that the company is now negotiating
| for the purchase of the Cheyenne X
Northern branch of that system. II
this is secured branch will be extend
ed westward from Horse Greek station
to the coal lands owned by the Bur
lington company, in Carbon county, 2
distance of about sixty miles. With
this branch the coal could be market
ed, by almost straight lines of road, in
the Black Hills of South Dakota and in
Omaha. The ownership of the Chey-
enne & Northern, taken in connection
with the Cheyenne x Burlington line,
would give the company access to the
interior of the live stock regions of
| Wyoming and enable it to control
much live stock business now going to
other lires. The activity of the Union
Pacific in railroad building and the
evident intention of the Burlington to
get into Wyoming territory makes it
certain that the present year is going
construction in the state.
A dispatch from Aspen says: Noun
tain sheep, at the head of Conundrum
gulch and Maroon creek, have suffered
terribly from the rigors of the last
winter. Rich Thomson and David
Saunders, two young trappers, who re-
turned from Maroon lakes Sunday, re-
port having found the body of one
sheep dead in snowslide and brought
its horns out as evidence of their
| find. A short distance away were two
more, buck and n eve, so nearly
starved that they made no attempt to
get away at the approach of the boys.
They We're snowbound in little
| gulch and had eaten off cottonwood
saplings an inch or more in diameter.
The young men lifted the sheep from
the snow and took them some distance
to spot where the sun had melted the
snow from the mountain, and cut some
brush for them to eat. The animals,
they said, We're little more than living
skeletons, but were able TO walk about.
Another trapper in that section reports
having found several dead sheep and
| is of the opinion that n greater part of
them in that section have perished.
At the head of the gulches, south of
Aspen, there have been known to eX-
| ist several bands Of sheep, of from
twenty-five TO forty each, or about
$50 in all.
A surveying party of eight men has
been dispatched from Denver by the
Colorado Fuel & Iron Company to
Badger, 12O miles north of Cheyenne,
where the Cheyenne Northern reaches
the North Platte river. The Cheyenne
Northern belongs to the Colorado &
Southern. From Badger the surveyors
will locate n tifteen-mile spur down
and across the North Platte to the
Hartville iron mines. General Manager
I<ebler of the Fuel & Iron Company
says that his company will build the