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F. W. FULLER, NOTARY PUBLIC.
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CORNWALL,
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CORNWALL.
V. 8. DKTUTY.MINERAL
Surveyors,
■SMYKTOM TO* THE TOWN OF IRWIN.
Irvin, Gunnison Co., -
FRANKEBERGIH & BATON,
f Civil and Mininjs
'ENGrUSTEERS
AND U. 8. DEPUTY
Mineral Surveyors .
M*DT>VE£RUBY. NINTH 8T.,.18W1K»
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Marine had long experianca in nnqtaf tor patenri
aadadrarx claim la and around LmAtIII*, we aoHcit
«• patranaga of parties winking work of that kind in
thin ricinity. All work guaranteed. <lf
WALTER H. GRAVES.
And C. 8. Deputy
MINERAL SURVEYOR,
(lal* oj the U. A Territorial Surrey.)
Avc. D. and Ninth St., Irwin.
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JOB PRINTING!
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PLAIN AND ORNAXKNTAL
cn Short Notice at Pilot Office.*
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B AKERY & RESTAURANT
IT LOUIS TIMES
Ninth St, Below the Postoffice, Irwin
"BANK OF GUNNISON.
Sam. A. Gill, E. P. JacoDson,
Cashier. Vice-President
H. A. W. Tabor, President.
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COPPINGER A METTLES,
Irwin, Colorado.
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Ninth St., next door to FortoMif
F. H. KELLOGG,
Attomy ui CmmstOir it U»,
DOR. ron BY. AMD AVENUE F, BUSY CAMP
IRWIN P. 0., COLO.
DUNN & MALONEY,
Attorneys and Counsellors at Lav.
MM-Mining and Beni Fatale a Specialty,*®B
Ninth St., - - Irwin, Colo.
O. r. ABKBUROHBIE. G. A. HAWLEY.
ABERCOMip & HAWLEY,
Attorneys % Counsellors
OVER TIIK POBTOFFICE,
GUNNISON, - COLO.
S. H. BAILER GEO. BIMMONDB.
baker a simmonds,
LAWYERS,
40-Mi.\n<a Law a SrEcilLfr.-QB
GRTITITISOIir, - OOIrO.
Hn» L Kau, Cbaa SHAcnurono,
Gaantaoa, Colo. Irwin, Colo.
Karr $ Shackelford,
LAWYERS,
WBI State and Fadend Oanrta
AARON HEIMS,
ATTORNEY!
AND NOTARY PUBLIC.
junnison and tody, - Colo.
Sr. SL O. Reid,
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON.
Irwin, Colo.
Real Estate and
MINING AGENCY.
£Sj;’' Choice Properties for Sale, in Ruby
Mining District, and dirtst
frotk first hands.
REFERS TO BANK OF GUNNISON, OOMNISON,
COLO. CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED/
RICHARD 1R W&y,
Cer. Niitli Street and Avene
Irufirt,Gunnison Co.) Colo.
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GEO. W. PETTIT)}
Real Estate, Insurance,
Pnfcrtv Height, SeU aid |
Notary Public# '
Insurance writen at fair tp* es -
Opposite Bonk, - Gun A * son City.
Renshaw& Smith,
C ontra£f>ors
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COUNtY, COLORADO, THURSDAY, OCT. 7. 188*
(???) NO. 2.
Enid within him
r is ended and
L
* for the spring
>, and 1 will salt
speech said unto
U for the day of
I.
Lady Bryan, for
s s with fetness.
“Tate"* in Silver Hill, for the
proapect is the gWw of the heavens at
; sunset »eftectiog6*ve^oVi
1 AtW the specul* v t took hw-J
died shares as a flyer,
Likewise a little North -Winaiii it l
four dollars, and some dabs of the
South End.
And when he had done this the!
wife of his bosom wanted some Alt.' :
for she had talked with Derby. i
And his child wanted some Con*
cordia, for a man in Bodie wrot**ato
her of the prospects.
And when all had invested, they
sasd one to the other.
“ Now, indeed will the wealth of
the Indus be with our house forever
more.”
And the market rose like a balloon,
and their bank account swelled like
the bulge of Mount Davidson.
