The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-10-09
COLORADO NOTES.

eDlo amounts to @I3O,OO0 month.
Fifteen hundred men are at work on
the ID. x Il. G. extension to Silver
Cliff.
The Denver Horse Show opened aus
piciously on the 3rd, attended by n
large and fashionable crowd.
The members of Trinity Church,
Denver, took up collection of S1,50O
last Sunday for the University of Den
yer.
Two men We're killed by fall of
rock in the Nindicator mine at Victor
last Thursday. They were Thomas
Cannon and Gust Krohn.
The potato crop in the Greeley dis
trict shows n shortage of twenty-five
per cent, and the crop on the Divide,
south of Denver, is smaller still.
The Colorado Springs horse show
opened Friday afternoon under the
most auspicious circumstances, the
weather being warm and clear, thereby
insuring a large attendance at Roswell
park.
Reports from three of the state insti-
tutions give the following populations;
State Industrial School for Girls, fifty
five, added during the month, five;
State Industrial School for Boys, 100,
added during the month. six: State Re
formatory. 11S, added during the
month, ten.
The Denver branch mint has COM
menced paying 631i cents per fine
ounce of silver contained in gold bars.
This Is an advance of . cents over
prices paid during the last few years,
and is equal to 81 cents per standard
ounce. The new buying price has been
set by the director of the mint ut
Washington.
Rural free delivery will be started
October LIST on the north side of the
Arkansas river. between Las Animas
and the county line on the west, where
connection will be made with another
route running east from Rocky Ford
in Otero county. The route from here
covers twenty-siN square miles and
will serve 800 people. Drop boxes will
be established and private boxes are
allowed. The carrier will be peram
bulating postmaster, furnishing every
thing but money orders, and he will
obtain those for any person at the Las
Animas postoffice. FredOnia postof-
flee Will be the only one affected in
Bent county and that viii be discon-
tinued.
instruments completing formation of
a trust to control the entire output,
with single exception, of lime rock
for fiuXing and building purposes in the
Arkansas valley between Pueblo and
Canon City, have been filed. Some
hundreds of acres of land, all of which
is more or less opened up for quarry
ing lime stone, are transferred outright
or by long lease and not n quarry ex-
cept one operated by Herbert George
remains outside the trust in all the
fNt Of .t..ta Al
Fuel and Iron Company and the two
smelter trust plants have been secur-
ing their huXing materials Mr.. George
has been supplying and is furnishing
the Philadelphia smelter with Its lime
rock under n contract that has yet sew
eral years to run.
Not for many years past has there
been such activity in the coal mines of
southern Colorado as at the present
time. Though the companies have or
ders on hand that would keep the
mines busy at their full capacity for
at least an entire year. the production
at this time falls short by fully TWEEN
ty per cent. of the total capacity of the
mines The principal reason for this
condition is said to be the'shortage of
miners, for whom search is being
made in various parts of the state and
country. The shipments of coal are
for consumption in Colorado, Nebras-
ka and Kansas and for the use of most
of the railroad lines entering the state.
The peculiar condition is presented of
the mines not being able to turn out all
the coal they would like. Yet, were the
mines ruu to their full capacity there
would be, in the opinion of railroad
men familiar with the situation, n
shortage of both cars and engines for
the movement of the coal. since the
present production of eighty per cent
of the mines capacity keeps busy all
the equipment and power which the
railroads are able to devote to this par
tcular business at this particular time.
Express companies are noting that
banks are making much larger use of
the United States mails in transport
ing currency than ever before. Hun
dreds of thousands of dollars are daily
passing through the mails which, until
recently, were handled almost eXclus-
lively by the express companies. One
of the reasons of the change, as eN-
planned Mt Denver banks, is that the /
cost is less and as the money is in
sured, there can be no loss even If the |
package is destroyed en- route by fire. |
The government does not agree to re- |
turn to the sender money which is
stolen or lost in transit, but the insur- |
ance company pledges itself TO make |
good any such loss. All the bank has |
to pay is the regular postage such as is
charged for money order packages. |
Some of the express companies with
offices in Denver claim they are glad
the change has come about as it re-
lieves the company of heavy charge
for caring for highly valuable pack
ages. The government takes no more
than ordinary precautions as those are
considered ample. 1T is noticeable"
remarked a postofiice official, that al
though more money is being carried
in the mails than ever before train rob-