The Grit-advocate. (Julesburg, Colo.) 1899-1907, 1900-08-03
COLUkAUU NOTES.

OF the National Gold Extraction Com
pany of Florence have just received
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 a meeting held in Pueb-
10 on the 24th. Representatives of
nearly every water canal in this section
OF Colorado were present, and a 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
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
eightystamp mill at Black Hawk. The
locOmOtOr will have a capacity Of TWEEN
ty-tive 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-iiveton machine has been in
use for some time in the Revenue tun-
mol of tho rurplipn MINING Comnauv
of Ouray. The big Camp Bird mine Of
Ouray will Introduce Il tiftyton ma
chine at an early day.
The Colorado 4 Southern is now said
to have a surveying force engaged in
preliminary work for its new line from
Trinidad to the San Luis valley via
Stonewall. The commercial certain
ties of this new road increase the more
they are considered. Up the Purga
toire river for forty miles through sue
cessive grain fields and garden areas;
traverSing the as yet practically I'M
touched coking coal deposit lying be-
tween Trinidad and the Sangre de
Christie mOuntainS-a deposit fifty
miles long by forty miles in width; util-
iZing the magnificent timber growth of
the Ponil region; developing-for low
as well as high grade ores-a vast and
rich mineral area. and giving a renew
ed stimulus to the wheat growth and
OUTPUT of the great San Luis valley
these new rails of the Colorado e.
Southern will constitute one of that
systems busiest branches.
Booth Tucker, of the Salvation Army,
presided at the services of the colony
near Granada last Sunday night. There
was a large audience present and much
enthusiasm was shown. Booth Tucker
and officers of the army from Denver
and Chicago looked over the affairs of
the colony and found everything in Il
very satisfactory condition. All the
colonists seem well satisfied and so
well pleased is the management that
many more will be sent to this colony.
A good rain fell here on the 22nd and
will be a great help to the ranchmen
and those having crops about the ditch
es. Some damage has been done I'M
cut or unstacked grain. but it is many
times offset by the good done. 1t is
hoped that enough water fell to cause
the rapidly drying watering places on
the range to be refilled, as a scarcity
of stock water has been reported from
the range.
The secretary of state collected
$20G5.G5 on the Goth in fees for incor-
pOratons. The $2oO.tno mark will soon
berea ched. The principal firm incorpor-
ated is the Stratton Cripple Creek Min
ing and Development Company CAPT
talizcd at $4,000. 900, and paid fee of
S1.5o2. The company is a Wyoming
corporation, of which Winfield S. STRAIT
ton is the Colorado agent. Its Colorado
office will be in Colorado Springs. The