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1-21-27: The town of Alma is setting poles for the power line. Alma will soon be lighted by electricity.

12-22-27:  Mrs. Gateley and children have moved from the Wilcox house to the J.H. Fisher house. [my mother, sister, and I - almost certainly in Fairplay.]

2-18-28:  The friends of Mrs. Gateley are glad to hear that she is recovering from her recent operation. [This was quite possibly the hysterectomy which eventually contributed to her death in 1943.]

6-29-28: Mr. and Mrs. S. Gateley and children motored to Colorado Springs Tuesday.

8-3-28: L. Adrian and Mr. Gateley of Alma were transacting business in Fairplay Wednesday.

9-21-28: Sid Gateley came up from Colorado Springs Friday in his new Studebaker Sedan, returning the same day.

9-28-28:  A Park County chapter of the State Metal Mining Association Is To Be Organized Mr. S. Gateley, Supt. of the London Gold Mines, was elected temporary chairman and very ably presided.

10-12-28: Park County Metal Mining Association Organized ...Mr. S. Gateley (was elected) President...

12-7-28: The flu epidemic at the London has been checked and the men are recovering.

3-29-29: Mrs. Gateley and Mary Elizabeth are the guests of Mrs. Vetter.

6-21-29: Mr. and Mrs. Sid Gateley and daughter returned from Wyoming Tuesday where they have been visiting Mrs. Gateley's parents. [Harry and Linnie York]

3-18-29: Mrs. Imogene Sundstrom and Mr. Fred Gateley were married last week and are now in Alma.

10-13-29: Sid Gateley made a business trip to Colorado Springs this week.

10-25-29:  Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gateley of the London Mine spent the weekend in Denver, returning home Monday.        

   Mrs. Sid Gateley and children spent the weekend at the South London.

12-13-29:  Sid Gateley went to Colorado Wednesday for his wife who was initiated into the O.E.S. [Order of the Eastern Star] Thursday evening.

   Fred Gateley went to Denver Wednesday.

12-30-29: Mrs. Sid Gateley was a guest at the Vetter home last week.

2-14-30: Fred Gateley was down from the South London Saturday.

2-28-30: (ad on front page)

3-14-30: Glen Gately will leave Friday for Denver where he will attend the school for Ford Dealers.

3-28-30: ...Glen Gateley...attended the Gym circus and Dance in Fairplay...

5-9-30: Town Populations from the Fifteenth Federal Census (1930):

7-4-30: ...Mrs. S. Gateley...attended the O.E.S. meeting in Breckenridge...

8-8-30:  Glen Gately was a business visitor to Fairplay Tuesday.

   The Gately Motor Co. of Alma who were the low bidders for the contract of hauling for the London Mine began trucking the ore down Monday.

10-10-30: Glen Gately has a Caterpillar tractor and wagon for hauling ore from the South London Mines.

10-17-30: (major front page article)

GARAGE OF GATELY MOTOR CO. AT ALMA BURNS TO GROUND

S. J. Gateley of Alma...were among those appointed by Gov. Adams to represent the Colorado Mining Industry at the American Mining Congress in El Paso, Texas, Oct. 13.

10-31-30: Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gately visited her parents Mr. and Mrs. Lou Adrian Sunday p.m.

12-12-30:

GATELY'S ENTERTAIN AT DINNER

 Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gately of Alma were hosts at a delectable four course dinner served at 3 o'clock Thanksgiving day. A color scheme consistent with the season was carried thruout the entire four courses. At 7:30 a dainty buffet supper was partaken of. Covers were laid for Mr. & Mrs. Lou Adrian, Miss Helen Adrian, Mrs. Grace Wells, Mrs. Etta Gately, Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Stotts, and the host and hostess.

1-16-31: The new garage of the Gately Motor Co. is nearing completion. They are ready for business.

2-6-31:

The dance given in the new garage by the Gately Motor Co. will be free and everybody is planning a good time.

Mr. and Mrs. Orville Gately, Mrs. Etta Gately...drove to Buena Vista Sunday.

2-6-31:

Mr. Sidney Gately, Supt. of the London Mine, is quite ill at the hospital in Fairplay. He has a bad throat.

