The Lamar register., 1902-01-08
COLORADO NOTES.


The 1901 farm product amounts to
$39, 100000.
Denver spent $3,707,421 on new
buildings In 1901.
Colorado has 1,5S6,GO4 head Of cat
tie, 2,S94,7 sheep.
Cripple's big mines paid S4,79O,616
in dividends in 1901.
Colorado live stock census figures has
a value of $53,OOO,OOO.
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,OOO tons of
ore in 1901. The Cripple Creek district
mined 595, ,2S5 tons.
Colorado raised 100000 tons of sugar
beets, on 81 800 acres, and will double
that product in 1902.
More than 2S7 tons Of poultry was
Shppeu lltO beuNeE ia Cue Neth AAc<
month for the holiday trade.
The gold reduction mills Of the state
treated 2S4,935 tons of ore, having
total value of S11,311.O7O.
An invasion of large herds from Tex
as 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 $12OOOo,0OO.
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 227,5T7 cattle, 1OS. 1914 hogs,
25,641 sheep and 1897 horses.
Colorado produced 5,91s,41O tons of
coal, and 557 ,3OS tons of coke, employ
ing $500 men in 122 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 $49s, 500. an increase of S75,-
154 and net $167 ,397, an increase Of
$37, $50.
Miss Isabel Hill, daughter of the late
ex-senator Hill of Denver, WIS married
in Paris December Both to the artist, II.
P. Knott. Miss Hill had been abroad
with her mother for the past year.
William l.. Kimcrer has been desig-
mated AZ a member of the civil service
board for the postoffice at Colorado
Springs and Edward B. Wilson and NJ.
L. 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.
A La Jnra dispatch to the Denver
News says: The annual rabbit hunt of
Conejos county occurred at Henry, and
1t is estimated that between LOO and
1900 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. Dnna and associates, lessees
Of Prospect amusement privileges ut
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 1t in winter. Thousands of
young people patronize the lake during
skating weather.
The business of the Denver postoffice
for the past year shows a phenomenal
increase over that for the preceding
twelve months. The city may now
claim to be a postoffice 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 n
few Of the very large cities.
The Denver Real Estate Exchange
Mountain and Plain are planning an
excursion in January to 81 Paso, Tex
as, to attend the winter carnival which
is held there from the 18th to the 18th.
The Santa Fe road has made a special
rate of $25 for the round trip, and
enough persons will go, it is expected.
to enable the committee on arrange
ments to provide n 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
dainties, 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
o.