THE GILPIN OBSERVER.
VOL. XXI.
MINING NOTES
Heavy Output of Smelting;
Ore Being Shipped From
the County.
The Chamberlain-Dillingham works in
Black Hawk have been busier this
month than for some time past buying
and shipping ore. This comes from the
old properties and many of those that
have been started within the past few
months. This ore is not only being re
ceived in unusually large quantities but
it is of an exceptionally high grade. Of
course at this time of the year, just be
fore the Christmas|holidays when leas
ers in particular need ready money, the
output of ore in the district is very
heavy, but this month the tonnage has
exceeded that of any previous period in
several years.
Among the heaviest of the shippers
at the present time are the big mines
located in the Russell Gulch section.
The output of some of these big pro
ducers is exceeding all former records
and this can be regarded as an indica
tion that during the early part of next
year a change of conditions in this dis
trict bordering closely on a genuine min
ing boom will be experienced.
The Jenny Creek M. & M. company,
situated in the Boulder Park section,
owning a group of 14 lode claims and
one placer claim, will soon start to
develop the properties and sinking will
be commenced at once. A capital of
$50,000 was recently subscribed for the
operation of the above claims and this
company will exert every energy to
open up the large bodies of ore. which
run directly through these claims. The
ore is of a low grade quality and a mill
will be built immediately to treat the
same. A large plant of machinery will
soon be installed and it will not be long
before Jenny Creek will be a busy por
tion of the county. The building of this
mill also mein* the future operation of
other large groups lying adjacent to
those of the Jenny Creek M. & M. Co.,
as the ore is low grade and it would not
pay to ship it any great distance.
John Stevens, who has been working
the Morning Star lode in Russell
district, made a large shipment
of ore to the mills in Black Hawk this
week, from which big returns are ex
pected.
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THE PUBLIC SCHOOL
All the arangements have been prac
tically completed for the meeting of the
Clear Creek Valleys Teachers’ Associa
tion, which meets in this city next Sat
urday. The sessions will be held in the
high school assembly room, and friends
and patrons of the school are cordially
invited to attend. The morning session
begins at 10 o’clock, and the afternoon
session at 1:45. The main speaker of
the afternoon will be Hugh O’Neill,
editorial writer of the Denver Post.
For an hour before train time, tea will
be served by the teachers in the recep
tion room in the Hale building, to which
a general but urgent invitation is ex
tended to all friends.
The banquet tendered by Gilpin coun
ty teachers to all visiting teachers will
be given at Pete’s Restaurant after the
lecture by Governor Buchtel on Friday
night. An excellent menu has been
prepared, and an interesting toast list.
The teachers of Black Hawk, Nevada,
Russell Gulch and Central City will at
tend en masse, and a majority of the
teachers in outlying districts of the
county have signified their intention of
being present. Besides showing court
esy to the guests, this will be a good
means of getting acquainted with each
other.
Miss Mable Matthews enrolled in the
eighth grade Monday.
Dan Murphy has been on the sick list
for several days.
The next issue of the “Prospector”
will be out early in January. It will be
largely devoted to the Alumni Associa
tion. Subscriptions are still in order.
The price is 50 cents per year, or 15
cents per issue.
Class records for the first term were
given out this week. The daily recita
tion records throughout the school have
shown a steady improvement from the
first and were especially good during
the third month of school. This the av
erages mav not show as the grades on
the card is the average for three
months. The examination grades are
very low. At the beginning of school
it became evident that pupils were
classified from three months to a year
in advance of their proper grade, this
condition according to the reports of
previous superintendents, has hampered
the school for some time past. There
seemed to be a choice of but two remed
ies, either to place pupils in their proper
grades through wholesale demotion of
classes, or to so improve the character
of the work and to so increase the de
mands made upon the pupils that they
would bring their work up to the re
quired standard by the close of school.
We have chosen the second plan, and
the examination grades for the first
term show the present relation of the
pupils’ work to the standard set. We
ask for this plan the co-operation of
parents to the end that indolence and
aimlessness on the part of pupils may
be corrected and such habits of study
and work may be instilled as will insure
their accomplishing the work outlined.
We believe that a continuation of the
marked improvement that has been
noted along these lines will make sure
an easy realization of standard grade
classification for the Central school be
fore the year closes, an accomplishment
greatly to bo desired.
Connection About Made.
