The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-01-28
COLORADO BRIEFS.


Oil wells will be sunk near Littleton
and in Routt county.
Cripple Creeks saloons are now
closed at midnight.
A forger under arrest at Creede is
believed to be Pat Grove.
Gene Born of Creede was fined $50
for killing three mountain sheep.
Denver seems in fair way to have
two baseball mines the coming season.
The Legislature will convene in ex-
traordinary session on the 9th of jan
uary.
A serious fire in the Calm coal mine
at Newcastle was found to be of i'll
cendiary origin.
The daughter of Major General Whea-
ton is soon to marry Frederick ii. Nor
ley of Colorado Springs.
Two young men of Burlington were
nearly killed by the effects of head
ache tablets which they ate.
A new wagon road is to be built be-
tween Monument and Palmer Lake to
avoid the hills on the present route.
The Colorado Mine Exchange has
moved into the new and elegant build
ing erected for them by w. s. STRAIT
ton.
The effect on the value of real estate
has been remarkable. Land has gone
up 300 per cent. in price and in some
instances even more. One farm was
Just sold for S400 per acre.
The Colorado Fuel & Iron Company
paid 81 100000 in wages in 1901, and
turned out a product, including 4,043,-
$50 tons of coal and 554, ,44O tons of
coke, of about thirteen million dollars.
The deaf mutes of Denver are or
ganizing a church They will rent
quarters for a church and employ IL
skilled instructor from the Colorado
Springs College, who will preach to
them in the sign language.
Excitement in the Debeque oil fields
continues unabated and the hills for
miles around town are filed with pros
pectors and now a piece of government
land on which the locators' stakes are
not prominent is a rarity. Prices on
real estate are rapidly advancing.
The Colorado, New Mexico and Wyo-
ming Lumber Dealers Association held
It's tenth annual meeting in Colorado
Springs on the 21st. which was attend
ed by about sixty delegates, represent
ing the most prominent lumber dealers
in the West.
Foul air in the May Be mine on
Squaw mountain has added two more
victims to the list of mine casualties
in the Cripple Creek district. The un-
fortunate miners are John Wanner and
Gus Peterson. They were employed by
Lessees Davis and Bentley.
A macaroni factory has been estab-
lshed at Coal Creek. The company is
composed of Italians and the machin-
cry was imported from Italy, the
freight alone amounting to $1,000. Ten
varieties are being made. The orders
already are taxing the plant.
j. W. Warren has donated 219 acres
of valuable land two miles west of
Loveland to the National Benevolent
Association of the Christian Church for
the purpose of establishing an industri-
al home for homeless boys. Suitable
buildings will be erected by the asso-
citation as soon as possible. and the
farm put into proper condition to be
utilized to the best advantage in the
support of the home.
1t has Just been learned that parties
are taking up the coal lands at the
head of Surface creek, pear Delta.
over 10000 acres are now staked and
the men are still mt work. While no
1t is thought that either the Colorado
Fuel and Iron Company or the parties
who are talking of putting in the smelt-
er at Delta are securing the coal de-
posits.
Arthur +. Francis. secretary of the
Cripple Creek Chamber of Commerce,
has received letter from President
Trumbull of the Colorado & Southern
railroad, thanking the chamber and
the business men for the interest dis
played in the building of the cutoff
from Denver to Cripple Creek. Mr..
Trumbull assured the secretary that
undoubtedly the road would be built
Ia the near future.
At the recent annual meeting of the
Colorado Equal Suffrage Association
the following officers We're elected:
President. Miss Thcodosia Ammons of
Fort Collins; first vice president, Mrs.
Il. NJ. Ashley; second, Mrs. Lizzie La
mont; recording secretary. Miss Mary
Prendergast of Fort Collins; assistant
secretary, Miss Rena Pels: correspond
ing secretary, Miss Elizabeth Dorney;
treasurer, Mrs. Elizabeth Ensley; aud
itor, Mrs. Louise Tyler.
improvements in the northern end of
Pueblo are liable to be somewhat de-
layed by the shortage of water pipes.
The kind of pipes being used by the
North Side water trustees is manufac-
tured at the steel works, and the pres
ent supply is exhausted, and there are
other orders than those of the city far
enough ahead at the steel works to
keep the pipe foundry busy for the
next six months. Orders will be placed
at once in order that there will be no
further delay.
1t is thought that Thomas T. Walsh
is back of the smelter negotiations for
Delta, and that in place of building a
railroad to Pueblo from Ouray, as he