Gilpin observer., 1899-11-30
DENVER GOSSIP.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM THE
STATE CAPITOL,

rado Journalist, has assumed editorial
charge OF the Weekly Times-Sun of
tnis city. His long experience in west
ern newspaper work insures the max
Ing OF a valuable family paper.
A decision rendered Friday by Judge
Jacobs of the County Court will per-
! NIT saloon-keepers to sell liquor after
midnight unless the Fire and Police
Board cares to interfere. In effect it
is that the state authorities have no
rlgnt TO meddle with saloons doing
business after hours, and that the only
authority in that matter is the Fire
and Police Board. This right. the
Judge holds. is granted the board by
the city charter.
Continued evidences OF the benefits
or the Pingree gardens about Denver
are reported. One story is told of
BOY of 13, who until this summer has
been the acknowledged black sheep Of
the South Side boys. This wear he took
some land at the gardens and sold
enough produce to buy himself horse
ana wagon. Now he has become Il full
nedged wage Garner and no one hears
OF any more pranks or wild escapades.
HIS ambition is to buy himself some
land and become farmer.
The Supreme Court has handed
down an opinion in mining suit by
which the tribunal reverses itself in
the established precedents on cross
claims. The case of Branagan against
Dulaney, Eighth Colorado Statutes,
page 4OS. has stood for years as an i'm
portant decision upon which controver-
sizes between senior and junior loca-
tions have rested. According to the
opinion, this decision has been looked
upon as erroneous by the best jurors.
and the court now takes a backward
step and admits its error. Judge Cab
bert wrote the opinion. which is be-
tween 10000 and 12.OOO words in
length, the lower court being sustained.
Pullman shops in Denver, in which
everything but standard sleepers will
be built, employing, when working at
full capacity, $50 men; new shops for
the Colorado Il Southern, equipped
with the finest of modern machinery,
estimated to cost not less than 5000, 900
these dre the results to Denver of the
three days spent in the city by Vice
President Wickes of the Pullman COM
pany. The change will commence
almost Immediately. The Colorado &
Southern is now employing only about
300 men in the shops. The Pullman
people contemplate sending few men
out here almost Immediately to work
on repairs. The Pullman force will be
gradually increased, while the Colorado
& Southern will be decreased. until, at
the end of the nine months one COM
pany will have supplanted the other.
Work on building new shops for the
Colorado & Southern will begin inn
mediately. There We're numerous con-
ferences in the Colorado & Southern
offices yesterday and the probabilities
are that provisional plans will be SUBJ
mitted within the next week Large
shops, including round houses and car
Sheds all equipped in the most modern
style and with the latest machinery,
are contemplated.
The state land board. says the News,
has received n communication from the
general land Office to the effect that the
survey of townships % and % south,
range 73, in Costilla and Huerfano
counties. the Blanca mining district,
Were not legal, and that the survey will
have to be made over again. This de-
priyes the state of the selection of Sec
tions 16 and 32 out of the two town.
ships in the opinion of the surveyor
general, and the state board instructed
Register Chipley to investigate and re-
port upon the facts. 1t may be that
the state will desire to fight the matter.
This communication reveals an inter-
esting state of affairs. Under the law
the state cannot select mineral lands
MS such, but in cases where the MINER
nj has been discovered after the trans
fers have been made the transaction
cannot be undOne. The sections Sc
lected by the state in townships % and
% have exhibited mineral since they
came into the possession of Colorado,
rt. K1,tf f,NlI
tained by it. Attorneys Goudy and
Twitchell, however have gone ahead
and shown to the satisfaction of the
surveyor general that the original sur
veyE We're made in n manner very COM
mon few years ago, namely. in n tent
and with set of draughtsmen's pen
ciis, instead of in the field This con-
stitutes the illegality. and it is sup
posed to have the effect of making the
states selection of the sections 1G and
~ in each township as illegal and de-
prlving it of the mineral land Such is
the matter that Register Chipley will
looR into. The nice part of the thing
Is that the sections are said to contain
valuable mineral claims. and the Den
yer attorneys represent persons who
are Interested in getting possession
vixen the new survey is made and
proper monuments have been set up.
The mining excitement In the Blanca
district makes mineral lands OF consid-
erable value Mt present. and those
which the state supposed II owned may
be snatched away from II. The land
board met Monday and decided TO
make n selection of $4,000 acres of in
demmty school land In Weld county
upon application OF John Law. nm ex-
tensfve stock raiser. He offers the nm
nual lease price of cents an acre. The
land will not be leased to Law until
further investigation has been made
for 1t Is reported that II Is valuable for
agricultural purposes.