The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-08-06
COLORADO NOTES.

nome, just DeRun III Denver, near tHe
City park, will cost $4,000 and will be
17Ox75 feet in size, containing fifty
rooms.
The Salt Lake Tribune says that the
accounting department of the Rio
Grande Western railroad will be
moved from Salt Lake to Denver Oc-
| tober 1st
Delays in the construction of equip
ment for the new telephone exchange
at Colorado City will postpone the
opening for three weeks. About $1,000
will be expended.
The comptroller of the currency has
/ extended the corporate existence or
| the Western National Bank of Pueblo
| Colorado until the close of business
July 26, 1921.
The hail and wind storm in the vicin-
ity of Rocky Ford on the night of July
oath did n good deal of damage to can
taloupes and fruit, but fortunately on
ly hit a limited district.
All the county prisoners have been
removed from the Cripple Creek city
| Jail to the county Jail. The new jail
has a capacity to hold 100 prisoners
and cost Teller county S25,OOO.
On the night of July 23rd at Grand
Junction safe blowers wrecked the
safe of the Book Cliff railroad depot
and another in the feed store OF }. w.
Osborn. The amounts taken were not
large.
AS Otto Mears has long been known
as the Wizard of the San juan be-
cause of his wonderful road building
achievements, SO Thomas f. Walsh
bids fair TO be styled the San Juan
Monte Cristo.
The agent of the state land office
II. al.
Evans telephoned that it was ex-
tinguished. 1t is the opinion of state
officials that the rains will put stop
to the fires that have been reported so
frequently of late.
The Reed Investment Company Of
Colorado Springs has decided to demol-
ish the old Brunswick hotel building
at Grand Junction and erect on the
site n first-class modern hotel TO be
called 1.-The Reed" 1t will cost 5000
and will contain fifty rooms.
A Toledo, Ohio. dispatch says that
w. e. Moses, the land script dealer of
Denver, has made claim to four Is
lands near the mouth of the Maumee
river. The islands are valued at
S15O,0OO and are now claimed by the
state under the swamp act of 1850.
The recent opening with appropriate
|
by Thomas f. Walsh to the people of
Ouray, Which with the building cost
$4,000, was n notable event in the
history of the state. Other wealthy
men may well emulate his example in
the way of giving.
The second reunion of the National
Society of the Army of the Philippines
will be held in Salt Lake City August
10. 1901. the anniversary of the cap
ture of Manila, and the Denver & Rio
Grande will run n special train from
Colorado at one fare for the round
trip, leaving Denver at p. m. August
11th.
About thirty non-uniou miners left
Leadville July 9th for Rossland, Brit
ish Columbia, where they will take
the places Of striking miners. The
agent for the company had consider
able difficulty in getting the men away
from town, but when the train finally
pulled out there was no demonstra-
ton.
The Denver Republican correspond
en-. at Florence writes that the apple
crop of Fremont county was never
larger than will be the case this year,
being fully one-third greater than that
of last year. The county for miles is
covered with fruit trees loaded down,
owing to the weight of the fruit upon
them.
r. II. Reid and w. p. Dunham,
who recently started to make an auto
mobile trip from Denver to Cheyenne
and back, ran into rain storm TWEEN
ty-five miles south of Cheyenne and
got so thoroughly wet that they con-
cluded to return by rail. They aver
| aged sixteen miles an hour while rum
ming.
| Harold " Pearce has been appointed
British vice consul in Denver to sue
coed his father, Richard Pearce, who
is now in Europe, and at whose sug-
gestion the appointment has doubtless
been made. The new vice consul is
assistant manager of the Boston and
Colorado Smelling Company, with
which his father has long been promi-
| nently connected.
j. II. Crowley of Rocky Ford, Colo
| RADIO, member of the state board of
horticulture and owner of the Fair
| view fruit farm, lays claim to the
honor of having the most productive
acre of cherry trees in Colorado. He
has written Secretary Shute of the
board that his acre has 160 Wragg
cherry trees upon it, five years old,
which this year will yield him $500
| The records of the society fail to re-
| veal another acre OF cherry trees in
the state which has ever made such a
record.
The Elks' street fair at Colorado
Springs was formally opened on July
29th by n parade of 500 preceded by
the Colorado Midland band, just re-
turned from Milwaukee. The principal
| streets were traversed, after which the
| procession wound its way toward the
1 hriI1iantly lipbtnI booths and hn-
ginning at the corner of Cucharras and
| CaScade and extending for many