The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-07-31
COLORADO NOTES.

of alcohol and one part of water. The
society cannot pay for these things,
but the donors will get credit for what
they send.
The Colorado telephone line has been
extended to the Holbrook country, a
! distance of about ten miles from La
Junta. 1t is proposed to extend the
line to Las Animas, twenty miles cast
of La Junta.
All the skilled laborers, including the
barrel, roaster, cOncentrator and pre-
clpitating men, employed at the plant
OF the National Gold Extraction Com
pany of Florence have just received a
ten per cent. raise of wages. The raise
affects about fifty employees.
Rural free delivery service will be
established in Colorado, August 18th,
as follows: La Junta, Otero county,
one carrier, area covered fifty-two
square miles, population served, 725;
carrier, Paul Baker. Longmont, Boul-
der county, one carrier, area covered
forty-four square miles, population
served, 74O; carrier, X. NJ. Titus.
Organization of all the irrigating
ditch interests in the Arkansas valley
took place at meeting held in Pueb-
10 ON the 24th. Representatives of
nearly every water canal in this section
OF Colorado We're present, and closer
relationship between them will pre-
vail in the future than has been the
case in the past. The meeting was held
at the Grand hotel, and its objects
were accomplished in the formation
Of the Arkansas Valley Ditch Owners
Association.
Denver will soon have new line to.
the City of Mexico. The Rock Island
has sent out men to survey an eXten-
..ft 4. Il
to White Oaks, New Mexico, where it
will connect with the El Paso * North
western, now built from El Paso to
White Oaks. The Rock Islands line
with cross the Colorado II Southern at
Clayton, New Mexico. This extension
would give the Rock Island the short
est line from Omaha TO Mexico. 1t is
understood that the Rock Island ex-
poets to bid for Mexican business from
Chicago, Omaha, Kansas City and
Denver and other cities along its lines.
The Cook Gold Mining Company of
Gilpin county has ordered an electric
locomotor with which to haul ore cars
from the Cook mine through Bobtail
and Bates hill tunnels to the new
eighty-stamp mill at Black Hawk. The
locomotor will have capacity of TWEEN
ty-iive tons, and will be delivered some
time next month. This will be the first
electric locomotor introduced in the
mines in the northern part of the state.
A twenty-iive-ton machine has been in
use for some time in the Revenue tun-
mel of the Caroline Mining Company
of Ouray. The big Camp Bird mine of
Ouray will introduce n iifty-ton ma
chine at an early day.
w. II. Lee of GlenwoOd Springs, dep.
uty game warden, who has been up in
the Taylor river country investigating
the alleged pollution of fishing streams
by the mill of the Doctor mine com
pany and by the operations of placer
companies, has returned to Gunnison.
Mr.. Lee states that the Doctor mill.
mill people have already begun the
construction of n ditch which will car
ry the tailings away from the river,
and the the Taylor Park Placer Com
pany and Union Park Placer Company
have agreed to construct dams just be-
low where they are operating. In his
opinion this will remove all cause for
complaint on the part of those fishing
in the streams.
While V. IL. Snooks was giving n
kinetoscope exhibition from the front
parlor of the Glenwood hotel. the eel
luloid film came in contact with one of
the electric wires which furnished light
for the machine. An explosion follow
ed, enveloping the room in flames and
setting fire to n number OF heavy lace
curtains in the room. The porch of the
hotel both on the first and second floors
was crowded withpeopie, mostly wo-
men and children. At the first sound
of the explosion and flash of fire, many
of the women tainted. None was in
jured, however, and owing to the
prompt and splendid service of the ho-
tel fire department the flames Were
checked inside the room. Mr.. Snooks.
the operator, was quite badly burned
about the face. His machine is total
wreck. The escape of the hotel and the
many people there is almost miracu-
lous.
The G. \. II. department council of
administration met on the 25th at the
state capital. An appropriation of $500
was voted to defray the expenses of
the department commander and his ad-
jutants on their trip to Chicago to the
national encampment Angus, 9th. TheI
important business of the meeting, -
however was 10 fix the date and place
for the next department encampment
There was considerable rivalry for the
honor of having the encampment of
1901. 1t was decided to meet in Pueb-
10, April 10th, 11th and 10Th 1901
april lZtn is the last DAY OF the next
depa -tment encampment. which will be
the anniversary of the surrender of
Fort Sumpter. Pueblo's claims were
presented by Upton Post and Relief
corps. The council is in excellent fl
nancial condition and ordered that $500
be invested in government bonds. AL
ready more than $1,000 has been thus
invested and there is still more than
$1,000 in cash in the treasury
Local officers of the Colorado Fuel
and Iron Company have been informed
that the grand prize had been awarded
to the company for its exhibit at the