And Smith, whose surname was
John, said unto them:
“ Harken ye unto the Words of
wisdom< Now is the time to sell.'*
And they answered him, saying,
“Go to, thou fool; who runfleth this
thing which we do? When we seek
assistance we will send for thee.”,
And they bounced him out.
And the daughters called upon the
shop-keepers: “Bring ye unto us
raiment of needful work and the pro
duct of the fine looms/ 4
And the sons called alound : “Give
us the horses that paw the ground,
and let us copper the ace, for behold
our wealth hath no erid.” And then
took to themselves steeds that passed
a mile in 2:20, and planked their
gains upon the cards, all over the lay
out, saying:
‘•Give Us the chips like the assure
of the skies, and not like the snows of
the mountains,” and the dealer raked
them into his till until the youths
went home blind drunk.
And behold, on the third day of the
fourth month the market busted, and
a great cry went up and the brokers
called aloud:
“ Give unto us mud,you scoundrels.’
And those who did not come up
were sold like the Egyptians of old.
And the family who splurged about
and swelled over the Smiths, were
cinci.ed clean in two, and they filled
the air with lamentations and cried:
“ Woe unto us the foolish of heart.
Who will lend Us coin to buy bread ?”
And their neighbors laughed them
to scorn, saying:
“ When we want people to loan our
•cads to, we’ll let you know.”
And the shop-keepers and the mil
liners came like the locusts of old with
bills, but the house was closed against
them, and crape was upon the door
post.
But this was only a blind.
And now the head of the family
toils in the 1650 level, and the old
woman scrubs the garments of the |
dwellers of B street for 81.50 a dozen. 1
Such is the end of pride.
For behold the market breaketh in •
sunder the great men, and humbleth
the haughty spirits.
Take unto thyself the Mays of the;
wise, and unload in time. For behold j
the horn of the foolish shaM be broken i
j and the man who taketh wo heed to!
: himself shall return again, like the j
hog to his wallowing in the mire/
Believers in metemysychosis have
had their faith refreshed by the recent
birth of a child who, upon coming in
to the world, made a searching scru
tiny of his surroundings, and, sinking
back in his nurse’s arms, remarked j!:
“Thank heaven, at last I have got
myself born into a family that is com
-1 fortabiy fixed.”
STARTING A NEWSPAPER.
A correspondent of the Salt Lake
Tribune writes to that paper as follows:
If the conditions are favorable and
you’ve got ap' * backing, starting a
newspaperA|h«*v>*|aning in debt, is
the easiest tiring u. the world. But if
the conditions* f are not wha. 1 they
should be, and one has to draw on
cheek everlastingly’,"there are several
fields, beside bullwhacking as pleasant
and far more profitable.
Not long since I struck a town
whose inhabitants were anxious to
make thek town the center of popula
tion by next census’ harvest. In or
der to do it they wanted a paper—a
live journal that would properly adver
r«c the wealth surrounding them,
■roc was an opening for a live paper
man, they said, and it was
that they knew. I
| the best hotel
! in town. on the second
i level, fhtrd the entrance
and immediately above tht -rinae that
led to the kitchen in the lower "work
ings, A committee of one. the lead
ing light of the iamlet/ atm on me
to state the desire of the community
that I should canvass among the busi
ness men, order the material, and
issue an eight page weekly. /
“We want a paper here, arid we
want it bad, ’ said the committee as
our interview terminated. “ You’ll
find me dealing faro at X. L.
club rooms. Call on me aijid I’ll go
you a rattle for luck.” J
So I concluded to gdr the town a
rattle for luck.
1 called on the pipprwtor of the
largest found him
knfcw he wasn’t in good humor. After
the famous hitch was successfully made
the citMh%eing drawn sufficiently
tight—the mule having announced the
fact—l stated the object of my visit.
“Yes, by grab, we need a paper
here, sure enough,” said he, “ how
much do you need to begin with ?’ ’
I told him the money was on hand
already to buy the material; all I
wanted to know was how much per
month could be depended upon for an
advertisement.
“ Oh, you don’t intend to raise a
subscription. Well, that’s business j
be independent and you’ll do well.
