The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-01-07
COLORADO NOTES.

1927, ,OOO
The 1901 farm product amounts to
$50 O0O,OOO.
Denver spent s3,707,421 on new
buildings in 1901.
Colorado has 1856 6O4 head of cat
tie, 2,S94.763 sheep.
Cripple's big mines paid $4,79O,616
In dividends in 1901.
Colorado live stock census figures has
a value of $53,OOO,O00.
Greeley shipped 1900 carloads of po-
tatoes, netting the growers S2,SOOOOO.
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, 700 tons of
ore in 1901. The Cripple Greek district
mined 500, ,2S5 tons.
Colorado raised 100000 tons of sugar
beets, on 800 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 S11,311,07O.
The Denver stock yards, in 1901, re-
ceived 227, ,577 cattle, los, 1874 hogs,
225,641 sheep and 1897 horses.
Cripple Creeks 1901 record is $25,-
100000 bringing the total gold produc-
ton of that camp to $120OOO,OOO.
Colorado produced 5,91S,41O tons of
coal, and 557 ,30S tons of coke, employ
ing $500 men in 10 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,
lawyer. committed suicide by shoot
ing himself through the head in Den
yer on Christmas day.
Rural free delivery will be estab-
lished 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 as
| postmaster.
e. F. Dyer. superintendent of the city
| schools of Gunnison, was severely In
| jured by a bicycle accident December
paciated 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 .44O 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 as to afford
tempting opportunities to those thiev-
ishly disposed.
All the Ice In the Grand river ut
Fruita went out December 21th-soIne-
thing very unusual. 1t was frozen to
a depth of about six inches, but owing
to the continued warm weather broke
and went out.
George F.. 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
at the time Of his death.
The Boulder Fruit Growers Associa-
ton is preparing to have n big state
convention in Boulder on January 18th
and Goth. A fine program is being ar
ranged and well-posted speakers and
lecturers will be present
The following agents of the Colorado
Humane Society have recently been ap-
pointed: L. G. How and Il. n. Laven-
der of Telluride, Thomas T. Bell of
Denver. John w. Hill of Yampa and e.
X. Caldwell of Pagosa Junction.
There have been an unusual number
of deaths from pneumonia in Denver
receDt,yy. 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 at 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 n capacity equal to two of
the old.
Robert Haight. seventy-five years
old, Colorado pioneer, dropped dead
at 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
it is estimated that between LOO and
300 of the pests We're slaughtered.