CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1907-08-08

Florence fOr SuCQ places Oh aOOoe,
but the recent rains have put the wag-
on roads in such shape that the haul
ers and teamsters have concluded to
wait until such time as the roads and
weather are better for the work.
Not many old time American citi-
zens have started rebuilding yet and
neither Is it known whether they will
or not Thomas Quine. Thomas Edge
worth, Charles Cowan and a few 9TH
ers have started their homes. Thomas
Britton has bought one of the Scollick
houses on the north side of the town.
Clerk Stevenson at the mine office,
has bought the Llody rock house up
near the mine, Mrs. James Donald
son has bought the Harry Mellor resi-
dence. There are two or three other
changes also.
Ben Lippis is rebuilding his saloon
building and the brick work for the
walls will be completed this evening.
The carpenters come onto the job
next. When the town was burned the
mayor issued an order to the saloon
keepers that traffic in liquor should
cease for thirty days and that 1t would
not alter their license in any way, for
when they were ready to resume busi-
ness, their license would be extended
that many days by the town board.
The thirty days is up and none Of the
saloon men have reengaged in their
, pursuits because there is no place In
which to conduct business at the
present time.
John Houston of this city has the
contract to repaint the north side OF
the school house and replace the win
dows. 1t was at this point that the
fire was stopped, but the paint on the
north side of the school house was
heated so that it run in streaks on the
side of the building. The heat also
broke out every window in that part
of the building.
The removal of J. J. Mellor to Gree
ley left vacancy in the school board
directorate and his place has been
filled by William Howells, who is the
marshal of the town.
There Is considerable Ill feeling In
the camp, especially among the fire
victims, over the order that has been
issued by the Rocky Mountain Fuel
company to the effect that hereafter
any person or persons getting ready
to build on any of the Teller land at
Coal Creek must first arrange with
the company. 1t is said that the X.
NJ. company has decided that there
shall. be no more "squatting" on their
land and such persons who build must
either buy or lease said lots. This Is
something new in the camp, as build
ers heretofore, in the unincorporated
part of the town, just put up their
house wherever they cared to and
there no questions asked, as the coal
companies seemed anxious to see the
town grow and gave free rent of land
in order to accomplish that end.
The Rocky Mountain company only
controls small part of the land there
and the order will not work any great
hardships on anyone. The sufferers
feel that they can get along very
nicely without the aid of that COM
pany just as easy as the company can
without them. A report Is current
that the Colorado Fuel and Iron COM
pany is anxious to secure quite a
number of town lots in the incorpor-
ated district so that it can control the
destinies of the business end OF the
town. Just how true this report
might be is not known, but is believ-
ed, however, as some property owners
have been approached about the mat
ter.
No special effort has been made
toward cleaning up the town, but the
junk dealers have reaped harvest by
buying everything that was offered
for sale in their line, 1t is confidently
believed that the town will not again
be built up to such large proportions
as 1t once was, but a person who in
tends remaining in a mining camp,
it would seem. would do as well there
as elsewhere, as, 1t is announced that
the Fuel company claims to have
enough coal in the Garfield mine to
last for the next thirty years.-Flor-
ence Tribune.