The great task of connecting the Old
Town mine with the Newhouse tunnel
will be consummated about December
16th. Workmen in the shaft and in the
Hot Time lateral have been making
splendid headway, and Manager Kim
ball states that on December Ist, there
will be not more than 80 feet of rock
between the bottom of the shaft and
the heading of the lateral. According
to the record breaking pace recently set
by the Old Town miners, this 80 feet
can be knocked out in less than two
weeks.
To people not intimately acquainted
with mining methods the greatness of
the task that is about to be completed
iB hardly appreciated. The Old Town
shaft will have attained a depth of 2100
feet, and the Hot time lateral will be
4300 feet long, its starting point being
over three miles underground from the
portal of the famous Newhouse tunnel.
After the connection is made the econ
omies of tunnel mining will reduce the
cost of producing Old Town ore by a
large percentage, and saving will result
in greater profits to the owners of the
mine.—ldaho Springs Gazette.
While cutting the grape vino for the
entertainment of a number of his
fricndß at u skating party Tuesday
evening. Dr. J. M. Hannah fell and ran
a hanful of slivers into the most tender
part of his anatomy. One of them was
an inch long by actual measurement.
He was skaking on rollers.
CENTRAL CITY, COLO., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1907.
ELKS’ MEMORIAL
Services Most Impressive and
Largely Attended—ln
dividual Eulogies.
Sunday evening at the opera house
were held the annual memorial services
of Central City lodge, No. 557, B. P. O.
Elks. Every seat in the large theatre
was occupied by members of the order
and their friends. On the stage, which
was tastily and appropriately decorated,
was seated the Lodge of Sorrow.
Since the Elks lodge was organized in
this city there have been eight deaths.
During the past year, or since the last
memorial was held, two members of the
order joined the silent majority—Robt.
McDonald and Jas. A. Gilmour.
Henry Eilmann, exalted ruler, pre
sided over the Lodge of Sorrow and
every feature of the beautiful ritualistic
service was carried out with precision.
The musical numbers and the singing
has seldom been equaled at an Elks’
memorial. H. Irving Jones rendered
two or three pieces on the violin in ..n
excellent manner and the quartette com
posed of Mrs. Ada Russell Davis, Mrs.
Humphrey G. Williams, Mr. Arthur
Penna and Mr. J. C. Fowler sang most
beautifully.
Former State Senator Arthur Com
forth, of Colorado Springs, a member
of lodge No. 309, delivered the memorial
address. Judge W. C. Matthews eulo
gized the two members of the order who
had been called by death within the past
year. Mr. Matthews made a splendid
talk and his sympathetic words were
listened to most intently. His eulogies
of Robt. McDonald and Jas. A. Gilmour
follow:
During the past year we have lost by
death Brothers Robert McDonald and
James A. Gilmour, both, our brothers
and personal friends; and, while we can
no more solve the mystery of death,
than we can the problem of life, we are
not without hope in the future; we are
here because of the Divine fiat, and we 1
go hence at the Divine will. And, while '
as Elks we have no distinctive religious 1
creed, we are all, subscribers to the ‘
pagan philosophy of Cicero, that “there *
is no other way by which men can ap- 1
proach the Gods, than by contributing 1
to the welfare of their fellow creatures, ” *
and also to the Christian duty of 1 ‘visit- '
ing the fatherless and the widow in their '
tribulations.” 1
While, therefore, the death of our '
brothers is a loss, and keenly felt, as 1
Elks, we submit thereto with humble
faith in “Him who doeth all things 1
well, ” content to know that we are in
his hands, and that revealed evidence
unites with and strengthens our com
mon human belief, born of Hope, that
the immortality of the soul is a part of
His divine economy.
Brother Robert McDonald, lived with
us ten years, or more. He was an Elk
seven years, and was thirty-one years
old at the time of his death. His occu
pation was that of a miner. He con
tracted, and was a victim of what is
generally termed “miners’ consump
tion;” and, for more than a year prior
to his death, vainly sought relief and
health in various parts of the country,
all without avail, in August last giving
up the unequal conflict at Santa Monica,
California. His remains, through the
efforts of our order, and the efforts of a
sister order, to whom we accord hearty
recognition and thanks, were brought
back to his friends and kindred at Erie,
Colorado, and are at rest in the little
cemetery there, under the Colorado sun
shine and skies he loved so well. Among
his virtues, as I remember him, were
cheerfulness and hopefulness. In their
exercise he radiated about him, and im
parted to others, cheer and brightness;
he had the hopefulness of youth and the
optimism of an Elk. He was also help
ing and helpful, how much so, like many
an other Elk, only himself and his God
[ knew. And, while he died early in life
and young in years, it was but the in
evitable and common lot of all.
