The Delta independent., 1890-09-02
STATE NEWS.

Denver.
A new bank has been organized at
Fort Morgan.
The Union Depot at Denver Is being
greatly enlarged.
The dates set for the Mesa County
fair are Oct. II, is, 20 and q.
The total bonded debt of the dif-
fereat counties of this State is Il, ,s34 .42l.
s. S. Hadley, well known pros
pector, committed suicide at Aspen the
other day.
Ex-Governor Routt has announced
himself q candidate for the Republican
nomination for Governor.
The toll road between Monte Vista
and the new placer mines will be com
progress.
The Union Pacific train dispatcher's
once which has heretofore been located at
Wallace, Kansas, has been removed to
Cheyenne Wells.
Joseph Wolf, OF Boulder, set out
600 apple trees this year. OF these one
died, one is rather puny and the other sss
arc thriving nicely.
Mr.. w. b. Wheeler. OF Manitou, has
,ust given 1000 TO Colorado College, max
ing tloO, 900 that has been added to its en-
dowment fund within the past three
months by friends of the institution in
Colorado.
Ex-Governor Gilpip, who has been
for several months up around Puget
Sound furthering the interests Of the pro-
posea railroad line to Alaska, has returned
greatly encouraged over the prospects OF
the big enterprise.
The grading on the Villa Grove and
Alamosa extension of the d. & X. G. has
been entirely COMPLETED and about four
miics OF track has been laid on the Ala
nosa end. II In thought that the road
will be finished by tho 18th Of September,
Mr.. T. c. Henry tells Denver Ne'ns
rsportsr that one thousand Mormon farni
Lies viii settle in the San Luis Valley
within the next six months. None Of them
practice polygamy and they are said TO be
an industrious, sober and very desirable
ciass Of emigrants.
Tho ninth annual reunion OF Gilpin
County pionccrs will be held At Missouri
Lakes on Thursday. September II. twill
be . picnic. TO which all pionecrs are in
vi,cd. Committees have been appointed
and the occasion promises To be an ex
ceedingiy pleasant one.
The Busk-Ivanhoe tunnel, cutting
the Continental Divide Of the Rocky Noun
taius, on the line OF the Colorado Midland
railway. which, when completed, will be
the third largest tunnel In the United
S,atcs, il now likely TO be pushed with
viRor to an carly hnish, tho contract hav.
ing been finally let to MIR. NJ. II. Kccfe, OF
Helena, Montana
Assessor Walpole, OF Poeblo Coun-
", has completed his tax valuation, and IL
shows . total Of tlo,59i, l5S This is an
increase OF almost 81 ,0oo, 600 In one year,
and OF l5o pcr cent in four. years. The
large number OF buildings in course OF
erection In the city, and the general i'm
provement IL the cause. A reduction In
taxcs from 81 mills 10 30 or IS mills viii
take place.
A decided and combined protest is
being made in:Northwest Colorado agains,
the killing Of game for sport which Is go
ing on Every returning visitor TO the
hills reports unskinned carcasscs all over
them. and in several places three and -four
dcsr untouched, except by the bullet, have
been left TO rot where tbey,fell. strong
feeling IL being aroused over these discov-
cries, and little mercy will bc shown the
perpetrators II caught. =
A committee of farmers from lower
Clear Crock valley have been visiting the
hcadwatcrs Of that stream to sec how the
summer supply Of. watcr can he increased.
They have found that immense tracts OF
nearly level land above timber line cnn be
flooded In the fall and carly winter and
tho water frozen. This can be continued
until the leo Is several feet thick. Its
gradual thawing In the carly summer will
furnish water 10 the farmers st tho time
when Il u most needed.
incorporation papers OF the Larimer
and Weld Reservoir Company have been
fled at the office of the Secretary OF State
The incorporators are ID. B. Wyatt, Horace
a. Clark and Jael Roullard. The direc
tors are David II. Gatc, ID. b. Wyatt, Hor.
ace @. Clark, Jael Roullard and Charles
M. r. igg. The capital stock is 5000, di
yidcd into 200 shares OF 80 each. The
principal Office will be at Greeley. The
ditch will run through sections %, 81 and
70. Tho water will DO brought from the
Cache In Poudrc river.
The snow sheds recently destroyed
at Marshall Pass are to be replaced by
larger sheds of d nre-proof construction
and the station building and round house
will be built OF stone These improve
mcnts viii DO SO constructed that the
trsvcling public will find this a plcasan,
place to stop aud rest while the wheels
and brakes arc being tested before making
the descent Of the mountain. The
sheds will be arranged so ~ 70 AFFORD
moro room and they will be abundantly
lighter In. construction and Ia cold westh.
er they will be much warmer.
The Peachblow Sandstone Company
of 0lcnwood, has sent good exhibit to the
a., Louis fair. It consists Of = large plat.
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