The Lamar register., 1900-08-01
COLORADO NOTES.


killed at Bethune last Sunday.
At Victor last Tuesday morning
heavy rain fell, accompanied by an
electrical display that necessitated
shutting down the power houses
The reptiles and tish must be placed
in jars or bottles containing three parts
of alcohol and one part of water. me
society cannot pay for these Things,
but the donors will get credit for what
they send.
The Colorado telephone line mas beeh
extended to the Holbrook country, a
distance of about ten miles from La
Junta. 1t is proposed TO extend lhs
line 10 Las Animas, twenty miles casi
of La Junta.
All the skilled laborers, including the
barrel, roaster, concentration ana pre-
cipitating men, employed at the plant
OF the National Gold Extraction Com
pany of Florence have just received u
ten per cent raise of wages. The raise
affects about fifty employees.
Organization Of all the irrisatlng
ditch interests in the Arkansas valley
took place at meeting held in Pueb-
10 on the 9th. Representatives OF
nearly every water canal in this section
Of Colorado Were 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.
The Cook Gold Mining Company of
GIlpin county has ordered an electric
locomotor with which to haul ore cars
b.. fhPpurh Rainfall
and Bates hill tunnels to the new
eighty-stamp mill at Black Hawk. The
lOcOmotor will have IL capacity of twen-
ty-fiye tons and will be delivered some
time next month. This will be the first
electric IOcotpotOr introduced in the
mines in the northern part OF the state.
4 tTeuty-tiye-ton machine has been in
use for some time i'll the Revenue tun-
mel of the Caroline Mining Company
of Ouray The big Camp Bird mine of
Ouray will Introduce Il iifty-ton ma
chine at an early day.
The Colorado u 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-
toIrc river for forty miles through sue
cessiye grain fields and garden areas:
rravsrsing the us yet practically un-
touched cOking coal deposit lying be-
tween Trinidad and the Sangre de
Christie mOuutains-a deposit hfty
miles long by forty miles in width; util-
iZlnE the magnificent timber growth of
the Punil region: devclnping-for low
As well rs high grade ores-a vast and
rich mineral area, and giving renew
ed stimulus 10 the wheat growth and
output Of the great San Luis valley
these new rails Of the Colorado y
Southern viii constitute one Of that
systems busiest branches.
Booth Tucker, of the salvation Army,
presided ut the services Of the colony
near Grunada last sunday night. There
was large audience present and much
eR shusiasm was shown. Booth Tucker
and officers OF the army from Denver
and Chicago looked over the affairs of
the colony and found everything in
very satisfactory condition. All the
ssol1n[rts seem well satisfied and so
well pleased Is the management that
many more will he sent to this colony.
\ good rain fell here on the 22nd and
will be- great help to the ranchmcn
and those having crops about the ditch
Is. Some damage has been done un-
cut or unstackcd grain, hut it is many
times offset by the good done. II is
hoped that enough water fell TO cause
the rapidly drying watering places on
the range to be retilicd, as n scarcity
of stock water has been reported from
the range.
The secretary of state collected
s., o,i5.Gj on the 26th in fees for incor-
pora tious The 100000 mark will soon
be reached. The principal firm lncorpOr-
atrd Is the Stratton Cripple Greek Min
ing and Development Company capt.
talizcd nt $1OOOO.OOO, and paid Il fee Of
81. .5U2 The company is a Wyoming
corporation. of which Whitfield $. STRAIT
ton is the Colorado agent. Its Colorado
office will he In Colorado Springs. The
lucorpuratnrs in Wyoming are w. $.
StrattOn, W. 4. Ramsey, W. A. Bald
win. The shares are Of the par value
Of 80 cents each. and there will be o.
600. 600 Of them \ board Of five trus-
tees will manage affairs The trustees
for the first year are W. =. StrattOn.
W. 4 Ramsey. w n baldwin. Jnlnes
II. Emerson and u. II. Rice. Business
will be carried on in Utah. Idaho. Mon
taun. Oregon Washington. California.
Nevada. Arizona. New Mexico and Old
Mexico.
The G. A. l.; department council of
administration met Oh the 23th at the
state capital I'm appropriation of $500
was vOut-l to lctrny the expenses Of
thr department rOmmauder and his ad-
,,,t,uts an their rriD to Chicago to the