Gilpin observer., 1899-11-30
COLORADO ITEMS.

IL rAIAbCh AoithCi SONCAhOI
of Colorado, died Mt Galveston on the
9th Of Bright's disease.
The LeadviIle city council has adopt
to the people for the ownership of wa
ter works.
A Greeley firm of produce merchants
Is said to have cornered the cabbage
crop in that section, realizing very
handsomely on their purchases.
President Burt of the Union Pacific
says that double track will proba bly,
be laid between Denver and Omaha.
Frank and Robert Lee Bohannon,
who killed their father last May at
Fowler, We're convicted of murder in
the first degree at La Junta on the
22nd. They have committed other
crimes In the state.
Rocky Ford and the entire Arkansas
valley are rejoicing over the latest de-
claration of the American Beet Sugar
Company. Vice President Hamilton
has just made public the fact that the
building of the factory has been defi-
nitely settled. 1t will probably be To-
Gated near Rocky Ford.
recently organized coal company
has entered the coal fields of northern
colorado and may prove formidable
competitor of the Northern Coal Com
pany. The new organization owns or
controls over 700 acres of land and is
introducing the most improved ma
chinery. The properties are near La
fayette, on the branch of the Burling-
ton railway, sixteen miles out of Den
yer.
To relieve the shortage of coal in the
mountain towns, railroads are now CIV
ing that sort of freight preference over
every other. The mines will get plenty
of coal. but their ore cars will be side
tracked until the coal demand is salts
fled. The only untoward incident in
the coal situation is the closing of the
Colorado Midland's Coryel mines, be-
cause of bur-sted boiler. These mines
furnish about thirty cars of coal Il day.
The station agent of the Midland
Terminal road at Independence was
held up and robbed Wednesday night.
Mr.. Brown jumped from his chair and
attempted to knock the gun from the
hold-up's hand. The hold-up pulled
the trigger. The ball struck the agent
in the left shoulder. fracturing the
shoulder blade. At the point of the
gun the lone hold-up made Mr.. Brown
open the safe and hand over $3.50 in
cash. He then went through the cash
drawer, but found nothing.
The beet sugar factory at Grand
Junction is turning out granulated SUI
gar at the rate of two carloads daily
Since the first run the factory has been
turning out marketable sugar. Satur-
days run consumed 400 tons of beets.
although the contract capacity of the
factory is but $50. 1t is demonstrated
that 1t really has IL capacity of 800. One
of the difficulties encountered is that
the beets are being delivered to the
factory at the rate Of only about 400
tons per day. The company desires
more rapid delivery. because the fac
tory can use larger amount and it Is
desirable that all beets be out of the
ground before hard freeze. which
may come at any time. So far the
weather has been excellent Several
farmers have been experimenting with
the cosettes or pulp as cattle food. and
find it satisfactory. At first cattle
merely smelled of it. but by sprinkling
bran upon it they began to eat and de-
velop voracious appetite for it with
out any trimming. Sufficient time has
not elapsed to determine the value for
fat and milk producing qualities. but
experience elsewhere is favorable. 1t
is safe to say that the sugar factory is
an entire success and meets all expec-
tations fully. 1t does all and more
than the builders contracted for. Grand
Junction granulated sugar Is on the
market. One carload was delivered to
our home merchants, another along the
narrow gauge. another to Leadvlle and
another on the road to Denver. Incl
dentally it might be said that beets
here run high in sugar percentage. be-
ing from II to 10 per cent. where farm
ers have put them on old ground and
given them proper care and attention.
The yield is good.
Two deaths, one man seriously in
jured and seventeen cars smashed are
the results of IL wreck last Friday on
the coal branch of the Colorado Mid
land from Cardiff up -Four Mile creek
The dead are: Peter Hyrup. engineer;
Walter Perrine, fireman. c. Snyder
Davis. brakeman, will have his right
foot amputated, as it is shattered at
the ankle bone. The wreck occurred
shortly before daylight, about two
miles above Cardiff. The wreck covers
about one-half mile of track along
steep mountain side. There was no
chance for the men to jump. 1t was
precipice below and high bank
above. The train was n runaway for
eight miles. and the momentum, as
shown by the debris. tearing of ties
and breaking of rails, was frightful.
The first break of the train occurred
at the beginning of four short curves.
where the caboose and five cars left
the track. The caboose is the only car
that stands upright. Every coal car
is mass OF splinters. The eighty
pound rails were in pieces, many less
than n foot I'm length Ties We're cut
and twisted as though they were tooth
picks. 1t was with this first break
that Brakeman Davis went down the
hill with the car of coal on which he
was riding. Davis Is from Grand June
tion. He Is n single man and has been