The Lamar register., 1901-06-12
COLORADO NOTES.


the Trinidad high school June 4th.
Lydie NJ. Mason has been appointed
postmaster at Edwards in Eagle,
county.
Denver building permits in May
amounted to $369.0OO. This is the larg-
est showing for that month since 1872.
The senior class of the State Normal
School played Hamlet in the opera
house at Greeley on the night or
June 4th.
July LIST the salary of the postmaster
at Longmont will be advanced from
$1,000 to So, 100, and at Florence from
$500 to $2,1OO.
Sandstone apparently impregnated
with petroleum has been found on the
ranch of John Craig, twelve miles
northeast of Pueblo.
The recent rummage sale for the
benefit of the Free Reading Room As
sociation of Central City, netted 4
tritie less than 800.
The La Junta school census, just
completed, shows 1.0S4 children be-
tween the age of six and twenty-ohe
years, 5G2 being boys and o22 girls.
Under the energetic administration
of Chancellor Buchtel the University
of Denver hns paid Off $25,OOO OF IT'S
Indebtedness during the past year.
Several inches of snow fell at Lead
willie June 4th. This reinforces the OLD
saying that Leadville has nine months
winter anu three months late in the
fall.
After being blOckaded by snow Tor
about five months. the Gunnison line
of the Colorado & Southern railway at
Alpine pass was opened for trafnc on
the 9th instant.
The school census of Golden shows
016 children of school age. This Is an
increase of sixty-twO over last year.
Other large districts in Jefferson coun-
ty show like increase.
La Junta, having raised the amount
required as II guarantee, is to nave Il
$4,000 open house. with seating ca
pacity of T5O. which 1t is hoped to
complete by October 1st.
The Farmers mill Mt Longmont is
making extensive improvements, put
ting in n new boltinS system through
out. BY the change 1t will increase the
output 100 sacks a day to 100 SACKS.
The secretary of the interior on June
1st approved thirty-nine permits to
Craze 7,716 cattle and 494 horses in
the White river plateau forest reserve
Colorado, as recommended by the gen.
eral land office.
1t Is estimated that the honey ship
ments of Las Animas this season Will
exceed 100 tons, an increase OF twenty
five tons from last year. this seasons
honey values being conservatively esti-
mated at S25OOO.
John Il. peltOn, receiver of the land
office mt Montrose. has received con-
signment of 10000 eastern brook trout
from the government for distribution.
Ten thousand have been placed by
Mr.. PeltOn In his lake.
breckenridge has raised n large fund
for Il Fourth OF July celebration. The
entertainment will include horse rae,
ing, foot racing, drilling contents, and
other sports and large display Of fire
works, to conclude with n free ball.
The Colorado Cricket Association
will have sort of field day mt Colo
RADIO Springs July 4th and 9th. Colo
RADIO Springs, Denver and Cripple
Creek will send clubs and tourney
will be held, each team playing the
other.
The senior class of the State Uni
versity at Boulder played much Ado
About Nothing" under the trees In the
open air ON the college campus on the
evening of June 4th. special train
load of people We're present from Den
YER.
All mystery concerning the strange
disappearance of Mrs. Mertie NJ. Bur-
ger from her home in Pueblo, April
2Gth last, has been solved by the re-
ceipt of letter from her to the Pueblo
Chieftnin. In which she states that she
is alive and well and in San Francisco.
1t is said that the 1900 head of
Mexican steers on the Las Animas
ranges belonging to the Ernest-Wilson-
Towers syndicate are to be moved to
Montana ranges this summer, the eXo-
dus beginning about the middle Of this
month.
Horticultural Inspector Palmer of
Arapahoe county has announced that
shade trees infested with Insect Pests
must be sprayed by the owners. other
wise it will be done at their expense
as required by law and the cost
charged to the property.
The Divide Ditch Company has COM
menced work on new ditch fifty
miles northwest of Fort Collins. The
ditch will be taken from Sand creek.
which flows into the Big Laramie rlN] Y
er, and brought over divide into
Sheep creek, which in turn empties.
into the north fork of the Cache Ia
Poudre. 1t will be about two and 4
quarter miles in length and will cost
about $2O,OOO. Ex-Governor Eaton is.
at the head of the enterprise.
, The Western Slope Telephone Com
pany will build forty-five miles of new
line to connect Leadville with Its line
Mt WOlcott. This company now has
lines connecting with the Colorado
company's lines at Rifle and extend
ing to Hahn's Peak. Steamboat
Springs, Miner. Hayden and remote
sections of ROutt county, which have
heretofore been without cOmmunica