Mr. Fred Gately of Alma Junction is ill with a severe cold.

2-13-31: Mr. and Mrs. Sid Gately are ill with quinsy at the Fairplay Hospital.

3-27-31:

Miss Mary Gately is in Denver taking a business course.

Mrs. Sid Gately is ill in the Fairplay Hospital.

FRED GATELY BUYS GARAGE AT RIFLE   Fred Gately, of Alma, has purchased a garage at Rifle, Colo., and has moved there with his family. Park County in this removal has suffered a considerable loss, but offers best wishes. Accompanied by his brother Glen W., also of Alma, Fred made a final business trip to Fairplay Saturday. On that same day Burton Weaver left for Rifle with a truckload of the Gately household effects. He returned Sunday evening.

...about 120 persons are employed at the London mine...

...The most pretentious and noteworthy among these new building structures [in Alma] is the big automobile garage of the Gately Motor Company, opened for business on the 28th day of last January. Its dimensions are 75 by 80 feet and it is built of hollow tile. It includes an up-to-date office and sales room, with a cozy lobby for visitors. It is equipped for every kind of automobile repair work and with the equipment represents an investment of $22,000. Four trained mechanics are on its payroll.   The president and manager of this establishment, the like of which would be hard to find in any other town of the size and location of Alma, is Glen W. Gately, a brother of the successful manager of the London Gold mine. He is ably assisted by his sister, Miss Mary G. Gately.    The Gately Motor Company are authorized Ford dealers.

S. J. Gately ... are delegates from the Park County Metal Mining Association to the annual meeting of the Colorado Mining Association ... in Colorado Springs ... [The banquet at these meetings was called the "sowbelly dinner" in honor of the sparse meals frequently eaten by the old prospectors.]

S. J. Gately, superintendent of the London Gold Mine, was among the Almaites who visited the state capital last week.

2-12-32: ... S. J. Gately ... business trip to Denver.

The Gately snow-plow broke out the road to the Paris and Excelsior mines [in Buckskin Gulch] Tuesday and Wednesday.

3-11-32:

The new road up Ute Pass is nearing completion and it is understood that cars will be able to get through around March 17, although the road will not be fully completed at that time.

... Glen Gately became a candidate for mayor ... [He was defeated 39 to 24.]

[Mining activity in Park County has been rapidly increasing over the past two years or so. The depression is not being felt here.]

GATELY MOTOR CO. BUILDS FINE COTTAGE CAMP AT ALMA

6-24-32:

The cottages of the new Mount Bross Tourist camp are filling up as fast as they are completed.

There are a new drugstore and a new barbershop in Alma...

7-8-32:

• LONDON MINE'S DINOSAUR TO GO TO COLORADO COLLEGE [A petrified dinosaur was discovered in the mine. Some of it had been dumped before the actual discovery, but most of the parts were recovered. I don't know where it is now.]

78-29-32: GATELY GARAGE WATCHMAN BADLY BEATEN BY ROBBERS

... Madge Wright of Fairplay ... [This is the first reference I found to Madge who will be marrying Glen a little later.]

Leo Wells left for New York City a week ago to enroll for a three month's term at the R.C.A. Technical Institute. [Leo was Grace Wells' son. This is the first reference to him that I found.]

... O. E. Gateley of Alma bought a V-8 Standard Coupe from the Gately Motor Co. [This is Orville, another of Sid's brothers.]

9-16-32:

Reporting a delightful experience, there returned from a five-day trip to and from a dude ranch at Encampment, Wyo., last weekend, the following Alma-ites: Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Oakley, Mr. and Mrs. Sid Gateley. and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Singleton. [Melvin was a cousin of my mother's and ran the compressor house at the London mine. He and his wife, Irene, later moved to Denver; I remember visiting them and riding in his Model A Ford! ]

Harry York and his daughter, Mrs. Sid Gately, were up from Colorado Springs Wednesday. Mr. York, who gained many years' experience as a carpenter around the mines of the Breckenridge district, will take an active part in the construction of the new London mill.

The new library building is nearing completion ... [Kith and I enjoyed using the books in this building the summer - 1947 - we spent in Alma while Ned was incubating.]

