Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-02-14

clearing this winter
]. Roy Huntington made flying trip
to Cresswell. Wednesday,
Miss Emma Berrian, of Buffalo Park,
is visiting at Mrs. Huntington's
Misses Lettie and Maud Hicks were
visiting in Evergreen Thursday.
Frank Kooken, of Idaho Springs, has
been spending the past two months at
Brookvale.
Dick Hicks has removed to the lower
Jones place, where he will be nearer the
public road.
Mrs. A. J. Crosson and daughter irene
who are visiting at Elkton are expected
home soon.
Mrs. Anderson has returned from Ida
ho Springs where she has been visiting
her many friends.
Cecil Huntington has gone to Des
Moines, Iowa, where he is attending a
school of osteopathy.
Miss Nora Gardner, of Evergreen, is
sojourning at Brookvale. She is the
guest of Mrs. Shaul.
Dick O'Leary has accepted good
position on the Moffat road. We are
sorry to lose you Dick.
Mrs. Supple is having great deal of
development work done on her group OF
claims which are looking fine.
We are glad to see Buster Hick with us
again after an absence of about three
months in New Mexico and Evergreen.
Vim. Atkinson is spending the winter
at Roy Huntington's. He likes Brook
vale quite well and especially the young
ladies.
Frank Arnold and family are again
residents of Bear Crsek, having bought
the Boles ranch. We welcome you back
Frank.
Shaul & Newman's saw mills are kept
busy saving lumber this winter. Jack
Kirby will start his mill soon and that
will add fifteen more people to our pop
ulation.
Miss Anna Evans came up from Den
yer last week and made short visit.
While here she enjoyed skating at
Beaver dam.
Chas. and Will Devlan are doing a
great deal of improvements this winter.
They intend putting in the largest crop
the ranch ever had.
Mr.. Gaylord is we'll pleased with the
showing in the tunuel he is running.
He says he has considerable tungsten in
one of his prospects.
Eugene Crosson returned from Altman
Wednesday. He had a splendid job on
the Wild Horse but he got sick and was
obliged to come home.
Louie Ferarri is not working his claims
at present but expects to start up soon.
We are confident that they would pay 1t
there was more development done.
All the resorts expect to do big busi-
ness next summer. Last summer they
had a greater number of guests than ever
before, although the season was late.
Daniel Hicks, pioneer farmer, is one
of our lucky ones who will have several
tons of hay to sell this spring, nothwith-
standing we had very dry season last
year.
1t is strange that there is not more
prospecting done in this vicinity as the
indications for gold and copper are as
good here as any other mining district
in the state.
lack Truesdell, our wealthy attorney
and rancher is rusticatiug in Denver for
the season. He has left the ranch in
care of his popular manager, Mack
Arnold and wife.
The Giles Bros. have their shaft down
over one hundred feet and are still sink
ing. AS to the value of the ore we could
not ascertain how high it runs as they
are quite reticent.
Among the new cottages added to In
dian Greek Park are the cottages of Mr..
Johnson and Mr.. May of Denver which
cost about 5000 per residence. There
was also fine trout pond built for the
of small trout.
The Sunday school at Brookvale is
meeting with great success, if attendance
is any criterion. Mrs. Mason is splen-
did superintendent and her lovely daugh-