Gilpin observer., 1909-02-25
PICKED UP HERE AND THERE.

| motors and rolling stock and is handlint
| Its business in way though the roll
| Ing stock Is over taxed for the time be-
ing and will be probably until the new
| locomotive and additional cars are re-
| ceived. The Saratoga, Sun and Moon
Gem. Old Town, King Bee and Belmar
| mines are working on steadily increas
| Ing scale and several of the smaller
| properties are doing development work
| In the tunnel In the heading two rounds
OF blasts each twenty-four hours are
| accomplishing a big footage and rapidly
bringing near the big things anticipat-
| ed from the veins to be cut under Quart,
hill.-Idaho Springs Gazette.
The cement floor of the transformer
house and central station of the United
Hydro Electro Co. is completed and
ready for the installation of the trans
formers which arrived and were unloade
last week. This completes the plant
which will be ready very soon for the
distribution of current from the George
town generating plant and the supply
from the lines of the Central Colorado
Co. With its new organization the United
becomes one of the largest distributing
companies in the state. 1t has the Clear
Creek and Gilpin county field in which
the use of electric power is being very
largely adopted.-Idaho Springs Gazette.
ii. p. Lowe of Denver, accompanied
by Mr. Louis F. Firth. capitalist of
Ritford. England. were inbound passen-
gers last Thursday. coming over from
Central City to examine the transporta-
tion facilities at the portal of the New
house tunnel. The gentlemen are large
ly interested in the great Topeka mine
over In Gilpin county which will be
ntersected in the progress of the big
bore.-Idaho Springs Siftings.
Cecil C. Morgan, who was superinten-
dent of the Terrible mine in the '70s,
has returned to Colorado and will take
the management of mine in Gilpin
county for English company Mr..
Morgan was among the pioneers Of
Leadville. In 1890 he took charge OF a
mining property at Broken Hill. New
South Wales. Subsequently he entered
the consular service of Great Britain
and was stationed at Paris.-Georgetown
Courier.
The Central City teams carried them
selves well while in our town, and
the game was the cleanest and best.
from the standpoint OF wrangling that
we have had this year. Their boys and
girls play a clean game; this is 1t
should be always.-Arvada Sun.
shot an arrow into the air, 1t
fell in the distance, l knew not where,
till a neighbor said II had killed his calf,
and | had to pay him six and a half.
/ bought some poison to kill some rats
and a neighbor swore 1t had killed his
cats; and rather than argue over the
fence. / paid him a dollar and twenty
cents. One night I sailed a toy balloon
and hoped II would soar till 1t reached
the moon, but the candle fell out in a
farmers straw and l had to cough up
or go to law. And that Is the way
with the random shot-it never hits
the proper spot: and the joke tnat you
spring that you think so smart. may
leave a wound in some fellows heart
and he'll come along and put you to
sleep with a jolt that woulu make the
angels weep.-Exchange.
Suspicious that 1t more than a
longing TO see home and mother that
on Sunday were confirmed Tuesday when
Otto returned with a charming and
handsome better nine -tenths who UP to
Sunday morning signed her name Floss
Maughan and gave her address as
Golden. Otto come to Greeley to op-
crate the linotype on the Sun but Is now
with the Pioneer. He is a fine fellow
and his co-workers on the Sun ex-
tend their congratulations on his luck
in the matrimonial lottery. Mrs. otto
was a student in the liberal arts school
OF d. U. and was popular in college
circles The couple surprised even their
own Immediate families by quietly slip
ping over to Arvada Sunday morning
and having the knot tied. May all their
troubles be little ones."-Greeley sun.
Bert Jones. known in the baseball
world as Lefty Jones. is said to have
been engaged to coach the School OF
Mines squad and Wal begin work wi,n-
In few days. Jones started his base
ball career as a School of Mines pitcher
and soon drifted into professional ranks
first playing with the Pueblo Western
league team. then with Milwaukee Amer
lean association team and later with
the st. Louis Browns. He was with the
Pacific Coast league two years ago and
Is now in the coal business in this city.
Golden Press.
One OF the most attractive souvenirs
issued in Colorado is being sent out
from Gilpin county in the form OF a
beautifully illustrated book showing pic
lures OF the big mines, mills and tun-
mel openings. To those unfamiliar with
mining camps. this book will be of
great interest, as It shows surface
equipment and manner OF extracting the
precious metals from the earth and
how the waste is stacked up oh the
enormous dumps. ETC.: to those who
are already interested. 1t will be of
great value. as 1t contains views of
the mines which have made this part
OF Colorado famous.-Western Investor s
Review.