The Holly chieftain., 1900-08-17
COLORADO NOTES.

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Is Thursday and Friday, August 20 and
81.
Rev. Il. F. Coyle, d. D., of San
Francisco has accepted the call Of the
Central Presbyterian Church OF Den-
yer. and will occupy the pulpit the first
Sunday in October and thereafter. DIR.
Coyle has had very successful pas
forate in San Francisco.
W. I. Weaver & Co., a new oil COM
pany In Florence. on well No. =, at q
depth of over 1000 feet, struck prof
liable flow of oil. 1t will be 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
4 Iron Company have declared divi-
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
$1,000 on claims due for incorpora ton
ices. The company Is Incorporated in
Illinois with n 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 Gunnison,
and are attracting much attention. Tie
bones OF dinosaur have been un-
enrthed 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
ster's bones have already been taken
out of the bed in which they have been
discovered and they will be shipped TO
Chicago in Il few days and mounted.
The Chicago & Alton will. 1t 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
cific. the acquisition of which would
give the Alton direct line from Chica-
90 and Kansas City to Denver, via
Kansas City The directors of the Al
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reported. meet in New York City the
LIST of September and conclude nego-
uations for the transfer.
John NJ. Stahl secretary of the Farm
ers' National Congress. says that the
attendance at the annual meeting to be
held at Colorado Springs. August 10th
and oath. will be the largest in the his
tory of the congress. Delegates from
: N. N....- L.,
have arranged for special ears to take
them to Colorado Springs. Among the
subjects to be discussed are the rela-
ton of farming TO manufacture and
transportation, merchant marine. inter-
oceanic canal. taxation, irrigation and
good roads. Among the speakers is
Baron Hermann. agricultural attache
of the German embassy al Washing
ton.
Hcnry 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 find them. Then
the father went to where they had
been tunneling in the sand and found
their shovel lying near where the sand
had cayed In. Upon digging around he
found the dead bodies of his three boys
buried deeply in the sand.
The work OF broad -gauging the en-
tire Mineral Belt system at Leadville
pf tho '.In Ia L. iii
at an early day. In fact II start has
bnen made in this direction from the
Bon Air and Bohn properties In n day
or two the Colorado Midland connec-
tion with the Colorado & Southern will
have been made near the Bon Air, and
the completion of the broad -gauging
viii 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 broad-gauge line, which
will do away with the necessity of any
rehauling Of the ore. once il 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 & southern an important
outlet.
Although Congress at the recent ses-
sion authorized the purchase OF COM
plete set OF minting machinery for the
Denver mint, and made partial aD-
preparation for the same, the Treasury
Department has as yet taken no steps
toward letting the contract The su-
pervislng 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