The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-11-11
COLORADO BRIEFS.

possibilities of Boulder Twenty-Five
thousand dollars was subscribed for
that purpose Saturday.
George ]. Bancroft has been appoint
ed consulting engineer of all the mines
OF the estate of the late w. S. Stratton.
He is son of DR.. f. j. Bancroft of
Denver.
The Revenue mine at Ouray has fin
ished its tunnel to the Telluride side
of the range, distance of 1000 feet.
"A rich vein of ore was struck near
the apex.
Postmaster Davie of Florence has
received official notice from the de-
partment at Washington that free de-
livery will be installed in that city
March LIST.
Next year, with the promise of an
abundant water supply and increased
acreage in beets, will bring the yalua-
ton of this new Weld county product
to upward of 81 100000.
In pursuance of the provisions of the
national irrigation act about 300 home
steads have been taken up under the
fawnee reservoir near Sterling, and
filings steadily continue.
Logan county cattle shipments this
year will exceed 10000 head. mostly
considerable firm block range-fed beef.
however. is being sent out.
Sugar beet day at Greeley and Eaton
on the Both marked an important perl
cd in Weld county's history. Thous-
ands were in attendance to view the
factories in operation at the two towns.
A number of Longmont farmers have
organized a Percheron Breeders Asso-
citation and have purchased thor
oughbred registered Percheron stallion
direct from French importers.
The next session of the Colorado
Chautauqua Association at Boulder
will probably open on Saturday, July
4, 1903, and close on Friday. August
9TH. though longer session is not inn
probable.
The joint ticket agency of Colorado
Springs reports that between 10000
and 65, 200 tourists visited Colorado
Springs this season. This number is
about twenty-five per cent in excess OF
last years total.
The office of the State Land Board is
doing good work in collecting back
royalties due on mineral leases. Sew
eral hundred dollars have been re-
ceived so far and a number OF thou
sands are expected.
Sugar making in the Poudre valley
is an enterprise which has come to
stay This year the beet crop alone
will make the farmers richer by S27O,-
600. and this in a year unprecedented
for its destructive hail storms, severe
early frosts and scarcity of water.
]. H. Springer has been appointed
commercial agent of the Colorado &
Southern road at Colorado Springs.
He succeeds II. d. Milton, who has
been appointed general manager of
| the road from Boulder to Ward,
known as the Switzerland Trail.
Robert Hahnewald. prominent
business man and pioneer OF Lead
vile, was badly injured Tuesday in
dynamite explosion in his mine in
Lake park. He was looking after
some work in one of the drifts when
he drilled into an unexploded hole.
The railroads have arranged one
and one-fifth fare for the Arkansas
Valley Teachers Association meeting
which will be held in La Junta Satur-
day, November 29th. Every county in
southeastern Colorado from Canon
| City to the Kansas state line, will be
represented and it is believed the asso-
Citations meeting will be one of the
most largely attended in its history.
Byron Hames and ]. w. Blackwood,
proprietors of two Colorado City sa-
looms, have turned over to the sheriff
| about 81 900 worth of gambling par
aphernalia. The men are awaiting
| sentence in the District Court, having
| been convicted of permitting gambling
| in their places of business. Judge
Cunningham intimated that leniency
would be more certain to be SHOWN
| should they indicate Willingness to
reform.
1t is probable that part of the
money which will be used to con-
struct the new Denver, Northwestern
G. Pacific railroad will come from Hol-
land, and will be sent to Colorado
through the agency of G.. M. Boisse-
vain, the Holland banker who was in
Denver last week with his son, d. r
Boissevain. a New York capitalist,
visiting d. II. Moffat. While in Den
yer they looked over the plans of the
new road carefully. Mr.. Moffat an
nounces that large block of the
, bonds of the new road may be floated
through their efforts.
According to reports from the East,
large stockholders of the Colorado
Fuel and Iron Company are attempt
ing to. bring about a friendly state of
feeling between Mr.. Gates and Mr.. Os-
| good. Many of the stockholders are
tof the opinion that Gates will hold
the majority of votes at the meeting
December 10th, but if Mr.. Osgood is
defeated he will quickly organize a
new company, whose works will be
established in Denver or in Utah.
This company, if rumors are correct,
is almost in a condition to be launched
now Should a reconciliation be eff
fected between the contending chiefs,
the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company
will remain in undisputed possession
| of tho western field