The Delta independent., 1889-03-05
STATE NEWS.
A large iron foundry is to be located
ut Colorado City.

A large iron foundry is to be located
ut Colorado City.
A new Presbyterian church is to bo
built AT Lea6vilIa
big geological garden is to be es-
tablished near Denver.
A movement is on foot to make an
artificial lake at Monument.
Fort Collins farmers are discussing
aco-operative cheese factory.
On one farm near Alamosa there are
fourteen flowing artesian wells.
Valuable gas and artesian wells
have been struck near Saguache.
Monument proposes to have lake
four times as large as Palmer Lake.
Canon City had twelve inches Of
show last week, but 1t is all gone now.
Smnll droves OF wild horses are still
occasionally seen in Eastern Colorado.
There are twenty schools in Chaffee
County and ,sos children Of school age.
Stove works which will give employ
ment to 200 men arc being. built in Denver
Pueblo will cndeavor to secure Mrs.
Langtry for Queen of the Carnival next
year.
Over 800, 900 was realized at the
big sale Of blooded stock in Denver last
week.
New p. o. s. Of A. camps have been
organized at Glcnwood Springs and New
Castle.
delegation OF Denver business
men is receiving great attention at New
Orleans.
Eight hundred new volumes have re-
Gently been added to the public library of
Greeley.
Rev. j. w. Partridge, the Presby-
terinn minister at Fort Collins, died a few
days ago.
Some rich gold-bearing gravel was
found while digging well near An,onito
the other day.
1, is reported that work on the Met
ropolc Hotel at Denver is actually about TO
be commenced.
II Is getting TO be an everyday oc-
currcncc for some Denver lady TO shoot
would-be burglar.
Colorado Springs will make strong
effort To secure the location Of the propos-
cd Soldiers Home
A runaway team dashed through n
plate glass window OF Colorado Springs
storc the other day.
Dcnvcr's clcarings last week showed
IN Increase over the corresponding week Of
last year of ga per cent
Butte "a? cars of coal and coke for the
week ending February %.
The Denver Republican estimates
that the present Legislature will cost the
people ofColorado 100000
I, is estimated that 0.oO0 acres OF
virgin sod will DO turned over In the neigh
borhood Of Aiamosa this spring.
The people OF the San Luis Valley
are subscribing literally toward railroad
from Monte Vista to villa Grove.
Warden Hoyt hns been highly COM
complimcntcd by Legislative committee
for his management OF the pcnitcn,iary.
The United Charities of Denver
have rniscd S2i ,oes TO distribute among the
various charitable societies OF that city.
The pupils OF the Colorado Institute
for the Mute and Blind gave n delightful
-, al. t,, na,,
vcr last Thursday.
The Legislature has passed n rcso-
luton requesting tho Governor TO make n
change In the management Of the Reform
School at Golden.
a number OF hot springs are scat
tered along tho bed Of tho Grand River,
and in the ncighborhood Of these excellent
hshing ia found even in tho coldest
weather.
Pueblo has gone crazy over her
Mards Gras celebration. Great crowds OF
people have bccn attracted to the city to
SEQ the fun ana much valuable advertising
has been secured at low cost
Aspen proposes to advertise her at
fractions far and near and confidently cx
poets that n general knowledge OF her in
duccmcnts to labor and capital will result
In POPULATION of 10000 before the year is
out
A man named Maxwell was so en-
ragged at seeing n couple Of Cinnamon take
buggy ride in Pueblo Inst Saturday that
no shot the horse they were driving. He
was Immediately arrested and will probn-
bly, pay dearly for his fun.
A company is now being formed in
Newcastle to bore for oil In the Immediate
vicinity. Tho oil spring in near proximity
70 the burning mountain leads prospectors
to believe that oil can be found by boring
In tho basin below Elk Creek.
Articles OF Incorporation for the
Denver & Salt Lake Short Limo Railway
Company were fled with the Secretary Of
State last week. The incorporators are
prominent capitalists Of Denver, backed, 1t
is.said, by capitalists Of New York.
Deputy Sheriff korty. Of Lake
County, cvictod q female who had pro
omptsd cabin claimed by tho estate OF
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