The Dolores star., 1902-01-10
COLORADO NOTES.

$SV,OOO,OO
Denver spent s3.797.421 on new
buildings in 1901.
Colorado has 1.5S6,0O4 head Of cat
Tie, 2,S94.763 sheep.
Cripple's big mines paid S4,I9O,6l6
In dividends in 1901.
Colorado live stock census figures has
a value of 100000.
Greeley shipped 1000 carloads Of pO-
tatoes, netting the growers S2,SOO,OOO.
The Denver Tramway Company car
ried 39,625, $50 passengers during the
year.
The Portland mine at Victor took out
ore valued at $4,000 every day during
1901.
Many farmers were out plOwing on
the first day Of January in different
parts OF Colorado.
Lake county mined $4,000 tons of
ore in 1901. The Cripple Creek district
mined 500. .2S5 tons.
Colorado raised 10000 tons Of sugar
beets, on 21,S0O acres, and will double
that product in 1902.
More than 2S7 tons OF poultry was
shipped into Denver in one week last
month for the holiday trade.
The gold reduction mills of the state
treated 2S4 ,935 tons of ore, having
total value of S11,311,0I0.
An invasion of large herds from Tex
MS is giving the cattlemen Of Prowers
county considerable anxiety.
Cripple Creeks 1901 record is s25,-
100000 bringing the total gold produc-
ton Of that camp to S1@,OOO,oOO.
Canon City owns its water plant and
claims 1t is equal to that of any city OF
the same size in the United States.
The Denver stock yards. in 1901, re-
ceived 227,57T cattle. 1OS,19i hogs,
225.641 sheep and 1887 horses.
Colorado produced 5,91S,41O tons of
coal and 557 .3OS tons of coke, employ
Ing $500 men in 100 mines and 1,S40
coke ovens.
The travel in Colorado for the holi-
day season just closed is reported by
the railroads to have been larger than
ever before.
During the month of November the
Colorado & Southern Railway Compa-
ny earned S49S, $50, an Increase of S1J.-
154 and net S161,391, an increase OF
$37.S59.
Miss Isabel Hill. daughter Of the late
ex-senator Hill of Denver was married
In Paris December 30th to the artist, H.
p. Knott. Miss Hill had been abroad
with her mother for the past year.
William L. Kimcrer has been desig-
mated as member OF the civil service
board for the postotlice at Colorado
Springs and Edward b. Wilson and NJ.
h. Phillips for the postotiice at Grand
Junction.
The Colorado State Cattle Growers
Association will probably hold IL meet
Ing in Denver the latter part of Feb
ruary or the first of March. The ex-
ecutive committee will meet soon to
fix the date.
A La lara dispatch to the Denver
News says: The annual rabbit hunt of
Conejos county occurred at Henry, and
1t is estimated that between LOO and
1000 of the pests were slaughtered
There were ninety guns on the firing
line. under command of Captain A. l..
Moss. This was one of the most sue
cessful hunts ever held in the county
f. l.. Dana and associates, lessees
Of Prospect amusement privileges at
Colorado Springs, are said to be plan
ming to have six months of skating
there each year and boating and swim
ming during the other half of the per-
iod. system of piping is about to be
installed to heat the water in summer
and freeZa 1t in winter Thousands of
young people patronize the lake during
skating weather.
The business of the Denver postoffice
for the past year shows n phenomenal
increase over that for the preceding
twelve months. The city may now
claim to be n postofiicc of the first
class and the postmaster will be en-
titled to a salary of $1,000, the maxi
mum compensation allowed postmas-
ters, except where Congress has made
special provision, as in the case of a
few Of the very large cities.
The Denver Real Estate Exchange
and the directors of the Festival of
Mountain and Plain are planning an
excursion In January to I'll Paso, Tex
AZ. to attend the winter carnival which
10 held there from the 14th to the 18th.
The Santa Fe road has made special
rate Of $25 for the round trip, and
enough persons will go, 1t is expected.
to enable the committee on arrange
ments to provide special tain.
The State Industrial School, at Gold
en-, was on Christmas the scene of a
pleasing entertainment and dinner
given to the inmates. The boys had a
feast Of turkey and other Christmas
dainties, and afterward there was a
program of songs and recitations fur
nished by the boys themselves and
music by the students band. The
band is composed entirely of boys un-
der fourteen, their leader being thir-
teen.
A romantic ending to case pending
IN the County Court OF Pueblo county
was announced December 26th by the
granting Of a marriage license to Hen
~ w. Snider of Burlington, Iowa, and
Miss Imogene Hopkins, aged nineteen,
Of Carmen, Illinois. Less than a week
before Snider was fugitive from tus-
tice, all because Miss Hopkins had
sworn out warrant charging him
with obtaining from her $1,000 under