The Elk Mountain pilot. [volume] (Irwin, (Ruby Camp), Gunnison County, Colo.) 1880-19??, 1919-05-29
"a YEARS AGO


Bob Gibson has gone to Pueblo.
G. H. Judd has returned from Den
yer.
Joe Block went up to Irwin last
Monday.
Marshall Tetard was in Gunnison
last Sunday.
Mrs. Angus has been quite ill for
several days.
Herman Click visited the county
seat last week.
DIR. Macintosh was in Crested
Butte last Saturday.
Supt. Ridgway of the Rio Grande,
was in town Saturday.
John McCosker is blacksmithing for
the C. C. & I. company.
S. C. Robinson and T. D. Gill were
down from Pittsburg yesterday.
Orders for coal this week at the
C. C. & I. amount to 200 tons day.
G. H. Judd, George Sorrell and
Frank Samsel visited Gunnison last
Sunday.
Pat DAILY is contemplating the
erection of neat residence this
spring.
Charles S. Robinson will begin the
erection of store building as soon
as the saw mill starts.
John Ross is fixing his residence on
Maroon Ave, so that it will be more
comfortable to live in.
S. C. Robinson expects to begin
saving timbers for the Augusta
tramway early in May.
Reese Carlisle visited Gunnison last
Monday to attend the meeting of the
Board of County Commissioners.
Max Brust, brother to Sam, ar
rived from New York on Tuesday and
will take a place in his brothers
store.
Mrs. Sidney Selover and daughter
Bessie, arrived home yesterday from
visit among friends in Kansas and
Missouri
Married-On Saturday, March %,
1885, at the brides residence on Ma
room Ave, Mr.. w. J. Miller and Mrs.
Mary Smith.
Miss Vina Swan tainted during the
devotional exercises at the resi-
dence of Mr.. Lawrence, Immediately
preceding the funeral.
The La Veta Hotel in Gunnison
opens today for business, under the
management of R. Olney, formerly of
the Oasis House. Greeley.
Prof. Gillett has been in Crested
Butte for the past week on busi-
ness connected with the famous Au-
gusta mine and other valuable mining
property.
Charley Deffebaugh has arrived in
town from the White River country.
Charley has spent the winter in the
valley and says that country is good
enough for him.
Mr.. Groesbeck, the foreman of the
Augusta mine, was in town this week
and reports that at cross-cut from
tho shaft 230 feet, the ore is found
even better than above, and carries
more gold if anything.
John Trevarthen of Irwin, was in
town Sunday. He is one of the
lessees on the Ruby Chief mine, and
reports that they have just complet-
ed the lease on the mine, and leave it
in good shape with plenty of rich ore
in sight.
The famous old Songer House is
just as popular under the management
of Frank Broderick as of yore. All
old Gunnison county people like to
stop there because they can get a
square meal" which is the quint
essence of all successful hotels.
A little work has been done in Red
well Basin all winter, and if there
! was smelter here that required
heavy lead ore, Redwell would at
tract no little attention, as the veins
are large galena veins, and it will re-
quire home market to use the ore
that is found at present.
Mrs. C. I. Lawrence entered eter-
nal rest from the cares of this world
last Friday evening about eight
o'clock. She had been patient suf-
ferer for two weeks from that fatal
disease. putrid sore throat. She
leaves two children aged respectively
four and eight years, to be cared for
by her sorrowing husband.
DIR. VIM. A. Bell and Mr.. C. Carr of
Mo pito,, uoo portar Of +1o r.,
rango Trust Co., Durango, and Mr..
Geo. Haddon of Coal Creek, arrived
in c. B. last Sunday by special train.