Show ICOlORADOo I Denver Colo Dcc 2GFor events and changes In public opinion that go toward making the history of a commonwealth I monwcalth the last year of the century In Colorado has been noteworthy Politically Po-litically time change shown by results of thc last Presidential citation amounted almost to a revolution Although Al-though the Slate was carried for Bryan Bry-an hIs majority of 137000 In 180C was cut down to less than 30000 In 1000 In another important matter there has been a revolution of public feeling A series of brutal and revolting crimes resulted during the year in three lynching lynch-ing the list of which the burning of the negro Porter has attracted na tional attention Opinion Is divided as to whether or not the removal from the statutes of a law providing for capital cap-ital i I punishment i is responsible for these lynchlngs but certainly largely because of them there Is a strong and growing demand for the restoration of the death penalty The building up of the beetsugar Industry has perhaps been the most important feature of the industrial record rec-ord of the year Tho production of the Grand Junction factory will be Increased In-creased the large factories at Sugar City and Rocky Ford have been completed com-pleted nnd their product is already on the market and a company has been formed with ample capital to build a factory at Loveland The mineral industry I in-dustry of the State shows a healthy I growth Leadvllle mines lead the gain I t with about 75 per cent Increase in tonnage ton-nage and 2ri per cent Increase In the value of the ores produced The prophecies I proph-ecies of a largelyIncreased l production from the mines of the Cripple Creek district have not been realized The gain will be about 10 per cent and the I output this year from the district a little less than 18000000 The slump in the stock of StrittonH Independence has been an object lesson In the methods meth-ods of London promoting companies and the Jack Pot consolidation and the passing of the barren zone In the Anaconda An-aconda are among the notable events of the year at Cripple Creek On the western slope Ouray Gunnison and San Miguel countes show the largest gains in production Their record for development Is also good Six thousand feet of new work has been done during II the year In the Camp Bird mine and I the amount oC oro disclosed is so great that Thomas F Walsh tho owner withdrew his offer to sell to an English 1 company for 7000000 The probability probabil-ity that a railroad will soon he built into JLloutt and lllo Dlanco counties has led to renewed activity In prospecting and developing the oil and coal fields I and the copper deposits of northwestern northwest-ern Colorado control of much of the most valuable territory In this region I has already been secured by representatives represen-tatives of the Standard Oil Colorado Fuel and Iron and other largo companies I compan-ies The moat Important development of time year In Clear Creek and Gllpln I i counties IB the extension of the New houso tunnel which will ultimately pass through at great depth the rangoon I rango-on the county line Several of the richest rich-est veins In the mountain were cut this year and access gained to thousands I of feet of rich sloping ground The i I coal mines In all parts of the State have given employment to every minor who applied for work and the production I has been unusually largo Extensive additions are being made In the steel plants in Pueblo POLITICAL The Republicans of Colorado have every reason to bo encouraged by the present standing of the party In this State Hopelessly outnumbered four years ago they were defeated this year by only Ii narrow margin and this defeat de-feat was due to a combination of circumstances I cir-cumstances that Is not likely to conic I I no nrrnln ThR Uncaring Interest In tho I silver Issue which so many In Colo II lado have regarded of vital Importance and the personal popularity of Brysui I again served to bring about a fusion between the Democrats and what remained re-mained of the Populists and Silver Republicans Re-publicans That largo numbers of thc latter l I have already iPturnod to the Republican party Is shown by the vote Indeed of all the members of the delegation l del-egation thai walked out of the St Louis ronveiitlon In 1SHG Senator Henry I Hen-ry M Teller Is the only ono who Is I nol now an active member of the old party Most of them lake tho stand that till financial iiucstlon is settled and the others are of the opinion that to uphold the Administration In the policy of expansion Is of more Importance Import-ance than any olher mailer now beforetime before-time people On tile question of ex win j slon alone the Slate would have been I overwhelmingly Republican But in addition to the number of voters held i In line by the campaign cry of 36 to l many wore Influenced by the personal I I clement that entered