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UNITED STATES OP AMERICA. (CONNECTICUT.) 



mense bodies of lower grade ores lie in great 

 dumps from these mines, but the wagon trans- 

 portation of 75 miles to the railroad, with r rfixed 

 tariff of $18 a ton, keeps the owners fronr pla- 

 cing it in the market. 



Coal. In the year 1902 there was unusual ac- 

 tivity in the investigation of Colorado coal-fields, 

 in the known as well as the unknown sections, 

 but more especially in the region soon to be 

 opened in northwestern Colorado by the Denver 

 and Salt Lake Railway, now in process of con- 

 struction. Experts have made extended surveys 

 in many directions, and have reported the exist- 

 ence of coal in great quantities. 



In the federal report for 1900 Colorado is cred- 

 ited with an output of 5,244,364 tons of coal in 

 that year, the average price per ton at the mine 

 being stated at $1.12, or a total of $5,858,036 

 when ready for shipment. At the average selling 

 price, $4 a ton, the 1900 output would mean 

 121,000,000. 



According to the census returns for 1900, Colo- 

 rado contains approximately 18,100 square miles 

 of anthracite, bituminous, and lignite-bituminous 

 coal. A conservative estimate places the work- 

 able area in Colorado at about 50 per cent, of 

 the total area occupied by the coal-bearing for- 

 mations; and the available coal, on the 50-per- 

 cent, basis, is estimated by the Government ex- 

 perts at 33,897,800,000 tons. The magnitude of 

 these figures will be appreciated when it is re- 

 called that the total area of Pennsylvania is 

 45,928 square miles, and that the coal area in 

 that State does not exceed 12,774 square miles, 

 while the coal area of all Great Britain is but 

 9,000 square miles. 



New Industry. A new packing plant was 

 opened in Denver in the autumn of 1902, which 

 is expected to make that city a distributing 

 point for range cattle and a market for fat 

 stock as well as for feeders. This plant will not 

 only give employment to hundreds of men, but it 

 is likely to stimulate the stock business of the 

 whole State and to provide a convenient market 

 for the stock-raisers of Colorado, Wyoming, 

 Utah, and New Mexico, and all the territory of 

 which Denver is the natural center. The new 

 plant has a capacity of dressing 800 cattle, 1,000 

 sheep, and 1,000 hogs daily. 



A new device for the branding of cattle has 

 been invented by A. A. Phipps, of Denver, Col., 

 and adopted at the Denver Union Stock- Yards. 

 The new branding-iron is a self-heating arrange- 

 ment. The handle is a hollow tube wherein 

 gasoline is held. On the end of the tube is an 

 air-pump to force the gasoline down and assist 

 in generating a gas to heat the brand on the 

 other end. This brand is made of copper, and 

 is heated from the inside. Tests for speed as 

 compared with the old way have been made, and 

 have resulted in branding at the rate of more 

 than 100 head an hour. 



New Mint. On May 21, 1902, a bill was 

 passed in Congress appropriating $200,000 to 

 .$300,000 to erect a new mint building in Denver. 



Home for Helpless Poor. Winfield Scott 

 Stratton, the millionaire mine-owner and build- 

 er, who died Sept. 14, 1902, at his home in 

 Colorado Springs, left provision in his will for a 

 free home, in some town in El Paso County, 

 Colorado, to be built for the maintenance of 

 worthy poor persons living in Colorado who are 

 without means of support, and who are unable 

 by reason of old age, extreme youth, sickness, or 

 infirmity to earn a livelihood. The building is 

 to be called tin- Myron Stratton Home, in mem- 

 ory of the father of the deceased millionaire. 



Political. At the State election in November 

 the Republican candidates Vere elected as fol- 

 lows: Governor, Joseph H. Peabody; Lieutenant- 

 Governor, W. A. Haggatt; Secretary of State, 

 James Cowie; Treasurer, Whitney Newton; Au- 

 ditor, John A. Holmberg; Adjutant-General, G. F. 

