The Newtown bee., November 08, 1895, Image 1

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We are offering very low prices on all
our Watches from 10 to 20 per cent low
er than they have ever been before.
1UDER.BRYANT & CO., .
B"Irlr8t-Claas Repairing- at Reasonable Prices.
259 MAIN STREET, D ANBURY, CONN.
ewtown Bee:
We guarantee our goods to be of the
quality represented and our price low
est to be found anywhere.
RIDEB, BRYANT & CO.,
Reliable Jewelers,
259 MAIN STREET, D ANBURY, C 3NH.
VOLUME XVIII.
NEWTOWN, CONN., EEIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 18&5. EIGHT PAGES.
NUMBER 45.
The
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THE WATEEBUEY FURNITURE CO.,
Your railroad fare is a very small matter for this concern to talk
aoout. If we can't save you more than that we are not the house we
think we are. The Largest Furniture House in Western Connecticut,
with its 40,000 square feet of floor space, was not butt xjThse
promises nor extravagant statements. Whether
one else, is not the question. Thequesiwn for
can we see the largest
the lowest prices." We answer that the House that handles the largest
quantity of goods can buy straight from the manufacturers and give
you the benefit of the jobbers' profit and that means the
THE LIBERAL HOUSE-FURNISHERS.
135 to 169 Main St.,oppouite Spring St JOHN MORIARTY & CO.,Proprietors.
1865-1895.
DRESSGOODSIDRESSG0ODS!
Special and unlimited sale of higb-class Dress Goods at one
half the cost of transportation. We shall place on sale Monday
morning, November 11, about 50 pieces of all wool Dresa Goods of
the yery highest standard and quality, imported to retail from
SOo to $1 per yard. Sale Price
19C AND 29C PER YARD.
197 Main St.
NOW IS THE TIME!
To have your Heaters cleaned and repaired for
we little know how soon that fellow at Washing
ton will reverse his wheel and turn on to us a
"step-mother's breath that w il chill us to the
bone."
You will remember last week he slipped a cog or two and loosened the
cork on that zero weather that he has had bottled up all summer. We men
tion this in confidence not that we think we are more capable than others, but
somehow all men in our line of business are verv sensitive to the least chill es-
TiArfftTlw at thin season of the vear when
stoves for Heating and Cooking purposes, as we now are. We have a great
variety this yar. $45, not $69, buys our best Steel Range $25 will buy a
No. Q.-Cookinir stove with lone reservoir, oven 22in, fire box 27in. We have
othr bargains but our purse will not
BEX'S advertising snace. so. like the
hope you will at
E. J. HALL'S,
rUNDY ROOK,
LEVY BE0THERS,
Great Ten Hollar Sale.
We place on Bale this week a choice assortment of Suits, Ov
ercoats and Ulsters, all new and seasonable garments at the uni
form price of
. $10.00.
1IERE THEY ARE I'
$12, $13.50 Black
Cheviot, Thibet, Clay
Diagonal and Cassi
mere Suits in single
and double breasted
Sack and Frocks at
$12, 12.50 and $13,
Kersey, Melton and
Beaver Overcoat, all
new and stylish gar
ments, well trimmed
and perfect fitting at
$10.00.
We want you to see, examine
offer.
Beliable Clothiers,
line to select from, the best quality of goods and
Are Selling the
New "Boas" Washing Machines,New "Easy" Wringers.New Cycle Wagons,
Scrapers, Bird Cages, Ladders, Qrass Seeds, Sherwin-Williams Paint, John's
Paint, Masury's Railroad Colors, Atlantic and Jewett Lead.