Into tho Senatorial 1 Sena-torial contest Little attention was I given to carrying the Stab for McKin I Icy as it was generally conceded that this was practically Impossible Thc efforts of the Republicans wore concentrated con-centrated upon the State ticket and the I candidates for the Legislature The men nominated by i the Republicans I were almost without exception Den who commanded respect while the I Democrallc candidates were In many Instances notoriously incapable or I worse Many of them failed to get the I support of Iholr party organs and the ticket in Arapahoo county was com i L mealy referred to as the Yellow Dog I ticket Jn this respect then the Rc I publicans had an advantage rIley had however ono handicap too great to bo overcome Senator E O Wol OtC was a candidate for rcelcctlon This fact dominated the whole campaign cam-paign Ills inconsistent record on the sllvor question and his failure lo keep l the pledges upon which ho was pnnl ously elected were used with considerable consid-erable cued His personal unpopularity I unpopular-ity nnd his course In the distribulion of public patronage caused serious his affections In Republican ranks His I private life was sufiiclcntly open to criticism to arouse organized opposition I opposi-tion among thc women voters No one disputed his ability or the advantage of having a man of his recognizedpower I as a represcntathc of the Stale In the I Senate but in a campaign with Vol I rott ns till principal Issue it was impossible I im-possible for the Republicans win The campaign against him was exceedingly ex-ceedingly bitter and culminated In the riot In Victor during the Roosevelt trip Tho result of the campaign was that I the Republicans elected u m mere handful to the Legislature that meets in January The outcome of the Senatorial contest con-test instill unsclllcd T M Patterson and 0ev Charles S Thomas have the largest following at present Former Coy Alva Adams Is a close third Charles J Hughes the leading corporation I corpo-ration lawyer of the Slate is a pos sibilily because of the bitter rivalry among the loading candidates Gov Thomas and Mr Patterson were formerly for-merly law partners and the closest oC friends They have been closely identified iden-tified with the political and business life of thc State for many years Bach 1 has constantly been influenced In all his public life by the ambition to bo r come Irnitod States Senator Mr Patterson Pat-terson was a Delegate to CongreSs from the Territory before Colorado was nd milled as a State in 1S7G 31 was large ly I through his offoits and representations representa-tions thai time admission bill passed Ho expected lliaf a Democratic Lcgisla I luio would he chosen and that ho would be returned to the Senate He was din uppoinled but during the years that have passed since then ho has been ionslstenlly working toward the achievement of the ambllion that now his Mr Patterson scorns lo be within grasp lerson loft the Democrallc party In 1802 and since then lib and his paper tile Rocky Mountain News have been allied with the Populists Recently he joined a local Democratic club and although he has made no formal announcement an-nouncement this Is taken by many to mean that ho is again TO bc regarded as t Demoeratr uv thomas who is Mr Pattersons chieC rival In thc Senatorial contcst came to Colorado from Georgia Dur thc confederate ing the Civil war he served in federate armY He settled In Lcadvil most Important when that camp was the ant town In the State but later moved to Denver whore ho has since lived From the first ho has taken an active part in politics and has always been a Democrat except in 1S02 when acting act-ing on the advice the Deniocralic national committee he supported the Weaver Electors He was twice an unsuccessful candidate of the Democratic Demo-cratic parly for Governor In ISO I he ran partly to preserve the party organization or-ganization and partly with the avowed purpose of defeating Waite the candidate candi-date of the Populists for reelection In this he was successful and Mcln lyrc the Republican candidate was elected Naturally this aroused bitter feeling against him among ute xuiu llsts But In spite of this incident Mr Thomas was In 1S9S made the candidate candi-date for Governor of Democrats Silver Republicans and Populists That ho was accepted by the latter was duo entirely en-tirely to the appeal in behalf of harmony har-mony made at the convention by Mr Patterson It has been hinted that Mr Patterson worked for the nomination of Mr Thomas because he knew that the latter would as Governor mikc mistakes that would weaken him as a Senatorial candidate Whether or not this was Mr Pattersons purpose its wisdom was doubtful Gov Thomas has made many mistakes and costlS mistakes during the last two years Ho has alienated a largo part of the bettor clement of the State But at time same time he has built up a strong personal