Now of course, you know my politics?’ ’
I said that politics had not been
thought of in the matter. We wanted
a good mining paper', one that wbuld
be for the general good. There was
no need of a political paper in a com
munity where all were building houses
and commencing at the foot of the
ladder.
“ Well, I’m out-and-out democrat, [
but I’m willing to help support a neu
tral paper in order to boost things
along. Now if you pledge yourself
not to run a republican sheet here, you
can set my name down for, let me see,
well, make it $5 a month, by thunder.
I’ll pay that for an ad. if it swamps
n
me.
I set the sum opposite his name and
was retiring with iWy heart throbbing
feebly down in my boots, when I heard j
him yelll
“Remember you’ve got to be'
emocratic or neutral in this burg if |
! you get my support. No republican
i sheet goes in here, if I know myself.” |
1 I said nothing, but thought some, j
! A man can think fast sometimes. i
The next enterprising citizen I ap-!
proached grasped my hand warmly.
I " You’re the man we’ve been hunt- j
! ing. Support the enterprise ? You
! jist go right ahead, order your trinkets
and I’m one of the boys that’ll stand
right in.”
“ Well, Hr.- L., how much are you
Kitting to pay monthly for an advertis
ment ? After the paper is once under
way I can establish rates, now I merely
want to find out' how much I can de
pend upon to pay my printers.”
“ Now you’re talking business. I
suppose you know 1 carry the largest
stock in town. Well, I want yotf to
give me a good display, pictures of
saddles and pots and kettles, and a
man holding a pair of pants by the
hind straps and a crowd breaking their
necks to get in at the door and all that
kind of thing clear across the front
page. One page will be enough, you
know. NoK, for that kind of an ad
vertisement you can tax me $6 the first
day of every month. Some of your
men will keep house and they can
trade the bill out, so ’twill make it
easy all around.”
As I was stepping outside the door
he called me back and said:
“ This is a broad field for a man of
your ability. Give us an original
paper. Don’t cut nothin’ from other
papers—do your own writing. That’s
the way to build up a paper. Look
at Greeley’s work, and Benriett, and a
half dofen others I might name.
Make four caper interesting; give us I
a continued story every week and
write it yourself; make it spicy and
we’ll see that you get along if money
will do it.”
Tears of gratitude filled my eyes as
I grasped his hand and thought of my
unpaid account at the hotel, my relay
of shirts held for an old wash bill, and
I knew that if that whole-souled mer
chant lived While I succeeded in being
original, there was nothing in the
future to fret about.
“If you undertake to run a demo
cratic trouble breeder in this commu- .
nity, 1 afh ready and willing tp See
that you are run out of eaflifh”
That was the salute { received from
the next. Another said*:
“You don’t know nothin’ about
this section of the country if you
think a neutral paper can live hefe.-
You can’t straddle no fence nowadays.
Be one thing or the other, or —er—
nothing.”
The material to start a paper would
have cost me two thousand dollars.
My home support would amount to
sixty dollars per month. That is, I
could depend on sixty dollars a month
byway of advertising the town, if I
succeeded in publishing a democratic
republican-independent-neutral-origi-
nal-spicy weekly newspaper.
I looked across the street and saw
Scotty standing in front of his saloon,
a gold chain hting from his neck and
reposed gracefully upon his well-stuffed
vest. His credit was good at the
bank; the schoolmam went to all the
parties with him and he ownc3 a
buggy and a stud-horse, and while I
was thinking of cutting a hole through
one of the side show tents at the circus,
putting my feet through and charging
two bits a guess at my weight, I asked
myself which counted for most in this
age and this great nation, the revenue
collector’s license pasted above a keg
of whisky, or a diploma from old
Trinity stowed away in the bottom of
a seamless sack f
I
Bands of music are forbidden to
play on most of the large bridges of
the Kortd. A constant succession of
sound waves,- especially such as come
from the playing of a good band, will
excite the wires to vibration: At first
the fibrations ire very slight, but they
will increase as the sound waves con- j
tiniie to come. The principal reasons j
why bands are not allowed to play i
j while crossing certain bridges, the j
j suspension bridge it Niagara, for in- 1
: stance, is that if followed by proces- j
; sions of any kind, they will keep step
j with the music, and this regular step ■
would cause the wires to vibrate. At |
| the suspension bridge military com-I
| panies are not allowed to marchl
j across in regular step, but break ranks, j
; The regular trotting gait of a largei
| dog across a suspension bridge is more j
dangefous to the bridge than a heavi- i j
ly loaded wagon drawn by a team of!.
