The silver lance., 1899-05-26
NEWS FROM THE
WESTERN REGION.

commodations will have to be provided
ior at least 1o,oO0 people. No date has
been set for the fight, but it will not
take place until after the Cannon bill
becomes law. This will be about
June 10, and the fight will probably
take place early in July.
A dispatch from Durango saws.
mere Is going to be considerable ex-
citeIneht, any amount of litigation and
possibly bloodshed, before the rights
of those locating on the Ute lands have
peen decided, said well-informed man
thls evening. And il is not out of place
TO give much credence to his state
ments. To all outward appearances
everything is quiet but there is much
ieellng. Only few filings were made
to-day at the land office but word
comes from different points that loca-
tors are holding their positions through
the agency of Winchesters. One of the
queer features is that at many places
several men are located on the same
ground. while few miles distant
equally as good land and as accessible
still remains open. A prosperous Flor
ida mesa farmer in the city said the
lower pert of the mesa on the reserya-
ton contained sufficient good land for
1t is the general opinion that more To-
cations will be made during the next
sixty days than Were made on the day
of opening.
Ranchmen in the eastern part of
Colorado have taken steps to form a
wolf and coyote district organization.
Local organizers have been appointed
for the several towns in the territory,
who will solicit members The plan
proposed is similar to the one which
has been in successful operation for
some time in Wyoming and Montana.
1t is on a cooperative basis, and only
members will receive the bounty of 81
on coyotes and So on wolves in al
tion TO the state bounty. During the
last two years the loss to ranchmel
from these pests has been increasing.
1t is thought that the organization can
be perfected by July list. C. C. Suth-
erland and Judge Miles, both of Hugo,
have been respectively elected tempor-
ary chairman and secretary. The
boundary of the proposed district will
be as follows: Commencing near the
Arapahoe county line, between Deer
Trail and Agate, thence east to the
northeastern corner of Lincoln county;
thence southeasterly to Kit Carson, on
the Union Pacific railway; thence west
to the southwest corner of Lincoln
county; thence north to the starting
point.
ID. NJ. Hyman, the well known mine
owner of Aspen. was interviewed by
a Denver paper the other day and said:
Il shall not be surprised If silver
reaches 30 cents an ounce before the
close of the year. The existence of the
great smelter trust is the reason for
it. For a number of years past clique
of London manipulators have had com
plete control of the silver market.
These fellows have had it all their own
way They have put prices up or
down-generally down-tO please their
whims and there was no power to say
nav. Now conditions have taken a
turn and the London fellows are be
coming alarmed They find they have
rival in the field which may test their
steel and the London manipulators are
buying and storing silver for an inev-
| liable rise OF course the smelter com
| bine is not going to lie idle and the
| smelter men will soon be in the field.
| Then look out for "A see-saw game Dut
one which will surely cause a general
advance in the price of the whlte met
| al I look on the organization OF the
smeIter trust as a sure forerNnner OF
an advance in silver-an advance whlch
can he depended upon to hold the price
| much higher than it has been since
the panic"
The members of the Board of Equal
ization saw that for the present they
| think they want to raise the Faiua-
| tions of railroad property so as 10
avoid an extra session, while the rail-
roads object. not only to any increase.
| hut even to the amount of taxes now
paid. The railroad attorneys spent
| four hours before the board 1hursda!
arguing against the increase. .. -.
| Hyleman. for the missouri racine,
pleaded for a lower valuation on .ha.
part of his line running from the hah-
! sas line to Pueblo and through the un-
/ settled part of the state. notably
| through Kiowa county. When GOV
Routt was on the board" said he, he
| refused TO reduce our taxes. In fact,
| they were raised. and the governor re-
marked. We don't tax you on the value
of vorr property. but because you were
such - fools as to build railroad in
that barren country. Now we want
Won TO eoualiZe valuations and not pro-
coed on the Routt principle. we go
through Kiowa county lengthwise. Inc
countv is only nine miles wide, but
ninety miles long. and we pay 80 per
cont of the taxes of the county. Inc
road is assessed at $500 mile, ana
should not be assessed at over So,oco
mile because it didn't pay. sometimes
a Pullman goes over this line WIN OH!
one passenger in it.
The weekly crop bulletin of the Colo.
RADIO section of the Department OF
Agriculture says that while cold nlsh's
have been the feature of the week. the
average of the seven days mas peeh
normal. There has been some ram III
the western counties, but rains nave
continued throughout the state. ram
is especially needed in the ArkanSas
valley Work has progressed rapiuis,
| rondarad the soil TOO dry for germina-