The state herald., 1902-01-10
COLORADO NOTES.

The 1901 farm product amounts to
$39, ,050,OOO.
Denver spent S3,707,421 on new
buildings In 1901.
Colorado has 1.5S6,G04 head of cat
tie, 2,S94.163 sheep.
Cripple's big mines paid $4,700,G16
In dividends In 1901.
Colorado live stock census figures has
value of $53,OO0,pvo.
Greeley shipped 1000 carloads of po-
tatoes, netting the growers $2,SOOOOO.
The Denver Tramway Company car
rled 3o,625,SS0 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 $4,000 tons of
ore in 1901. The Cripple Creek district
mined 595,2S5 tons
Colorado raised 10000 tons of sugar
bcets, on 81 500 acres, and will double
tnut llTOuucl III lfV-.
A movement is on foo. to organize
national bank at Colorat 30 City. 1t al-
ready has state bank,
More than 2S7 tons of poultry was
shipped into Denver in one week last
month for the holiday trade.
The gold reduc on mills of the state
treated Isl ,03r- ksa of ore, having u
total value Of $ll,8n,o70.
An invasion OF large herds from Tex
as is giving the cattlemen of Prowers
county considerable anxiety.
Cripple Creeks 1901 record is $780,
100000, bringing the total gold produc-
ton of that camp to S19000,00o
Canon City owns Its water plant and
claims 1t is equal to that If any city OF
the same size in the United States.
The Denver stock yards, lin 1901, re-
relved 227,5TIT cattle. 1dS,i9I hogs,
25,Gi1 sheep and 1887 botses.
Colorado produced 5,0ls.AlO tons of
coal, and 1905 tons of coke. employ
Ing $500 men In 100 mines and $40
coke ovens.
The travel in Colorado for the holi-
day season just closed is reported by
the railroads to have been hrGer than
ever before.
ii. A. Shipman. general manager of
STATIONS Independence mines. has
been presented by his office associates
with n $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 5000 damage.
During the month of November the
Colorado X Southern Railway Compa-
ny earned Si9S,J9. an increase Of Si5,-
l54 and net SiGI,39I, an Increase of
S3I.S59.
Miss Isabel Hin, daughter of the late
ex-senator Hin of Denver, was married
In Paris December Both to the artist. +.
p. Knott. Miss EIill had been abroad
with her mother for the past year.
The Colorado Fuel & Iron Company
paid SI,OoO0OO In wages In 1901, and
turned out product, including i,oi3,-
$50 tons Of coal and 55i,iiO tons OF
coke, OF about thirteen million dollars.
william l.. Kmcrer has been desig.
mated as n member of the civil service
board for the postoiiice nt Colorado
Springs ani Edward II. Wilson and NJ.
4. Phillips FOR the postoilicc az Grand
Junction.
The Colorado State Cattle Growers
Association VIII probably hold meet
Ing In Denver the latter part Of Feb
ruary or the first Of March. The eN-
ecutivc committee VIII meet soon TO
Tx 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-clght years OF age
at the time OF his death.
Mrs. Berta Condlct OF Florence ne.
compllshed the feat OF writing 2iG6
words ON an ordinary postal card and
won n gold watch 10y her effort. The
words averaged about five letters each.
making total OF l0.s3O 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 usual
thing. even In sunny Canon City. II.
T. Arthur. one of the leading dry goods
merchants OF thit city, Is exhibiting u
cluster that was grown and ripcned on
piece Of land owned by him near the
soda point.
The 0akcs home for consumptlvcs In
Denver Is TO he enlarged by the cree
tion OF detached cottage TO cost s30..
900. The money has been donated by
Charles l.. Adams OF Chicago. with
he understanding that the addition bc
called 1.-The Mrs. Charles l.. Adams
Memorial House" II Ii 10 he built In
memory OF his wife, ON land adjoining
the home.
Efforts are being made so establish
a day nursery In Denver. The plan Is
10 hire n room near the Trnmwny loop
On Arnpahoc street. where mothers can
leave their children while they 10 out
to work. The charity organization
viii pay the rent of the room and de-
pcnds on the churches Of the city to
contribute the only other expense. the
matron's salary.
II IL estimated that the value OF Frc.
mont county's fruit ani garden pro.
ducc reached the SaJo.OOo mark last
season. A conservative average yniu.
alton OF the product of the orchards
In the county per ncrr Is: Apples. $500:
strawberries, $50. rDspberrics, $3.50:
cherries. 500: grapes, SiI5: and gar.
den produce. 5000 Exceptional or.
chnrds yielded over $1,000 pcr ncrc.
The seasons output OF fruit WINS large
and ready market was found.