2-24-33:

The London mine has adapted a plan by which they hope to keep more men at work. All single men work four weeks and lay off two. All married men work six weeks and lay off two.

(from an advertisement): THE GATELY MOTOR CO. IS NOW SELLING PLYMOUTHS AND DODGES.

4-14-33:

Mr. and Mrs. Orville Gately have moved into their new home which they purchased from Charles Stotts several months ago.

For some reason the London Gold Mines Company appears to have concluded that hauling its ore to mill or smelter by truck has decided advantages over the truck-and-railroad haul. The Gately Motor Company of Alma has purchased three White trucks capable of carrying six or seven tons each, and it is understood that these trucks are intended to haul London ore from mine to mill at Colorado City or to smelter at Leadville under a contract with the mining company.

Mrs. Sid Gateley of Colorado Springs motored to Alma Monday afternoon.

4-28-33:

The opening of the road over Hoosier Pass [there had been a monstrous snowstorm about a week earlier] was suddenly started Wednesday morning by the circumstance that a prominent citizen of Breckenridge had been seized with a serious ailment that made removal to Denver for expert treatment imperative. The patient was Clifford Peabody, county clerk of Summit County. [He was Gram's brother; he and his wife Victoria owned the ranch on the Blue River north of Dillon] ... intestinal trouble ... An operation was performed in a Denver hospital at 9 o'clock Wednesday evening and at last report Mr. Peabody had greatly improved." [Cliff lived until 1956.]

Seventy-five tons of gold ore averaging $40 to the ton are being treated in the new reduction plant of the London Gold Mines company at Alma, and the high grade ore is still being shipped to the Golden Cycle mill at Colorado Springs according to Sidney Gately, general manager ... Gately said 'Last year we had a gross output of over $1,000,000 in gold and may equal that this year if our high grade holds up. We are employing about 200 men. The Alma district in general is booming and expects to exceed its output of last year, the largest of any gold camp in Colorado.'

Orville Gately, ... are the drivers for the new White trucks ...

Miss Mary Gately has been ill for the past week, but is up now and has resumed her duties at the garage.

5-5-33:  

... is now employed by Orville Gately as one of the drivers for the new White trucks ... [which indicates that Orville was running the trucking end of the Gately Motor Co.]

A school election was held in Alma Monday. Sid J. Gately was re-elected to the school board.

5-12-33:

Orville Gateley and Glen Gately were sick.

An air tank in the compressor room at the London mine blew up and the operator was seriously injured. The usual operator was Melvin Oakley [Linnie York's nephew], but he was in Denver having some dental work…

5-26-33: Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gately of Rifle visited in Alma.

6-16-33: Mrs. Sidney Gately of Colorado Springs is visiting relatives in Alma this week.

7-14-33:

A cave-in at the London mine takes life of Frank Pilch. [There were a number of mining accidents and deaths reported over these years -- mining was definitely a hazardous occupation.]

Alma's bank [run by Fred Singleton] was robbed of $1,760.

Leo D. Wells, deputy county treasurer, received his June salary of $100.

7-28-33: Sound-Picture Theater to Open in Alma Aug. 4th

[The "Alma News" column, which contained most of the above items, has vanished. Although there remain special gossipy columns for some of the smaller communities -- Lake George, Hartsel, Como -- the little tidbits for Alma and Fairplay are now scattered here and there and in lesser quantity than before.]

... It [the London Mine] lay idle for years, but was revived by its present manager, Sidney Gately, who by his vision has proved himself to be one of the great mining men of Colorado. It was he who pointed out to Mr. Jewett the road to new millions of which he always said he had too many. ...

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gately of Rifle visited Alma ...

Miss Mary Gately, Madge Wright, Glen Gately, and Orville Adrian spent Thanksgiving in Denver and Colorado Springs.

12-29-33:

A bridge luncheon ... engagement of a popular former Fairplay young lady, now of Salida, to one of Alma's leading young business men ... The honor guest was Miss Madge Wright whose engagement to Glen Gately ...