Danbury.
thev are receiving their fall stock of
allow us to monopolize more of THE
old clock we run down and stop as we
CONN,
$12.12.50 and 13 50
Black Chinchilla
Frieze and Cheviot
Ulsters, full length
well lined, excellent
fitting garments at
and compare
these values we
211 Main St., Danbury,
you buy of us or some
you to settle is, Where
A. G. Baker's Adv't.
Our additional show rooms' are nearing
completion and new goods tor Fall Stock are
beginning to arrive. We have just unloaded
a large car containing 43 complete bed room
suites, 18 cbitloniers and 16 side boards. Many
other lots are on the way and we want to
close out this one it possible before they ar
rive. We are going to make bed room suites
a specially this iall. We do not mean by this
that we are going to make the price of one
style ot cheap suits that everybody knows
the value ot, a little less than cost as an en
ticing "stool pigeon" or "sidewalk leader"
(You know we havn't any sidewalks In Haw
leyville yet) and then sell all the rest at a big
commission. We shall soli all on a small
commission and give consistent and corres
pondingly low prices on the best as well as
the cheapest. We buy by the car load and
our location and methods of handling enables
us to handle all heavy goods on the smallest
fossible expense. Cars are unloaded dlrect
y into our warerooms, thus avoiding all ex
pense and risk from cartage and rehandllng
both in receiving and shipping out goods.
Owning the land and buildings we have no
rents to pay and all expenses are cut down to
the low water mark. We were pretty gener
ally and persistently accused of madness
crazy xradness, when we located our furni
ture business at Hawteyville, but four years
of steadily increasing business has only
tended to strengthen our loyalty to Hawley
ville as a receiving and shipping point and
we can to-day think of no other location that
we would be willing to exchange for except
it be at the junction ot the main
trunk lines inside the "Golden
Gates." Our new building will
give us much better labilities for handling
and showing furniture than before and travel
ing men and others who have opportunity
tor comparison tell ns that our show rooms
are now unequalled in the state. They will
all be tilled to overflowing in a very short
time and we shall be pleased to show you
around. If you are in want of any single ar
ticle of special design or size and cannot find
It iu your own town just see if we havn't got
it before you give up looking.and it you want
any considerable amount of furniture von
certainly cannot afford to buy without look
ing us over, xtemeinoer mat we deliver free
of all freight charges anvwhern within An
miles and guarantee safe delivery. Our busi
ness ims nowever ounng tne past year Deen
extending away beyond the 60 mile limit and
we are shipping lots ot furniture twice and
three times that distance, not casual or acci
dental buyers, but a steadily growing and le
gitimate reaching ont. The natural results oi
one satisfied purchaser sending another.
A. G. BAKER, Furniture Warerooms.
Opposite Union Depot, Hawley
ville. Conn.
WE DON'T MAXE BEAINS!
We teach you bow to use yours. We
fit yon for business. Third year opens
September 3. Send us your boy. No
entrance examinations. Mo Classes.
No Vacations. Send for Circulars
STILLMAN COLLEGE,
DASBtrnr, conn.
THE ALBANY DENTISTS,
388 MAIN STEEET,
0pp. Cannon St., Bridgeport
PAINLESS
DENTISTRY
AT MODERATE
PRICES.
Dli C. L. G." NICHOLS,
DENTIST,
WESTPOKT
bturgres Block. CONN.
AJ-EWTOWH SAVINGS BASK Newtown,
a,i vuuii. inviuuuruieu J BOO.
Conn . Incorno
PHILO CLARKE. PrnflldAnr.: n. IT. WOBTTI.
nur, -Areasurer. hi ri I n n r ft, ra- to 8 . m
Mondays, 7 to 9 p. m.
EDWARDS M.SMITH, M.D.
PHYSICIAN AND SUBGEOTT
Office and Besidsnet Isvteva Stritt.
Telephone Conntetion.
I. 1. KICUARDSON. M.
I
PHYS1C1AH AHD SDEOE05,
Office and Eeeidence . Sandy Hook.
CELEST A. BENEDICT, M. D.,
Ph;sioian and Surgeon,
313 State St., Bridgeport.
EleetrisltT onn of the tnerapeatia aceaU.
