The silver star., 1900-08-03
COLORADO NOTES.

Grand Junction win cslsbra4e osps
tsmber 12th - Peach Day.
Three tramps stealing = ride % the
Rock Island passenger train were
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 Ssh must be placed
In jars or bottles containing three parts
Of alcohol and one part Of water. The
society cannot pay for these tnings,
but the donors will get credit Tor wnat
they send.
The Colorado telephone line has been
extended to the Holbrook con2fry, q
distance Of about ten miles from La
Junta- 1t il 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-
cipitating 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. I25;
carrier, Paul Baker Longmont, Boul-
der county. one carrier. area covered
( forty-four square miles. population
served. 40; carrier. X NJ Titus.
Organization of all the irrigating
ditch interests in the Arkansas valley
r,lo ha1d In N.
10 on the 24th. 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
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 twen-
ty-five 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 y-hveton 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 a fifty-ton INA
chine at an early day.
The secretary of state, collected
$2.O65G5 on the 26th In fees for incor
porations. The $2OO.OOO mark will soon
bereached. The principal firm incorpor
ated Is the Stratton Cripple Creek Min
ing and Development Company capt.
talized at $1O.OOO.OOO. and paid q fee Of
$1,JO2. The company is Wyoming
corporation. of which Winfield s. STRAIT
ton is the Colorado agent. It's Colorado
Office will be in Colorado Springs. The
incorporators in Wyoming are w. s.
Stratton. w. A. Ramsey. w. A. Bald
win. The shares are of the par value
Of 80 cents each, and there will be 20,-
O00, 600 OF them. A board Of five trus-
tees will manage affairs. The trustees
for the first year are W. 8. Stratton,
w. A. Ramsey. W. A. Baldwin, James
H. Emerson and ID. II. Rice. Business
will be carried on in Utah, Idaho, Mon
tana, Oregon. Washington, California,
Nevada, Arizona. New Mexico and Old
Mexico.
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
Exposition Universelle In Paris At the
same time they learned that the gold
medal would be awarded to the CON-
pany for It's exhibit Of coal, coke, iron
ore and ironstone. IT. however, the gold
medal should be given to the company,
It is extremely probable that the award
Of the Jurors will be reversed by the
supreme jury. The grand prize and
the gold medal. the highest awards,
! rarely 90 to one exhibitor The first Is
given for excellence over all competi-
tors; the second Is given for excellence
In itself. To award both. besides CIV
! Ing rise to Jealousy. would be almost
! superfiuous honor. News Of this award
discovers plan Of development enter
tained by the company. n plan which
Is known to few except the officers and
rivals Of the company. The exhibit to
Paris. which In itself cost about $15,.
900. was made solely to show foreign
consumers the extent and quality OF
the Colorado product. The company il
working towards Chinese and japan
ese market.
The Taylor state road. which may be
part OF n great trans-contlnental high
way. and which nas been hanging in
the bnInnce Tor the pnst year because
the funds appropriated by the last Leg.
lslnture were not forthcoming. II mt
last assured State Engineer McCune
has been Informed that the entire sum
appropriated will bc available for the
purpose. nv the money for road build.
Ing is In the Internal Improvement fund
which cannot he touched for any other
purpose. even though the state treas
ury be entirely empty. 40 far ~ the
other funds are concerned. State En-
gIneer McCune has just returned 10
Denver from trip over the proposed
route Of the rond. startlng mt Glenwood
and going through the canon Of the
Grand river. lie spent some time In
0lenwOod Springs with Senator Ed.
ward T. Taylor. who was the author Of
, the bill which wns passed by the last
Legislature and provides for an appro.
priatI0n Of &35, 900 for the commence