 Gardner; Attorney-General, N. C. Miller; Super- 

 intendent of Education, Helen L. Grenfel. The 

 vote on Governor was: Republican, 87,512; 

 Democrat, 80,217. The vote for the other tickets 

 \vas small. 



CONNECTICUT, a New England State, one 

 of the original thirteen, ratified the Constitution 

 Jan. 8, 1788; area, 4,900 square miles. The popu- 

 lation, according to each decennial census, was 

 237,946 in 1790; 251,002 in 1800; 261,942 in 1810; 

 275,148 in 1820; 297,675 in 1830; 309,978 in 1840; 

 370,792 in 1850; 460,147 in 1860; 537,454 in 1870; 

 622,700 in 1880; 746,258 in 1890; and 908,355 in 

 1900. Capital, Hartford. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers in 1902: Governor, George P. McLean; 

 Lieutenant-Governor, Edwin O. Keeler; Secretary 

 of State, Charles G. R. Vinal ; Treasurer, Henry H. 

 Gallup; Comptroller, Abiram Chamberlain; At- 

 torney-General, Charles Phelps; Adjutant-Gen- 

 eral, George M. Cole; Insurance Commissioner. 

 Edwin L. Scofield, resigned, and succeeded June 

 1 by Theron Upson; Railroad Commissioners. 

 Washington F. Wilcox, William O. Seymour, O. 

 R. Fyler; Auditors, W. A. Riley, J. P. Bree; High 

 way Commissioner, James H. McDonald; Labor 

 Commissioner, Harry E. Back; Fish and Game 

 Commissioners, G. T. Matthewson, E. H. Geer, R. 

 G. Pike; Shell-Fish Commissioners, G. C. Waldo, 

 Christian Schwarz, Seth Sanford; Tax Commis- 

 sioner, Andrew F. Gates; Forester, Walter Mul- 

 ford; Fire Marshal, John A. Rusling; Commis- 

 sioner of the School Fund, Carnot O. Spencer; 

 President of the Board of Charities, Henry H. 

 Bridgman; Commissioners of Banking, C. H. No- 

 ble, G. F. Kendall ; Commissioner of Building As- 

 sociations, M. C. Webster; Dairy Commissioner, 

 John B. Noble; Cattle Commissioner, Heman O. 

 Averill; Entomologist, W. E. Britton; Factory In- 

 spector, G. L. McLean; Board of Mediation and 

 Arbitration, F. T. Ives, G. A. Parsons, G. L. Smith, 

 all of whom resigned in October; Chief Justice of 

 the Supreme Court of Errors, David Torrance; 

 Associate Justices, Samuel O. Prentice, Frederic B. 

 Hall, Simeon E. Baldwin, William Hamersley. 

 The last two mentioned are Democrats, the other 

 judges and the elected State officers are Repub- 

 licans. Clerk of the Court, George A. Conant. 



The term of the State officers is two years, ex- 

 cept that of the Attorney-General, which is four 

 years. Elections are held in November of the 

 even-numbered years. The Legislature meets bi- 

 ennially in the following January; the session is 

 not limited as to length. 



Finances. Following is the statement of the 

 receipts and expenditures of the State treasury for 

 the year ending Sept. 30, 1902: Military ('(111111111 

 tation tax, $55,278.10; mutual fire-insurance com- 

 panies. $12.060.01 ; mutual life-insurance compa- 

 nies, $310,402.98; railroads, steam, $984.918.37; 

 railroads, street, $238.922.50; non-resident stock. 

 $141,131.35; savings-banks. .SH.~i.721.77: miscella- 

 neous receipts, $49,338.37; interest of school-fund 

 transferred, $110.524.21; avails of courts and for- 

 feited bonds, $52,115.10; national aid to soldiers' 

 "homes, $50.960.38; express companies, $ll.H(i.!)S : 

 telegraph and telephone companies, $19,676.4;": in- 

 surance commissioner, $10S.(i(iti.l(J : sundry t;i\rs 

 and receipts, $68,021.96; inheritance tax'. $33.",- 

 734.9C>: investment tax (on notes, bonds, etc.), 

 $147,641.88; interest on deposits in banks, etc., 