Of.
taoanrroni 10 . m. to 18 m, 3 to 4 p.
Paul V. Sunderland, M. JL.,
Fbysieiaa and Surgeon,
Newtown, Conn.
Offlo. 1q Morijran house, Newtown Street.
DB, JAMES W. GOEDOK,
Physician and Surgeon.
SANDY HOOK, CONS
Residence at Mrs P. Callahan's honnn. nn.
the old mill. Telephone call S. C. Boll's drug
IfTDDLESEX BANKING CO. Snosoribed
iU. capital, $400,000. Paid in, oo,0(io. Issnei
6 par cent Debenture Bonds of $100,(200, $2SC
AOO. $1,000 and tS.OOO. which ara h, utnt
lawful investments ior Irust JPnnda in the
state. L. I. SAN FORD, Aetent. IT Slahop
TWO VIEWS OF OITBi HOUSE.
FOR SALE.
THIS BEAUTIFUL COTTAGE.
With Complete Modern Improvements and
our jratenc staircaise,
"BUILT ON HONOB."
Price reasonable and terms easy. Write
for particulars, or call at our office and look
atwenouse.
urn
785 SOUTH AVEWUE, CORBEB WOOD.
BRIDGEPORT
W. E. MARSH.
Fire and Burglar Proof. Q A "17170!
ew and Second Hard -P-1-
Sold on easy payments, exchanged' and
bOUtfht. A AnmnlAta ut etl, r all n. .. Ci ;
tllfl mftb.a alwDm .. I. .... .-ft .. ... . . i
agent for the National Sale.
WABEEOOMS, 132 F AIRFIELD AVE.
BRIDGEPOBT, CT.
STEAL ! !i-
Teg, a steellroof that Is better than
shlngii
es. It yon are in need ot a roof.
drop a pos
tal to
P- C- SANFORD. Hawlewffle. ConiT.
. 4 - j -j
and he will show yon samples and
give yon prices on the best kind ot a
J. W. JOHNSON,
BRIDGEPORT.
REAL ESTATE
HNS UEANCE, LOANS.
UOUGHIJJN 1SKOS.
Bridgeport.
DKALEES II FI5E GOLD WALL PAPERS.
OIL TIXTS, FEESCO BOfiDEES, DECOEA
TIOHS. WI5D0W SHADES. FIXTURES. ETO
A. W. Ors-elman. ""tS
rHookt
onn.
Manufastarsr aed daalar in Harniif, SsdiUs
Bridles, Collars. Blankets, eta.
NEWTOWN'S CENTRAL MARKET,
j. a.- xuiAunaaa, proprietor.
Native Beef. Newtown Street.
DAVEHPOET & O'HAEA, Attorney! and Coon-
euors at Law. Stats street. ndgeport,CoBn-
A GRATEFUL CHANGE
In the temperature suggests thoughts oi coming Fan and Winter, and with such a
change one needs to look through their wardrobe ior heavier clothing. We do
not wish to burden you with a lot oi trash to read, we simply wish to announce
that we are ready with a very large assortment of Fall and Winter Clothing, a
choice selection of Men's and Boys' Suits, all grades. The largest line of Ulsters
and Overcoats in the city. : Underwear, Hats, Caps, Gloves, Mittens, Trunks,
Bags, in fact everything found in a well regulated Clothing Store. Don't fail to
call and see for yourself that the one place to buy Clothing is at
C. F. HAVILAND & GO 'S,
haktwblvs olb ldd Main St., Danbiny.
TO THE PEOPLE OF NEWTOWN AND VICINITY.
Should you be in need of a harness, Farm Wagon. Surrey. Phaeton. Trap
Runabout Concord, Spindle. Bicycle or
Clothing, Jtioots, wnips or stable J! mures or any iind- Before you buy g
and examine the immense stock at
PECK & LINES'
COLUMBUS STA.33ILE3S,
157 to 181 Middle St-, !
