Idaho Springs siftings., May 03, 1902, Image 14

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Idaho Springs Siftings
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Published in the Owen Building, Idaho Springs, Colo.
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A Fair-fighting, Uncompromising Republican Paper
Entered at the Postoffice at Idaho Springs. Colorado as second
class matter, January 31. 1901.
The city ought to have a steam laun
dry.
A Central City man claims he is so
bright that Sapol—o would not make him
brighter.
This is the season of the year when
a fellow cannot get friendly with an
alarm clock.
Tornadoes, cyclones and hot winds
are all the rage again in the state of Mr.
Bryan and Carrie Nation.
If you desire to become a candidate
for governor say so. All the rest of them
are announcing themselves.
The resumption of the Standard
properties up Fall river will mark the
dawn of an era of progress up there.
June is the month of roses and the
month of marriages. The young men
about town ought to begin to do a little
popping. _______
The people of Central City should
come over and get Idaho Springs some
time. They appear to be taking every
thing they want.
At the present time the Chicago
Creek section is receiving more atten
tion than any other part of the district
in a mining sense.
The talk of lynching firebugs contin
ues in Georgetown, and some of these
beautiful days the papers will tell the
story of the trouble.
Here is a bad one from a Loveland
paper : ‘.‘Little Gertrude Damm is down
with scarlet fever and the whole Damm
family is quarantined.”
It begins to look as if the Adams fam
ily would become as prominent in the
political world as the Cherry sisters did
in the theatrical world.
The Odd Fellows are a mighty fine
lot of people and Idaho Springs will be
glad to entertain them again any time
they want entertainment.
The state board of charities and cor
rections has exonerated Stonaker, but
no one has been forward yet to exoner
ate the board. This is a peculiar admin
istration.
Attorney General Post has concluded
to make a fight against the beef trust
operating in the state. Everybody
knows that the beef trust is a “tough”
proposition.
Mayor Trathen is not an orator, but
his brief address of welcome to the Odd
Fellows hit the point, and it did not take
him long to give them to understand just
what he meant.
“Idaho Springs to the Front” are the
headlines'in an Idaho paper. Yes, “Ida
ho Springs” to the front. We have al
ways been at the front and are glad to
see our friends in Idaho admit it,
There seems to be no objection to the
taking up ot a location or two in the dis
trict, but from the ten adverses filed by
W. A. Haggott and J. W. B. Smith this
week it is evident that there is a senti
ment against the idea of taking a whole
mountain and one of the largest moun
tains surrounding the camp, at that.
The Colorado Investment company is the
organization attacked. It is incorporated
under the laws of Wyoming and has a
general office at Denver.
Denver is having a sensational time
with her Gabrin poisoning case. The
newspapers are reaping a harvest and if
the woman is guilty her harvest should
be in keeping with the evil she has sown.
The city council should have been
lined up on Saturday evening with can
dles, so that the visitors could have found
the way to the opera house. Siftings
trusts that we will never have another
winter of darkness.
Georgetown has organized a home
mining company. These companies are
popular with the people who desire to in
vest because .they practically guarantee
honest management of the capital at
tracted to the proposition.
A Georgetown young man proposed
to his girl the other night and she told
him she would toss coins with him to see
whether she married him or not. He
did not have the coin and the engage
ment will not be announced.
The Gold Cord company is develop
ing a section of the district that will
open the eyes of the oldest of the min
ing men. The old Lexington, with its
wonderful record of production, did not
more than half tell the story.
It will not do to let ud on the idea of a
fireman’s tournament. Idaho Springs
must have the event and we believe the
people are perfectly willing to stand the
expense incident to the conduct of one
of the most successful affairs of the
kind ever held in the state.
There appears to be conside rJble
question as to whether the exposition at
St. Louis will be held next year or net.
Expositions cannot come too close to
gether. Buffalo lost money on her great
exposition, and St. Louis is endeavoring
to avoid the shoals of loss by postpone
ment for a year.
Gilpin county, so far this year, has ex
ceeded all previous records in the line of
production. We are pleased to see our
neighbor on the north breaking records
with her mineral product. Gilpin has
been the old standby' section of Colorado.
When all others failed, Gilpin and Clear
Creek were ready with their precious
metal.
The baseball season is wide open in
Denver. Prices at the grand stand con
tinue to be of the robber character.
Idaho Springs would gladly give her
friends in Denver a nice little excursion
to some of the games were it not for the
general opposition to such a holdup. It
looks as if Denver’s thug had been ap
prehended.
Idaho Springs should place herself in
a pbsition where she can invite the peo
ple to come and visit her and then enter
tain them after they get there. At the
present time she is in the position of the
young girl who invites a young man to
come and see her and then in order to
avoid the embarrassment of lack of room
at home invites him to take a walk.
