The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-03-27
Sc YEARS AGO
Copied from the Files Of the Elk NE.
Pilot. Then Printed in Irwin
Aug. %, 1883 to Dec. Is, 1s'

this week.
The Catholics will build church
in Crested Butte.
Dave Scott of Crested Butte, was
in Irwin yesterday.
Mr.. C. H. Laurence of Chicago, ar
rtved in camp yesterday.
Sam Metzler closed out the Ex-
change saloon this morning.
Capt, Isaac Baney is working an
assessment on his tunnel in Elk Basin.
Mr.. Fell is still at work on the Cen
eral Sayles lode, situated in Silver
Basin.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ropell will eat
Thanksgiving dinner with Mr.. and
Mrs. Coffin in Crested Butte today.
Mr.. j. Wallace Oil. editor of the
Crested Butte Gazette, accompanied
Major Jim McGee to Irwin last Mon
day.
Died Freddie Julian, the son of
Charles Julian, died in Crested Butte
yesterday morning. aged thirteen
years.
Every carriage that drives up Main
street some one sings out more Gun
nison politicians coming up to fix the
Irwin vote.
Messrs. Wallace and Fraser are
moving their stock of goods into the
Kline building, formerly occupied by
Cuilom and Co.
Mr.. George Russ, superintendent Of
the Union Mining and Milling Co., is
doing assessment on their property
in Silver Basin.
Mr.. j. H. Fletcher, Mrs. Thomas
Crawford and Miss Josie Crawford of
Gothic, were pleasant callers at the
Pilot office yesterday.
Mr. l.. L. Harding is packing up
the "odds and ends" of the Harding
Bros. hardware store, and shipping it
to their store in Canon City.
Any of our young gents, the old
ones too, that want a suit of clothes
Ilaue " OTuef, Will uO wen W GILL Oi
Latimer and Allen of Gunnison.
Miss Moulton, sister to Mrs. ]. L.
Metzler, arrived in camp the other
day from Hamilton, Iowa, and will
probably spend the winter here.
Mrs P. Spencer was in Gunnison
this week. Week of Dec. 13, 1883,
,,l NJ Cnapcar 10 l., Cuppico, THE
week; week of March %, 1919
Married AT the residence of Mr..
NJ. E. Russell, on Thursday. Dec. 9th,
1888, Miss Mary Parker of Abilene,
Kansas. to Mr.. ID. L. Drake of Irwin,
The Mt. Carbon and Anthracite
Coal Co. have quite a large force of
men now employed opening up their
immense coal lands at Kings ranch.
We received a handsomely. printed
invitation to the Odd Fellows ball in
Crested Butte tonight, which is the
handiwork of our young friends
Messrs. Oil and Temple.
Mr.. Ropell has completed the new.
wagon road on the south side of Lake
Brennand That shortens the dis
tance to the Bullion King mine by
half mile and makes a much better
winter road.
Bro. Fuller is rustling around get
ting things in readiness to resume
work in the Old Sheik tunnel. Fred
says there is way up body of miner
al in that hill and he proposes to
have some of it.
Mr.. John Trevarthen learns from
Mr.. Brown that all arrangements
have been completed to put up a
concentrator on the Hopewell proper
ty, and that work will commence just
as soon as practicable.
Miss Parker, our school teacher,
visited Gunnison last week. On her
return the young gentlemen about
town were congratulating her on
what might have been, but David
Linksausage Drake says it is not so.
Mrs. Joe Block and daughter, Mrs.
Inglehart and Eta Baney, went to
the top of Ruby Peak last Tuesday.
They started in the morning, mount
ed on burros, carrying a large lunch
basket, and they made the trip in
good style. f
In the spring of 1880 there was not
brick or stone building in Gunnison,
most of them shanties, on the town
site. As illustrative OF Colorado en-
terprise look at Gunnison, four
year-old city with population of
5000; with gas and water works; half
dozen churches; three elegant two
story brick school houses; four steam
| nlan;nu mills foundry and machine