The Elk Mountain pilot. [volume] (Irwin, (Ruby Camp), Gunnison County, Colo.) 1880-19??, 1919-06-12
"a YEARS AGO
Copied from the Files Of the Elk Mt
Pilot. Then Printed In Irwin

town.
How soon the smelter will start
in Gunnison?
S. P. Spencer and VIM. Wayland
returned from Aspen today.
John Trevarthen and Dan Mcneil
of Irwin, visited our burg today.
Two car loads of ore were shipped
from the Augusta mine this week.
The C. C. & I. Co. disbursed about
$4,000 to their men last Saturday.
John Bruce and wife were sight
seers at the circus last Monday in
Gunnison.
Chas. S. Robinson and wife have
arrived and will spend the summer
in Pittsburg.
Dick Wilson, Beecher Baney, Tom
Lynch and several others were in
town from Irwin today.
J. R. Snyder, one of Gothic's old
citizens, has returned after spend
ing the winter in Aspen.
Frank Chaplin, Frank Samuel, A.
W. Anderson, G. H. Judd and Ed
Sorrel visited the circus in Gunnison.
The packers will soon finish break
ing trail to the Augusta mine when
shipment of first class ore will be-
gin.
The Anthracite breaker will start
up about the first of the month,
and will employ not less than 125
men.
VIM. Hearst has returned from his
ranch on the North Fork. but did
not bring any water melons for the
boys.
Mr.. Volney Axtell, of the firm of
Holt & Axtell, is on visit to Den
YER. He will be absent two or three
weeks.
The Augusta mine will ship six
about double what it has been
shipping.
S. d. Carol and wife arrived from
Salida last Saturday. Mr.. Carol will
take charge Of our public school as
principal.
Henry Decker came up from his
ranch on White River yesterday. He
reports ranchmen cutting hay and
putting in their crops.
Work will begin on the Excelsior
on Mt. Owen in q couple Of weeks.
1t is located near the big strike made
by Robert Busch la-t fall.
Hallett's jack train Of a hundred
jacks presented a business-like ap-
pearance on our streets yesterday
They loaded coke for Aspen.
Prospectors are eagerly watching
the melting snow on the hills be-
tween here and Aspen and will go
into that country with a rush.
What Badly Sours would like to
know? What Frank Songer means
by standing on tho corner Of Maroon
street at o'clock in the morning?
Mr.. Gillette expects to ship = car
day regularly when the tramway
is erected, up to which time the out
put will be from two to five cars
a week.
Miss Katie Barthel, who has been
attending school here this spring,
returned to her Gothic home last
Tuesday. She has been boarding at
Mr.. Joe Blocks for the past month.
Crested Butte is booming. The
arrival of the train every day brings
people looking for business openings
and work. The town is fast filling
up and everything tends to q regular
old fashioned boom.
Mains, who has been the favorite
in the dining room at the Elk Noun
tain hotel, has gone to Denver. Her
place has been supplanted by Maine
Cutler and Bessie Cavender, two
young ladies from Denver.
The Gunnison Republican has ceas-
ed to exist as a factor in Gunnison
county journalism. 1t has been re-
moved to Montrose.
(This is an old one and does not
refer to our friend Sills' publication.
-Ed.)
Our town begins to present a very
lively appearance. Men are in town
daily from all parts of the Elk
Mountains and the burro and his
master may be seen at all hours
branching out on the mountain roads
with supplies.
The Daisy Lode Redwell basin
has been leased by the owners, Messrs
Fitzgerald, Miller, Burr and Fans
to w. w. Wilson, formerly Of the
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