THE W. F. SWORDS LUMBER, COMPANY,
Bridgeport, oonn.
Wholesale and Betail Dealers in : - v-- ' v
MICHIGAN PINE LUMBER,
Timber, Lata, Sash, Doors & Blinds, Carvings, Mouldings, Mantles & Hard
Wood, Trim, etc. North Carolina Yellow Pine Lumber a Soeeialtv.
JSV-E8TIMATKS FlTRKIHEI PROMPTLY.
SOLK AGENTS FOB THE FAMOUS FROST SHINGLES. "
33 JEL XT CaSr JS
AP0THEC ARIE S H ALL.
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in MEDICINES,
lPTlONS carefully compounded by license pharmacists. Best goods.lowast prJ
Special attention given to out-of town trade.
MRS JENNIE M. CHURCH, Proprietress.
17 WALL ST., City Bank Buildine.
F. W. XJJZSH, . OBANOS MBBWIH,
BRIDGEPORT SAFE DEPOSIT AND STORAGE VAULTS.
Safe Deposit Boxes MarSll Banking and Brokerage,
rented at reasonable rates. . Choice Investments.
Private Booms merwuiK Mortgages on Bridgeport,
for Examining papers. U)mmO& Beal Estate.
Steel Vaults, SO Main'St., Interest Allowed
Time Lock, - . Bridgeport, on
Watchman. . ." Coop. DepositR.
BURR & KNAPP,
363 Main Street, - -
BONDS, STOCKS, MORTGAGES
STEAMSHIP AND
Faying B, 6 1-2, 8, 7, 7 1-2 and 8 per cent.
paid on same. Securities bought and sold on
cular Drafts and Bank Money orders available
Tameo Qtapleo Sa Oo .
Dnnosits received snbleet to cheek and
INSURANCE -Fire, Marine, Plate Glass,
companies. BEAL ESTATE Bought, sold or exchanged on commission. SAFE DEPOSIT
VAULTS Of the latest approved construction. Private rooms for customers eonneced.
therewith. Coupons and dividends oolleoted. TRUSTEES OB ADMINISTRATORS We are
prepared to take the charge and care oi estates acd property generally.
JAMES STAPLES. P. L. HOLZS&. t. T. STAPLES.
08UtSt, Cor.Ooart, - - . . BKIDSKPORT. rO.
Uott1 IPainlcao Prdcooo !
AT THE
boston jDEararij oo's..
420
hail
om.J
CRACKED CHINA,
As we use the term, doesnt mean
the troubles olthe Oriental King
dom. Japan and Russia may cot it
np to suit themselves but it doesn't
concern ns. The cracked china we
refer to is that on your tables and
in your closets. It needsreplacing
with new. Perhaps your attached '
lo It for one reason or another.
That's no escuso for using an In.
complete set.
D. E. ROGERS,
Crockery. Glassware. Cutlery and
jaymyuiuig ivr aiicma ana
Dining Boom.
&83 Main St , Danbury, Ct
WHEN IN DANBURY
-STOP AT-
WELLS & CO. S
Ladies' & Gents' Restaurant.
THE BEST IN THE CITY.
PRICES RIGHT.
Opposite Railroad Station, Haia Street.
GO TO
Blackman's New Studio
" FOB
PHOTOGRAPHS,
If yon want the best,
to out-of-town patrons
242 Main St..
Special inducements
DASBUET, CT.
.. TAKE NOTICE
Having re-opened the shop formerly ocoupied
by 0 K- Griffin I am prepared to make boots and
shoes to order, or do any kind of repair work in
either leather or robber goods ; also to repair
harness- Satisfactory work guaranteed
FRANK RIVERS, NEWTOWN.
anythinglon wheels; anyMnd of Horse
. Bridgenort Conn.
SIDING, SHINGLES, SPRUCE
W. Bootii ex cr o.,-
CHEMICALS, PAINTS, OILS, ETC
PEB
Bridgeport, Conn.
