Gilpin observer., 1903-01-08
The Denver News of recent date con


may be located at Rollinsvile, seven
miles from the Conterental divide. An
effort has met with success to have this
point made the distributing center for
Eldora and the surrounding country
and the officers of the road have under
consideration donation of 100 acres
made by Potter & Leightburn, bankers
OF Central City, for shops, round houses
and coal chutes.
The decision has been made to make
RADIO & Utah Construction company,
which is building the road, announced
yesterday that siding 1000 feet long,
with a platform twenty feet wide, made
of four-inch plank, would be built, af-
fording ore wagons opportunity to drive
to the cars to load, as is done at Cripple
Creek.
Plans looking to the investment of
100000 at the prospective division point
are on foot. A fifty-ton sampling plant
will be erected this spring. bank and
general store will be built berore next
September, at which time the grade for
the road will be completed. Several
merchants are preparing to move from
Eldora to open hardware and miung
supply store, and Quigley & Co. of Cen
tral City are moving in machinery for
lumber yard.
At present an embryo town is going
up, A postoffice has been established
and F. G. Gooch appointed postmaster.
There is drug store, an eighteen-room
frame hotel, two general stores. n com
Portable school house; livery barn and
one saloon. Church services are held in
the school house. One hundred men
get mail daily at Rollinsville, where
three months ago there was not house
or cabin for miles.
The railway has egtablished camp OF
prospectors at the "town," whose duty
what work is done by the construction
gangs. A government survey will open
an Office shortly after Jan. l, in order to
attend to work in connection with min
ing claims and applications.
The directors OF the Northwestern
Colorado Exploration company were in
session yesterday afternoon in their Of
fees in the Majestic building. J. R.
Anderson of Pittsburg, who has returned
from trip along the road with General
Manager w. III. Knowles, said after the
meeting that more Eastern capital is to
be invested along the new road, and as
soon as the contracts with the success
full bidders are let. there will be an in
fiux of Pennsylvania and New York
money.
ut is surprising" he said, "ths amount
Of interest taken in the East in regard to
the new road. We have several only
awaiting the road to go in there, and
will be very much disappointed il Rol
linsvile dosen't have from 2,00O to 5000
people in 1t this time two years hence.
The whole country is opening up-the
rush in there is scarcely abated from the
summer. At the mining camps, Perigo,
Moon Gulch, tBoulder Park, Baltimore
and Phoenix. there are from 200 to 300
men working"
The company is plating the Rollins.
vile town site and will extensively ad
vertise the new town and the road 10
the form of illustrated pamphlets in the
East.
The Clear Creek Mining and Power
company has filed incorporation papers,
the incorporators being Crank B. Gibson
vice president of the International Trust
company; w. G. Smith. vice president OF
the Denver, Northwestern X Pacific rail
road, and John L. Adams, an attorney
The capital OF the company is placed at
S.S00,0JO, aad while Mr.. Gibson states
there is no connection with the Moffat
road incorporators are SO closly allied
with the Moilat enterprises the impress
sion is general that it is u scheme to pro
tect the power rights OF the Denver ~
Northwestern company, the corporation
capitalized at SG,000,0O0 to build the in.
terurban system of the Tramway, which
will be operated by electricity.
Mr.. Gibson explains that the newly in
corporated company has taken over the
property OF the OLD Clear Creek Mining
and Water Power company which was
organized ten years ago by Henry Lewis
Of Philadelphia. and which own sseveral
miles Of Clear Creek. Several wealthy
Phladelphians. including brother OF
the late Mr.. Lewis, who nre behind the
new company VIII be in Denver ut an
early day to determine what work will
be done. 1t is probable mining will be
prosecuted, and that power will be trans
mitted to Denver and towns within u
radius OF 200 miles, including Leadville.