Rocky Ford enterprise., 1899-05-11

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ments. 10 all outward appearances
everything is quiet. but there is much
feeling. Only u few filings were made
to-day ut the land office, but word
comes from different points that loen-
tors are holding their positions through
the agency Of Winchesters. One Of the
queer features Is that mt many places
several men are located on the same
ground. while few miles distant
still remains open. A prosperous Flor
idn mesa farmer In the city said the
lower part Of the mesa on the reservn-
tion 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 n style somewhat
after that of the EIfrel tower, having
little balcony at 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 n horizon
marked by Denver, Florence and Mt.
Rosalle. This area is. approximately.
$4,000 square miles. BY the placing OF
the telescopes Mt the top of this obser-
walton tower. one il enabled to see ev-
erything near the base of the peak,
objects which are not visible with the
present arrangement, unless one makes
n circuit of the twelve acres ut the
summit of Pixies Peak. 1t Is the inten-
tion of the management of the accom-
mOdatlons 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 nc-
cessory of the hotel on the summit.
The hotel is also to be enlarged this
spring.
ID. NJ. Hymnn, the well known mine
owner of Aspen, was interviewed by
Denver paper the other day and said:
81 shall not be surprised II silver
reaches 20 cents an ounce before the
close of the year. The existence of the
great smelter trust Is the reason for
| it. For n number of years past a clique
of London manipulntors 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
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 manipulntors are
buying and storing silver FOR an incv-
liable rise. or 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 II see-saw game. but
one which will surely cause general
| advance in the price of the white met
nj. I look on the organization or the
| smelter trust as Il sure forerunner or
| an advance in silver-an advance whlch
| can be denended upon to hold the price
much higher than it has been since
| the panic" .
Under the recently enacted game law
| individuals and associations may cor
raj the game of the state. keep 1t with.
| in an enclosure to suit themselves, and
kill it from such enclosures according
| to their sweet will. This was demon
strated the other day when Game Com
missioner Johnson issued to d. c. Bea-
man. the father of the bill. n license on
| behalf of the Glen Beulah Park Asso-
citation, authorizing that association to
do as it pleases with deer. elk, bison
| and mountain sheep which 1t may nave
captured. The. park consists or n canon
in Garfield county near Debeque, en-
| wire fence. The insurmountable waiis
of the three remaining sides are eifec-
| tuol harriers One winter night four
wears ago about 100 head of game ami
mails were corraled in this canon. Inc!
have remained in captivity ever since.
I,br new law empowers the proprietors
| to slaughter these animals Ill rs iarge
uunntities as suits their fancy. MI.
Beamnn took the precnution to secure
| ,,nvinp for II E1(ND.
These words are found Mt the potion
of the license: "This authorizes posses.
sion. use and sale" The document
speaks for itself.
! The members of the Board of Equal
ization say that for the present they
| think they want to raise the vnlua-
| tions of railroad property so as to
avoid mn extra session, while the rail-
| roads object. not only to any increase,
hut even to the amount of taxes now
pnid. The railroad attorneys spent
four hours before the board Thursday
arguing against the increase. ). L.
UvIemnn. for the Missouri Pacific,
| blended for a lower valuation on that
nnrt of his line running from the Kan
sos line to Pueblo and through the un-
| settled mart 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
mnrkpd We don't tax you on the value
Of your property. but because you were
such - fools as to build railroad in
TINT barren country Now we want
YOU to equallze valuations and not pro-
coed on the Routt principle. We go |
through Kiowa county lengthwise. The |
county Is only nine miles wide, but |
ninety miles long, and we pay so per
cent. of the taxes of the county. The
road is assessed mt $500 mile, and
should not be assessed mt over 5000
mile. because 1t didn't pay. Sometimes
n Pullman goes over this line with only |
IN, n,csonver in II ;"