Gilpin observer., 1900-08-16
COLORADO NOTES.

The date for Game and Fish Day Mt
Steamboat Springs has been changed
in order not to conflict with other at
fractions. The new date decided upon
is Thursday and Friday, August 80 and
81.
Rev. b. f. Coyle, d. D., of San
Francisco has accepted the call of the
Central Presbyterian Church of Den
yer, and will occupy the pulpit the first
Sunday in October and thereafter. DIR.
Coyle has had n very successful pas
torate in San Francisco.
w. l. Weaver * Co., new oil COM
pany in Florence. on well No. 9, Mt
depth of over 1000 feet, struck prof
liable flow of oil. 1t will be a day or
two before pumping can be started,
but it promises to be one of the biggest
producers about Florence.
The directors of the Colorado Fuel
& Iron Company have declared n divi-
dend of eight per cent. on the pre-
ferred stock, payable September 9Th.
In February of this year eight per
cent was declared, and in April eight
per cent. The remaining accumulative
dividends due on the stock now amount
to twelve per cent.
The state attorney will file suit
against the Pullman Car Company for
$1,000 on claims due for Incorporation
fees. The company is Incorporated in
Illinois with much larger capital
than in Colorado The reincorporation
law requires them to file papers here
with the full amount of capital of the
home company. The company refused
to do this and the state was obliged to
bring suit.
Discoveries have been made by Pro-
fessor Riggs of the Field museum of
| Chicago, on the banks of the Gunnison,
and are attracting much attention. The
bones of a dinosaur have been un-
+, earthed by the professor and his men.
| One bone is nine feet long and others
are so large that one man is unable to
lift them. About one-half of the mon-
ster's bones have already been taken
out Of the bed in which they have been
discovered and they will be shipped to
Chicago in n few days and mounted.
The Chicago & Alton will. it is re-
| ported. be running into Denver before
the first of next year on its own tracks.
Negotiations are reported to be pend
] ing for the sale to the company of the
Kansas Pacific branch of the Union Pa
| cific the acquisition of which would
give the Alton direct line from Chica-
20 and Kansas City to Denver. via
| Kansas City. The directors of the AL
ton and the Union Pacific will. it is
reported. meet in New York City the
1st of September and conclude ncgo-
tiations for the transfer.
John NJ. Stahl. secretary of the Farm
ers' National Congress, says that the
attendance at the annual meeting to be
held at Colorado Springs, August 2Oth
| and oath, will be the largest i'm the his
tory of the congress. Delegates from
the New England and middle states
have arranged for special ears to take
them to Colorado Springs. Among the
subjects to be discussed are the rela-
tion of farming TO manufacture and
| transportation. merchant marine. inter-
oceanic canal. taxation. irrigation and
good roads. Among the speakers is
Baron Hermann. agricultural attache
of the German embassy at Washing
ton.
Henry Van Loon, n cattleman living
fourteen miles south of Aroya. on
Rush creek. lost three boys. aged six,
eight and ten years. by sufTocation in
the sand. 1t is not known Just what
time the accident occurred, as the boys
left the home about 10 o'clock to play
in the sand some distance from tie
house. When they did not return by
noon the mother went in search of
them, but could not find them. Then
the father went to where they had
been tunneling in the sand and found
their shovel lying near where the sand
had caved in. Upon digging around he
found the dead bodies of his three boys
buried deeply in the sand
The Work of broad-gauging the en-
tire Mineral Belt system at Leadville
OF the Colorado a. Southern will begin
at npIx .ylt. In, f,, ..tn n,.t l,n,
been made in this direction from the
Bon Air and Bohn properties. In day
or two the Colorado Midland connec-
tion with the Colorado x Southern will
have been made near the Bon Air, ard
the completion of the broad-gauging
will be quite an event i'm local railroad
history. 1t will mean that all of the
mines of the silver-lcad area will be
reached by n broad-gauge line, which
Will do away with the necessity of any
rehauling of the ore, once ii Is loaded
on the cars. Under the old system the
ore from the narrow gauges had to
be reloaded into broad gauge cars, in
volving additional expense. The con
nection made by the Midland gives that
road an opportunity to compete on an
equal footing for ore, and furnishes
the Colorado n Southern an important
outlet.
Although Congress at the recent ses-
sion authorized the purchase of u com
plete set of mintng machinery for the
Denver mint, and made partial ap-
propration for the same, the Treasury
Department has as yet taken no steps
toward letting the contract. The SUI
pervising architect says that mt the
present rate the mint building should
be under roof not later than October.
The Interior finish will then he com
pleted In about twelve months. so that
the finished building should be turned
over to the government by November
or December of next wear, AT the of-