North Park union., 1900-04-20
COLORADO NOTES.

Montrose is looking forward to a
good year. Several fine buildings went
| up there last year.
The Hagerman block Mt Colorado
Springs was badly damaged, by fre
last week. the loss being $4,000.
The fruit orchards of Colorado are
u large crop OF apples, peaches, april
cots, pears, etc. ~
The Portland mine at Victor Inns laid
of 200 men, This is In line with the
decision OF mine owners to reduce pro-
duction In order to bring the smelters
| to terms. q n
| The new railroad from Colorado
Springs to Cripple Greek furnishes a
| fine panoramic view of the Springs
and surrounding country. 1t runs for
several miles along the mountain side.
The Lendville Board of Trade circu-
lar condemnIng the Denver fall festivi-
| ties finds little support. If all the
large towns and cities in the state
would have festivals 1t would be of
great benefit to them.
The Daily Sentinel of Grand juno
| tiOn has just issued Il brief history Of
the Grand Valley that is II model of
| typographical work and profusely IL
Illustrated. 1t contains II large illustra-
| tion of the beet sugar plant and fine
descriptive article.
There is a pumping plant near Grand
Junction that raises water eighty
| three feet out OF the Grand river TO
irrigate 4SO acres of fruit land. 1t Is
run by water power and has been In
| operation for the last ten years. There
are several smaller pumping plants In
the Grand valley. The water costs
about 81 an inch when raised eighty
five feet by water power.
| Thomas Reed and Martin Mosier
have been arrested on the charge of
cutting timber on patented range near
jamestown. The complaint was made
by c. +. Merrill. The two sons of
Reed We're also arrested on complaint
of Merrill. on the charge of breaking
open his blacksmith shop and stealing
n quantity of miners tools, the value
OF which was placed at about $S.
| The Otto Mears toll road between
Ouray and 1rOntOn was thrown open
on the Bird for free use. rs the charter
had expired. The county commission
ers were prepared to enforce the OPEN
Ing, II not done voluntarily. This Is
the road the county endeavorcd to
have the state buy at the last session
of the Legislature. The opening of
the road will greatly stimulate the
traffic of the city
| w. X. Lee. the game warden of the
state in the Glenwood Springs district,
has written to Tom johnson, the state
game commissioner. that more deer are
in that locality than at any time for
fourteen years. Notwithstanding the
many sensational accounts of the prac-
| teal determination of deer by hunters.
He writes that l.. l.. Balcott and IL
score of others In the neighborhood re-
port that the deer are decidedly more
plentiful than for much over n decade,
and that the fiat tops in Rio Blanco and
Routt will he better stocked this season
than for many years.
The heavy rains of the past week
eliminated In n heavy wash0ut on the
new Omer canal twenty miles south
of Fowler The water gate was washed
fifty yards down the river and II large
amount of lumber for the hendSate
was carried away. The camp of the
worknen was located in the angle
formed by the intersection of the canal
and the river. This was overtlowed.
the tents and hunks washed away
and the men escaped with their horses
by hastily swimming the stream. The
men spent the remainder of the night
In the shack of Mr.. Watson. The pile
driver was saved with difficulty.
Another 100 men We're laid OF NJ the
PortlSnd mine Friday. This makes
800 men discharged. There are $50 left
and 1t Is stated more are to go. There
seems now no reason to doubt that the
big bonanza will close down altogether.
Already large numbers of idle men can
be seen on the streets. and the mer-
chants are becoming fearful of the dis
astrous effects upon business which the
closing of the mine would bring about
SO far the Portland is the only proper
ty which has curtailed its force since
the meeting of the mine owners this
week. The Isabella force has been re-
duced for some weeks, and now all EN-
ployed are on development work.
Municipal elections We're held in
many cities of the state Tuesday. Lo-
cal issues predominated, but In the i'm
portnnt centers the elections We're
fought on political lines. The license
question was paramount in places, and
under the head of citizens and nom
party tickets. the political views Of
candidates were not considered. The
Democrats carried Leadville and lost
Victor AT Cripple Creek the Repub-
licatls elected three candidates, which
gives them n majority of the council.
The Republicans carried Palmer Lake.
Greeley and captured nearly all the Of
fees in Trinidad and Golden. The en-
tire Republican ticket was elected in
Colorado Springs with the exception
of marshal.
The Colorado Springs Light and Pow
er Company is making arrangements to
build n new plant mt the coal mines
north of the city and Henry Hine, the
superintendent and general manager,
is in the East securing machinery.
Work will be begun on the building as
soon as he returns, about May LIST. The
company has contracted with the
Standard Milling and Smelling Com
pany to furnish 1t between 500 and COO
horse power to take effect January 1,
1901. The company also has agreed to
furnish power for the Colorado-Ph,la-
delphia Reduction Works mt Colorado
City If they should decide to change
their power. This is the company that
purchased the Ell Paso Electric Com
pany. and the new plant is an addi-
tion to the plant which is being erected.
The cost of the buildings and the equip
ment will be In the neighborhOod of
$500, 600 and the plant Is expected to be
In operation by December 1, 1900.