large horses. |,
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According to a letter from Pfank
! Wilkeson,- in a New York paper, 16,-
660 people in western Kansas are nowj
starving, owing to the failure of their ’
crops on railroad lands soM to them 1
xs fertile, but, in fact, barren wastes, ’
on which no crops can be grown, the *
representations of the railroads to the 1
cmtnvy notwithstanding.
Small pox has broken out among j
the Utes. May rt do kr work well •
A FREAK OF NATURE.
Adjacent to the hacienda of Santl
Cartava, about twenty leagues to the
east of this city, a very remarkable
freak of nature occnredj the fact# of
which we ftcelved from a. gentleman
who visited the scene. On the 7th
the people of the hacienda and vi
cinity were aroused by a startling
noise resembling thunder. Upon as
sembling to see what was the matterj
it was soon discovered that a small
mountain in the immediate vicinity
had sunk into thp earth, and it mtisf
have gone into the eatth like a flash
Our informant, with others made ob
servations and ascertained that the
aperature thus opened was iCa metres
in length, iso in width, and its depth
from 150 to 200 metres. It was with
real difficulty that the rim of the cav
ern was approached, as all about there
were great yawning fissures which
threatened to open wider. To miss a
step was danger of finding a grave in
the depths beneath. Some stones
weighing about two pounds each were
thrown into the cavern, and it took
from nine to ten seconds before they
struck the bottom, their contact with
the surface beneath making a great re
port;, After these brief observations
the exploring parties returned hurried
ly from the scene, as the earth Was
trembling and shaking as if on a bal
ance. The location of this strange
phenomena is in the Tierra Caliente
(warm region) and mdsquitoes and
palm trees flourish all about. When
ever any portion of earth along the
rim of the cavern fell into the depths,
immense clouds of white dust issued
forth. This dust was carried along by
the winds and made all the Ireas iri
the neighborhood perfectly white.
Speculation is rife as to whether the'
mountain sank owing to earthquake
influences, or was the result of gas ex
plosions. It could not be attributed
to the former very well, as no shock?
were heard iri the neighborhood. —
Sa/i Louts Potosi Democrata.
VANDERBILTIANA.
Some one has made a very curious
| calculation of what Mr. Vanderbilt
could do with his money. Wm. H.
Vanderbilt’s income from his invest
ments in I5 1,000,000 four per cent,
government bonds is represented at
$5,000 daily, which is $208.05 pcf
hour, $3 47 per minute, or oter 5
cents per second. Assuming that he
is paid off by the second, he cannot
possibly spend his ttiohey, as he could
not select his purchases and lay down
the pieces fast enough. He cOuld not
throw it dway } to pick it up, cdst, re
cover, pick up and cast again would
take him two seconds, and if he
worked all through the twenty-four
hours without rest, he could only dis
pose of one-half of his income. By
living economically saving up for four
years he could, placing his five cent
pieces side by side,- make a nickel
belt around the earth, or by convert
ing his savings into one cent pieces
and mounting them in a pile he would
\in twenty years, erect a road to the*
moon and have SSOO to invest When
he got there. Should his amusement
take a charitable twist, he could out
of a year’s receipts donate to every
man, woman and child in the United
States twenty cents and have money
left over. Other vast possibilities oc
cur to the glowing fancies of the
calculator. In one day he could go to
8,000 different circuses, eat 10,000
pints of peanuts, drink 5,000 glasses of
lemonade, and have money left to get
hfe Loots blacked. He can afford to
have 500,000 shirts washed in one day/
and on the day of his death his income
wiff be ten first class funerals.
There are clouds of butterflies irt
Kansas. They settle in every yard
where there are trees, making them
look as though the trees were brown
with frost. There are millions of them/
of large size, With long, black bodies
and brown spotted wings,
Hope is like the sun, which, as #0
journey towards it, casts the shadow of
oar b*wden behind us.
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