The Springfield herald., 1900-08-24
COLORADO NOTES.

The directors of the Colorado Fuel
& Iron Company have declared olvl-
dend 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
81 900 on claims due for Incorporation
fees. The company Is Incorporated IN
Illinois 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.
Beginning September LIST, all round
trip tickets for California by way of
Colorado will he good for n stopover of
thirty days at any point in Colorado.
Heretofore tickets reading through Col
orado for points in the state, Utah or
California have been continuous, per-
mitting no stOpOver in Colorado.
Efforts have been made by the Colo
RADIO roads to secure an arrangement
by which tourists could stop in Colo
RADIO if they desired, but the efforts un-
til now have been unavailing
The Chicago X Alton Will, 1t Is re-
ported. be running into Denver before
the first of next year OH 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 direct line from Chica-
go and Kansas City to Denver, via
Kansas City. The directors of the AL
ton and the Union Pacific Will, 1t Is
reported, meet in New York City the
list of September and conclude nego-
tiations for the transfer.
Laborers are reported scarce by en-
ployment agents who are after men for
work on western railroads. The Union
Pacific has agents hiring men in Den
yer for work along the line in Wyom-
Ing and on Friday eighty men were
sent over, many of them coming from
farms and ranches III Colorado. The
Onion Pacific is said to be having
hard time securing enough men. The
Denver X Rio Grande railroad is in the
field for men to build the Rio Grande
railroad out of Texas creek. The Colo
RADIO Midland wants men for an eXten-
Springs Il Cripple Creek railroad is
short of men on its construction work,
and the Colorado Il Southern cannot get
enough men. All the roads say that
there is scarcity of men, and that the
man who Is out of work Is idle because
he wants to be.
Fire starting in the Foley hotel, cor
ner of Elm street ana Northern avenue,
Duo ~
o'clock, destroyed $1OO,0OO worth of
property in that vicinity before gotten
under control by the fire department.
The property destroyed consisted of the
Foley hotel and the lumber yard nd-
joining, also the property of L. H.
Foley; the Albany hotel, owned by w.
II. Snover and thirteen small dwellings
| on the east side of Elm street west of
the lumber yards. The fire Is supposed
to have been of inccndiary origin, and
according to Mr.. Foley's statement was
started no less than three times during
the day at different points on his prop
erty, the third time being undiscovered
until too late to control. Most of the
dwellings were covered by Insurance,
as well as their furnishings, while Mr..
Foley states that he carried but twenty
per cent of the full value of his proper
ty. He estimates his losses, including
the lumber yard. hotel and furnishings
at S75 600. No lives were lost.
Although Congress at the recent ses-
sion authorized the purchase of COM
plete set of minting machinery for the
Denver mint, and made a partial ap-
preparation for the same, the. Treasury
Department has us yet taken no steps
toward letting the contract. The su-
pervisiug architect says that at the
present rate the mint building should
| be under roof not later than October.
| The interior finish will then be COM
pleted in about twelve months, so that
the finished building should be turned
over to the government by November
or December of next year. At the Of
! flee of the director of the mint 1t is
/ stated that when the building has been
placed under roof, n contract will be
made for building and setting up the
minting machinery. The officials claim
that this machinery can be supplied
and placed In position inside of a year
and that there is no necessity for let
ting the contract this far ahead. They
are very anxious to have the mint
placed in operation and assert that
there will be no delay due to any inter
ference from that office.
The privilege that sheep companies
have long enjoyed in leasing govern
ment land for grazing purposes may
be LOST to them if the results of wide
Investigation now just completed
proves that such grazing is Injurious
to the forest reserves. Two Eastern
scientific men in the employ of the gov
ernment are on their way East from
Utah. where they have been investigat-
ing the results of grazing. They were
sent on that distinct mission by the
Interior and Agricultural Departments
While their experiments are entirely