Bankers and Brokers,
- - Bridgeport, Conn.
AND DEBENTURES. INSURANCE.
RAILROAD TICKETS
Deposits received sublect to draft and Interest
commission. Foreign bills of exchange. Cir
in all parts ol Europe.
interest allowed on all balances of a5O0 or more.
and amarantee leading American and English
'Main St.. Bridseport. Teeth successfnllv filled
with absolutely no pain; with Gold, $1 up. Silver 50e
np, Porcelain SOo np. Painless extracting with Gas,
Ether or Bvpodermio Injection, free, when plates are
uxuvru. xwauuiiu sec ox neiD, ns gawruHWU sou
wKrmuia 10 iook natural, at lowesx prices.
Mr-Uold Crowns for teeth made while von -wait
usaal prices (these Crowns are warranted jtia
b I L'J r 9 S-w - ij a. Fuiru. UV. T
NEW HAVEN.
F.M.Brown. D.S. Gamble
F. M.
BROWN
offer their Fall and Winter
stock of best makes of
Horse
Blankets
at from
I to $2
aess a
single
Blanket
than
fmanu-.
ifactur-
ers sell
by the dozen. To sell them
at these low prices: we had
to buy hve thousand in
stead oi one and now we
must sell them quick.
Stable Blankets, with or with
out circingle. '
Ulankets lor stable and street,
made carefully of excellent
material and stitched.
Double Pure Mohair . Plash and
Cloth Lap Hopes these Robes r.re
finished with stitched edges, and
are black on outside and green on
the other, worn either side, price
S4.00
Scotch
Plaidsi
Tartan
all wool
and silk
and
woo!
an army
ofstyles,
all the
new ef
fects, 35
to 50 in.
wide,
from 25c
to $1.50
yd.
Free Fare;
30 miles from N.H.on pur
chases of $ 1 0 or over.
CALL AND 8EE i
Our stock of wall paper. You'll be pleased 11
von An. and vnn're bound to be sorry il you
don't. The appearance of a house is too
largely a matter of Wall Paper to leave the
subject unconsidered, and in this particular
line yon cannot properly decide what you
ought to have till you've seen what there is to
select irom. We present the cream of the
season's desitrns We make this claim conn
dently, and we have the papers to show for it
in our stock of different patterns.
The Cole Ellis Co.
890 MAIN ST. .BRIDGEPORT, CT.
: THE PLACE TO BUY!
v-An TnnhrMir in afc Lockwaod'a Fountain
Place. Ladles' Shoes at l,t2 and as ; Men's
Shoes from 1 to $5; Boys', Men's and Chll
riran'a ahnM from SSe to 2. Just1 call at bis
new Store and yon will not fail to buy Rubber
ot almost ail amas ; ana uepumig bom n iwe
jou wait. ' - - . -
A. B. LOCK WOOD
BETHEL, . j OOJSJN
HOUSES, BUILDING LOTS and
FARMS, ;
Sold or Exchanged. Special Bar-
gains In Farms, j
F. V. YARRINOTON & CO.,
Sesm to- S. Warner Bvildiag. Briagsport, Ct.
F.M.TARMBQTQg B-F.Pm.
C. J3. SlAUJLEHNi,
Kttt OTMAtKrt aad filled without pain. ' Ar
tificial teeth and crowns. 15 years experience.
Xswuwa svorr Monday. Tuesday and Wsd-
udiT. ova B. H. Bears ft Co. Ottlee Hours
from 8 a. m- to 6 p. m. Bridgeport, Tborsday.
Friday aad Saturday.
FIRE INSURANCE,
REAL ESTATE,.
INVESTMENTS.
49-Just now I have a safe 7 per cent Invest
ment tor a limited amount. ' .
, B. H. MATTOON,
Pjtkiaa Ball, WaUrtowa,
Telephone. --
. -FEUS mSUBANCS
Old Bsliabto Gmpaaisa, . Lsvast Baits.
