The Delta independent., 1901-07-26
COLORADO NOTES


| on any previous year.
The new Antlers hotel ut Coiofz3o
Springs will be run strictly on sne
European plan
A new postoffice has been @e @
lished at vona, Kit Carson c0unS'
with Sarah c. Webb as postmistre
The Woman's Club of Boulder ~
placed wire settees in various pe
town In shady places, for tine
of strangers.
A large working model OF Crlpp'e
Greek has been proposed as one oI ~ -
chief exhibits of this state at tne ~
Louis Worlds Fair in 1903.
While drilling well twenty mt
south of Granada, in PrOwers coun.y,
Ley Blackwell struck heavy noM n..
Of artesian water at q depth OF AOo
feet.
The fact that there were (ailegedp
Rocky Ford melons on sale in Denver
before the vines at Rocky Fora WeIe
fairly in blossom is troubling the mel
on growers.
Peaches from Grand junction ana
other parts of the Grand River valley
are now on the market Throughout,
most Of the nOn-peach growing por'
tions Of the state.
| The directory publishers who nave
Just finished new directory for l,ueD
10. estimate the population at 41NO.
The census of 1900 gave Pueblo pop
ulation Of 2S,157.
| Superintendent of Fish HatcherfeS
Holland recently went to Estes park to
put 25,OOO young trout in the brooks OF
that section. The fish were hatched IN
the Denver hatchery.
| The City Council of Rocky Ford, hav-
| ing $4,000 issue Of water bonds 70
| dispose of. accepted the bid OF q Cni-
cago firm which offered to take the
bonds at par at four and one-nalt Per
cent. interest for ten years.
The committee in charge Of the nor
ticulturc show mt the Festivai oi
Mountain and Plain at Denver has de
cided to divide the state into the siA
horticultural districts for the purpose
of Offering sweep stake prizes. . s.
Arapahoe county will take few -
lect boarders II has agreed with Sner-
IN Adm Putnam of Elbert county 70
| keep In the Arapahoe county jail sucn
| prisoners as he cannot care for at home
at cost OF so cents day each
Five new street cars patterned after
| the convertible open and closed car,
| which recently won a grand prize n
| the Paris exposition. have been ordered
for the Colorado Springs railway and
I Will probably be in operation by Sep
tember LIST.
] While John Mo.coni, Ed. Gabarsky
and n party Of dog fanciers from Cen
! tral City. were out east OF Denver
hunting coyotes one Sunday recently,
Mr.. Mosconi had his right arm badly
bitten by n coyote that had been
brought TO bay by the dogs.
Aided by the use of electrical min
ing machines lately installed by the
Fremont coal mine at Williamsburg,
better known as Bear gulch, the Colo
RADIO Fuel and Iron Company is said 10
he producing as much coal with sixty
men as IL did last fall with no.
The Pullman company In Its repair
shops at Denver will pay the LIST and
10th OF each month. conforming with
, the new state law calling for BIZ
monthly payments OF employees. There
are 800 men now employed. but It Is
expected that the number, VIII be
raised TO between 100 and 500.
Long mountain trips on foot. on
horseback and ny wagons are one OF
| the popular features Of the Glen Park
| ChahtanQua at Palmer Lake this sum-
mer. a recent three days trip includ-
| cd Manitou park, Woodland park. Ute
pass. Green Mountain falls. Cascade
canon and the Garden OF the Gods.
James Page. postmaster at White
water. Colorado. has Informed Postof.
| fee Inspector Sullivan Al Denver that
his office had been burned on the night
| OF July 10th. The loss was xomew here
between 500 and $40 In stamps burned.
Just the amount could not he deter
mined until the safe was recovered and
opened.
A largely signed petition was receiv.
| cd by the Fort Lyons Canal Company.
directors while In session at Las Ami
mas few dnys ago, requesting that
suit he Instituted against the Amity
| canal and the Oxford Farmers canal
to determine their rights to the use OF
water ms ngainst the rights OF the Fort
Lyons canal.
The petition to force the Boulder
street car company to suspend operat-
ing the car and electric line and TO
lease the same was refused by Judge
Bennett The petition was brought on
behalf OF the creditors OF the company.
represented by ]. 8. McBcth. Receiver
Dyer was ordered TO make report
within reasonable time.
The SNOWFALL excursion. OF the Boul
der Chautaupuans. July 1Tth. was
novel experience TO many OF the Wis
itors. The excurslonists went on the
narrow gauge road as fnr as Camp
Frances, the last station before reach.
Ing Ward, and from there went on foo,
or horseback to the snow fields on the
northern slope OF the mountains. There
they enjoyed a rare sport. for snow
balling In the middle OF July is not
frequent occurrence. especially for the
people of Texas.
The adjutant general OF the state
has ordered detachment Of the mill.
tin. consisting OF the First regiment in,
fantry. two troops OF cavalry and the
signal AMI medical corps, to partici.
pate In the encnmpmcnt at the Boulder
ChautauQua. July 3ist. August lst aud
Cnd The order In not COMPULSORY and