The Springfield herald., 1899-01-06
NEWS OF THE
WESTERN REGION

crease of S1O6,G77 over last year, when
the product was the largest in her his
tory. The table showing the production
is as follows The mint statement end
ing with December %: 60.1S2 tons of
mineral. $2.906, ,993; mint purchases,
$73T,3 ,3S9; shipped to mints since the
statement, $4,000: total, S3,I4i.3s2
Last year the production was S3,63I
705. and while the increase is not n.
great as many would wish the figures
show that the industry in this section
is not slumbering.
Rio Grande freight train No. 60,
west-bound. and extra east-bound en-
gine No. 567. in charge of Engineer
Miles Connor and Conductor +. y.
Reese, met In n head-end collision four
miles west of Florence at 3 o'clock Fri
day morning. Engineer Melville Lund
and Conductor Rhodes We're in charge
| of train No 90. and they had received
| orders to wait at Florence until the
| arrival of the extra engine. but in some
I way the order was not obeyed. with the
result that fifteen f,eight cars on the
| west-bound train We're demolished.
| Both crews saved themselves by jump
| ing, and all had miraculous escapes.
| for both engines Were running about
| fifteen miles an hour and We're pretty
badly damaged. wrecliing train was
| sent out from Pueblo and the track
was cleared early this afternoon. Pas
senger trains got around the wreck by
running between Florence and Canon
City on the Santa Fe tracks, and there
was no delay to travel
A bill for the creation by the Legis-
lature of n State Board of Lunacy
Commissioners will be submitted early
after the converting of the next Colo
RADIO General Assembly. The bill mas
already been prepared, under the dircc-
tion of the members Of -he State Board
of Charities and Correction, by Secre-
tary Stonaker of that organization. 1t
will be approved tomorrow at the
meeting of the board which will be
held for the purpose of adopting its
fourth biennial report, submitted re-
Gently to Governor Adams. The fea
lures of the lunacy bill are: That the
commission shall consist of five mem
bers who shall serve the state without
pay, their appointment to be made by
the governor for period of five years.
The principal provision of this bill per-
tains to the abolishment of the present
system, which has prevailed so long at
the state insane alysum. 1t gives the
commissioners the authority to appoint
the superintendent of the asylum. and
to exercise general supervision of the
institution.
Willard Teller. Charles NJ. Campbell
and a. NJ. Stevenson of the Colorado
Board of Commissioners for the promo
tion of uniformity of legislation in the
United States made their report to Gov
ernor Adams this morning for the BIZ
cnnial report. Important recommenda-
tions to the General Assembly are EN-
bodies in the report. Among the acts
which the beard urges the Legislature
to adopt is II law uniform
with the laws of other states
for the acknowledgements and execution
of written Instruments; an act to estab-
lish law uniform with the laws of
other states relating to the sealing of
deeds and other written Instruments;
uniform law relating to marriage and
divorce; n uniform law regulating the
execution of wills: Il uniform law for
uniform standard of weights and
measures; and uniform law relative
to the transfer of stock in corporations.
The proposed new marriage and di-
vorce law for Colorado has been fash
ioned after the District of Columbia
law, and is already being considered by
many of the state Legislatures now in
session.
The Colorado Springs correspondent
of the Rocky Mountain News says:
Considerable agitation of the county
division question has been going on
among the politicians of El Paso
county for the past six weeks. Both
sides have champions and it is fore
gone conclusion that n big fight will
be inaugurated before the next session
of the legislature. The inhabitants of
the west end of the county almost
unanimously are in favor of the di-
vision. Several interested parties have
been compiling facts and figures con
cerning the expenses of the new county
should it be secured. No poll of the
representatives or the senators from
this district has yet been taken nor of
the other representatives throughout
the state and 1t is a difficult matter to
decide which faction will be success
full. The divisionists are claiming Il
victory and say that they will have the
county divided and that the new
county embracing all the territory west
of Pixies peak and the front range and
including Cripple Creek and n small
slice of Fremont county will be christ
ened Sylvanite county.
The biggest silver nugget in Colo
RADIO, which has been stored in the
vaults of the bureau of mines at the
capitol since 1t was returned from the
Omaha exposition, is about to be given
up to its owners. The danger of it be-
ing stolen is go great that Commits
sioner Lee does not care to be respon-
sible for its keeping and has notified
the owners that it would be advisable
for them to take it away from the
capitol as soon rs possible. At the
Omaha exposition this remarkable
specimen attracted more attention than
any other part of the mineral display
and visitors crowded around it con
stantly, gazing upon the nugget with
respectful awe. The silver nugget is
Il product of the worldfamous Mollic
Gibson mine at Aspen. Though 1t
weighs 3T91a pounds, it would be
comparatively easy matter for ii TO be
carried away in the night by two men
with wagon, unless watched CON
stantly. The nugget is 81 per cent. pure
silver. In the 379h pounds there are
4.7T0 ounces. troy weight. At GO cents
an ounce the total value would be
S2,S62, or less 0 per cent, S2,GO4.
A dispatch from Fort Steele, Wyo-
ming, to the Rocky Mountain News
says: One of the boldest and most SEN