Gilpin observer., 1900-09-27
COLORADO NOTES.

beIrUrltS Ill tlle lJeutSE DduhS
| to over $25 100000.
Last week three oil wells were struck
| at Florence.
Snow fell on the foothills near Den
yer on the night of the 18th.
knights Templar of Colorado were
in convention at Denver on the 21st.
The Denver Galveston relief funds
now aggregate $13,O51. with the sub
| scriptiOns still coming in.
| -Four men were severely injured and
| $4,000 damage resulted from head
| end collision between two Denver N
Rio Grande freight trains at Spike
Buck at 1910 o'clock last Friday night.
| The collision was caused by the failure
of the operator at Echo to deliver or
| ders. He disappeared Immediately fol
| lowing the wreck.
While Colorado is not such an eXten-
sive producer of petroleum as Wyom-
| ing, yet during the year 1899 the state
made a good showing, as compared to
previous years. The output of Colo
RADIO last year, while smaller in guam
tity than that of the preceding year.
was greater In value. In 1898 Colorado
| produced 444 .3S3 barrels of petroleum
and in 1859, but 39O,27S barrels, but the
value of the 1899 product was S4Oi,11O,
or $1O3 per barrel, while in 1898 the
larger output was valued at $36I, ,oO4,
or S2.1 cents per barrel.
BENJAMIN L. Winchell, vice president
| and traffic manager of the Colorado N
Southern railroad, has resigned to be-
| come president of the Kansas City,
Fort Scott & Memphis railroad. He
will take his new place about October
| Goth, and will remove from Denver to
T. Nv. NJ 1,nn rS
ago was assistant general passenger
agent of the Fort Scott road under j.
Il. Lockwood. general passenger agent.
| He now returns to the road as its pres
| ident over the man formerly his su-
perior He succeeds the late Edward
| S. Washburn.
| AS direct result of the anthracite
coal miners strike and in anticipation
| of a demand for coal Colorado roads
are rushing coal to central points. Hun
| dredS of thousands of tons are now
| stored and additional trains are rush.
| ing coal from the mines to storage
places. The Colorado & Southern has
more than 100000 tons stored in Den
yer; the Santa Fe. 100000 tons in Pu
eblo; the Colorado Midland, nearly
2Uv, 900 tons in Colorado City, and the
Denver x Rio Grande has about 300,
| WV luis At aDout IVV.oop
tons are stored at other points along
their lines
The cantaloupe season is making
happy close for those interested in
that industry in the Arkansas valley.
The shortage of water in some of the
bitches has cut the crop short. but on
the whole the farmers will realize
much more than they did last year.
The demand of the past week has been
much greater than the supply. The
growers for the past week have been.
able to turn the last pickings into cash
from their wagons at 81. 10 to S1.2O per
crate. Five buyers have been on the
sidetrack the past week bidding
against each other for the loads as
they came in, and instead of the grow
| er hunting n buyer. it was the reverse.
AS the season draws to Il close some
interesting figures are given: From
eight acres L. w. Newberry picked l,
700 crates. for which he received ST.
| 2S175. This is about an average of
| what all have done. the cantaloupe
ground netting about $40 per acre.
! William G. Bowser. Philippine
| veteran, met with an unusually pain
| full and perhaps fatal accident on the
| Mariposa property at Cripple Creek.
He was working in the bottom of the
2OO-foot shaft when Il scraper or min
ers' spoon, which was being loaded in
to the bucket at the surface slipped
| from the hands of n fellow workman
and fell to the bottom. The spoon is Il
steel rod four feet in length. sharpened
at one end. and it fell the distance like
an arrow, striking Bowser in the right
shoulder near the base of the neck and
penetrating his body for distance of
over n foot He displayed unusual
nerve. kept his head and pulled the
| projecting spoon from the wound and
| gave the signal for the bucket on
which his companions came down and
into which he was placed and hoisted
to the surface. He was taken to ply
sician's office. where it was found that
the spoon had penetrated n lung. SO
far no hemorrhage has resulted and
there is a possibility that he may re-
cover.
The threatened trouble at the Inde.
pendence mine at Victor over the mat
ter of changing clothes has been avert.
ed. Under n compromise agreement
| the men Mt the Independence will en-.
ter one room of the change house, re-
move their working clothes and pass
into the other clad in one thickness of
undcrclothing. their socks and shoes.
There is Il taclt understanding that the
company watchman shall have the
privilege of searching any one whose
appearance or conduct is suspicious.
Daniel u. sherman, postmaster at
Montrosc. Colorado. and his immediate
predecessor, James l.. Kyle, will have
to pay back to the Postotiice Depart
ment Sl.147.37, which they are accused
of having misapproprialted. The al
legged Misrepresentation is not charac-
l.,,t
men have been notified that the money
must be paid back to the government.
They collected from the government
| for rent which was paid by other oc-