W. A. LEONARD. Newtown, Cobb
FAIEClflLD & MEAD,
Baaaral lasaraaas Aad Beal Estate AgSBta,
61 F AIXFIELD AVKIUX. BBXB6IP0BT. COMB
Warmer Bmilalaf. Bsom a.
CHAELES JONAS,
HJ&CHANT TALLCR, :
Church St., Newtown Conx
1M!
: Just right tor farm work. Single or Doubl
Light and Heavy, nd everything cheap tor
CASH. .
"WILSON & T7003TE3,
Town Topics.
FBOM CALIFORXIA TO COLOBADO.
AN INTKRBBTINQ EPISTLE FBOM THE FEN
OF B. H. SMITH.
' Dear Bee : Leaving RiverBide, Octo
ber 1,' for a continental trip East I left
Southern California sweltering In' the
warmest season, of the year, for the sum
mer hid been the coolest and most pleat
ant imaginable. The accident of July 6
which nearly broke my back had been
more painful than serious and, after a
month and more at the Pacific coast re
sort of Lone Beach, I was able to dis
card my crutches and walk erect and
unsupported once more.
Riverside has seen considerable ad-
vance In the three years of my residence.
When I reached the Orange City it was
floored by the fearful frost of the Christ
mas before- which wiped out three quar
ters of a million dollars' worth of fruit
in one night. Dauntless in misfortune,
this queen of evergreen and gold plucked
treah courage from her brave heart and
f.oon acquired civic independence by di
vorcing herself from San Bernardino
County, which had been compelling her
to make bricks without straw in helping
build a fine court house at San Bernard
ino that she didn't want. Now River
side is mistress of a county of her own
as large in area as Massachusetts and is
hiring, instead of building, county build
ings and is attracting the push and en
terprise from ber tributary . territory
that always centers at a county seat.
The Orange City's next declaration of
Independence was to overthrow the
monopoly of commission men that bad
hung like, a millstone about the necks of
ber fruit growers, who established in
stead associations and a central ex
change in each fruit community of
Southern California. This gave the
growers the trials and profits of the or
ange crop directly and has proved a great
advance in its marketing. There have
been troubles and misunderstandings, to
be sure. The crop of 1804-5 has not proved
as profitable as was anticipated wnen
f ro8t;wiped out Florida's competing fruit.
The Navels did very well, but the Seed
lings suffered from the foreign fruit
with which Eastern markets were flood
ed, and noble looking Seedling orchards
have been cut back to the stump and
budded with Navel stock. Riverside
has taken the greatest step forward how
ever, in the public improvements sne
has now in hand, macadamizing her
streets and lighting them with electrici
ty at an expense of over- 9100,000, her
first bonded debt.
THE BRILLIANT MOONLIGHT
of the first evening from Riverside re
vealed the famous Southern Pacific loop
north from Tehachapi, in the descent In
to the San Joaquin valley. The railroad
rounds a little hill and dives by a tunnel
under the track where the train has just
passed. The San Joaquin wheat fields,
stretching acre after acre and producing
some 5,000,000 bushels, evidence whole
sale farming, but which has brought so
low a price that the farmers are turning
loose all unnecessary help, glutting the
loeal market for ordinary labor. Fruit
orchards and melon patches intersperse
the wheat about Stockton and Sacra
mento and as yon riee into the majesty
of the Sierra Nevadas you realize what a
place the mountain fruit of this section
is already wi eating for itself in Eastern
markets. Young orchards and irrigating
ditches appear here and there far np in
to the pines, until, after looking down
in places 2000 feet into the bed of the
American river, the train at Blue Can
yon, the station of mountain water and
red "bat," plunges into the semi-dark
ness of 40 miles of snow sheds. Nevada
seems like a vast desolation, an impres
sion that is deepened by the statement
that all but one of ber streams, the bead-
waters of the Snake river, sink away in
to her own desert sands. Utah, which
enters statehood next Fourth of July as
the 45th in the national constellation, an
ticipates a considerable increase of pop
ulation from the opening of the Uintah
Indian reservation to settlement.
