Denver Markets—Eggs, ranch 24c, state
22c; butter, best creamery 26@27c, dairy 19c;
hay. upland baled sll@sl2, second bottom
£7(£|B.so,alfalfa £6.50; wheat $1.00; corn,bulk
80c; sacked 90c; oats, £I.OO, sacked £1.10;
potatoes £1.25; cattle, choice steers £2.70
■<r<3.os. cows£l.ls@£l.9o, native feeders £1.40
(<rs2.3o; hogs, choice $5.45; spring chickens
dressed, 1067 12c; live, £3.00 to $3.50 per doz;
peaches $1.65 per box. Grapes, Catawba,
per basket 40c.
The Consolidated Stucco and Cement works
at Colorado City, owned by George IL Stew
art, was set on fire Thursday night and entire
ly consumed, together with £75.000 worth of
machinery. The incendiary applied the
match in the center of the building, near the
oil tank. No fire had been in the building
since the consolidation with the other cement
works in the state and its subsequent abandon
ment about three months ago. There is no
clew to the incendiary.
The engineers, firemen, conductors and
brakemen on the Denver & Rio Grande rail
road between Salida and Grand Junction
struck on the 15th. Tills was caused by the
thirty day*’ su-penslon of Engineer Gordon,
concerning which there lias been considerable
corre-pondcnve between the company and
employes. The strike includes the second
and thi ■ or over one-third of the
system. It is estimated that about 500 men
have Struck, but many others are Indirectly
affected. Gordon was suspended for refusing
to ob. y an order which forbade trainmen to
atop for meal- at Malta and Glenwood, but
ncccsatitcd their carrying lunch with them.
Ihe pa.—enger busines-. of the Rio Grande on
tin-we.-tern division is being transferred to
the Midland. It Is Loped that the matter may
be speedily settled.
New Mexico.