1-5-34:

SOUTH LONDON MINE SCENE OF NEW YEARS NIGHT DINNER PARTY   Manager Sidney J. Gateley and his amiable wife were hosts at an elaborate turkey dinner in the South London mine dining-room on the evening of New Year's day at which the resident employees of the big mine and a number of persons from Fairplay and Alma were the guests.   Among the latter were Mr. and Mrs. J. Fred Singleton, ..., Mr. and Mrs. Orville Gateley, ..., Mr. and Mrs. Leo D. Wells, ..., Mr. and Mrs. John Nicolas, Master Bobby Nicholas, and Master Wilson York Gateley. ... [John Nicolas was the bookkeeper at the London mine. His wife, Esther, and son, Bobby, lived in Colorado Springs a block or so up Cheyenne Boulevard from our house. Bobby was a year ahead of me in school, but we played together quite a bit in our younger years.]

Miss Madge Wright and Glen W. Gately were joined in matrimony last Sunday. ... They will make their home in Alma, where Mr. Gately has repurchased the J. C. Singleton dwelling opposite the Mount Bross cottage camp.

The Fairplay-Alma-Breckenridge mining territory was honored with the lion's share of space in the mining section of the Denver Post's New Year Edition (which, by the way, was the most modest and least expensive ever produced by that paper). It contains pictures of several mines in the Alma district and also of some of the outstanding mine operators like Benjamin Briscoe, John T. Barnett, George F. Schreiber, S. J. Gately and John A. Traylor.

It being a fact that, in proportion to what he has undertaken and accomplished in the Alma district, Sidney J. Gateley has sought and received less publicity than any other, here is reproduced a deserved compliment paid to him by the Denver Paper: SIDNEY J. GATELY The general superintendent of the great London mine on London mountain in the Alma district is widely known in the United States and foreign countries as one of the best mine managers in the world. He is not a graduate of any mining university, but has learned his business in the school of hard knocks and resurrected the old London mine after it was dead for years. This year it made more than one and one-fourth million dollars in fine gold. Such men as Sidney Gately are rare, and they never seek publicity. He has mined in Nicaragua, Mexico and several states in this country and what he does not know about handling mines and mining men can be written on a postage stamp in 12-point. What this state needs are a few hundred men like Sidney Gately who can take our old mines and pull them out of the red.

1-12-34: American Legion Post organized in Fairplay. ... Charter signatures included ... O. R. Gately, ... S. J. Gately

... Four years ago the old towns of Alma and Fairplay were kept alive for the most part by the activities in and around the London Mine, when H. K. Jewett, through his able general manager, Sid Gateley, was mining three to ten ounce ore at the rate of 20 to 30 tons daily, hauling same by wagon to railhead. ...

Park County Metal Mining Association is being revived. ...

H. L. TEDROW TO SUCCEED S. J. GATELY AS SUPERINTENDENT OF THE LONDON MINE   Sidney J. Gately, who had been superintendent of the great London Mine for a number of years and who is justly credited with having brought that mine up to its present level of prolific productiveness, has resigned that position in order to be able to follow other interests. The resignation is to be effective on April 1. Mr. Gately's successor will be H. L. Tedrow, another well-known mining engineer whose name has figured prominently in Colorado mining history. ... While the Alma-Fairplay district will deplore the departure of Mr. Gately from the London Mine management, it sees in Mr. Tedrow a competent successor who will probably soon step into popularity equal to that enjoyed by his predecessor. [Mr. Tedrow was seen as the devil incarnate by our family! I don't know why my dad left the London. Presumably he was either fired or simply got itchy feet--not an uncommon Gateley trait!]

4-6-34: GLEN GATELY WINS IN ALMA'S MAYORALTY RACE THIS TIME

4-13-34:

Walter Dye ... London Mine employee ... dies. He came to Alma two years ago from McFadden, Wyo. He was a carpenter by trade ... [He was probably an acquaintance of Granddad York, who worked as a carpenter in McFadden.]

Mr. and Mrs. Glen Gately and Mrs. Etta Gately are spending a few days in Colorado Springs.

5-4-34:

Park County Metal Mining Association meeting ... president Sid J. Gately ...

Gately Motor Company has opened a large wholesale and retail filling station at Divide ...