The people living up Chicago creek
have righteous reason for complaint.
When school is out it is a shame to see
the young boys and girls compelled to
pass the house of ill fame conducted in
that vicinity. We undtrstand that it is
not within the jurisdiction of the city,
but it would seem that the county might
take some action to move the place.
Central City did defeat us on the dia
mond last Sunday. It is a little bit cari
ous that those people over there can use
us just as they want to on propositions
of this sort. Both sides put up a mighty
good game, and it was so close that it
was about a case of even honors. The
return game may be better or it may be
worse. We refuse to make any further
predictions regarding the outcome of
anything in which Central City is en
gaged. Tbe first thing Idaho Springs
knows little hamlets like Golden will be
robbing her of metropolitan laurels.
Get an alarm clock and wake up !
The Burro's Briefs
They t**ll me that the address of Mrs. Helen L.
Grenfell, state superintendent of public instruc
tion, was a gem in every way. It conld not well
have been anything else. Mrs. Grenfell is a lady
whom it is a pleasure to have numbered among
your acquaintances. She is one of the interesting
women who believe in the practical part of educa
tion. She recently made the «statement that the
children should be taught the three “R’s.” read
ing, writing and arithmetic, before they were
taken through a course of painting and paper
flower manufacturing. There is, indeed, some
thing wrong with some of the modern system of
educating children. Mrs. Grenfell has been abused
because she suggested that such wrongs existed,
but she is right and ought to stick to it. Too
many children are sent out of the schools these
days fitted for parlor ornaments and nothing else.
A herd of ‘ sissy boys” turned loose upon the
world to wither with the first frost they encounter
in practical life. Pupils who cannot sing a note
and know as much about music as an editor would
about millions of dollars, are compelled to learn to
sing. After they have put in the flower of the
time of their lives in learning a little bit they
would not be permitted to sing if banished to some
lonesome island. Then they take boys who have
no idea of mechanics and could never be made
successes in that line, and fret them through a
course of planing and sawing. The idea is all
wrong. Find out what the pupil is liable to adapt
himself to in after years, in what particular line he
is gifted and then make him a specialist in that
line. Mrs. Grenfell is right, and when she at
tempts to modify her original statement she is
wrong.
The report of the local library association
shows that a little over si,ooo has been collected
during the past four years and that current ex
penses have been a third in excess of the amount
taken in. Against this is the fact that the average
number of books taken out has been about iooper
week. This shows that somebody must be patron
izing something liberally and refusing to donate a
little in the way of remuneration, or else these
customers are practically doing all the paying.
There are 125 subscribers and should lie 500.
There is no reason why the library should not be
well patronized. We are inclined to the belief that
one of the features that stand in the way of suc
cess is that it is not advertised enough. Over a
year ago we endeavored, through this department,
to get the association to address a letter to Car
negie and obtain a donation for a library, if possi
ble. No attention w’as paid ,to the suggestion ex
cept to say that he would pay no attention to such
a lequest from such a place. While we slept
Georgetown stepped in and asked him for a prop
osition and succeeded in getting it. There ought
to be more life in the local association. More life
means more advertising, and more advertising
means a better business and more money. We be
lieve that the citizens should pitch in and help the
library along. It is a deserving institution, and I
understand two or three or a half dozen loyal
women have practically been obliged to carry the
burden incident to its maintenance themselves.
They are to be commended for their loyalty, but
let us do something or give something that will
start it on the upgrade.
I had aatalk with Manager John Carroll of the
Denver Times the other day, and the people can
look for that old pioneer paper to come to the
front. With Mr. Carroll at its head and plenty of
capital back of it, as there is now, there is no rea
son why it should not become a thorough favorite.
One thing is certain. Under Mr. Carroll’s manage
ment the paper will represent the conservative in
terests of the state. It will not be given to the
yellow variety of journalism which is so common
in Denver at the present time. Mr. Carroll is a
bright, conscientious fellow, and he carries both
these accomplishments into the newspaper busi
ness. Under the new rule he will have practical
and thorough direction of the paper and this
means that it will not only become greater as a
state paper, but that it will be representative of
every honorable interest of the state.
We have received another communication from
the gentleman in lowa regarding the construction
of a steam laundry. He appears to be willing to
invest his capital here if there is a chance for him
to get in where he can either rent or purchase his
own property at a reasonable price. He has made
certain inquiries concerning the price of property.
If anyone has a lot or two suitable for such an en
terprise they wou d confer a favor by letting it be
known at Siftings’ office. We ought to have a
laundry and the best way to get it is to keep
after it.
Governor Orman states that he is a candidate
for re-election and his friends are pointing to the
fact that he is tne father of the revenue bill. It is
a mighty tough looking child to own, but it is ap
parently about the best in the litter born during
his administration. Perhaps it does not look as
badly to him as it does to others —people’s own
children are not liable to.