political machine which ho has used without scruple In trying to secure his election the Senate He claims that his election Is already assured as-sured but the bestInformed men say that Patterson yvill lead when thu matter mat-ter conies to a Vdlb In the Legislature CRIMINAL RECORD The criminal record of the year III Colorado has been unusual Three lynchlngs have occurred and two of them at least were made possible through the partial connivance of the ofllcer of the law W D Rooney captain of the night guard at the penitentiary peni-tentiary In Canon City was murdered on the night of January 20th by Jour convicts Antonc Woode C E Wagner Kid Wallace and Thomas Reynolds The murder was unprovoked and unnecessary un-necessary carrying out the plans oC the convicts to escape Iloonoy Ww stabbed repeatedly and killed after ho I hud been overpowered and when It would have served the purpose of his I assailants otpjally well If they had left him bound and gagged All four escaped Talk of lynching started ns soon as the details of the crime became I known and the people I of Canon City l were thoroughly organized to carry out their threats Woodo and Wallace however wore smuggled into the penitentiary peni-tentiary before their capture became known Reynolds was less fortunate He was taken from the train that I carried car-ried him back to Canon City and strung up to a telegraph pole Wagner has never been captured although evidence has since then come to light to Indicate that he was present In the crowd at the time Reynolds was lynched Calvin Klmblern a negro was the victim of tIme second lynching Klm blern was employed at the Fries Orphans Or-phans home in Pueblo In a fit of jealous rage May 2nd he murdered Ethel Straussen uged 13 Jessie M Skaggs aged H and dangerously wounded his wife Hattie M Klmblern Subsequently It was learned that the little girls had been the victims of criminal crim-inal assault on the part of Klmblern He was captured In Denver turned ovor to the Sheriff Pueblo county and taken back May 22nd to the town where a mob of enraged citizens was known to be waiting for him No time was lost by the crowd when he reached Pueblo A rope was put around lils neck and he was drugged through the streets to the nearest convenient place < i and hanged Probafly 3000 people were present at the lynchrig More brutal even than KImblorns crime was the deed for which the negro Preston Porter suflered the death penalty pen-alty at the hands of a mob and his punishment was correspondingly Inhuman Inhu-man Louise Frost aged 1i while on I her ray home from school near Llmon I I November 10th was waylaid by Porter I criminally assaulted mutll ied and inurdorcd Tho horrible details of the irimo together with the fact that it was deliberately planned and carried I out wore given In Porters own confession confes-sion He vas held In Jail in Denver for I scoral days but was finally dollvciod to the Sheriff of Lincoln county who undertook to take him through Limon j I to the jail In Hugo At Limon ho was I taken from the train by a mob led to I the place where his crime was committed i I commit-ted nnd burned at the slake After the I I affair was all over the people of Denver < and the State in general began to meal I Izc the moaning of what had happened I Mass meetings were called and men I In olHcial I positions from the Governor to tho Sheriff were bitterly denounced i for not taking adequate measures to I j prevent the lynching Gov Thomas I I was hissed at a mooting held In Denver rime Denver pap6rs which had printed I I lull details treated In the most sensational sensa-tional manner and which had done much to excite the people to frenzy I i I wore also blamed Those papers how over though extremely sensational In J i I tholr news columns editorially took a I conpcrvalive position No very severe criticism was made of the fact that i Portor was killed but none attempted Ito I I-to justify the burning After each one of these lynchlngs editorials I edi-torials I appeared in all of the loading I papers urging the restoration of the death penalty The same position Is j taken by many of the loading clergymen I clergy-men of this Slate It is probable that I I the Legislature that moots this winter will reenact a law providing for capital capi-tal punishment I BIOET SUGAR The years work in bootsugar making demonstrates that Colorado has a new bonanza crop for which there Is a stable t sta-ble market all around the world and every day In the year Colorados silver era beginning with t I Loadvillo was bright Her gold era beginning with Cripple Creek is brll llant nnd has not vet reached its flood I Tho sugar era has practically begun 1 within the last three months for while I the pioneer sugar was made last year I at Gianil Junction it is the success of I i the new and big factories at Rocky Ford and Sugar City that has placed the Industry upon its feet The Rocky Ford beetsugar