5-25-34: LEO WELLS PUTS NEW HALYARD ON 50-FOOT POLE AT COURT HOUSE

6-22-34:

500 acre forest fire east of Tarryall fish hatchery. [This may be the Hourglass Burn, which is still visible from Eitrholt.]

8-17-34:

The McDowell properties on Hoosier pass are becoming active again under the management of Sid Gately. It is understood that a Belgium syndicate is backing the undertaking.

10-26-34: Alma Precinct Has 1032 Voters Registered

3-8-35: [Sid Gately speaks at meeting of the Park County Metal Mining Association. ]

5-10-35: [The Gately Motor Co. starts to carry Texaco products. ]

5-17-35: [S. J. Gately attended a luncheon meeting of the Park County Metal Mining Association.]

Mrs. S. J. Gately and two children, Betty and Bill, of Colorado Springs, arrived Saturday for a few days' visit at the home of the children's grandmother, Mrs. Etta Gately. They returned home Wednesday morning.

7-19-35: Miss Mary Gately's house in Alma has recently been completed...

Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Gately, of Colorado Springs, spent last week-end visiting at the home of his mother, Mrs. Etta Gately. Mr. Gately, in company with James Mullen, only recently returned from an extended business trip to Boston and New York City.

8-16-35: Betty Gately, of Colorado Springs, is visiting this week at the home of her grandmother, Mrs. Etta Gately.

Mr. and Mrs. Glen Gately, Mrs. Etta Gately, Miss Mary Gately, Mrs. Grace Wells, Miss Betty Gately, and Mr. and Mrs. Leo D. Wells motored to Colorado Springs Sunday where they attended a family reunion.

Mr. and Mrs. Harry York and Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Gately and two children, all of Colorado Springs, arrived in Alma Monday. Mr. and Mrs. York and the children went on to Breckenridge for a week's visit while Mr. and Mrs. Gately remained in Alma.

An Alma-Denver bus line started operation because the Colorado and Southern railroad has been doing a poor job with their passenger traffic. The bus line has one round trip each day costing about $8.00. Each one-way trip takes about three and one-half hours. [There is a lot of agitation and activity to keep the C & S in operation, but its days are numbered...]

11-1-35: S. J. Gately was a guest at a dinner party given by the Fred Singletons.

Mr. and Mrs. Glen Gately were Thanksgiving day hosts at a family dinner. Their guests were Mr. and Mrs. Orville Gately, Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Gately and two children, Betty and Bill, of Colorado Springs, Mrs. Etta Gately, Mrs. Grace Wells, and Miss Mary Gately.

Mrs. S. J. Gately and two children returned to their home in Colorado Springs Friday. They were accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Glen Gately and Mrs. Etta Gately, who will spend several weeks with her mother in Calhan, Colorado.

3-13-36:

S. J. Gateley and Kenneth Paris of Colorado Springs spent Sunday and Monday in Alma visiting relatives and friends. [Kenneth was the son of Oscar and Etta Paris who lived in Colorado Springs and were close friends of Edna -- Etta was also from Breckenridge and was a classmate of my mother.]

4-17-36:

SOUTH PARK'S OIL FOUNTAIN IS A GUSHER [This is in reference to an oil well near Hartsel. There were lots of hopes for an oil field, but they sputtered out over time.]

4-24-36: The Fred Gately's are breaking up their home in Rifle...

S. J. Gately of Colorado Springs arrived in Alma late Monday evening for a brief visit with relatives. Mr. Gately in company with James Windsor of Denver have spent three weeks in Old Mexico on a mine inspection trip. They were joined by other mining experts in Rawlins, Wyoming, and San Diego. The entire party then joined in the inspection of some mining property located on a peninsula approximately one thousand miles south of San Diego.

5-22-36: Mayor Glen Gately has proclaimed Wednesday, May 20, as Clean-Up Day in the town of Alma.

6-12-36:

Mrs. S. J. Gateley and children of Colorado Springs were weekend visitors at the home of Etta Gately. Miss Betty Gateley remained this week for a longer visit.

7-31-36:

Mrs. Grace Wells of Alma returned to Colorado Springs with her brother S. J. Gateley who was transacting business in Alma last week. She plans to remain in the Springs for a week's visit at her brother's home.

