The Delta independent., 1888-10-30
COLORADO CONDENSED.

Seven potatoes. weighing 143 pounds,
are the pride of Sterling.
The leo crop from Palmer Lake is
worth about 1000 year.
October strawberries are reported
from various portions Of the state.
La Jara has an artesian well with a
dow of 1000 barrels of water day.
Tho Lupton creamery has been
leased for six months to Greeley man.
A large addition is to be built to the
Iron Springs hotel at Manitou this winter.
1t is reported that the State School
of Mines Is having most prosperous year.
1t takes five hundred head OF cattle
sweek to supply the people of Denver with
beef.
The Santa Fe has established a new
station 10 miles east of Denver, known as
Struby.
Nearly all Of the campaign oratory
in both parties is being furnished by home
talent
Twenty-Five new school districts have
been organized in Washington county the
past year.
The Overland Park races at Denver
this week have been well attended and In
teresting.
Several hundred Mormon converts
passed through the state on their way 70
Salt Lake Monday.
The Alamosa & San Luis Valley
Fair Association will hold three days
meeting this year commencing NOV. !.
The Denver Republican publishes a
list OF buildings now being erected in that
city, the total cost OF which Is over ei,ooo,-
900.
A building is being erected in Dem
ver on the corner Of 18th and Holiday
streets 70 accommodate the next Legisla.
ture.
The Rock Island railroad thinks OF
celebrating It's completion 10 Colorado
Springs BY making $40 excursion rate to
Chicago and back.
Five sorghum mills have been in op-
Grafton In the neighborhood OF wray for
several weeks, some Of which have manu-.
factured as high a. . thousand gallons Of
syrup.
A ranchman Of villa Grove, who had
calf stolen. advertised reward for the
hide Of the man who stole It The animal
was returned 70 Its pasture the following
night.
A practical joker at Saguache who
tried TO play the ghost few day ago had
three shots nred at him by the man he
hoped 70 scare. Unfortunately none OF the
shots took effect
The varieties OF tobacco and sugar
cane grown on the college farm will be
subjected To chemical analysis and the re-
suit embodied in balletin which will be
issued about January
A stream Of water. AS big as a mans
arm. which 10 said TO be indeniical with
the water from the famous iron spring at
Manitou. was encountered last week by
some quarrymen NJ Colorado City.
A barber named Charles Wright
murdered his mistress. Mrs. Butler, with
hatchet In Denver Sunday afternoon
Jealously Is supposed to have been the
cause. The murderer was arrested.
The steel department at Bessemer
has closed down indefinitely, and most of
the men have departed for other cllmes.
The blast furnace is still running. but 1t is
rumorcd that It will also close down In a
few days.
Two miners in Leadville lost their
lives Saturday on account of the breaking
Of the rope attached to the bucket in which
they owere ascending = shaft and one
miner In the Sedalia mine WAS killed the
same day by mass Of rock falling on him.
Another strike has broken out in
the switching yards Of the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad at Pueblo. Tbi.ty switch
men quit work at 1 o'clock Monday and u
number Of freight conductors and brakemen
have Joined them. The trouble is an out.
growth OF the strike OF five weeks ago and
is apparently more formidable than then.
The total valuation OF property rs
returned by the Assessor OF Arapshoe
county after being corrected by the County
Board of Equalization is s55 ,5l6,l75, which
being assessed at the customary one.third
Of the actual valuation, would make prop
erty In the county worth flG5, ,5as 5a5 This,
In all probability does not cover all the act.
lal valuation, however.
Great are Greeley potatoes While
the new crop Is being largely sold on bear
market at sixty-ave and seventy cents, II.
g. Hill Of Eaton lately received an offer
from . Denver firm of eighty cents for a
car load on the track at Eaton. They were
wanted for particular eastern order which
called for the very best that could DO had
In the mArket.--Greeley Democrat
II is rumorcd in Pueblo that on Nov
ember the Missouri Pacific will assume
and take cantrol Of the Denver, Texas aud
Fort Worth railroad, the latter being alb.
sorbed by the Gould system. 1t is stated
that larger shops will be built at once for
the consolidated roads at that point and
that the Fort Worth engines are to be
marked missouri Pacific"
Tho abstract OF assessment OF Routt
county has been sent to tho State Audi.
tor. II shows the county to have 81, 100
acres Of land, 7,iea horses, 6s mules, A,7Ss
cattle, b,b57 sheep as swine, ~ other ami.
mails, "a musical instruments, ldO clocks
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