Daily camera., 1901-08-03
GREAT HREAEN% TOURNAMENT
CLOSES GLORIOUS CELEBRATION
THE DRILLING CONTEST.
A Wonderful Exhibition Before y Gres
Audience

A Wonderful Exhibition Before y Great
Audience
The most enthusiastic audience ever
seen on the grounds witnessed the con.
| test yesterday afternoon. Pandemonium
broke l,ose, men and women stood on
b.nches and yelled themselves hoarsc.
Women, in their excitement threw their
arms around the magnificent fellows who
represented their home towns in the
great event. Mine owners, miners,
| sporting men and citizens frantically
Jumped upon the stage and thrust hand
iuls OF bank bills in the faces Of skeptics.
They were sure that the men OF their
town were to be the winners. He who
doubted was lost. Never in the history
o! the Chau,auqua was there such a
crowd. Bryan's day was tame affair
compared with it. Bryan, the political
idol OF Boulder county. is not 50 near
and dear as are the boys who pound the
drill
Boulder county boys had fairly won
the boys single-hand contest, and Boul
der men were making marvellous records
in both the great double hand rcck and
the rock assigned for single hand drilling
The stage was packed full. and the
stage has ample seating capacity for 500
people. Here two brass bands aud a
coIored sextete OF male singers furnish.
ed pleasing musical program between
events. The audience would not have
playing during the drilling and the con
,estan:s objected as well. 1t rather es.
tablished the habit OF keeping time and
the drill man no matter how expert,
could scarcely follow the vag aries OF the |
musical composer. So thei, was only |
the music OF hard blows from hand ham.
mers on harder steel and the bass
thunders OF miners applause. Men. 10
their excitement jumped on the big
platforms surrounding the rocks, only to !
be pushed gently back by the police.
The excitement, was intense. 1t was
the expression OF the peoples psnt up
thoughts and aspirations O! dozens of
mipIng camps, 10 which the miners drill
had been the only theme Of interest for
weeks.
Coatemporaneous with the drilling was
the exhibition on the grounds by the Vic
tor rock drills and the Wallace improv.
ed stamp mill, with complete milling
and drilling plants in operation. Against
he rocks used for drilling purposes and
waiting the end OF the manual drilling
events. for exhibition. was placed a
Gardner power drill. which later in The
evening expended It's force agains, the
solid granite to the amazemen, OF the
audience.
Messrs Lou R Johnston and John A.
the second day committee,
we're on the platform in active personal
Management OF the exercises. With
hem were Thomas r. Mann. Charles H.
Wise and w. A. Chamberlain, the
Judges. and Charles Snyder, L. H. Den.
lison. w. B. Connell and c. A. Mac.
kenzie, the time keepers. In a crystal
;ase and in view Of the competing drills
nen were piled high the silver and gold
,oing 10 make up the prize money for
he events.
The prizes were:
Double Hand Contest-First prize,
800; second pEize, 500.
Single Hand Con,es,-Frst prize.
'I5o; second prize. $50.
Boys Single Hand Con.es,-Fnst
oriza, $50; second prize SIS.
The results in the miners drilling con.
est are as follows:
DOUBLE HAND DRILL.
TAR and Rowe, Idaho Springs. s. I.l6
inches.
Collins brothers, jamestown. IS o.I6.
Dahicn ana .Wahlstrom, Wall Street,
s. 10 I6.
Shea brothers, Sunshine, 81 10 l6.
AIdourel brothers. Crsman, 364.
Sweinhart and Bailey, Gunnison. 3,4.l
Exert brothers, Black Hawk, 35II-I6.
Coghlin and Ingram. Silver Plume.
33H.
Coghlin and Pittman. Gold Hill.
3S ZIG.
polkenhorn and Ellis, Bald Mountain.
28 II-I6.
Ecklund and Collins. Ward, SIX.
The prizes for the double hand rock
drilling contest were as follows:
Coghlan and Pi,tman. first prize, $500.
Ecklund and Collins, second prlze,
500.
SINGLE HAND.
James Pittman. Gold Hill, $685..
Fred Yockey. Eldora. 81 o-I6.
Edwin Johnson, Crisman, 274.
William Sudburg, Magnolia. II IL I6.
Anton Ecker. Black Hawk, IL.
William Dahlen. Wall Street, 2o 1916.
w. Wiborg. Cheesman. 3sH
The prizes we're awarded as follows
Fred Yockey, first prize, sI5o; w.
Wiborg, second priz, $50.
In this drill Yockey made Al inches
and was set back to 81 o-I6, having
broken off the bottom of the rock and |
pushed his drill through. 1t seems that
the rock selected for the single hand