Gilpin observer., 1902-01-09
[coLoRADo NoTEs.

col ,ane nec iSOa ~ rarm product amounts 70
Denver spent, ss,791,421 on new
buildings in 1901.
Colorado has ], $50, ,8O4 head of CAT
tie, 1884, 1853 sheep.
Cripple's big mines paid 81, ,T908l
In dividends in 1901. ~ tlr
Coloratlo live stock census figures has
value Of $53, 100000. = ~ ~
Greeley shipped 1000 carloads Of po-
tatoes, netting the growers $2,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 S55. 1000 tons Of
ore in 1901. The Cripple Greek district
mined 500, $50 tons.
Colorado raised 25O,O0O tons of sugar
beets, on 21 800 acres, and will double
that product in 1902.
A movement is on foot to organize a
national bank at Colorado City. 1t al
ready has a state bank.
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 a
total value of $11,311,07O
An invasion of large herds from Tex
as 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,OOO,OO0
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, SIT cattle. 1OS, 194 hogs,
225,641 sheep and 1897 horses.
Colorado produced 5,91S,41O tons of
coal, and 557 ,3OS tons of coke, employ
ing $500 men in 100 mines and 1,S4O
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.
Fl. A. Shipman, general manager of
Stratton's Independence mines, has
been presented by his Office associates
with $500 silver dinner set
| A fire in the First Methodist Church
at Canon City on the morning of jan
uary 4th, injured the new organ and
| occasioned some $1,000 damage.
| During the month of November the
Colorado & Southern Railway Compa-
ny earned $49S. 500. an increase of S75.-
154 and net $167,397, an increase of
$37, 7,S59.
Miss Isabel Hill, daughter of the late
ex-senator Hilf of Denver, was married
in Paris December Both to the artist, +.
p. Knott. Miss Hill had been abroad
with her mother for the past year.
The Colorado Fuel & iron Company
paid 81 100000 in wages in 1901, and
turned out product including 4,O43,-
$50 tons of coal and 554.44O tons of
coke, Of about thirteen million dollars.
William L. Kimcrer has been desig.
mated as member Of the civil service
board for the postofiice at Colorado
Springs and Edward B. Wilson spd NJ.
p. Phillips for the postoffice 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.
George +. West, mayor of Pueblo
died December Both, after an illness Of
several weeks. Mayor West was born
In Kentucky and came to Colorado in
1880, being forty-eight years of age
at the time of his death. -.
Mrs. Berta Condict Of Florence ac-
complished the feat of writing 2,168
words on an ordinary postal card and
won a gold watch by her effort. The
words averaged about five letters each,
making a total of 1O,S30 letters, every
one Of which could be plainly read.
The Denver News prints the follow
ing Canon City item: Ripe Strawberries
the first of January are not q usual
thing, even in sunny Canon City. r.
T. Arthur, one Of the leading dry goods
merchants Of this city, Is exhibiting a
cluster that was grown and ripened on
a piece Of land owhed by him near the
soda point
The Oakes home for consumptives In
Denver Is to be enlarged by the erec-
ton Of detached cottage to cost $780,
600. The money has been donated by
Charles L. Adams of Chicago, with
the understanding that the addition be
called 'The Mrs. Charles L. Adams
Memorial House." 1t Is to be built In
memory of his wife, on land adjoining
the home.
Efforts are being made to establish
q day nursery In Denver. The plan Is
to hire a room near the Tramway loop
on Arapahoe street, where mothers can
leave their children while they go out
to work. The charity organization
will pay the rent of the room and de-
pends on the churches of the city to
contribute the only other expense, the
matron's salary.