The Meeker herald., 1900-08-04
COLORADO NOTES.

Rock Island passenger train were
killed at Bethune last Sunday.
At Victor last Tuesday morning .
heavy rain fell. accompanied by az
electrical display that necessitatsd
shutting down the power houses.
The reptiles and Ssh must be placed
In lars or bottles containing three poxto
Of alcohol and one part of water. TIE
society cannot pay for these Things.
but the donors will get credit for vast
they send.
The Colorado telephone line has bcen
extended to the HOlbr0Ok country, .
distance OF about ten miles from Ia
Junta. It II proposed to extend the
line to Las Anlmas, twenty ni;lcs cast
Of La Junta.
All the skilled laborers. including the
barrel, rooster, concentratOr and pre-
cipItating men, employed at the plant
of the National Gold Extraction Com
pany Of Florence have Just received
ten per cent raise of wages. The rAiSe
affects about fifty employees.
Rural free delivery service will BE-
established in Colorado, August 10Th,
~ follows: La Junta, Otero county,
one carrier, area covered ffty-two
square miles, population served, 125;
carrier, Paul Baker. LOngmOnt, Bout.
der county, one carrier, area covered
forty -four square miles, population
served, TAO; carrier. X. NJ. Titus.
Organization of all the irrigating
ditch interests In the Arkansas valley
took place at a meeting held in Pueb-
10 on the 9th Representatives OF
nearly every water canal In this section
Of Colorado were present, and = closer
relationship between them Will pre-
vail In the future than has been the
case in the past. The meeting was held
at the Grand hotel. and Its objects
were accomplished in the formation
Of the Arkansas Valley Ditch Owners
Association.
The Cook Gold Mining Company Of
Gilpin county has ordered an. electric
locomotor with which to haul ore cars
from the Cook mine through BObtail
and Bates hill tunnels to the new
eighty stamp mill at Black Hawk. The
l0cOm0t0r will have capacity OF TWEEN
ty-five tons, and will be delivered some
time next month. This will be the first
electric lOc0motor introduced In the
mines in the northern part Of the state.
A twenty -tive-ton machine has been In
use for some time In the Revenue tun-
mel Of the Caroline Mining Company
of Ouray. The big Camp Bird mine Of
Ouray will Introduce q dfty-ton ma
chine at an early day.
The secretary Of state collected
S2,O85.05 on the 28th In fees for incor
poratiOns. The 800, 900 mark will soon
bereached. The principal firm incorpor-
ated II the StrattOn Cripple Greek Min
ing and Development Company capt.
TALKED at $4,000. 900, and paid fee Of
81, 502 The company La a Wyoming
corporation, Of which Winfield 8. STRAIT
ton 10 the Colorado agent. Its Colorado
office win be In Colorado Springs. The
incorpoeators in Wyoming are w. 8.
StlAttOn, w. A. Ramsey, w. A. Bald
win, The shares are Of the par va1us
Of 50 cents each, and thara WIN b 20,-
goo,AD Of them. A board Of flve tfus-
tse9 will manage Affairs. The trustees
foe the flrst year are ". 9. 6tratton,
WA Ramsey, W. A. Baldwin, James
n. Emerson and ID. Fl. Rice. Business
WIN be carried on in Utah. idaho, Mon
tana, Oregon, Washington, California.
Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and Old
Mexico. a
Local officers Of the Colorado Fuel
and Iron Company have been informed
that the grand prize had been awarded
to the company for Its exhibit at the
Exposition Universelle In Paris. At the
same time they learned that the gold
medal would be awarded to the COM
pany for its exhibit of coal, coke, iron
ore and ironstone. II, however, the gold
medal should be given to the company,
It 10 extremely probable that the award
Of the jurors will be reversed by the
supreme jury. The grand prize and
tho gold medal, the highest awards,
Given for excellence over all c0mpeti-
tors: the second Is given for excellence
IN itself. To award both, besides CIV
ing rise to Jealousy. would be almost
superfiuous honor. News Of this award
discovers plan of development enter
talned by the company, a plan which
10 known to few except the officers and
rivals Of the company. The exhibit to
Paris, which In itself cost about $751;
600. was made solely to show foreign
consumers the extent and quality of
the Colorado product. The company Ii
working towards Chinese and Japan
eSe market
The Taylor state road. which may be
. part of a great trnns-continental high
way, and which HAS been hanging in
the balance for the past year because
the funds appropriated by the last Leg
islature were not Forthcoming. Ia at
Inst assured. state Engineer McCune
has been Informed that the entire sum
Will he available for the
purpose, as the money for road build
Ing is in the Internal Improvement fund
which cannot be touched for any other
purpose, even though the state treas.
ury be entirely empty, SO far a. the
other funds are concerned. State En-
gineer McCune has just returned to
Denver from trip over the proposed
route Of the road, starting at Glenwood
and going through the canon Of the
Grand river. He spent some time In
Glenwood Springs with Senator Ed
ward T. Taylor, who was the author of
the bill which was passed by the last
and provides for an Appro-