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Newspaper
Canon City Record
Location
Canon City, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1907
Page
8
Members of the Fremont County Fair association board met at the Record building to discuss issues vital to the organization. No definite actions were taken, but several important questions were considered and another session is likely next week or in ten days.
The Whipple Stephens and Bethel team announces a Chicago sourced carload of living curiosities for their street fair side show tent. The lineup includes Bosco the snake eater Siamese Twins the Tattooed Man two jungle captives two snake charmers giants pigmies and other curiosities.
Four students from the State School of Mines at Rolla Missouri Herman E Minor James Bunten Fred Riede and Horace Mann arrived home Monday afternoon for the summer vacation They praise the institution calling it one of the best schools of the kind in the country
T. J. Murphy of Trinidad, noted builder of the Colorado Fuel and Iron pipeline from Portland to Pueblo and the Fort Collins waterworks system, is in town. Murphy cites vast experience and major projects including Atlantic City water system, Troy waterworks, and the Johnstown Cambria Iron Works dam reconstruction, noting the Colorado pipeline challenges and large expenditures overcome.
A fifteen mile wooden pipe between Portland and Pueblo with a sixty inch diameter can carry eighty cubic feet of water per second. Made from Oregon fir, the pipe is described as practically indestructible and costing the company $500000.
Bruce Houston Corbin Robison and Tom Warner return from State University at Boulder for summer vacation. Warner is accompanied by a guest staying a few days. Canon City students at the university have made excellent records and their friends relish their rest.
Washington June 3 Charles J Bonaparte attorney general said fines alone often fail to curb large scale illegal acts by big corporations and that imprisonment of individual defendants can be more effective in enforcing the law.
A 960 acre tract in section 20 south of Canon is leased for fifty years with a ten year option to purchase by Alexander Bowie and Capt. B F Rockafellow. They will start development using a Davies core drill the first of its kind in Colorado. Bowie previously operated the Rockvale mine and two large Gallatin collieries in New Mexico.
In Detra county the Junita coal mine leaseholders have ample funds to exploit the coal measures underlying the property and expect to bring it to a productive basis before year’s end.
A mining exhibit shows copper ingots flowing from ore into ready for shipment. An efficient system with steel fingers and a small crew processes about 200000 pounds daily, valued at $30000, while a compact electric locomotive transports loaded cars to the shed. The operation once set a world record for a week’s output over a million pounds worth $160000.
Canon City Colorado June 3 1907. Frank D Heath cannot finish the Canon City and Royal Gorge Electric Railroad in time to claim the bonus and due to a fruit crop shortage he agrees to return all subscriptions. The committee in charge requests cash subscribers call at Fremont County National Bank to receive refunds.
Department of the Interior Land Office Pueblo Colorado reports that settler David F. Hall Myst. 14678 has filed notice of intent to make final proof. Proof to be made before the Clerk District Court at City Colorado on June 1907.
Mr and Mrs Henry Wallace from Galena Illinois visited Canon City with Dr and Mrs Crissman since December. They left on the noon train content with Canon City praising it as they plan to promote growth and hope to return next winter.
Rev. J. T. Thomas returned home Tuesday night after a two week visit with friends in Indiana and Illinois. He preached twice at the First Presbyterian in Muncie with former local pastor Rev. Harry N. Wilsop, and visited Goodland where he first served as minister. He also spent time with McCormick Seminary faculty, his alma mater. He was in Indianapolis for Decoration Day, marked by President Roosevelt's visit and the monument to General Lawton.
Edwin Lobach Sr has nearly completed a reservoir by Oak Creek in western Florence. The dam reaches fifteen feet and the two acre basin will flood waters to irrigate a twenty acre farm patch near the Walters ranch for oat wheat barley and alfalfa crops. He plans to fill this summer and store sufficient water for all planted land in the area.
A. Churchill Sylvanus, aged 58, died Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock at 815 Myrtle Avenue South Canon after a short illness from heart disease. He leaves a wife and a family of several children.
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