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Show COLORADO NOTES, Manitou is very rapidly filling up Willi pleasure seekers. Herthoud now boats of the finest race track io northern Colorado. ' Trinidad has the distinction of hav ing tlie deepwt freili water well in the world. The Pike's Peak railway will open for travel to the summit next week sometime. J. H. lien n d, who has a farm near Thurman, luts .'! acres of rye measuring measur-ing U feet 2 inches in height. The new ten stamp mill of Brown & Quigley, on Jim creek, west of Ward, started up this week. Bears are very plentiful near Crand Lake and hunting and tripping them is the avocation of a number of Middle parkera. It is estimated that cf high grade wool about ."iflOMM pounds will be shipped from IKigo to eastern markets this year. t The Wild Hoste mining company started up its gfteeii-stamp mill ou free miliing gold ore Friday morning at Bncna Vista. W F. Betlairs and a party of miners from Trinidad recently had their boats overturned in tho Colorado river and all their provisions lost. flolmnn & Hood received a contract from the penitentiary commissioners for two 75 horso power boilers, which thev will manufacture at their boiler works in Canon City. The new Church of the Ascension (Episcopal) whs oporwd at Pueblo Sun-tlay Sun-tlay for services. The Kev. John Hir-perof Hir-perof Lcadvilie pre i: u-d ut the morn-, ill!?; and eveningeerviccs. From Florence goes annually- nearly Mi'K) iH o tons ot coni. M.iX!0.to ea.'ioiis 1 o'hi.iM 0 tons ut .mh1. lU.iJO0.txM gallons of ilii'imifiutlLg oil, about the fcauio I'tantity of f.iel oil. and handreds of l;irr.'!s of lubrlciiinj cil, a!:io g:i-'o- t 'I'ha Aianioi)8!iC9n'tiderit-,Ioiirnal says that in that Irip'y town "law and order are religiously observed, aud tho hix-Hhooter and sombrero have given place to the rim-lire hat aud the button-bole button-bole bouquet." There were 4if? crates of strawberries shi ped out of C.tuon on' Monday. By Saturday niglit the week's ehipmenls will reach about ','0:)0 crates. AIout MOO c -ttes were shipped last week, i'he crop is the biggest ever grow u iu Fremont Fre-mont county. The lirst llow of naturul gas io the San Luis valley has been struck at Mull:t at a depth ot forty feet tlie llow of water ceased and a ilow of natural gas gushed forth to tlie eueut oi ten or twelve feet in height, which when lighted after night, can be seen for miles away. An estimate has been nndo of the cost of constructing and eipiipping a railroad from Texas creek to West Cliff and the ligures placed at IMUO.000. Messrs. Ormau oc Crojk have agreed to build and equip tho road for that amount and take $:ii)0,0ul) in stock if the people of Wet Mountain valley will raise IIO'J.OUO. , It is stated at Georgetown that the Denver. Apex & Western railway com-pauv com-pauv purchased SU.UJU ties from so mo Colorado Springs parties for their new road up Clear Creek canon. An extra force of men will be put to work grading grad-ing between Idaho Springs and Denver at once. The survey will, be commenced com-menced from Georgetown to Idaho Springs next month, and it is now thought that the entire lino will be completed com-pleted by October. Georgetown will be thtf terminus at present. |