Rocky Ford enterprise., 1902-01-10
COLORADO NOTES.

TIE 1901 farm product amounts to
$50. .0d00oo.
Denver spent s3.Io7.i:i on new
buildings In 1901.
Crippie's big mines paid Si.1oo.GiI
In dividends In 1901.
Colorado live stock census figures has
n value OF S5;i.0oOODO.
Greeley shipped 1900 carloads Of po-
tntoes. netting the growers s:.sDO.cc.
The Denver Tramway Company car
ricd ao.G3J. $50 passengers during the
year.
The Portland mine at Victor took out
ore valued at $1,000 every day during
1901.
Many farmers were out plowinE ON
the tirst day OF January In different
parts Of Colorado.
Lake county mined $4,000 tons OF
ore In 1901. The Cripple Creek district
mined 595. ..oss5 tons.
Colorado raised 10000 tons Of sugar
bccts. ON II so acres. and will double
that proiuc, In 1907.
More than .s1 tons OF poultry was
shipped into Denver In one week last
month for the holiday trade.
The gold reduction mills Of the state
treated .St.:es, tons OF ore. having
total vniuc Of <il.3li.OiO.
A movement IL on foot to organize n
national bank nt Colorado City. II ui'
ready has a state bank.
An invasion of large herds from Tx
~ IL giving the catticmcn OF Prowcrs
county considerable anxiety.
Cripple Creeks 1901 record IL So.
sOO.O00. bringing the total gold produc.
tion Of that camp to $lso.OO.coo.
Canon City owns Its water plant and
claims Il IL equal to that of any city OF
tho same size In the United States.
The Denver stock yards. In 1901. re-
ccived 2cI.5I11 cattle. l0s.i0i hogs.
5.Gti sheep and l5.:9I horses.
Colorado produced 5.0is.ii0 tons OF
coal. and 5S7 ..iOS tons Of coke. employ
Ing $500 men In i.2 mines and ISIS
coke ovens.
The travel In Colorado for the hoii.
day season. Just closed IL reported by
the railroads to have been larger than
ever before.
II. A. Shipmnp. general manager OF
Ssratton's Independence mines. has
been presented 10y his Office associates
A fire In the Firs, Methodist Church
at Canon City on the morning Of jan
unry Ith. Injured the new organ ana
occnsioncd some 5000 damage.
During the month OF November the
Colorado * Southern Hallway Compn-
ny earned Si0s.5S9. an increase OF Si5.-
15i and net slG1. .39I. nm Increase OF
$3I. $50
Miss Isabel Hin. daughter Of the late
ex-senator uiifof Denver. was married
In Paris December Both to the artist, +.
=. Knott. Miss Hill had been abroad
with her mother for the past year.
The Colorado Fuel & iron Company
paid sIOOO,OOo In wages In 1901. and
turned out product. including 4.Ol3.-
$50 tons of coal and 55i.i4O tons of
coke. OF about thirteen million dollars.
William l.. Kimerer has been desig.
mated ns n member of the civil service
board for the postotiice at Colorado
Springs and Edward B. Wilson and NJ.
=. Phillips for the postofiice ut 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-
| fix the date.
George +. West. mayor OF Pueblo.
died December 3Oth. after an illness Of
several weeks. Mayor West was born
In Kentucky and came to Colorado in
1880. being forty-eight years Of age
4 at the time of his death.
The Denver News prints the follow
ing Canon City item: Ripe Strawberries
Of n
thing even In sunny Canon City. Il.
T. Arthur, one Of the leading dry goods
merchants of this city. is exhibiting
| cluster that was grown and ripened on
piece of land owned by him near the
soda point
A In lara dispatch to the Denver
News says: The annual rabbit hunt of
Conejos county occurred at Henry. and
It is estimated that between LOO and
1.20O Of the pests We're slaughtered.
There were ninety guns on the hring
line, under command of Captain A. l..
Moss. This was one of the most sue
cessful hunts ever held In the county.
| The Oakes home for consumptives in
Denver is to be enlarged by the cree
tion of n detached cottage to cost $780,
600. The money has been donated by
Charles l.. Adams of Chicago with
the understanding that the ADDITION De
called "1'he Mrs. Charles l.. Adams
Memorial House." II Is to be built in
memory of his wife, on land adjoining
the home.
Efforts are being made TO establish
n day nursery in Denver. The plan is
to hire room near the Tramway loop
4 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.
+. l.. Dana and associates. lessees
Of Prospect amusement privileges Mt
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
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