The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-05-01

IDAHO SPRINGS. COL
MIR. and Mrs. A. E. Tyler after spend
ing some time in this city as the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Arkills. de-
parted Wednesday for their home at
Lake Geneva. Wisconsin.
A May Day Social will be given by
the Luther League in the parlors OF
the Sunnyside Lutheran church. A
short program will be rendered, and ice
cream and cake will be served May 1st.
Every one cordially invited.
Oscar Jaenson has secured q con-
tract on the Addudle property on the
line of the Newhouse tunnel and COM
menced work the first of the week.
His contract calls for $50 feet of work.
and it is expected that before the limit
is reached valuable ore bodies will be
uncovered.
II. G. Callahan who has for some
time past been connected with the
Elliott pharmady, owing to his
i'll health is compelled to seek .
lower altitude, and leaves this after
noon for Kansas where he will seek q
new location. He may decide to locate
in one of the Colorado valley towns.
After service covering nine years,
during which time he has had but .
week 8 lay-off, Lafrance Roll severed
his business relationship with the Elk
saloon and next week will remove to
Seattle where he expects to go into
business for himself. Mr.. Rolls inn
mediate relatives have been residents
of Seattle for many years
Local interest now centers at the
Jackson monument on Jackson bar,
and the visitors there Sunday were
numerous. The framework had not
been removed, nor the superstructure
of concrete had not "set" but the
average citizen became interested in
viewing the exact spot whereon gold
was found in paying quantities by
Jackson in SO.
After riding up the valley from Col
den the principal oasis for the tourists
and travellers is the water power plant
of the Gem company three miles east
of town With its very neatly kept
surroundings, its brightly painted
buildings, the water fall from the flume
and every thing kept in the neatest
manner. it is the picture Of attraction
and admiration.
Wes Kennady has again started the
drills on the Burns-Moore tunnel and
indication are that that there will be no
cessation of work during the summer
months. 1t is expected that many
valuable ore bodies will be encondtered
within q short time the owners of
which will commence work at once
upon their exploitation.
H. A. Reidel, of the Rockford tun-
mel enterprise and one of the best
boosters that has ever happened,
visited the camp this week in company
with Robert Harrison of London, Eng
land, and the two enjoyed two-days
stay immensely. Mr.. Harrison ex-
pressed himself as delighted with every
thing that he saw, and formed ac-
quaintances that will last throughout
some time.
Ex-Councilman William Irvine de-
parted Thursday for Denver where he
has purchased an established dairy bust
ness and will devote his undivided at
tention to it. Having had several years
of experience in this line it will be no
new departure for him, and we predict
that he will at once become prosperous.
His family will follow him as soon as
the household goods can be prepared
for shipment.
Work was commenced at the warm
springs to drive cross cut from the
new tunnel to tunnel No. 2 along the
opening from whence the water is
sues. If the water comes out all
along the length of this drift, a
distance of over forty feet, as it does
at the initial point there will be water
galore for bathing purposes, for
hundreds of people daily.
Miss Emily johnson, formerly night
operator at the local teleponhe exchange
died at her home in Cheyenne, Wyom-
ing, last Thursday. But little is known
as to the facts concerning her illness
and the news comes as a shock to her