The Elk Mountain pilot., 1903-11-10
COLORADO BRIEFS.

The valuation of property assessed
Tor taxation in Colorado Springs is $l4,-
100000.
A free employment Office has been
opened in the Office of the police ma
tron of the city Jail in Denver. The
services of the office Will be free to all
unemployed persons in the city.
Prof. Fl. Chester Crouch head of the
department of mechanical engineering
at the University OF Colorado, died at
Boulder, October goth of typhoid fever.
after an illness OF about month.
In the automobile races at Denver
October 29th, Barney Oldfeld, with his
racer, the Gordon Bennett, made three
new records: Five miles, 4:45h; ten
miles. 9:341s; fifteen miles, 14:24k.
The Woman's Home Missionary So
ciety of the M. E. Church. which has
Just closed its annual convention at
Chattanooga. Tennessee. voted to hold
Its next meeting in Denver in October.
1904
At Denver and many other places in
northern Colorado brilliant display of
aurora borealis was seen by the few
people who happened to be out of doors
about o'clock on the morning of Sat
urday, October 31st
The management of the Overland
Racing Association will offer purse
of 81 500 for 2:20 trotters at the meet
ing to be given in Denver next June.
Ais is but one of number of special
lXrses that will be offered during the
meeting.
The Western Rubber Company will
open an Office at 1888 Blake street, Den
yer. 1t has been incorporated to man
ufactsre rubber from a species OF
shrub that grows wild on arid land and
will. If 1t succeeds, open new indus
try for the state.
Edward G. Bird has been arrested in
Denver for robbing nickel-in-the-slot
telephone boxes by means of skeleton
keys. 1t is stated that Bird has
served a term in the State Penitentiary,
under the name of Edward G.. Thomas,
for gram larceny.
Morley A. Howard. Denver & Rio
Grande fireman living at Denver, was
struck on the head by water crane at
the Castle Rock watering tank October
goth, and knocked off the cab, falling
under the train. which cut off both his
legs, killing him instantly.
Railway passenger agents estimate
that over 1000 strangers visited Col
orado during the past summer There
are 1900 unclaimed excursion tickets
still remaining at the joint agency in
the Union Depot in Denver. Evidently
these people have concluded to remain
in the state.
Daniel f. Carmichael, in connection
with eastern and Denver men. is taxi
ing steps toward the construction of an
electric railway line between Denver
and Greeley. Several of those inter-
ested visited Greeley a few days ago
Il Ia hnny nj sod \.
the outlook.
Drs. H. w Hoagland and C. F. Gard
iner of Colorado Springs have been
taking the blood pressure of several of
the Colorado College athletes, meas
urements being taken before and after
TAtball practice. with an eye to dis
lining the effect of exercise in high
altitude.
Thomas F. Walsh, former owner OF
the Camp Bird mine at Ouray, is said
to have intimated to the Worlds Fair
Board that he will furnish the money
to erect a Colorado building at the st.
Louis Exposition. 1t is known that
he has had the matter under consider
alton and that the figures talked of
were $4,000 or 100000.
Manager Sells of the Manitou &
Pixies Peak Cog Road Company has
L
of the Pixies Peak Hydro Electric Com
pany. which has immense power
houses in the vicinity of Manitou, in
regard to the project of running the
cars of the road by electricity ard
Mr.. Taft pronounces the plan to. be
feasible
Manager George B. Tripp of the
Colorado Springs Electric Company,
summoned as an expert witness before
Appraiser Elstun of the Stratton estate.
appraised the value of the Colorado
Springs street railway exclusive of the
real estate at s475.955. This embraces
tnirty-six miles of track, all overhead
appliances, apparatus and machinery,
together with the cars and track.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
pany at Pueblo has begun anew the
construction of reservoir No. 3, and
several hundred men and teams with
large grading machines are employed
The reservoir is located ON Salt Creek,
three miles from Lake Minnequa, and
when completed will be one of the
largest bodies of water in the state. 1t
VIZ be one mile wide and nearly three
ii ~ in length. The water will be ta-
ke from the St. Charles and Arkansas
rivers.
David Jones, master mechanic in the
shops of the Manitou & Pixies Peak
Cog Road Company, is working on
forty-eight horse power gasoline auto
mobile. in which he expects to make
the trip to the summit of the peak in
forty minutes. Thef train takes one
hour and thirty minutes. The car.
which will seat four passengers, will
be completed November 10th. 1t is
provided with regular Hanged wheels
to run on the railroad tracks, with cogs
similar to those fof the regular cog en-
gines.
stems have been taken in Denver to