Gilpin observer., 1901-07-25
COLORADO NOTES.

The new Antlers hotel at Colorado
Springs will be run strictly ON the
European plan.
There are many more people on the
Chautaqua grounds in Boulder thah
on any previous year.
The newsboys of Denver propose TO
give fair August 18th to 18th to raise
money to pay for uniforms.
A new postoffice has been estap-
lished at Nona. Kit Carson county,
with Sarah C. Webb as postmistress.
The Woman's Club of Boulder has
placed wire settees in various parts OF
town in shady places, for the peheh'
of strangers.
While drilling well twenty miles
south of Granada, in Prowers county,
Ley Blackwell struck heavy now
of artesian water at Il depth OF loo
feet.
The fact that there We're (alleged)
Rocky Ford melons on sale in Denver
before the vines at Rocky Ford were
fairly in blossom is troubling the mel
on growers.
Peaches from Grand Junction and
other parts of the Grand River valley
are now on the market throughout
most of the non-peach growing por-
tions of the state.
Running races will be held ut Glen
wood Springs August 21st, end, 23rd
and oath, at which $1,000 in prizes
will be offered A cowboys tourna-
ment will conclude the races. in which
the entire western slope will partci-
pate.
While John Mosconi. Ed. Gabalsky
and party of dog fanciers from Cen
tral City, We're out east of Denver
hunting coyotes one Sunday recently,
Mr.. Mosconi had his right arm badly
bitten by coyote that had been
brought to bay by the dogs.
The Pueblo Single Tax Club has
been organized with b. ID. V. Reed as
president and j. w. Printlinger as sec
retary. J. r. Herman, who has been
giving lectures on the street corners in
Denver and Pueblo on the single tax,
has gone west to continue his lecturinS
in other cities.
Aided by the use of electrical min.
ing machines lately installed by the
Fremont coal mine at Williamsburg,
better known as Bear gulch, the Colo.
RADIO Fuel and Iron Company is said 80
be producing as much coal with sixty
men as it did last fall with 40.
L ne net VI tlt IVhNti N
Rio Grande in the second week in July
were $3.50. 300 an increase of $4,000
over the corresponding week of last
year. The first two weeks of July the
net earnings were S4G4. 300. an increase
of $50, 800 over the corresponding two
weeks of last year.
The Pullman company in its repair
shops at Denver will pay the 1st and
10th of each month, conforming with
the new state law calling for BIZ
monthly payments of employees. There
are 800 men now employed, but it is
expected that the number will be
raised to between 100 and 500.
Colored members of the Knights of
Pythias from Colorado Springs, Cripple
Creek and Leadville met in Pueblo re-
Gently and founded the first Afro
American Pythian grand lodge in Colo
RADIO There are some 240 members
among the colored people of the state.
but no hitherto recognized lodge.
Long mountain trips on foot. on
horseback and by wagons are one of
the popular features of the Glen Park
Chautauqua mt Palmer Lake this sum
mer A recent three days trip includ-
ed Manitou park, Woodland park, Ute
pass. Green Mountain falls, Cascade
canon and the Garden Of the Gods.
James Page. postmaster at White
water. Colorado, has informed Postof-
flee Inspector Sullivan nj Denver that
his office had been burned on the night
of July 10Th The loss was somewhere
between $50 and $40 in stamps burned,
Just the amount could not be deter
mined until the safe was recovered and
opened.
The Pueblo Press Club will keep
open house in Colorado Springs to the
editors of the state during the Quarto-
Centennial celebration. August 1st, 2nd
and 3rd. Joseph ID. Glass, the repre-
sentative of the club. has secured. sub
ject to the approval of the Press club
at its next meeting. headquarters in
.he Antlers hotel.
The manager of the Arkansas Valley
| Electric Company at Florence announc-
es that the concern will at once spend
5000 in improving the local plant by
adding machinery and rebuilding the
works. BY the addition of the ma
chinery the lighting capacity of the
plant will be increased fully one-thlrd.
1t is the intention of the company TO
arrange the plant so that n day SER
vice can be inaugurated.
The managers of the Festival of
Mountain and Plain at Denver have
! decided that inasmuch as the festival
| follows the state fair nj Pueblo so
closely they will not attempt any oX-
hibit of state products. The only state
fair exhibit that will be made this
year will he mt Pueblo. September 23rd
to 9th. This will do away with the
display of grains, grasses, fruits. vege-
tables and furs and feathers that was
made at the festival last year.
The SNOWFALL excursion of the Boul-
der Chautauquans, July 1ith. was Il
novel experience TO many of the Wis
Itors. The cXcursionists went on the
narrow gauge road as far ns Camp
hnfLAr. Oh