The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-01-30
38 YEARS AGO
Copied from tho Files Of the Elk Mt
Pilot, Then Printed in Irwin

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Butter and eggs Irwin has no lone
Mr.. Joseph Block, the clothing
prince of .Gunnison. was in town last
Tuesday.
o. P. Ambercrombie Of Gunnison
City, has been appointed u. S.
Commissioner.
Three stages came over Marshall
Pass last Saturday, loaded with pas
sengers for Irwin.
Howard F. Smith, Esq, came over
from C. B. last week, to look after
his interests here.
| A large party left here in sleds
last night to attend a dance to be
given at Kings ranch.
I. Q. Sandborn, Phil Peters, w. p.
Rose, Jas. Kyle and Mr.. Van Osten
have gone to America.
1t only takes fourteen days to get
the dailies through from Denver.
Gust sixteen hours now.)
The boys take great delight in
making snow shoe runs down the
mountain side in front of the Pilot
office
The Crested Butte and Grand River
railroad company have filed incorpor
alton papers with the Secretary of
State.
| Walter Graves, the best surveyor
and draughtsman in Gunnison county,
is preparing very neat map of Peel
err Basin.
There has been only sixteen deaths
in Gunnison county during 1880, yet
our county ranks as fifth in the state
in population.
The dwellings, hotels and lodging
houses in Gunnison City. are reported
as being crowded and the city over
flowing with strangers.
| We understand that Robert Glas-
scott, who run the Ruby sampiing
rooms here the past summer, died in
Leadviile few weeks ago.
Major Brown has just heard from
trunk which he shipped from Den
yer here last February. 1t has just
reached Gunnison (Dec. 8, 1SS0).
Mrs. S. F. Powell is the champion
lady on snowshoes. She manages
them with grace and skill possessed
by no other woman and but few men.
Col W. T. Holt, president of the
Forest Queen company, has recently
returned from London, England, and
is expected in our camp in few
days.
Holt and Axtel1s saw mill on Coal
creek has been cutting lumber all
winter, and Messers. Mocasin and
Comstock, the lesses, have 100000
feet already cut.
At Ann Harbor, Mich, Wednesday
evening, December 80, 1880, Mr.. Ed
ward F. Colburn and Miss Lizzie Dag
gett were married. Mr.. Colburn was
an attorney of Irwin.
T. j. Forham, physician and sur
geon, came in our midst June last
and brdAght with him diplomas from
Rush medical college and the Cook
county hospital, both of Illinois.
Mrs. E. P. Stevens is in receipt Of
an elegant Hamlin organ, the first
instrument of the kind ever brought
to Irwin. The tone of the instrument
is the highest in America-1O,5O 500 feet
high.
Spring time and gentle Annie are
surely here, McDougal has got on his
straw hat. Mac, don't let Captain
Shurtleff's burros see you with that
hat on, for they are liable to give you
lively chase for it.
In a recent card from Carlisle
Bros, of Pueblo, who run dairy
here last summer, informs us that
they will return as soon as practical
BILE and bring a hundred head of first
class milch cows with them.
DR.. Reed and E. P. Stevens had
slight combat in front of the new
lpostoffice Monday afternoon. The en-,
gagement was short and no one in
iured except the latter's face bruised
little. Everything is serene now.
Twenty men are engaged in digging
the snow out of the road between
Gothic and Crested Butte. 1t is quite
an undertaking, but with the assist
ance of the sun they may celebrate
the completion of their work shortly.
The Thanksgiving Oyster Dinner
o;ven at the City Hotel, by the La
dies Aid Society, was well attended.
and materially assisted in enlarging
the exchequer of the society. The
tables were presided over by Mrs. L.
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