The Springfield herald., 1900-07-13
COLORADO NOTES.

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q state fair this fall
Governor Roosevelt promises to visit
Colorado during the campaign.
T. A. .Barrackman, of Brighton, was
shot by a tramp last Saturday.
With the exception of 1881 last
month was the hottest June on record.
The deepest mining shaft in Colorado
is the Geyser at Silver Cliff-2, $50 feet.
The town of Nederland in Boulder
county had Il disastrous fire few days
ago.
General John Pierce, the man who
built the first house in Denver, died
last week.
Cattle are said to be dying rapidly
in Yuma county of n disease much like
hydrophobia.
Some Colorado Springs people are
planning to organize company to bore
for gas and oil.
A Colorado Springs boy died of hy.
drophobia the other day, the result OF
the bite of n dog.
The next reunion of Rough Riders
will be held at Colorado Springs next
year. June 24th to 9th.
The Texas Colorado Chautauqua has
opened at Boulder under the most hap
py auspices. A list of attractions has
been secured that will doubtless draw
immense crowds.
The slopes of Pixies Peak near the
summit are said to be covered with
billions of caterpillars, which make
walking almost impossible and choke
up the mountain streams.
Professor Charles $. Crandall of the
department of botany and horticulture
at the State Agricultural College. has
resigned to accept position in the sec
ton of forestry department of asri-
rulture at Washington. ID. c.
Mrs. Elizabeth C. Goddard of Colo
RADIO Springs has donated $4,000 in
cash to Brown university. 1t is her
subscription to the John ID. Rockefeller
million-dollar fund. which the friends
of the university began to raise nearly
year ago.
All of the coal miners Mt the Union
mine, sixteen miles above Glenwood on
the CardiT branch of the Midland,
went on strike Monday. The cause ap-
pears to be the ungranted demand for
an increase of twenty cents per car for
digging and minor grievances. FIFTY
men are involved.
The Union Pacific has opened
gravelpit near Granger. making three
| pits in operation-the other two being
on Sherman hill. One steam shower
has been placed and the gravel Will be
used in ballasting the cut-offs between
Green River and Ogden. There is nc
limit to the supply of gravel, and the
pit will be operated all summer
A whole shift employed on the Santa
Rita mine has been discharged be-
cause of the disappearance OF some
high grade ore. The management was
unable to detect the thieves, and there
fore made the wholesale discharge
hoping to include the guilty parties In
the lot. 1t is said that the ore has been
traced to an assay office in Victor. Fur
ther developments are expected.
The potato crop, which is an import
ant one in Larmer county, is coming
on finely. Onions and cabbages, both
of which are largely cultivated in the
Poudre valley, are showing hne
growth and promise Il large yield
Strawberries and other small fruits
are bearing abundantly. Home grown
Strawberries have been on the market
for the past two weeks and are large
and luscious Cherries will be ripe
next week and will produce heavily.
The people east of Berthoud are re-
1oicing over the fact that they are to
have rural free delivery of mail. For
some time they have been clamorinS
for the establishment of IL mail route.
and their efforts to secure the same
have been rewarded. The route covers
the territory east of Berthoud only, eX-
tending about nine miles east and COW
ering distance of about twenty-six
miles. To establish the route 100
names-1O0 families had to be secured,
but the service will benefit perhaps 800
people.
The State Board of Charities and
Corrections, through its secretary. G. l..
Stonaker, has prepared Il report Of the
population of the various state institu-
tions. In the State Home for Depend
ent Children are tifty-two males and
twenty eight females; in the Boys In
dustrIal School at Golden. 161: in the
State Home and Industrial School for
Girls forty-three; in the School for
Deaf Mutes at Colorado Springs, 121;
in the State Reformatory, 40: in the
Insane Asylum, 312 males and 1S2 fe-
males; in the penitentiary three females
and 525 males.
The board of directors of the Denver
Chamber of Commerce have endorsed
the plan to have n mining bureau and
n mineral exhibit under the auspices of
the chamber as n permanent part of its
work. This project was suggested in
the report of the committee on
mines and mining, made last March.
1t was proposed then that bureau of
mines be opened, at which all informa-
ton possible regarding the districts Of
the state. together with specimens of
ore. should be kept for the benefit Of
intending investors, and that this be
made headquarters for mining men.
The board of directors after adopting
the report, sent it back to the commit
tee, with the request that it consider
the matter further, and make recom-
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