At the present time Denver has a dozen differ
ent “new process” tests working on samples or
“runs” of ore from the various districts of the
state. One fellow has a plan for desulphurizing
the sulphides and then proceeding with them by
an electric magnet that will attract every particle
of mineral. Another proposition that is attracting
attention is a crusher that does the work by the
force of compressed air. It is claimed that this
crusher could prepare the ore better than any
other ever invented. Another is an entire plant to
be run by electricity, the separation of the min
eral from the rock to be made by the same ele
ment. All these new ideas argue well. They may
not all prove successful, but if one in every 100
proves a winner it makes millious for the mining
world.
The Atlantic-Pacific tunnel is to be driven
through. We have'a communication from a gen
tleman in Georgetown who states that w r e were
mistaken when we said that Pomeroy failed to cut
veins with the big bore. This gentleman makes
the statement that there are fifteen or twenty big
veins cut and that with the modern treatment of
ore at the present time it will pay to work all these
veins. I hope what he says is true. So far as the
driving of the tunnel is concerned there is little
question about that. All the old stockholders, as
well as the new ones, are helping all they can. It
will become a great feature for the entire west.
The manner in which tbe citizens entertained
the Odd Fellows shows what Idaho Springs can
do, even with a limited capacity for caring for
crowds. The records of the Colorado and South
ern show that we entertained nearly 500 visitors
last Saturday, to say nothing of the teachers in at
tendance at the meeting of their association. The
people like to come to Idaho Springs. They like
to drink the hot mineral water and take advantage
of the swimming pool. The city will experience
little difficulty in becoming the foremost city for
visitors in the state. All she needs is a start in the
right direction, and this she will soon have.
The other day several of the old-timers were
standing near the old bath house that is being torn
'down. There was a time in the history of the
city when the building w'as looked upon as a de
cided improvement and advertised as such. To
day its removal marks the passing of a landmark.
The sides of the old swimming pool have formed
a cement for themselves, that is a soda formation
and from three to four inches thick in places. As
one man marked the tearing down process he re
marked : "If Montague was here I believe he
would ask for an injunction restraining the people
from doing that.”
Last week the oil burning engine on the Colo
rado and Southern made a trip or two and then re
tired. In talking with a railroad man we discov
ered where the trouble existed. In going down
hill to Denver very little steam is needed. The
engineer found it impossible to keep the spray so
fine that it would develop a little heat and still not
go entirely out. The thing would not split the
difference with him, so he was obliged to let it go
out two or ;hree times in order to keep his engine
in any shape for the run from Golden down.
Since the local lodge of the A. O. U. W. was
defeated by Central City the oyster season has ex
pired and there are no oysters to be obtained with
which to pay the bet, unless it would be cove oys
ters. It has been suggested that grapenuts be em
ployed in the place of oysters, and if this is satis
factory to the boys over at Central City the local
lodge will banquet them with a shredded wheat
mattress at each plate. Besides this a green onion
could be thrown in and the meal would not be a
bad one.
Editor Blair of Topics is the father of a boy,
born on April 20. As a rule editor’s children are
girls for some unaccountable reason, but in this
case the happy parents have one of the opposite
sex. Siftings tenders extremely sincere congratu
lations. Last winter death robbed their home of
a little daughter, and while this one canuot take
the place of the departed one, for each has its
niche in the parental heart, yet it will bring back
the sunshine that used to be in the home.
I want to say a good word fbr the chamber of
commerce. It has made a good fight to get the
cadets located here for their annual encampment,
and if they do come President Birkins and Secre
tary Graham are entitled to the credit for the
work. If they do not, these gentlemen have made
a loyal fight and are entitled to commendation
anyway.
According to the published report of the meet
ing of the board of county commissioners Yankee
Hill is to have a saloon, and a man named Nelson
is the man who has been issued the license. With
the right kind of whisky the people over there
ought to be “seeing their population double”
within the next year.
Agent Barnett of Black Hawk was over last
Sunday, having a good time and renewing old ac
quaintances. “Barney” was one of the most pop
ular agents the Colorado and Southern ever had
at this point and is a hustler in every direction of
the business compass.
Manager Rowe is showing the people that there
is “something doing” in the baseball line and he is
going at it in the right way. Last week this office
turned out some score cards that were in every way
metropolitan. Idaho Springs is big enough to af
ford such luxuries.
The marriage licenses are being issued with per
sistent regularity in the county now. Georgetown
has the greatest number of them to her credit.
This looks as if she intended to make an effort to
retain the county seat.
When you meet the assessor tell him just what
your property is worth. Do not tell him what you
ask for it, for that might make a difference to you.