Gilpin observer., 1900-01-04
COLORADO ITEMS,

| An association has been organized at
| Fort Collins to establish a public IL
brary.
The production of coal in Colorado In
! 1899 amounted to 4O6S, ,S29 tons, val
ued at $6,000,O0O.
BUD Taylor. n sawmill hand, ran
! amuck at Castle Rock the other day
and was shot by the sheriff.
BY the explosion of n ID. & r. G. loco.
motive boiler at Minturn, Samuel II.
Quackenbush, engineer, was instantly
fatally injured.
The buildings of the Florence cement
works are nearing completion, and
four cars of new machinery have ar
rived for the new plant. Boilers and
all will be put in position as fast as
possible.
Colorado e Southern officers are con-
sidering the advisability of construct
ing iron snow sheds on the Gunnlson
line, over Alpine pass, to insure keep
ing the road open through the whole
winter, so that the mines of the Bald
win district may have an uninterrupt-
ed outlet.
a party of surveyors will be put to
work in South Platte canon next week
by the Colorado Il Southern, to run
lines for the continuation of the new
Cripple Creek t-off from it's present
terminus to Horse creek, ten miles.
This the last meeting of the directorate
decided on. The survey will be made
for broad gauge road.
coal miner named Peter Falsetto,
employed at the Hastings mine of the
Victor Coal Company, was accidental
ly killed at Trinidad Sunday night. He
tod
house, reading, when n revolver in his
pocket fell to the floor and was dis
charged, the ball striking Falsetto un-
der the chin and coming out at the top
OF his head. Death was instantaneous.
The man was 40 years of age and un-
married.
Arrangements have been made for
the Texas Colorado Chautauqua to
avail itself in the future of the course
of the New York Chautauqua and other
like organizations so that a complete
circuit can be formed and better attrac-
tlons at less cost can be secured than
heretofore. 1t has already been decid-
ed that the 1900 session of the Chau-
tauqua shall be six weeks and that ev-
erything possible will be done to make
it a much greater success than hereto
fore. The grounds will be made more
attractive and more cottages will be
put up.
One of the most prosperous indus
tries of the state, according to the re-
port of the output of its mills. is the
Colorado Fuel x Iron Company. In
every department of its manufactures
it has jumped to the front, while in
some particular lines the increased de-
mand for its goods is astonishing. Dur
ing the past year almost 80 per cent.
more merchant iron was made than in
1898; and in spiegel, spikes, bolts and
nuts the increase was even greater.
The output of iron pipe was fourteen
times as great during the year just
closed as in 1898.
The American Beet Sugar Company
has completed the purchase of the
tracts of land near Rocky Ford, on
which it had options. Its total eXpend-
iture for lands is $15O.OOO. A corps of
engineers have been busy for several
days surveying the site of the new
factory. which is adjoining the town
site. The nearness to the business CEN
ter is highly pleasing to the people. In
a few weeks the busy hum of prepara-
tions for building will add greatly to
the business activity of the town. Real
estate is active and promises to take
on booming features in n short time.
The Colorado & Southern Railway
Company. by its attorney. Il. Il. Whit
ted, has filed Il petition for condemna-
ton in the District Court of Douglas
county. to secure rigfs-of-way for its
new line up the south fork of the
Platte toward Cripple Creek. That the
railroad intends to build at once as far
as Horse creek, fifteen miles from
South Platte, there can be no doubt.
Several new mills are going in in that
locality and their owners have been as
sured by the railroad people that ears
will be running as far as Horse creek
by June l. This point is ten miles be-
yond the present terminus of the
branch, and about half way from
South Platte to Lake George, where the
Midland railroad would be intersected
should the new line be continued Oh
up the Platte.
According to what are considered by
lumber men as official figures, over
11O,OOO,OO0 feet of logs We're cut in
Colorado and New Mexico last year.
SO far as the output of native Colorado
lumber is concerned, Colorado and
northern New Mexico are considered
one by the lumber dealers. for the rea-
son that the forest from which the
logs are secured lies on the boundary
line. 1t Is estimated that the volume
of business in 1899 was an increase OF
30 per cent. over the preceding year.
The figures received at the office Of
the state coal mine inspector show that
the coal output for the last year was
4,SOG,S70 tons, against 4,16i,037 for
1898. This represents an increase of
15 per cent. in the production. The
counties producing the coal may be
named in the order of their superior
ity as follows: Las Animas, Fremont,
Hucrfano. Boulder, Gunniscn, Pitkin,
Garfield. La Plata, FL Paso, Weld
Mesa, Jefferson, Larlmcr. Arapahoe.
No new counties show n production Of
coal.