The silver lance., 1899-05-19
NEWS FROM THE
WESTERN REGION.

At meeting of the directors of the
Cripple Creek Mining Stock Exchange
1t was decided to raise the membership
fee from $25 to $1OO.
The state authorities of Idaho have
issued proclamation forbidding mine
owners to employ any men not holding
permits from the states agent. No un-
ion men will be allowed to work.
At mass meeting of citizens, held
at Las Vegas, cordial invitations were
extended to the Rough Riders to hold
their reunion here June oath, and any
amount of money necessary was
pledged for their entertainment.
The presence of Edwin Boice OF
Idaho, president of the Western Fed
GRAFTON of Miners. will be a feature of
the fourth annual convention of the
State Federation of Labor, which will
be held in Denver June 9TH next.
Plans submitted by Varian & Stern
er, the Denver architects, have been
accepted by the owners of the Antlers
hotel at Colorado Springs. The build
ing will be nearly twice as large as
the old structure and will cost $780,
600. Work will be commenced on it
within two months.
A dispatch from Canon City says:
Work was begun this morning by the
county surveyor ON the state wagon
road between Pueblo and Leadville.
This road will be built by convict la
Dor, which will make it's cost small to
the state. 1t will be only matter of
a rev days now until a number of the
inmates of the states prison will be
put to work ON the road.
A terrible tragedy occurred at Fow-
Ter, Colorado. on the 9th. Frank BO-
hanan shot his father to death as the
result of quarrel over wages due to
the son. A posse started after the muir
derer at once and his capture seemed
certain. The guilty man is one of the
two brothers who gained notoriety by
killing deputy sheriff who was try
ing to arrest them at Leadville.
Ex-senator Carey has returned from
wyoming station on the Union Pacific
where he has been perfecting the de-
tails for the building of the great Lar
annie river reservoir. The big steel
sluice gates are ready and the work
or building the reservoir will soon be-
gin. The preference in all work upon
the big dam is to be given to the resi-
uNht VI tllt WdteI at w
Six hundred and five thousand
pounds Of wool have been sold by
Rawlins sheepmen during the past
week at prices ranging from 10 to u
cents per pound. The practice of con-
signing the product to Boston and 9th
er eastern houses for storage and sub
sequent sale is being abandoned, the
producers preferring the certainty of a
direct sale to the uncertainty of future
prices.
Major General w. r. Shafter will
lecture before the Colorado Chautau-
qua at Boulder. He writes from the
Preside, at San Francisco, that he will
visit Boulder sometime during the first
two weeks of August. He will speak
on the Campaign in Cuba" The
Chautauquans are hopeful of securing
the presence of General Maximo Go
meZ, the great Cuban leader and idol
Negotiations between him and the
Chautauquans are now in progress.
The owners of the Ferris-Haggerty
copper mine, near Rawlins, Wyoming,
have refused an offer of $90O,0OO cash
for the mine made by a Wall street
firm, representing the trust. The price
asked by the owners Is 81 100000, and
1t will not be sold for less than this
amount. The mine has proven to be
one Of the most wonderful copper pro-
ducers in the country. The ore is pay
ing a big profit in spite of the fact
that it has to be hauled by sled and
wagon to the railroad, seventy miles
distant
The famous turquoise mine at Ger
rillos, about thirty miles south of San
ta Fe, is now the property of the Tiff
fanys, the New York jewelers., who
are working it on scientific methods,
who last year took out about twice as
many jewels as it ever yielded before.
There are about sixty turquoise mines
in the territory. the product of which
amounted to S525,OO0 last year and is
entirely controlled in the United States.
The largest piece of turquoise ever dis
covered here was taken from the Tiff
fany mine and was valued at $4,000.
DIR. J. W. Smith of Cripple Creek
performed an operation recently upon
Mabel Relander, whose parents keep
the Relander house at Haverly, on
Four-Nile. About two years ago a
needle was broken off in her flesh, and
although since that time it has not
caused her much annoyance, a few
days ago she began to suffer pain in
her back. DIR. Smith made an exam
ination and removed the needle. 1t was
found that the piece of needle con-
tanned the eye. in which there was
one-half inch of thread. The needle
and thread were almost perfect
The Santa Fe Railroad Company has
recently adopted several novel and
plans of promoting its
interests and the welfare of its en-
ployes and the public generally. One
of them is the appointment of A. Rein
eisch, a landscape gardener, whose
duty it is to beautify the grounds
around its stations and shops by plant
ing trees and flowers and laying out
little parks, which are very grateful to
the eyes of travellers through the des-
ert lands. Another new idea is the en-
ployment of Mr.. Hollister, an expert