“The streams must cease to flow;
The winds must cease to blow;
i The clouds must cease to fleet;
The henrts must cease to beat,
, For all must die.”
Brother James A. Gilmour, was five
. years an Elk, and fifty-seven years old
. at death. When most of us who are
L here this evening came to Gilpin county,
; we found James A. Gilmour here. For
, many, many years, all the strong years
of his life, he went in and out among
this people; his life and his life's work
. is a part of the development and history
, of this county, and its chief industry,
mining. He identified himself with
' every work for the advancement of our
’ local itcrests, and his death was and is
r a personul loss, not only to our order,
9 but to our community at large.
[Concluded on Page 5.]
JUDGE HITCH DIES
Monday the community was moved to
sorrow over the death of John G. Hatch
which occurred that morning at about
5 o’clock. The end came rather unex
pectedly. He had been sick scarcely a
week and had been confined to his bed
but days. Sunday his condition
showed marked improvement but the
severe attack of grippe he contracted
in the first stages of his illness had de
veloped into pneumonia, and with this
ailment at his advanced age death was
a certainty. His passing from this
world was peaceful and apparently free
from suffering. He was conscious un
til the end and his last thoughts were of
his invalid wife whom he had cared |
for and nursed with unwavering devo
tion for years. Just before he expired
he said. "I must see mother (meaning
his wife) before I die” and attempted
to arise from his bed but fell back
dead.
John G. Hatch was born in Ports
mouth, 0., in the month of September
1828. Had he lived nntil next Septem- i
ber he would have reached the age of
80 years. He was raised in Alton, 111.,
and received his education in Shortliff
college at Alton. In 1849 he went west
to California, joining Colonel Edwards’
party of goldseekers. With his father
he opened the pioneer jewelry store in
Sacramento.
In 1858 he married Mrs. Sarah Mey-,
ers. Of this union four children were
bom, two boys and two girls. Of these '
the two daughters are living, Mrs. Fred
Bolsinger, of Nevadaville, and Mrs.
D. G. Mcßea, of |Los Angeles, Cal.
Mr. Hatch drifted from California to
Nevada at the time of the Comstock
excitement and spent several years
traveling in Nevada, Idaho and Mon
tana. His companion was the father of
W. R. Hearst, the journalist. In 1867
he came to Colorado and located in
Gilpin county. He embarked in the
jewelry business with Emery Valentine.
This firm existed twenty years.
John G. Hatch belonged to no socie
ties excepting the Pioneers of Califor
nia. He was a life-long Democrat and
was a staunch supporter of the princi
ples of his party. He always took an
active part in local politics and several
times faithfully served the Democracy
as county chairman. He never sought
public office, but had been elected jus
tice of the peace. He was a man who
was esteemed by everyone and every
body was his friend. Regardless of any
other commendable traits he possesed
his constant devotion and love for his
sick and helpless wife alone would gain
for him the admiration and endearment
of his endless acquaintances.
The remains of John G. Hatch will be
interred in the Catholic cemetery and
will rest beside the bodies of his two
sons. The funeral will be held from
the Church of the Assumption tomor
row afternoon, having been deferred
awaiting the arrival of Mrs. Mcßea
from California, who is expected here
today.
Financed With Hot Air.
The Central Colorado Power company,
which was incorporated a few months
ago with a capitalization of $20,000,000,
seems to have been financed principally
with hot air. For some time past up
until about one month ago, a force of
men was engaged in making surveys
and constructing towers for the running
of electric lines through the counties of
Summit and Clear Creek, but with the
stringency of the money market, Curtis
& Hine of Colorado Springs, took ad
vantage of the opportunity and work
was suddenly brought to a close. It
now develops that the company con
tracted bills in numerous places and it
is impossible for the merchants to rea
lize one cent on the outstanding indebt
edness. In Georgetown a number of
business men were trimmed to the ex
tent of several hundred dollars each.
Sight drafts have been promptly re
turned without any explanation, and
those having debts against the company
are wondering where they will land at
the grand finale. Only a short time ago
application was made to Judge Lewis of
the United States district court by cred
itors, asking that receivers be appoint
ed for the company and upon the proper
showing the request of the petitioners
was favorably considered. Cnrtis &
Hine, the millionaire promoters without
funds, did not contest the proceedings,
but on the other hand agreed to tho
proposition. They stated that every
thing would in a short time be straight
ened out satisfactory to all interested
parties. However, warm air will not
pay bills for goods which the merchants
have seen fit to allow the Central Colo
rado Power company to contract.—
Georgetown Courier.
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