The general impression of Colorado is
that the silver collapse practically ruined
her and it did scatter scores and hun.
dreds of miners and these dependent up
on their industry. When you read,
however, that
DENVER'S MANUFACTURING OUTPUT
last year was nearly 830,000,000, not to
mention Pueblo and lesser - Industrial
centers and examine into the varied re
sources of this area ot 104,500 square
miles, only a little over 22 times the size
of busy Conncticut, yon begin to realize
that the closing of silver mines alone
cannot entirely ruinthis mountain em
pire of the Rockies. Kspecially as I
temporarily tarry under the hospitable
roof of DeWItt C. Jencks in Colorado
Springs, the center, of Colorado's gold
output, and a city of substantial, thrifty
and even magniflcant houses and busi
ness and public buildings, do I appre
hend, as never before, a little something
of what Colorado already Is and is ulti
mately to become. For: Colorado
Springs, as has been aptly said, lying
east ot the mountains and west of the
sun, has a doable golden Income, owning
largely the gold mines of the Cripple
Creek region, 20 miles distant In the
mountains and receiving a considerable
stream of Eastern gold from the sale of
these stocks, to deal in which she has es
tablished three mining stock exchanges.
Cripple Creek produced 200,000 in 1891,
its first golden year, but last August its
output was 9680,000 and for 1895 is esti
mated at $8,500,000, to produce which a
population of 30,000 baa gathered at an
elevation of from 9400 to 10,750 feet
above tide water, 8000 of them in Cripple
Creek City and 4000 at Victor. The
world knows; too, how Leadville is re
gaining lis first laurels as a mining city,
over 10,000 feet np toward the skies, by
its later production of about f 15,000 of
I
tne yeuow metal daily,ao that altogether
COLORADO'S GOLD PRODUCT
for the present year is hoped to reach
$20,000,000, nearly twice that of last
year. Statistics are rarely poetic to the
average reader, but when not In the in
terest Of addition, division ami alloim
I are Often mlffhtv inntrnotivA. Tha Hnlnw
rado Fuel & Iron Company produced
over 35,000,000 pounds of iron ore last
year. About half of which went Into
street rails. Colorado's coal output for
1894 was nearly 3,000,000 tons, a third of
which was shipped out of the state, even
as far away as Montana, Texas and Cali
fornia. Denver's clay Industries had an
output of $1,300,000 for 1S93 while it goes .
without saying that a country so p res la
tently standing on end to reach up to
ward the blue empyrean is rich beyond
calculation in all beautiful mineral speci
mens and in the more substantial sand
stones, granites, marbles and other bond
ing materials. Florence, where the
Cripple Creek mines connect with the
main Denver and Bio Grande railway
system, has been producing 2500 barrels
of crude petroleum daily and is said to
be the only petroleum section west of
Ohio where paying oil has been struck
with parafine for a base. Pennsylvania
and Ohio oil has 75 per cent of illuminat
ing oil and 25 per cent of the parafinea,
while the Florence oil has 75 per cent of
the para fines, by far the more valuable
products, which are refined at Overton,
30 miles away, where the oil is piped.
COLORADO'S AGRICULTURE
is naturally in its Infancy, but its 12,000
miles of irrigating canals vitalize 2,000,
000 cultivated acres which can be Increas
ed by the same water supply to twice as
much more. She claims to raise an
average of 23 bushels of wheat lo the acre,
a bushel more than the Dakotas; 23
bushels of oats,more than any other state
but the Dakotas ; 200 to 400 bushels of
potatoes, to advertise which Greeley is
giving a monster bake this week, and
claims that her farm products already e
ceed in value those of ber famous mines.
