The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-07-10
COLORADO NOTES.
Delta is to have a National bank.

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With the exception of 1881 last
month was the hottest June on record.
The town of Nederland in Boulder
county had a disastrous fire few days
ago.
General John Pierce, the man who
built the first house in Denver, died
last week.
A Colorado Springs boy died of hy
drophobia the other day, the result of
the bite of a dog.
The city council of Victor has award
ed contracts for the building of a city
hall to cost $4,000.
The Texas Colorado Chautauqua has
| opened at Boulder under the most hap
py auspices. A list of attractions has
| been secured that will doubtless draw
| immense crowds.
Professor Charles S. Crandall of the
department of botany and horticulture
at the State Agricultural College, has
resigned to accept position in the sec
tion of forestry department of agri-
culture at Washington, ID. @.
Mrs. Elizabeth G. Goddard of Colo
RADIO Springs has donated $4,000 in
cash to Brown university. 1t is her
subscription to the John ID. Rockefeller
million-dollar fund, which the friends
| of the university began to raise nearly
year ago.
! AL of the coal miners at the Union
mine, sixteen miles above Glenwood on
the Cardiff branch of the Midland,
went on strike Monday. The cause ap-
| pears 10 be the ungranted demand for
an increase of twenty cents per car for
! digging and minor grievances. Fifty
men are involved.
The Union Pacific has opened
gravelpit near Granger, making three
! pits in operation-the other two being
on Sherman hill. One steam shovel
has been placed and the gravel will be
used in ballasting the cut-offs between
Green River and Ogden. There is no
limit to the supply of gravel, and the
| pit will be operated all summer.
Rumors are again rife concerning the
building of n railroad from Florence
| into Custer county. y few days ago
/ it was announced that the Denver N
Rio Grande directors had voted 5000
600 TO build n line from Texas creek
or Cotopaxi. This has stirred the Flor
ence Southern Company, which four
| years ago completed survey for
/ line 10 Silver Cliff.
A whole shift employed on the Santa
Rita mine has been discharged be
cause of the disappearance of some
] high grade ore. The management was
unable to detect the thieves, and there
fore made the wholesale discharge,
hoping to include the guilty parties IN
the lot. 1t is said that the ore has been
traced TO an assay office in Victor. Eur
ther developments are expected.
The potato crop, which is an import
ant one in Larimer county, is coming
on finely Onions and cabbages, both
of which are largely cultivated in the
Poudre valley, are showing nne
growth and promise large yield.
/ Strawberries and other small fruits
are bearing abundantly. Home grown
strawberries have been on the market
for the past two weeks and are large
.ond luscious. Cnerr1es will be ripe
next week and will produce heavily.
The people east of Berthoud are re-
Joicing over the fact that they are tc
have rural free delivery of mail. Fol-
some time they have been clamoring
for the establishment of n mail route
and their efforts to secure the same
have been rewarded. The route covers
the territory east of Berthoud only, eN.
tending about nine miles east and GOV
orng Il distance of about twenty-siS
miles. To establish the route 1OC
namcs-lOO families had to be secured
but the service will benefit perhaps SOC
people
Friday morning it became known
that work had begun on the grade fof
the Florence Southern. Upon investi'
CATION it was learned that upon in
structions received from headquarters
at Denver Frank Ruby put a dozen
men to work on the company's survey
parallelmg the Rio Grande around
Vinegar hill. in extension of the work
done several years ago on Railroad
street The men worked all night and
had completed considerable grading
at daybreak. When Mr.. Ruby was
asked by reporter about the work
being done at this time on the Florence
Southern. he replied that ii was sim
ply done 10 hold It's right of way in
view of early developments pertaining
to the construction of the line into Gus
ter county.
For some time trouble has been brew
| ing between the teamsters of Lyons
and the owners of the toll road between
there and Estes park. The climax was
reached the other day when John
Walker and Norman Billings attempted
to pass the gate without paying toll.
The company had placed in charge of
the gate Charles Knapp of Longmont,
who claims he has instructions to col
gect toll or keep parties from going over
the road. even should he be compelled
10 kill them at the gate. When Walker
and Billings made an attempt to pass
the gate, Knapp promptly presented
cooked revolver, and leveling it at
Walker told him that he would certain
ly kill him if he attempted to pass with
out paying toll. The argument en-
forced by the gun was convincing and
stoll was promptly paid. However, the
! end is far from being reached as yet.
That an attempt will probably be
made to force the road open by deter
mined men.
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