The Dolores star., 1901-06-14
COLORADO NOTES.

the Trinidad high school June 4tb.
Lydie NJ. Mason has been appointed
postmaster at Edwards In Eagle,
county.
Denver building permits In May
amounted to $369.OOO This is the larg-
est showing for that month since lSs's.
The senior class OF the State Normal
School played Hamlet In the opera
house at Greeley on the night OF
June 4tl.
July 1st the salary of the postmaster
at Longmont will he advanced from
5000 to 81, 100, and mt Florence from
$1,000 to S2,1OO.
Sandstone apparently impregnatcd
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
ISOLATION OF Central City, ncttcd
trife less than 500.
The La Junta school census, just
completed, shows 1OS4 children be-
tween the age of six and twenty-onc
years, 562 being boys and 90 girls.
Under the energetic administration
Of Chancellor Buchtcl the University
of Denver has paid of 5000 of Its
indebtedness during the past year.
Several inches of snow fell at Lead
vile June 4th. This rcinforccs the old
saying that Leadvillc has nine months
winter and three months late In the
, fall.
After being blockaded by snow for
about five months, the Gunnison line
of the Colorado 4 Southern railway at
the 9th instant.
The school census of Golden shows
9l6 children of school age. This is an
increase of sixty-twO over last year.
Other large districts In Jefferson coun-
! ty show n like increase.
La Junta, having raised the amount
required as guarantee, is to have a
| $4,000 open house. with n seating ca.
pacity of 75O. which 1t is hoped to
complete by October 1st
The Farmers mill at Longmont is
making extensive improvements, put
ting in new boiling system through
out. BY the change 1t will increase the
output 100 sacks n day to 100 sacks.
The secretary of the interior on June
| LIST approved thirty-nine permits TO
| Craze T,11G cattle and 494 horses In
tine 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 S25,OOO.
| John Il. Pelton, receiver OF the land
r,fli ,.f 1,ne tx-nI n p..f
| signment OF 10000 eastern brook trout
| from the government for distribution.
| Ten thousand have been placed by
| Mr.. Pclton in his lake.
breckenridge has raised large fund
for Fourth OF July celebration. The
entertainment will include horse rae
Ing, foot racing, drilling contents, airl
other sports and large display of fire.
works, to conclude with free ball.
The Colorado Cricket Association
will have n sort of field day at Colo
RADIO Springs July 4th and 5th. Colo
| RADIO Springs, Denver and Cripple
| Greek will send clubs and tourney
will be held, each team playing the
| other.
The senior class of the State Uni
versity mt Boulder played "Much Ado
About Nothing under the trees in the
open air on the college campus on the
evening of June 4th. A special train
load of people were 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 n letter from her to the Pueblo
Chieftain, in which she states that she
is alive and well and in San Francisco.
1t is said that the 1900 head of
Mexican steers OH 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 Tests
must be sprayed by the owners, other
wise it will be done Mt their expense
as required by law and the cost
charged to the property.
The Divide Ditch Company has COM
menced work on a new ditch fifty
miles northwest of Fort Collins. The
ditch will be taken from Sand creek,
which flows into the Big Laramie riv-
er, and brought over divide into
Sheep creek, which in turn empties
into the north fork of the Cache In
Poudre. 1t will be about two and n
quarter miles In length and will cost
about $4,000. Ex-Governor Eaton Is
at the head Of the enterprise.
The Western Slope Telephone Com.
pany will build foty-tive miles of new
line to connect Leadville with its line
at WolcOtt This cOmpany now has
lines connecting with the Colorado
company's lines at Rifle and extend
ing to Hahn's Peak, Steamboat
Springs, Milner, Hayden and remote
sections of ROutt county, which have
heretofore been without communica-
ton with the outside world except by
mail. The company recently complet.
ed 100 miles of new line. The Lead
ville-WolcOtt line will afford another
connection with the Colorado COM
pany's telephone system. By compile