Gilpin observer., 1899-06-22

tle Union racine railroad ABOUT, 20
miles west of Cheyenne. The discov-
cry was made May 1 by the OsReily
brothers of Buford, who have since
shaft on the ore body. They are now
down 35 feet, where they have cut a
vein from which the ore assays over
5000 per ton in gold. A number of
residents of Cheyenne have staked out
claims adjoining the O'Reuly property.
Two prisoners escaped from the pen
itentiary at Canon City the other after
noon. They We're William Lewis, No.
410S, and Fred Price, No. 1926 Their
vacation was brief. Warden Hoyt'hns
instituted new ruling since he took
charge by which the whole town is
aroused when there is an escape. The
signal, which is n prolanged blast from
the steam whistle, sounded at 4 o'clock
and within fifteen minutes 100 men
and boys were in pursuits ,,of the refu-
gees. At 5 O'clock the convicts were
back in the pen, having been captured
by Chaplain Rudolph and two boys,
VIII Hannigan and Paul Forney. The
captors had 500 divided between
them. this being the amount offered by
the warden. The men were only four
blocks from the penitentiary when they
were captured, having taken refuge in
an old adobe house. The men were
working on the limestone quarries and
quietly walked away while the guard
was not looking in their direction.
| A dispatch from Crested Butte on the
18th said: For the past eighteen hours
Crested Butte has been inundated with
n flow of water. The excessively warm
\ weather of the past several days has
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melt very rapidly with the result that
all the streams in this vicinage have
been swelled to high degree. Coal
Creek, which runs through the town
| in diagonal course, has been swollen
| to an abnormal degree and has gone on
| n rampage through the principal
streets, filling them with debris, wash
ing away culverts and. sidewalk foun-
| dations and flooding number of
houses. The streets are practically
| impossible and the depot unapproach-
able. A force of men has been work
ing for the last week in an effort to
stem the tide of the water, but their
efforts were unavailing to any great
extent. Every team in town and a
large force of men are now Mt work.
than ever.
| The Miners Bank of Creede closed
| Its doors at 2:15 o'clock Wednesday.
Later it was announced that the banks
at Monte Vista and Hooper, operated
under the same management, had also
closed. Whether the failures are due
| to the threatened business conditions
| caused by the smelter strike Is not
known, but that is commonly ac-
cepted as the cause. The three banks
are under the management of d. J.
Mnben, who is president of each con-
Germ. He is absent in Denver, and for
this reason it is announced no figures
can now be made public as to the. as
sets and liabilities of the several in.
stitutions. Great excitement prevailed
in Creede, as the Miners was the only
bank in that place, and many mer.
chants and mining companies had de.
posits there. The cashier would give
no information other than to state that
the doors We're closed on orders from
President Maben from Denver. Presi-
dent d. ]. Maben was at the Albany
yesterday and left on last evening s
early train for Creede, in response. he
said, to telegram. Later the news
of the three banks closing was made
public in Denver.
| III ItsIphst W Il DlotSSl SChl W tut
secretary of agriculture by John Clay
Jr., of Cheyenne. in connection with
the orders issued by the Department OF
the Interior, prohibiting the grazing on
government forest reservations, and
particularly the order relating to graz.
ing on the Uintah reservation, which
had been used by sheep owners
of Wyoming. Colorado and Utah, the
following has been written by the sec
retary of the interior. Hon. E.A Hitch
cock: ''The Uintah forest reserve EN-
braces both slopes of the Uintal
mountains in northern Utah and the
northern slope only of the western par,
of this range. These mountains are
covered with valuable forests OF
| spruce that protect the sources of sew.
eral large streams which eventually
discharge into Green river, those flow
ing northward from the range being
already utilized for irrigation. Ther,
is large agricultural population i'm
mediately adjacent to the reserve who
find it their only local timber supply
and the chief source of water supply
for irrigation purposes. Both of thcs'
supplies would be endangered by sheer
grazing, which the experience of th'
department shows is one of the mos
prolific sources of forest fires, sucl
fires being often started by the shep
herds in autumn to clear the grount
In the autumn and improve the growtl
of forage plants the following year, o
by their carelessness In not eXtinguish
ing camp fires. Sheep grazing has als'
been found injurious to the forest coy
er, polluting the source of water sup
ply. and therefore of serious conso
, quence in regions where the rainfall
is limited. The point made that tn
sheep men should have had timely no
tice is without force in view of tn
fact that this order was issued tw
! years ago. practically. and was givel
} wide publication and circulation in tn
papers at that time. The departmen
, Is being flooded with applications t