10-16-36:

BARCOE MINING COMPANY STARTS NEW LIFE UP IN HORSESHOE ... S. J. Gateley, former superintendent of the South London mine, has been named superintendent of the new project. He hopes to hit pay ore in the next three or four months and believes that the Horseshoe district will once more be agog with activity.

12-25-36:

Mr. and Mrs. Glen W. Gately and Mrs. Grace Wells of Alma made a trip to Colorado Springs Sunday in order to see young Billy Gateley, the son of Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Gateley, in a Christmas production at the Cheyenne Mt. School.

1-19-37:

S. J. Gateley of Colorado Springs made his regular inspection trip to the Barcoe mine Monday, leaving that evening for the state mining convention in Denver.

3-26-37:

BIG FIRE IN ALMA'S BUSINESS DISTRICT ... damage exceeds $75,000 ... Gately Motor Co. destroyed ... trucks and records saved.

4-9-37: Barcoe tunnel over half completed (1100' out of 2000').

8-13-37: Fred Singleton dies. [He was the banker in Alma. His wife, Hazel, married Sid Gateley in the 40's.]

8-14-37: (from the Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph):

FALLS PLUNGE VICTIM DIES Gateley Girl's Skull Fractured and She Never Regained Consciousness; Was Popular at School

8-20-37:

BETTY GATELEY, ACCIDENT VICTIM, BURIED AT COLORADO SPRINGS MONDAY

EXPERT FINDS IDEAL SITE FOR SKI COURSE ON HOOSIER PASS

10-8-37:

S. J. Gateley and Leo Wells made a trip to Ouray last Sunday where they inspected some mining property in that district.

2-18-38:

A proposal to open Tarryall Reservoir to fishing and make the area recreational ... It is now used as a trout-spawning lake.

3-11-38:

ALMA'S FIRE TRUCK NOW READY FOR QUICK SERVICE  [Up to now they had relied on the Fairplay fire department.]

8-12-38:

Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Gateley and son Bill stopped for a short visit with relatives Tuesday evening on their way from Atlantic City, Wyo. to their home in Colorado Springs. Mr. Gateley planned to return Wednesday to Atlantic City where he has taken charge of the Miner's Delight mine.   [I remember being introduced to and loving boysenberry jam and helping a surveyor run some survey lines.]

9-16-38:

Mrs. Glen Gately entertained the N. B. Contract Club at a luncheon at her home on Wednesday. … Others present were … Leo Wells, … and Grace Wells.

9-23-38:

ALMA FIRE DEPARTMENT'S PICNIC DRAWS CROWD OF OVER THOUSAND   Beer … donated by candidates … Leo D. Wells. .. trucks for hauling by Gately Motor Co.

10-14-38:

… Fairplay Hotel Luncheon   … Those present … Leo D. Wells …of Fairplay. … Glen Gately, Orville Gately, Grace Wells .. all of Alma.

The N. B. Contract Club gave a luncheon and stork shower in honor of Mrs. Glen Gately …

10-21-38

On Tuesday the Colorado and Southern tracks were pulled as far as Pine. This means there is only the narrowed canyon to be cleared now and our dinky railroad that played such an important part in the life and growth of Park county [as well as Breckenridge and Summit county!] is a closed chapter in history.

10-28-38:

Mrs. Etta Gately and Mrs. Grace Wells visited relatives and friends in Leadville and Climax last Sunday. [I think that Etta's brother Amon Wilson had a radio shop in Leadville.]

[This week - as in almost every week - there were bridge games and luncheons attended by one or more of Glen Gately, Madge Gately, Grace Wells, and Leo Wells.]

[Leo Wells ran for Park County Clerk and Recorder on the Democratic ticket in the 1938 election. Unfortunately he lost, getting 701 votes to his opponents 1166.]

11-18-38:

Glen Gately and Mr. and Mrs. Leo Wells drove to Salida Tuesday evening where they were dinner guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John M. Boyle. Mrs. Gately is convalescing at the Boyle home and will return to her home in Alma the last of the week. [Probably Madge had a miscarriage - see 10-14-38.]

