The Delta independent., 1888-02-07
COLORADO CONDENSED,


sous portions of the state for a week past.
The international Range Association
Will meet in Denver on the 2sth of March.
John Evans has been reelected presi
dedt OF the Denver, Texas & Gulf railroad
The Sixth Street bridge across the
Arkansas at Pueblo broke down few days
ago.
The new opera house at Montrose
las been completed. 1t will seat l 200 per-
SONS.
A large colony of Germans from
Iowa will locate near Burlington this
spring.
Donald Fletcher has been elected
president of the Denver Chamber of Com
meIco.
lot Of gamblers were fined $3.50
and costs in the Denver police court the
other day.
The frozen body of Edward Roads
was found on the prairie near Harrisburg,
last week.
The old barnaclcs are to have grand
reunion and banquet In Canon City ON the
1'rd OF this month.
Edward T. Collins, Rio Grande
freight conductor was murdered in Lead
VILE Saturday night
Since last March the Maid of Erin
and Hcnriettc mines at Leadville have p lid
seso,ooo In dividends.
Rev. |. B. Self, of Canon City. has
been elected secretary and treasurer OF ;he
State Sunday School Association.
Calvert is the name OF new town
ON the B. & NJ. road twenty-nine miles cas-;
oi Sterling which is forging to the front
Colorado Springs is highly ela,ed
over the certainty OF that city being the
western terminus of the Chicago, Rock Is.
land & Pacific rsilroad.
The business men of Denver propose
TO do what they can TO have the Union
Pacific line up Clear Creek Canon extended
through to LcadvilIe.
II now seems certain the Rock
islrrd road will make Colorado Springs
It's objective point In this state, running or
leasing branches TO Denver and Pueblo.
Carbondalc, in the Roaring Fork
valley, has a very promising outlook. With
It's immense deposits Of coal and iron II
will doubtless become an Important mann.
featuring center.
A fine flow Of artcsian water has been
struck on the ranch Of Mr.. David A. St'w-
art, one mile northeast OF Brighton. The
second flow was struck at depth OF less
than so feet, giving six hundred gallons of
water an hour.
The end of the track of the Denver
4 Fort Worth railroad advancing from the
Texas end has reached Clayton, at the foot
of the Rabbit Ear mountains in New Mex
leo. ON several days recently three miles
Of track were laid each day.
Tho Florence oil company has jus;
finished putting In two iae-bstrei stills
thereby doubling its capacity, while the
United Refining company has added four
stills 10 Its plant The crude product OF the
district is close on 10 100 barrels per day,
and the probabilities are that that amount
will be doubled during the next six
months.
The new president of the Denver
Chamber Of Commerce came 10 that city
nine years ago nearly dead with consump-
tion and with only i've dollars in his pocket.
lie applied for n job as seciion-hand on the
Rio Grandc railroad but was given n s15
clsrkship In The Office of that company. lie
ID now ofie of the wealtbiest men In the
city. His money was made In real estate.
The prisoners confined in the county
jail at Trinidad came near making their
escape few days ago. With n saw made
from piece of steel corset stay, which one
of the chain gang had picked up and given
Them, they GU, through their cage, and get.
ling over into the wood room made such q
racket that II attracted the night watch.
,unn. Their rusc succeeded, for hc rushed
IN Ia see what tho disturbance was. and
they grabbed him, but he msnaged to get
lo SO aud, drawing his revolver, com.
PEELED them 10 stay IN the room until help
came.
Governor Adams is said by tho Dem
Yea News 10 be considering the advisabiiiy
of calling convention OF farmers and 9th
ers 10 consider the question of establishing
reservoirs on land that would be good aRri.
cultural soil u water could be had. The
Governor IL deeply Interested in the subject,
and has instructed State Engineer Green TO
examine into Il and report, after which he
will decide about the convention. There
are two propositions, advanced In n meas
urc by Governor Adams, now attracting at
tention In the state, and ono OF them Is to
have the matter placed before Congress In
n bill giving It's public land, embracing SOW
efal millions OF acres, to the state, and let
the latter turn It over TO corporations who
will construct and maintain reservoirs over
tho state. The other is to sell 10 such cor.
porations tho land at reduced rates for per-
forming the same service
Zig strike In Aspen.