The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-08-21
COLORADO NOTES.


what is known as Spragues ranch, or
Willow park.
w. l. Weaver & Co., n new oil COM
pany in Florence. on well No. 2, at n
depth of over 1000 feet, struck prof
| liable flow of oil 1t will be a day or
two before pumping can be started,
| but 1t promises to be one of the biggest
producers about Florence.
The directors of the Colorado Fuel
& Iron Company have declared divi-
dsnd of eight per cent on the pre-
| ferred stock, payable September 9th.
In February of this year eight per
cent. was declared, and in April eight
per cent. The remaining accumulative
dividends due on the stock now amount
to twelve per cent
The state attorney will file suit
against the Pullman Car Company for
$1,000 ON claims due for incorporation
| fees. The company is Incorporated iii
| Illinoiss with much larger capital
than in Colorado. The reincorporation
law requires them to file papers here
| with the full amount of capital of the
home company. The company refused
| to do this and the state was obliged to
| bring suit.
Discoveries have been made by Pro
fessor Riggs of the Field museum of
Chicago, on the banks of the Gunnisol.
and are attracting much attention. The
bones of a dinosaur have been un-
l-earthed by the professor and his men.
| One bone is nine feet long and others
are so large that one man is unable TO
| lift them. About one-half of the mon
sters bones have already been taken
out of the bed in which they have been
discovered and they will be shipped 10
Chicago in a few days and mounted.
The Chicago & Alton will, it is re-
ported, be running into Denver before
the first of next year on Its own tracks.
Negotiations are reported to be pend
ing for the sale TO the company of the
Kansas Pacific branch of the Union Pa
citic. the acquisition of which would
give the Alton Il direct line from Chica-
20 and Kansas City to Denver, via
Kansas City. The directors of the Al
ton and the Union Pacific will, il is
reported meet in New York City the
list of September and conclude nego-
tiations for the transfer.
Henry Van Loon. cattleman living
fourteen miles south of Aroya. ON
Rush creek, lost three boys. aged six,
eight and ten years, by suffocation in
the sand. 1t is not known Just what
time the accident occurred. as the boys
left the home about 10 o'clock to play
in the sand some distance from the
house. When they did not return by
noon the mother went in search of
them. but could not lind them. Then
the father went to where they had
been tunneling in the sand and found
their shovel lying near where the sand
had caved in. Upon digging around he
found the dead bodies of his three boys
buried deeply in the sand.
District Judge Palmer ut Denver has
decided that the Board of County Com
missioners has not the power to assess
the franchise of the Denver Union
Water Company. A suit to prevent
taxation was brought by the water
company against the Arapahoe county
commissioners long time ago on the
ground that its franchise was not as
sessable. but. during the pendency Of
the ease it paid its tax for 1899 under
protest. The county will now have to
refund to the water company 1000
the amount of the tax, If Judge Pal
mer's decision is upheld by the Su
preme Court. to which the case will be
taken ON appeal.
The work of broad gauging the en-
tire Mineral Belt system at Leadville
of the Colorado X Southern will begin
at an early day. In fact n start has
been made in this direction from the
Bon Air and Bohn properties. In day
or two the Colorado Midland connec-
ton with the Colorado * Southern will
have been made near the Bon Air. and
the completion OF the broad -gauging
will be quite an event in local railroad
history. 1t will mean that all of the
mines of the silver-lead area will be
reached by a ad-gauge line. which
will do away with the necessity of any
rebauling of the ore, once it is loaded
on the cars Under the old system the
ore from the narrow gauges had to
be reloaded into broad gauge cars. In
volving additional expense. The con
nection made by the Midland gives that
road an opportunity to compete on an
equal footing for ore, and furnishes
the Colorado x Southern an important
outlet.
The knights of Pythas held their an
nu;il meeting at Ouray on the 14th and
15tn. thousand men participated in
the parade. The committee on the
state of the order submitted its report
on the Pythian sanitarium proposition
recommending that per capita tax of
81 be levied against the members of
Colorado to aid in erecting the sanitar-
ium at Hot Springs, Arkansas The re
port was agreed TO. The following Off
GERS We're elected: Grand chancellor, w.
+. Robinson, Denver; grand vice chan
celIor. Mark G. Woodruff, Creede;
grand prelate. Il. a. Curry, Aspen;
grand keeper of records and seals, w.
s. O'Brien. Denver, reelected; grand
master of eychequer, NJ. u. Farwell, La
Junta, reelected; grand master at
arms, Thomas Il. Ovington, Lafayette;
grand inner guard. John Il. Meserve.
Florence; grand outer guard, George S.
Sebern, Longmont; grand trustee, to fill
vacancy caused by death of Webster
Brown of Trinidad DIR. b. A. McGee of
Denver.