factory Is the largest yet built hi the United States Thc Investment at Rocky Ford is in round figures 1000000 of which 200000 Is in GOOO acres of irrigated landu I I near the factory which ate not to be I sold but are to be rented to sugarbeet I cultivators Thus any shortcomings In the quantity of beets promised by thc I farmers are to be made good The net annual capacity of the factory is about 2000000 worth of granulated sugar In t making which H will disburse more than SGOOOOO for beets and 120000 for j operating expenses Ono farmer near Rock Ford raised thirty tons of beets Ito I-to the aero The average vas about sixteen tons Sugar City Is not on the map It Is too now It Is on the Missouri Pacific fiftylive miles east of Pueblo It is seventeen miles north of Rocky Ford Time capacity of the Sugar City factory is about half that of the Rocky Ford factory rime owners arc projecting a number of collateral industries for Sugar City one of which is said to be a distillery Rye will be growit as a l rotating crop and rye whisky manufactured I manu-factured Barley as another crop to rotate with boots will gho birth to browing The factory at Grand Junction cost oOOOOO and has a capacity of 100 tons a day It was the pioneer sugar factory fac-tory of the State It made about 100 I 000 worth of sugar in 1S09 and the output out-put this year was slightly Increased Everything about the factory and tile beets was a success except thp quantity quan-tity of beets raised f lie farmers did not produce the quantity promised nartly from inexperience I and partly from a disinclination to take up a new business Recently the Denver capitalists I capi-talists who originally went into tho Grand Junction experiment sold out their Interests to the Grand Junction investors who were already Interested The Denver men have Invested their I money In a larger bootsugar plant at Lowland which is close to Denver Tile new Grand Junction managers have announced that they will i I I double the capacity of their plant and haAc added 20 per cent to the price paid for beets Grand Junction will be a heavy producer produ-cer of boot sugar next year The highest rank of am In the Slate was accorded to thc soil in the vicinity of Lowland in the sugarboot tests made for the Chamber of Commerce A subsidy of 15000 had been raised by the people of Lowland Capital has boon secured and a factory costing SInn SI-nn nnn In h 111 h C VULTVU H U LIe UII Jy tILeIIiIJII 1901 Its capacity will be 1000 tons a day and an ample supply of beets has been guaranteed The following table gives a record of the Colorado production produc-tion of boot sugar up to the present time and an estimate for next year 3S 11 Grand Junction factory s 100000 I JPOO Grand Junction factory 100000 Itocky Ford factory 750000 Sugar City factor i 375000 Total 122 000 1001 Grand Junction factory fO000 Rocky Ford factory 2CQOUCO Sugar City factory JOOOOW Tovcland factory 500000 Tctal 1000000 MINING Pile sensationof the year In the Cripple Crip-ple Crook district was the slump in Strattons Independence mine stock November 17th time stock sold in London Lon-don for 5 per share while u few weeks before It was freely taken at 1ilSince the English company bought the property prop-erty during the seventeen months to September 30th last the dividends paid amounted to S2718350 The issued stock Is 1000007 shares of a par value of 1 per share The price for the mine paid to Mr Stratum was 10000000 The stock was float < d originally at a BlUe j more than 2 per share and It after I ward rose to 13 The dividends paid I In the seventeen months equal CO 23 percent I per-cent of the capital at par But in order I or-der to maintain these dividends the mine was gouged The development I necessary to maintain a mine by the opening of new ore was neglected Tho crisis came when tho ore reserves were exhausted or nearly so and It became known that It would be necessaiy to reduce dividends But by that time the London Promotion company the I Venture corporation I had on the strength of big dividends disposed of all of the stock at a good profit and had no longer any moro than a sentimental senti-mental interest In the matter John Hays Hammond was placed in charge of the property in the Interests of the stockholders and made an examination of the mine Ills report confirmed thc rumors that the mine had been stripped and development neglected Ho recommended I recom-mended that dividends bp stopped and I the money used in prospecting for and opening now ole bodies His advice I was accepted and development is being I I carried on under his direction It Is I probable that the mine will again be put in shape to yield good returns upon a reasonable valuation The Incident is I of importance through the Insight that It gives the public into the methods of London promotion companies They do I not mine They purchase mines which have ore In sight and can pay big dividends