The Elk Mountain pilot. [volume] (Irwin, (Ruby Camp), Gunnison County, Colo.) 1880-19??, 1919-10-23
80 YEARS AGO
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From July 81. 1887, to Sept. 1, 1887.
Joe Hurlow visited Baldwin last
Sunday.
Only eight drummers struck the
town today.
Miss Daisy Metzler is visiting With
Mrs. Henry Pauter.
Homer Engel goes to Yuls creek to-
work his mining claim.
The c. c. & 1. Co. paid out last Sat
urday. $4,000 in wages.
R. C. Evans is going up Washing.
ton Gulch to work his placer claim.
Mrs. Julian and Mrs. Goodenoush
went to Irwin on horseback yssterdAy.1
Sandy McDougal-our own dear
Sandy-arrivcd in town last Thesd1y.-
Francis NJ. Cooper, Created Butte,
has been granted an original peneioo.
Joe Bray of the Crystal River Cur
rent, was over to visit his parents
yesterday. 8 -, ~ I
Mrs. Sheriff Shores and Miss Hattie
Stevens of Gunnisoa, visit6a our lows
yesterday.
Doc Evans and Charley Hudson are
placer mining up Warrington Gulch
this week.
A. X. Chamblin was brought down
from the Excelsior mine yesterday
very sick.
Mrs. David Reed and Mrs. r. 3.
Kelly have gone to the Waunlta Hot
Springs for their health.
j. A. Goodwin and Geo. A. Jones,
tgte embryo BONANZA kings were in
to1n from Gothic today.
Ths G. G. = I. Co.. arc working .
force >fsSB0 men. and are making
room for mors all the time.
Miss Eva Tetard returned from
Iowa last Tuesday. where she has
been At school for the hst year.
Chal Baney returned here last wsek.
He has been in Harrington, Kansas.
With his father for ths lest year.
-Miss Josia CrAxskar1- ~ aAsspAaa
! = posittsa On tAs Merry WoS1a. and
will depart for Pueblo On Saturday.
Herman Schraft IL down from ths4
Augusta. He called at the Pilot ofi1ce
and had his name put down for .
year.
Jimmy McIlwee has been over to
Leadvills. We all know what he went
for since his best girl lives in that
town.
Boughton and Fish are working
an assessment for Mr.. Hoover on the
Noontide claim. situated on Crystal
mountain.
Miss Sarah Shaw and Mr.. Thos.
Owens rode down from Irwin last
Sunday. and were the guests Of Miss
Mary Block.
Jap Pittser's wife has arrived from
Grand Junction. and they will 90 to
housekeeping in the house now oc-
cupied by Mrs. SeIovsr.
Mrs. Jarvis was in town last Mon
day. She has closed the Exchange
Hotel in Gunnison for the summer
and is at the mill near Oversteg's
with Mr.. Jarvis.
Dan Miner got his leg hurt last
Monday. He was coming down from
Treasury mountain when rock rolled
down striking him on the leg. bruis-
ing him up pretty bad.
Gothic has more business than is
usual at this time of the year. More
work on the various mines and pros
poets in this vicinity Is being done
than for three or four years.
We had a pleasant call from D.
Bauman, editor Of the Mine. Stack
and Rail. yesterday He visited the
Redwell Basin and was very favor
ably impressed with what he saw.
Last Friday about one o'clock. Pc
ter Burns was killed in the C. C. 4 I.
coal mine at this place. He was work
ing in the sixth room on the eighth
cross entry when the roof caved in.
Kokomo Brown has turned up once
more. He has been doing up the car
penter work at Telluride. and now
comes back here to do the assess
ments ON his claims. Happy Kokomo.
Robert Gibson has gone to FL Moro
to run steam drill for ths c. 6. 4 I.
Co. BY his departure w. J. Murray
has been promoted from fire boss to
nina boaa. which is a very deserved
promotion.
Frank Sampsel and wife and A. W.
Anderson and wife. made up picnic
party that went after raspberries and