Gilpin observer., 1899-05-11
NEWS FROM THE
WESTERN REGION.

championship contests will he pulled
off. A purse of $22, 800 is at stake for
the Fitzsimmons-Jeffries fight and $2O,-
600 more will be put up for the other
events. There Is no arena in Denver
suitable for an event us big as the
coming fight. A building will have to
be put up, and Manager Floto esti-
mates the cost of this to be $4,000. Ac-
commodations will have to be provided
for at least $4,000 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 15, and the fight will probably
take place early in July.
The Colorado Board of Inspectiou
Commissioners submitted its report to
the governor for the year ending April
30, 1899. The number of cattle inspect
ed and shipped to and from the follow
ing districts is: Denver, SO, 7S9; Omaha,
32,246; Kansas City, 44,11O; Pueblo,
3O,559; Platteville, 19,427; La Junta,
31O24; Cimarron. 1850: Alamosa, 49,
4O6, and Rifle, 22,O41; a total of 29S,-
OBJ. The receipts for the year have
been $1S,30S and disbursements $15,-
633, leaving a balance in bank of So
200, and receivers certificate of the
German National Bank for $33O6, esti-
mated at the lowest cash value to be
worth 1888, makes the assets of the
board $5,455. The report recites the
breaking up of a gang of desperate
cattle thieves, under Jack Fletcher, in
the southern part of the state, and the
vigorous prosecution of cattle thieves
in northern Colorado. Thanks are ex-
tended to the various railroads in the
state for their assistance to the inspec-
tors.
A dispatch from Durango SAYS:
There is going to be considerable ex-
citement, any amount of litigation and
possibly bloodshed, before the rights
OF those locating on the Ute lands have
been decided, said well-informed man
this evening. And it is not out of place
to give much credence to his state
ments. To all outward appearances
everything is quiet, but there is much
1eel1ng. Only few filings We're 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 part of the mesa on the reserva-
uon contained sufficient good land for
100 families that had not been touched
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.
The contract has been let for the con-
struction of the observatory tower on
Pixies Peak, and work will be COM
menced at once. The iron tower will
rise forty-five feet in style somewhat
after that of the Eiffel tower, having
a little balcony Mt the top. The summit
of the tower will be fitted with three,
and possibly four, fine adjustable tele-
scopes, which will bring Into clear
view everything within a Z horizon
marked by Denver, Florence and Mt.
Rosalie. This area is, approximately,
10000 square miles. BY the placing of
the telescopes at the top of this obser-
vatiOn tower, one is enabled to see ev-
erything near the base of the peak,
objects which are not visible with the
present arrangement, unless one makes
a circuit of the twelve acres at the
summit of Pixies Peak. 1t is the inten-
ton of the management of the accom-
modati0ns at the summit to push the
work to completion by June 1st, al
though the time allowed in the con-
tract does not expire until June 10Th.
The observation tower will be an ac-
cessOry of the hotel on the summit.
The hotel is also to be enlarged this
spring.
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 number of years past a clique
of London manipulators have had com
plete control of the silver market.
These fellows have had 1t all their own
way. They have put prices up or
down-generally down-to please their
whims and there was no power to say
nay. Now conditions have taken n
turn and the London fellows are be-
coming alarmed. They find they have
n rival in the field which may test their
steel and the London manipulators are
buying and storing silver Tor 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 n see-saw game, but
one which will surely cause general
advance in the price of the white met
al / look on the organization of the
smelter trust as Il sure forerunner of
an advance in silver-an advance which
can be denended upon to hold the price
much higher than 1t has been since
the panic"
The members of the Board of Equal
iZation say that for the present they
think they want to raise the valua-
tions of railroad property so ns to
avoid an extra session, while the rail
roads object. not only to any increase.
but even to the amount of taxes now
paid. The railroad attorneys spent
four hours before the board Thursday
arguing against the increase. y. L..