The Delta independent., 1888-04-03
COLORADO CONDENSED.


A state organization of plumbers
has been formed.
The million dollar hotel project is
being revived at Denver.
The colored people have built $4O,-
600 church building in Denver.
Judge Royal has been nominated by
the Democrats for mayor of Pueblo.
Prof. +. B. Gault has resigned the
superintendency of the Pueblo schools.
The contract has been signed for the
erection o. new farmers mill at Ber-
thoud.
The Santa Fe railroad is soon to
build new and commodlOus depot at
Lamar.
The jury in the Walker case at Dem
yer has again disagreed. 1t stood II TO /
for conviction.
The question of whether to have
sewers or not Is disturbing the good people
Fort Collins.
There has never been better winter
In Colorado for cattle and sheep than the
one Just ended.
There are nineteen persons in the
Colorado Springs jail and only accommoda-
tions for twelve.
Trinidad boasts that *4o0, 900 worth
Of business blocks are going up within her
corporate limits.
The annual meeting of the Colorado
Mountain Stockgrowers' Association will
be held at Trinidad on April Sd.
Booth and Barrett will be at the
Tabor Grand Opera House, Denver. during
the week commencing April 2.
Tho Burlington Board of Trade
offers large cash bonus to any5cne who
will erect three-story brick hotel.
The Stuart Town company of Bent
county, capitalized at slo, 600, has filed ar
ticies of incorporation with the Secretary
OF State.
Both San Francisco and St. Louis
view with apprehension the effect the new
line 10 the Gulf will have on the trade OF
those points.
The Colorado Coal & Iron Company
has ordered is0, 600 feet OF lumber to be used
In the construction Of buildings at their
new Santa Clara mines.
The Denver Fuel company will put
up 100 coke ovens In the vicinity OF Trini.
dad this season, which number they will
eventually Increase to 500.
Mr.. H. S. Holly has been elected
president OF the Colorado Cattle Growers
Association, and Mr.. II. S. Tucker. of e.
bert county, vice-president
The State Board Of Land Commits
siones received from public lands last
year t2T goo, sum nearly equal to the re-
ceipt Of The two previous years.
There are three municipal tickets in
the field At Leadvifie. Whether or not to
continue the legaliring OF gambling is the
principal Issue Of the campaign.
The Santa fc passenger depot at
colorado Springs, constructed at cost OF
90, 90. will be completed and turned over
70 the operating department April ist
A school building is one of the press
ing needs OF Colorado City and Il is rro.
posed 70 build one this summer costing be.
tween fifteen and twenty thousand dollars.
About the 18th Of April mammoth
edition OF the Pueblo Chieftain will be
printed. filed with valuable and interesting
matter about Pueblo and the southern part
Of the state.
Visitors TO the state should remem.
Der that until they have spent n few weeks
In the mountains they have not begun TO
comprehend the resources and grandeur Of
our commonwealth.
The Texas visitors were more than
delighted with the reception accorded them
In this state and enchanted with the eli.
mate. The various mountain resorts will
be overrun by them next summer.
Over 800 teams are ready for work
on the Rock Island between the Kansas
line and olorado Springs. Contracts are
all let and grading has commenced all
along the line As far as River Bend.
The Leadvillo knights of Labor
passed a resolution endorsing the boycott
on the Sunshine coal. The Grand River
Coke and Coal company discharged 800
Knights Of Labor from their mines.
The contract has been let for the
Pixies Peak toll road to Colonel Price, an
old railroad contractor, says the Colorado
Springs Republic The cost Of TIE construc.
tion Of this road will be about to5, ,0OO
Mr.. Holden will build his new smell
ter at Pueblo. The Colorado Coal and Iron
company have donated the land and the cit
izens gave . bonus Of e2s,0o0 in cash. Work
on the plant will be commenced at once.
The farmers Of tho northeastern part
OF the state have organized an Alliance.
They have called mass convention of the
farmers OF Logan andW Washington counties
to meet at Yuma on the first Of next Sep
tembsr.
Mr.. +. I. Andrews Of Fort Worth
has been elected president OF the Inter-
national Range Association, and Mr.. W. p.
Netcalf, Of New Mexico, vice-president.
Mr.. II. NJ. Taylor, OF New Mexico, WAS
elected secretary.
The Republican State Convention to
elect delegates tothe National Convention
will meet at Pueblo, May Is, and the Con-
ventton 70 nominate state and Congress
si0nal ticket will meet In Denver on the