The Springfield herald., 1902-01-10
COLORADO NOTES.


tie, 2,S94, 7G3 sheep.
Cripple's big mines paid S4,T9O,G16
In dividends in 1901.
Colorado live stock census figures has
value of S53,OOOOOO.
Greeley shipped 1000 carloads Of po-
tatoes, netting the growers $2,SOO,OOO.
The Denver Tramway Company car
rled 30, ,625, $50 passengers during the
year.
The Portland mine at Victor took out
ore valued at $4,000 every day during
1901.
Many farmers We're out plowing on
the first day of January in different
parts of Colorado.
Lake county mined S55,O0O tons of
ore in 1901. The Cripple Creek district
mined 595. 80 tons.
Colorado raised 25O,OOO tons Of sugar
beets, on 21.SOO 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 Me, having q
total value of S11,311 ,0IO.
An invasion of large herds from Tex
MS is giving the cattlemen of Prowers
county considerable anxiety.
Cripple Creeks 1901 record is $685.
100000, bringing the total gold produc-
ton of that camp to $12O,OOOOOO.
Canon City owns its water plant and
claims it is equal to that of any city of
the same size in the United States.
The Denver stock yards, in 1901 re-
ceived 227,57 cattle. 10S1A 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 122 mines and $40
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,569. an increase of $I5,-
154 and net $167,397, an increase Of
S37, 1853.
Miss Isabel Hill, daughter of the late
ex-senator Hill of Denver, was married
in Paris December Both to the artist, f.
p. Knott. Miss Hin 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.
f. Phillips for the postottice at Grand
Junction.
The Colorado State Cattle Growers
Association will probably hold 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 Jara dispatch to the Denver
News says: The annual rabbit hunt of
Conejos county occurred at Henry, and
1t is estimated that between 1,1OO and
1,200 of the pests were slaughtered.
There We're 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. A system Of piping is about to be
installed to heat the water in summer
and freeze it in winter. Thousands OF
young people patronize the lake during
skating weather.
The business of the Denver postoffice
for the past year shows phenomenal
increase over that for the preceding
twelve months. The city may now
claim to be n postotfice of the first
class and the postmaster will be en-
titled to a salary of 5000, the maxi
mum compensation allowed postmas-
ters. except where Congress has made
special provision, rs in the case of
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 Ell Paso, Tex
as, to attend the winter carnival which
is held there from the 14th to the 18th
The Santa Fe road has made n special
rate of $50 for the round trip, and
enough persons will go, ii is expected,
to enable the committee on arrange
ments to provide special train.
The State Industrial School, at Gold
en-. was on Christmas the scene of
pleasing entertainment and dinner
given to the inmates. The boys had
feast of turkey and other Christmas
dnintles, and afterward there was
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 a case pending
In the County Court of Pueblo county
was announced December 26th by the
granting of marriage license to Hen
ry w. Snider of Burlington, Iowa, and
Miss Imogene Hopkins. aged nineteen,
of Carmen. Illinois. Less than n week
before Snider was fugitive from JUS
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