The Holly chieftain., 1904-05-13
STATE CAPITAL NOTES

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| keeping up the price and holSing up
| the state. The way in which the bids
/ nave come, one always much lower
than the others. but from different
| firms alternately, goes TO confirm this
| suspicion. New parties recently bid
| far below the prices that have pre-
| vailed and il is said that the former
bidders at once began to make eXtrav-
| agant cuts in order to drive out the
new competitors.
The petition for rehearing filed by
| the estate creditors in the Brown Pal
ace hotel litigation, was denied by the
Supreme Court on the ground that they
were fully protected. The case was
left exactly as when a former opinion
was written by Chief Justice Gabbert
which reversed the decision of the
lower court and remanded the case
for further hearing. The per curiam
opinion handed down by the Supreme
Court takes the ground that there will
be enough of the estate left to cover
the Indebtedness Of the estate itself
and that incurred by Henry c. Brown.
The Supreme Court, In an opinion
written by Judge Steele, has sustained
the verdict of the lower court in the
Ii
OF Anaconda succeeded in getting
judgment for taxes against the Ana
conda Mining Company for street
light and improvements. The mining
company owns a plant of twenty or
more acres near the town and
contend that as it was not
divided into lots no taxes could
be collected, The courts held
that the property was particularly
subject to taxes for the reason that the
! company had maintained resort
upon 1t for several years known as
Paradise Alley"
There are no alarming symptoms
of general drouth in Colorado this
year" said State Engineer Carpenter
discussing recent weather reports and
conditions throughout the state. 1--WE
are apparently safe, for good while
at least, and there is no occasion for
alarm. The recent rains and SHOWS
have furnished enough water to com
pletely insure the first crop. and sew
eral bitches have been filled until they
have broken over. The supply of the.
Denver Union Water Company is
just now about what it was last year
at this time. There is much more snow
| in the mountains than is generally be-
| lieved and this is being reflected every
| day In the increase in the flow of
| streams, as is shown by our reports"
From reports of the commissioners
of the different water districts through
| out the state, which are now being re-
ceived by State Engineer Carpenter.
ditch owners of Colorado are appar-
emily not complying with the law in
| : hn of oot ~ ino q n 1n
headgates and rating fumes in bitches.
Notices were sent out from the state
engineers office some time ago to the
effect that this law must be complied
with. Up to the 5th inst. the commits
sioner from district 6S is the only one
who has reported compliance with the
| law. The other commissioners report
| that in many cases the ditch owners
refuse to comply with the law. Mr..
| Carpenter will prepare final notices
when all the reports are in, notifying
the delinquents of the penalty
Governor Peabody has received
from Acting Secretary of the Navy
Charles H. Darling, which states that
his request to have the bell formerly
used on the old frigate Colorado in
1856, will be transferred to the new
U. SIS. Colorado when the ship is COM,
! pleted. The request was made by the
| Governor some time ago to have the
old bell placed on Colorado's new ship.
The letter from the Navy Department
says the bell is at present being used
| on the u. S. S. Puritan, which is sta
toned at the navy yard at League
island, having been removed to this
vessel after the original frigate Colo
RADIO was destroyed. On this bell are
the letters Colorado U. S. w. N. Y,
1856" and on the opposite side, "Puri-
tan, 1885, The bell is 25& inches
wide at the mouth and 21& inches
high and weighs 700 pounds. The bell
is described as being in good condition
and has a clear, musical sound, con-
sistent with it's size and weight.
Another valuable book advertising
the industries of the state has just
been issued by the Colorado Promo
tion and Publicity committee and this
with other literature will be distribu-
ted at the st. Louis fair. In it is
shown half-tone engravings of the
principal manufactures of the state.
with a brief description OF each. AS
explained in the introduction. it is
meant to dismiss from the mind of its
reader the idea that the chief reliance
of Colorado is her mines of silver and
gold. Speaking of the manufactures
of Colorado, the statistics show that in
1900, there were 1866 manufacturing
establishments in the the state with an
aggregate capitalization OF sG2 ,937,35l.
and employing 24,792 hands. The pay.
roll was SIS, 5,l50,767 per annum and the
value of the annual produce s102,917,-
$50. The cost of the material used
was S66.9 1928. Since then there has
been steady growth, Denver alone