The cattle ranges are also being replaced
with imported stock of all kinds, horses,
asses, cattle and sheep, but Colorado
still has to import 80 per cent of dairy
products, 75 per cent of poultry products
and nearly all, pork supplies. The state's
fruit crop for 1S94 is placed at 2,000,000
and as apples and pears can be ripened
here at an altitude ofx6000 feet, and as a
prominent Canyon City orchardist claims
to have netted 400 and 500 an acre from
10 acres for six years, there Is an inviting
and profitable field for development. "
Colorado baa not yet ceased to be a
paradise for the sportsman, both in hunt
ing and fishing, but Is preparing for more
enduring fame by throwing down the
gauntlet to Switzerland, "the playground
of Europe," as ber superior In mountain
scenery, good climate and mineral .
springs. To be sure Mont Blanc with its
15,781 feet and the Matterhorn with 14,-
836 feet can overtop anything Colorado
caps with snow, but aside from these the
highest Alps are only from S0O0 to 9000
feet. Of Colorado's points of vantage
120 over 13,500 feet of altitude, of which
35 peaks range from 14,000 feet upward,
about 10 times as many as in all Europe.
HOW FEW HAVE HEARD
of, much less seen, Colorado's highest
mountain of 14,433 feet, Sierra.Blanca in
Costilla county, a county bordering Xew
Mexico's line I But what wonder when
mountains are so lavishly strewn that 72
of between 13,500 and 14,300 feet are yet
unnamed. Pike's Peak, most famous of
this cloud-capped galaxy of grandeur, is
only 27th in height of those already nam
ed, its 14,147 feet standing like a beckon
ing sentinal to Capt Zebnlon M. Pike,
whose description named it after he saw
It and failed in its ascent in November of
1806, and his successors who approached
it across the barren and thirsty miles to
ward the Sunset empire, whose Pathfind
er was Fremont. Pike's Peak, however,
seen close at hand, is not the solitary
mountain ot which you naturally think,
but the highest in a range with other
snow-clad summits, rising from Cheyenne
mountain at the southeast and fall kg
away more aDrupuy to tne norm west.
Its cog-wheel railroad, finished October -20,
1890, is about eight and three-quarter
miles long, its greatest grade being 1320
feet to the mile and the round trip to the
grandly revealing summit, with its royal
outlook over 40,000 square miles, costing
5. Ton cannot fail ot rugged grandeur
wherever you penetrate the Rockies,
whether from Denver by the Denver and
Gulf line of the Union Pacific system on
its loop trip past Idaho Springs, with its
hot and cold mineral water, from Cola
rado Springs by the Colorado Midland
the Pike's Peak route of the Santa Fe,
"through the Cte pass climbing upward,"
or by the ramifying Denver and Bio
Grande,
DISCLOSING SO MUCH MAJESTIO SCENEKT
of towering Canyon and hoary peak la
in many directions by standard
or narrow guage. When you gaze np
sheer cliffs tor 2000 feet or more
as in the Royal Gorge of the grand can
yon of the Arkansas, in the canyon of
the Grand river and in many another
titanic cleft, where mountain water
fall away to the sea, you behold scenery
that cannot be surpassed until engineer
ing daring shall pierce the mile high
grand canyon of the Colorado. When
it comes to climate a state for which tha
United States signal service certifies 340
out of 365 to be sunny days can challenge
even Southern California sunshine to
comparison, even though it have moder
ate rams throughout the warm parts of
the year and snows in winter. In tha
dry air ot this Colorado plateau the feel
ing of heat and cold Is not as strongly
felt as in the humid oast, though the
rough breath of March sometimes sends
the most delicate to a warmer dime,
and even in Colorado Springs, with Pike's
Peak snow water to drink and a porous
gravelly soil quickly hiding up surfaoa
moisture I hear ot sporadic cases of ty
phoid fever, diphtheria and aoarM law,
OOBCLCDZD Of LAST FAUX. J