North Park union., 1902-01-10
COLORADO NOTES.

Denver spent $S,tVi,4~A OA Ae"
buildings in 1901.
Colorado has l,5S6,604 head OF cat
tie, 2,S94. .783 sheep.
Cripple's big mines paid $4,19O,616
In dividends In 1901.
Colorado live stock census figures has
q value Of 100000.
Greeley shipped 1000 carloads OF po-
tatoes, netting the growers $2,SOo,OOo.
The Denver Tramway Company car
ried 30,625. $50 passengers during the
year.
The Portland mine at Victor took out
ore valued at $4,000 every day during
1901.
Lake county mined s55,OOO tons of
ore In 1901. The Cripple Creek district
mined sos, ,2S5 tons.
Colorado raised 25O. 1000 tons Of sugar
beets, on 21,SOO acres, and Will double
that product in 1902.
The gold reduction mills Of the state
treated 2S4,935 tons of ore, having
total value of $11,311,O7O.
The Denver stock yards, in 1901, re-
ceived 227,577 cattle, 1OS,194 hogs
225, ,641 sheep and Is, 1907 horses.
Cripple Creeks 1901 record is $685.
100000. bringing the total gold produc-
ton of that camp to $12O,OOO,OOO.
Colorado produced 5,01S,41O tons of
coal, and 557 ,3OS tons Of coke, employ
ing $500 men in 122 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.
Edwin B. Potter, aged seventy-four,
a lawyer, committed suicide by shoot
ing himself through the head in Den
yer on Christmas day.
Rural free delivery will be estab-
llshed at Brighton on the first OF Feb
ruary. The area covered is thirty
eight square miles and 500 people will
be served.
The postoffice at Bolton. Arapahoe
county, has been moved to the state
line at Clugh. Cheyenne county, Kan
sas. Charles E. Cotterell Is named rs
postmaster.
e. F. Dyer superintendent Of the city
schools of Gunnison, was severely In
jured by a bicycle accident December
Goth. but Will probably not be Inca
pacinted for work.
The Colorado Fuel & Iron Company
paid 100000 In wages in 1901, and
turned out n product, including 4,O43,-
$50 tons of coal and 554,44 tons OF
coke, of about thirteen million dollars.
Numerous shoplifters were arrested
In the large stores at Denver during
the rush Of the holiday trade, the
crowds being so dense MS to anord
IN thnSa fhIpv.
ishly disposed.
All the ice in the Grand river at
Bruita went out December 27th-some-
thing very unusual. 1t was frozen to
n depth of about six inches, but owing
to the continued warm weather broke
and went out.
George +. West, mayor OF Pueblo,
died December Both, after an illness or
several weeks. Mayor West wns born
in Kentucky and came to Colorado in
1880, being forty-eight years OF age
at the time of his death.
The Boulder Fruit Growers Associa-
tIon is preparing to have big state
conven, on In Boulder on january 18th
md 10Th. A fine program Is being ar
ranged md well-posted speakers and
lecturers will be present.
The following agents Of the Colorado
Humane Society have recently been ap-
pointed: Il. G. How and L. N. Layen-
der of Telluride, Thomas L. Bell Of
Denver John w. Hill Of Yampa and d.
X. Caldwell of Pagosa Junction
There have been m unusual number
Of deaths from pneumonia In Denver
recently. People seem to have gone
out without overcoats and wraps on
account Of the bright weather. which
was much colder than it seemed.
Telephone poles are being received at
Alamosa for the new line to connect
Alamosa and Walsenburg. This line
Will put Alamosa in telephone connec-
ton with Pueblo, Colorado Springs,
Denver and other eastern and northern
points.
A large new furnace Mt the Philadel-
phia smelter, in Pueblo, is practically
completed, making the twelfth of the
new model. 1t is planned to replace all
the small furnaces, one OF the new
ones having capacity equal to two OF
the old.
Robert Haight, seventy-five years
old, Colorado pioneer, dropped dead
Mt the headquarters of the Pioneer So
ciety in the Charles block, Denver, on
the night of Christmas. He had been
playing whist with old friends during
the evening.
The Colorado Kennel Club has de-
cIded to test the city ordinance in Den
yer which directs that license shall be
collected from dogs kept in kennels in
the city limits. The club holds that
license should be collected only on dogs
allowed to run at large.
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 100 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.
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 postoff1ce Of the first
class and the postmaster will be en-
titled to salary of 5000, the maxi
mum compensation allowed postIhas-
tiers, except where Congress has made
special provision, us In the case of a
few Of the very large cities.
At 2:15 o'clock on the morning of De
cember Both the floor of the press room
of the Evening Post OH Curtis street in
Denver, cayed in, precipftating a lot