The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-01-09
38 YEARS. AGO
Copied from tho Files of the Elk Mt.
Pilot, Then Printed in Irwin

August S, 1880, to Sept. 2, 1880.
District court convenes at Gunni-
son on the 23d inst.
A telegraph office will be cstab-
lished on Ninth ST. soon.
George Andrews sold his mining
interests on Rock Creek for 100000
a week ago.
F. w. Fuller started for Rosita,
Custer county. yesterday, to be alb
sent about two weeks.
Mr.. Jim Lewis, well known in the
Gunnison country, has presented us
with some handsome crystals.
The Gunnison street passenger rail
way has filed articles of incorpora-
tion; also the Gunnison Gas Co.
The name of the man who was
hung in O-Be-Joyful Basin was given
by him as Jim Gates, from Kansas.
Frank Keppler, better known as
"Old Frenchy"," was burned to death
by the explosion of n kerosene lamp,
in a hospital, at Silver Cliff.
The Forest Queen shaft is being
timbered and large. quantities of high
grade ore are being sacked and ship
ped to the Iowa Smelling Works,
Crested Butte.
Messrs. Bowman and Stearns have
sold to the Denver and Rio Grande
railroad company $40 acres Of valu
able coal lands in the neighborhood
of Crested Butte.
A wooden railway is to be built
from Mt. Carbon coal mines to Gun
nison City. 1t is expected that one
hundred tons of coal will be hauled
over this road daily.
VIM. Griffith, young man % years
of age from Blossburg, Pa, who was
injured in the coal mine at Mt. Car
bon on the 1st ult.. died of his in
juries on the I'd inst
The Chicago and New York papers,
especially the mining journals, copy
freely from the Pilot. Thus it is
that Ruby mining property gets be-
fore the Eastern capitalist.
DIR. OFerrall has moved his Office
from Judge Shackleford's Office to
room No. in the Elk Mountain Ho-
tel, where he has convenient apart
ments for private consultation.
The smelter at Crested Butte is
handling about two hundred tons Of
ore per week, which is being shipped
from the Forest Queen, Lead Chief,
Ruby Chief and Howard Extension.
F. T. Southerland, Esq, one of the
editors of Gunnison's new Democrat,
made us a pleasant call Friday last.
He was in camp distributing his pa
per and soliciting subscriptions for
same.
Judge Mahoney, Col, D. w Douth-
itt and Maj. f. N. Chester are the
delegates from this precinct of Gun
nison county to the Democratic State
Convention, which convened at Lead
Vile yesterday.
Irwin's "boom" is heard all hours
of the day and night. If the Utes
were to venture here the continual
blasts from our mines would scare
them to death before they got within
five miles of US.
A general merchandise store has
been established at the junction of
Slate river and O-Be-Joyful Basin, by
the Cloud City company. This will
prove a great benefit to parties work
ing in Peeler. Redwell and O-Be-Joy-
full Basins.
The Gunnison City papers are
"blowing" and putting over the
scream of their first steam whistle,
which was sounded last week. That's
nothing, gentlemen, we have had six
steam whistles blowing in the vicin-
| ity of Irwin for the past six weeks.
The first grand ball of the Elk
Mountain Social Club will be given
in this town on next Thursday night,
August 12. 1t is intended to make
this a first class social gathering in
every respect. The committee of ar
rangements are Messrs. McDougal.
Peters, Brann, Mccormick, Kyle, and
Phillips.
Sprigg Shackleford, the honorable
Mayor of Maysville, Kentucky, and
brother to Judge Shackleford, of this
place, has been in town for two or
three weeks as guest Of his brother.
He is very. much pleased with this
section Of the country and in all
probability will take up his residence
hero ere long.