divi-dends while the promoters Ben their new stocks When the selling Is accomplished accom-plished the promotion company Is put of It Perhaps the most Important business deal made in Cripple Creek mining this year was the consolidation of the JackPot Jack-Pot Doctor Chief Elizabeth Cooper Ingham Maggie and Lucky Corner properties By this arrangement an endless Amount of litigation over apex rights was finally settled The new company Is capitalized for 3000000 It paid f 100000 cash for thc Wlnchcsier Stovenson lease on the Doctor Besides Be-sides ending all litigation the consolidation consoli-dation makes possible the economical working of the properties through the deep shaft on the Morning Glory and a largely increased production The most Important ntrlko rjf the year was made In the Anaconda A rich ore body waa opened after passing j through a barren ono 500 feet In thickness thick-ness Tho strike adds greatly to the J I speculative value of the surrounding properties on Gold hill which have not yet passed through time barren zone Portland atock rose during tIme car to 3 1 DO per I share The mine is capitalized I capi-talized for 3000000 One offer of 7 per share for a largo block of the stock I was It is said bv an olllcinl of the company com-pany refused Although there have been many rumors of a pale all have boen denied and the principal stockholders stock-holders say the mine could not be bought for less than 30000000 Tho Portland adjoins the Independence but has a larger territory and has been moro thoroughly developed The showing show-ing in the Portland has been steadily Improving while that In the Independence Independ-ence has been growing worse t Zinc mining In Leadvllle has become important this year for the first time I A large market has been opened In Belgium whore the smelters can use I the byproducts to a greater advantage I I than Is possible in this country rite ore is shipped by way of Galveston and j as It Is used for ballast in the cotton vessels the freight after it roaches I I Galveston is nominal I I The year 1001 will be marked In Coo rado by an extensive revival of pyrltlc smelting which Is only another name for concentraton bv fire rime Lead lllo plant of the Boston GoldCopper company loads off with a present capacity In three Loder furnaces of COO i tons per day This Is a gain of 200 percent j i per-cent since the opening of the your when the single fuinnce originally erected at Ward In Boulder count was removed to Lea vl1le Golden Is I the location for another pyrltlc smelter I with an inceptive capacity of 200 tons per day and artangements for enlarge j ment to twice that amount In Ouray for tile special benefit of the Rod Moun lain goldcopper ores Loder pyrltic I furnaces are almost ready to blow In The capacity will start at 100 tons a day and will increase as the material becomes more and moro available One I point in favor of pyritlc smelting IS this It docs not antagonize thc American Ameri-can Smelting and Refining company Time material sought for Is too low In grade for shipment to general smelters In Durango Pueblo Leadvllle and Denver Den-ver Jn the raw state But when the concentration by fire is completed the result is a coppergold matte which the refineries desire and which in its loss valuable forms is a welcome addition addi-tion to the smelter furnace charges The great gain to the basic Industry of the State Is I the extraction of values from a present worthless material which in turn Justifies the working of now Idle i mines and a large addition to the number of miners steadily employed em-ployed i OBITUARY One wellknown name must be placed upon the obituary record of Colorado for 1000 ExSenator Nathaniel P Hill died at his home In Denver May 22nd Few men In Colorado have had their lives so closely interwoven with the affairs af-fairs of the State as was the life of Mr Hill In every step forward that ho made toward power and wealth the State marched with him Coming to Black Hawk at a time when that camp hnd reached a turning point owing ton to-n lack of scientific methods in handling ores he wrought a change in metallurgical metal-lurgical processes to which the entire subsequent history of the State Is mainly due Mr Hill represented Colorado Colo-rado in the United States Senate for six years beginning In 1S79 At the time of his death besides other large interests he was the principal stockholder stock-holder In the Argo smelter and In the Denver Republican In rail toads the most noteworthy event of tho year was the sale of Midland Mid-land stock to tho Rio Grande Western and time Colorado Southern By the completion of the BrushAlliance branch of the Burlington Denver gets direct railway connection with the Black Hills Financially tIme State government Is in bad shape The appropriations made by the last Legislature largely exceeded exceed-ed the revenues and State Institutions have suffered 0 H PADDOCK |