12-16-38:

Frank Peabody came up from Denver the sixth of this month and is spending a few days with Mr. Schrack. [Frank was Lelon Peabody's son and Linnie York's first cousin.]

Bill Bergren and Glen Gately of Alma, Harry Locke of Hartsel and Neal Brown of Fairplay were in Colorado Springs Thursday and met with the members of the Springs ski club to boost for the ski course on Hoosier Pass, six miles north of Alma. [The course never made it big; the remains are still visible as one starts down on the north side of the pass.]

Mr. and Mrs. Orville Gately of Alma were shopping in Denver Monday.

1-6-39: Mr. and Mrs. Orville Gately were in Denver Tuesday.

1-20-39:

Winter Sports on Hoosier Pass - The Fairplay-Alma Winter Sports Area is becoming one of the most popular resorts of its kind. More than 500 enthusiastic skiers and tobogganists have visited the courses each of the past three Sundays, with hundreds making week-day and moonlight excursions. Much publicity has been given the courses thru the Associated Press, the Denver Post, Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph, Leadville, Salida, Breckenridge and other papers.

2-?-39: Mr. H. L. Tedrow is still running the London Mine…

3-3-39:

Mr. and Mrs. Glen Gately of Alma returned home the first of the week from a two weeks trip to Corpus Cristi, Texas. They said it was certainly hot down in that country.

James N. Redman of Denver was looking after his mining interests in this vicinity last week. He returned to Denver Monday accompanied by Carl Berg, who returned to Fairplay Tuesday.

3-17-39:

Mrs. Glen Gately, accompanied by Mrs. Grace Wells and Fern McIntire, drove to Salida last Wednesday. Mrs. McIntire remained in Salida and has resumed work at the Salida Beauty Shoppe.

A party of lady skiers were up on Hoosier Pass course last Friday. Those enjoying the afternoon's outing were: Mesdames Jack Tolman, Sinn, Dean Johnson of Fairplay, Madge Gately and Doris Weichhand of Alma.

Mrs. Glen Gately entertained the N. B. bridge club at her home Monday afternoon with a St. Patrick's party. Members and guests present were: Mesdames Grace Wells, Leo Wells, Tom Barr, Gail Perry, M. L. Miller, W. A. Sheldon, Henry Ranspot, Dave Weichhand, Glen Swanson, Jim Dollison and John Seimon. High score went to Mrs. Leo Wells, second to Grace Wells, and low to Mrs. Barr.

4-14-39: Mrs Grace Wells has assumed charge of the Mt. Bross cottage camp in the place of Mr. And Mrs. R. T. Scott.

5-5-39: Mrs. Grace Wells is suffering with a fractured rib. We wish her a speedy recovery.

6-13-40: A very enjoyable affair was held Sunday by the Gately family. Five generations being present. Mrs. Martha Riddle mother of Mrs. Etta Gately, who will be 90 years old June 14^th. Mrs. Grace Wells daughter of Mrs. Etta Gately and Leo Wells son, of Mrs. Grace Wells and the twins, son and daughter of Leo Wells. A picture was taken of the group. [Note: the punctuation shown is what appeared in the newspaper article--they needed a better proofreader!]

6-27-40: Mrs. Etta Gately, Mrs. Grace Wells, Mrs. Glen Gately attended a family reunion in Canon City Sunday with Mrs. Etta Gately's mother, sisters and brother. This being the first time all members of the family were present in 40 years. [I have a photo of the reunion group-B.G.]

7-25-40: Mrs. Etta Gately, Mary Gately and Grace Wells, motored to Central City Saturday to attend the Opera given there by a New York Co.

10-10-40: Orville Gately suffered a severe injury while working up at the Alma Syndicate Mill near Alma.

10-17-40: Orville Gately is able to be around on crutches now. He spent a few days at St. Anthony hospital in Denver last week.

11-23-40: Mr. And Mrs. Leo Wells are the proud parents of twins, a boy and a girl, born last Sunday at the Presbyterian hospital in Denver.

11-7-40: Mr. And Mrs. Leo Wells have returned from Yravan [Uravan?]. One of the twins "Larry" underwent an eye operation in Grand Jct. But is better at this writing. They will move into the Chas. Stotts property here in Alma to make their home.