The Springfield herald., 1900-08-03
COLORADO NOTES.

Rock Island passenger tram Weie
killed at Bethune last Sunday.
At Victor last Tuesday morning
heavy rain fell, accompanied py an
electrical display that necessitated
shutting down the power houses.
The reptiles and Ash must be placed
In lars or bottles containing three parts
of alcohol and one part of water. Inc
society cannot pay for these thlngs,
but the donors will get credit ror Wnat
they send.
The Colorado telephone line has peen
extended to the Holbrook country,
distance of about ten miles from La
Junta. 1t Is proposed to extend the
line to Las Animas, twenty miles cast
Of La Junta.
All the skilled laborers, including the
barrel, roaster, concentrator ana 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 1oth,
as follows: La Junta, Otero county,
one carrier. area covered ffty-two
carrier, Paul Baker Longmont, Boul-
der county. one carrier, area covered
forty-four square miles, population
served, 74O; carrier. Il. NJ. Titus.
Organization of all the irrigating
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 We're present, and closer
relationship between them VIII 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 Bobtall
and Bates hill tunnels to the new
eighty-stamp mill at Black Hawk. The
locomotor will have a capacity of twen-
ty-f1ve 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-five-ton 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 hfty-ton ma
chine at an early day.
The secretary of state collected
$2,O6565 on the 26th in fees for incor-
pora tions. The $2OO,OOO mark will soon
bereached. The principal firm incorpor-
ated is the Stratton Cripple Creek Min
ing and Development Company capi-
talized at $10,O0O.OOO, and paid fee of
$1,5O2. The company is Wyoming
corporation, of which Winfield s. STRAIT
ton Is the Colorado agent. Its 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 90
10000 of them. A board of five trus-
tees will manage affairs. The trustees
for the first year are w. s. Stratton,
w. A. Ramsey. w. A. Baldwin, James
II. 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 tiniverselle in Paris. At the
same time they learned that the gold
medal would be awarded to the COM
pany for its exhibit of coal. coke, iron
ore and ironstone. H. however, the gold
medal should be given to the company.
1t 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 go 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 n plan of development enter
tained by the company, plan which
is known to few except the officers and
rivals of the company. The exhibit to
Paris, which in itself cost about S15,-
600, was made solely to show foreign
consumers the extent and quality of
the Colorado product. The company is
working towards Chinese and Japan
ese market.
The Taylor state road. which may be
part of n great trans ns-continental high
way. and which Has been hanging in
the balance for the past year because
the funds appropriated by the last Leg
islature were not forthcoming, Is at
last assured. State Engineer McCune
has been informed that the entire sum
appropriated will be available for the
purpose. as the money for road build
ing is in the internal Improvement fund
which cannot be touched for any other
purpose. even though the state treas.
ury be entirely empty. so far as the
other funds are concerned. State En-
gineer McCune has just returned to
Denver from trip over the proposed
route of the road. starting at Glenwood
and going through the canon of the
Grand river. He spent some time in
Glenwood Springs with Senator Ed.