Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-03-08
Western News Notes.

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There is big building boom at
Florence.
The Midland will erect large shops
at Aspen Junction.
Park county, Colorado, reduced its
floating debt last year 5000.
Castle Rock, Colorado, ranchmen
are going into hog raising extensively
this year.
Marble from the quarries at Beulah,
Pueblo county, will be used in the
state capitol.
William and Frank Jones living near
Sterling, have been arrested for steal
ing and slaughtering cattle. The proof
against them is conclusive.
The business men of Cheyenne have
appointed a committee to urge the
Gulf receiver to restore the daily ser
vice on the Cheyenne & Northern.
At Laramie, Wyoming, the Union
Pacific receivers have proposed to the
board Of trade for the erection of a
$12, 900 stone depot, providing the peo-
pie of Laramie furnish the stone.
The Denver & Gulf road is creating
disturbance in railway circles by ar
ranging with the Mallory steamship
line for very low rate between New
York and Denver. There is likely to
be war.
Pennington, New Mexico, ordered
its gas we'll sunk sixty feet deeper,
and before sinking five feet more the
supply Of natural gas was doubled. The
town will soon be lighted and heated
with natural gas.
I. The board appointed by the district
court at Creede to examine into the
conduct of county officers has made a
report censuring number Of officials
for making overcharges and other ex-
pensive blunders.
Wyoming farmers have successfully
tested the feeding of hogs on alfalfa.
The Hon. L. G. Davis last week mar
kcted in Rawlins, Wyoming, lot of
alfalfa-fed hogs and will launch forth
extensively in that line next year.
The Denver city council has at last
agreed upon an appropriation ordi-
nance, having resorted to arbitrators
to settle their differences. None Of
the employees of the city have been
able to draw any pay since December.
j. j. Mckinley, farmer living
about ten miles north of Fort Collins,
has struck 5-foot vein Of coal, equal,
it is said, to the famous Rock Springs.
Energetic work will at once commence,
and it is hoped genuine field Of coal
will soon be opened.
The Republican City Central Com
mittee of Denver have split and there
will now be two committees. Sena-
tors Teller and Wolcott have endorsed
the boilers. This faction has deposed
C chairman Stevens and elected F. q.
Cloudy in his place.
Populist delegates elected at the
Leadville primaries met Tuesday night
and selected A delegates at large, 20
of whom are ladies. These are enti-
tied to seats in the convention Satur-
day. The meeting was very enthusi-
astic and number of speeches were
made by ladies as well as gentlemen.
The capture of young elk for market
is said to be the principal industry Of
the residents of the valleys in the Big
Horn mountains during the spring
months. Several contracts have al
ready been made for the delivery Of
the animals at the railroads at $50 per
head.
The Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri
Valley depot at Casper, Wyoming, was
entered by burglars few nights siuce.
The combination to the safe in the Of
flee was successfully worked and al
the money it contained, little more
than 81, 500, taken by the thieves. No
trace of the burglars.