Gilpin observer., 1900-10-04
COLORADO NOTES.

tltteen hundred men are at work on
the ID. 4 Il. G. extension to Silver
Cliff
The members of Trinity Church,
Denver, took up n collection of 81, 500
last Sunday for the University of Den
yer.
Two men We're killed by a fall of
rock in the Vindicator mine at Victor
last Thursday. They were Thomas
Cannon and Gust Krohn.
The potato crop in the Greeley dis
trict shows shortage of twenty-five
per cent, and the crop on the Divide,
south of Denver, is smaller still.
The Colorado Springs horse show
opened Friday afternoon under the
most auspicious circumstances, the
weather being warm and clear, thereby
insuring large attendance at Roswell
park.
When making addresses at Victor,
Governor Roosevelt was Interrupted
by frequent cries for Bryan and other
discourtesies that must have left with
him an unpleasant impression of the
town. Almost Il riot occurred at ole
time.
Kemp G. Cooper, for eighteen years
business manager of the Denver Re
publican and one of the best known
newspaper men in the West died sud
denly in Denver on the 26th, at his
home. Just before his death, Father
Callahan was called to administer the
sacraments. The cause of death was
Brights disease, with which Mr.. Coop
er had been afflicted for some time.
The report that the sale of the Camp
Bird mine is off has again been re-
vived. This time it comes from Lon
don, England. In that city it is claimed
the sale has been abandoned because of
the failure of John Hays Hammond to
report upon the property when he Wis
tied 1t short time ago. Little cred
ence is placed in this rumor in Denver,
as 1t has been understood that no re
port would be made by Mr. Hammond
until his assistants had checked up the
mine. That work is now in progress.
The comptroller of the currency has
issued statement of the condition of
the thirty-tive national banks of Colo
RADIO, September 7th, exclusive of the
banks in Denver, whose condition has
already been given. The report shows
the following: Loans and discounts,
So, ,493, 800; stocks and securities, S3,-
OO1 .STS; due from reserve agents, SS,-
232, ,615; lawful money in reserve, So,
641, ,1O2; individual deposits, 24,9OO,
511, with an average reserve held of
44.62 per cent.
Instruments completing formation of
a trust to control the entire output,
with a single exception of lime rock
for fiuxing and building purposes in the
Arkansas valley between Pueblo and
Canon City, have been fled. Some
hundreds of acres of land. all of which
is more or less opened up for quarry
ing lime stone. are transferred outright
or by long lease and not a quarry eX-
cept one operated by Herbert George
remains outside the trust in all the
list of those from which the Colorado
Fuel and Iron Company and the two
smelter trust plants have been secur-
ing their fiuxing materials. Mr.. George
has been supplying and is furnishing
the Philadelphia smelter with its lime
rock under Il contract that has yet sew
ernl years to run.
News comes from Castle Rock of
destructive fire which occurred at the
ranch of Senator T.. NJ. Ammons,
prominent stock grower. Several
stacks of hay containing over 200 tons
were burned. as we'll as the stables
and several other buildings. The resi-
, dence and other property We're only
saved by the fact that they We're wet
from the rain which was falling at the
time. 1t is believed that the fire was
of incendiary origin. Senator Ammons
is prominent member of the Douglas
County Stockgrowers' Association and
has been largely instrumental in secur-
ing the arrest of several alleged cattle
rustlers, who are now out on bonds.
awaiting trial at the November term
of the District Court. The Loss upon
Ia In, MI ntl nrnnnrtv nst
reaches $1,000, without insurance.
Not for many years past has there
been such activity in the coal mines of
southern Colorado as mt the present
time. Though the companies have or
ders on hand that would keep the
mines busy at their full capacity for
at least an entire year, the production
mt this time falls short by fully twen-
ty per cent. of the total capacity of the
mines. Tho principal reason for this
condition is said to be the shortage of
miners, for whom search Is being
made in various parts of the state and
country. The shipments of coal are
for consumption in Colorado, Nebras-
ka and Kansas and for the use of most
of the railroad lines entering the state.
The peculiar condition Is presented of
the mines not being able to turn out all
the coal they would like. Yet, We're the
mines run to their full capacity there
would be, in the opinion of railroad
men familiar with the situation. II
shortage of both ears and engines for
the movement of the coal, since the
present production of eighty per cent.
of the mines capacity keeps busy all
the equipment and power which the
railroads are able to devote TO this par
ticular business at this particular time.
State Engineer A. ]. McCune has
opened bids for the construction of the
Taylor state road through the Grand
canon. above Glenwood The bids were
too high for the estimates rs made by
the stnic. and all wore rclcclcd. Thc