The Dolores star., 1901-07-26
COLORADO NOTES.

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on nny previous year.
The new Antlers hotel Mt Colorado
Springs will be run strictly on the
European plan.
A new postoffice has been estab-
iish~1 mt Vona. Kit Carson county,
with Sarah @. Webb as postmlstress.
The woman's Club of Boulder has
placed wire settees in various parts o!
town In shady places. for the peheh'
of strangers.
large working model of Cripple
Greek has been proposed as one OF the
chief exhibits of this state at the 81.
Louis Worlds Fair in 1903.
While drilling well twenty miles
south of Granada, in Prowcrs county.
Ley Blackwell struck heavy now
of artesian water ut II depth OF l'o
feet
The fact that there were (alleged)
Rocky Ford melons on sale in Denver
before the vines at Rocky Ford were
fairly in blossom is troubling the mel
on growers.
Peaches from Grand Junction and
other parts of the Grand River valley
are now on the market throughout
most of the non-peach growing per-
tions of the state.
The directory publishers who have
just finished a new directory for i'ueb-
10. estimate the population at 1900.
The census of 1900 gave Pueblo pop
ulatiOn of 2S.1JT.
Superintendent of Fish Hatcheries
Holland recently went to Estes park to
put 25,OOO young trout in the brooks of
that section. The fish We're Matched in
the Denver hatchery.
The City Council of Rocky Ford, hav
ing n $4,000 issue of water bonds to
dispose of. accepted the bid of n Chi
cago firm which offered to take the
bonds ut par at four and one-hnlf per
cent. interest for ten years.
The committee in charge of the hor-
ticulture show at the Festival of
Mountain and Plain at Denver has de-
cided to divide the state into the Sin
horticultural districts for the purpose
of Offering sweep stake prizes.
Arapahoe county will take a few Sc
lect bourders. 1t has agreed with Sher-
iff Adm Putnam of Elbert county to
keep in the Arapahoe county Jail such
prisoners as he cannot care for nj home
at Il cost of 80 cents a day each.
Five new street ears patterned after
the convertible open and closed car,
which recently won grand prize at
| the Paris exposition. have been ordered
for the Colorado Springs railway and
will probably be in operation by Sep
tember 1st.
While John Mosconi. Ed. Gabarsky
and n party of dog fanciers from Cen
trail City. We're out east of Denver
hunting coyotes one Sunday recently,
Mr.. Mosconi had his right arm badly
bitten by 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 TO
be producing as much coal with sixty
men as it did last fall with 40.
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 bi-
monthly payments of employees. There
are 300 men now employed, but it is
expected that the number will be
raised to between 100 and 500.
Long mountain trips on foot, on
horseback and by wagons are one of
the popular features of the Glen Park
ChautauQua at Palmer Lake this sum-
mer. A recent three days trip includ-
ed 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-
flee Inspector Sullivan Mt Denver that
his office had been burned on the night
of July 10th. The loss was somewhere
between 500 and $75 in stamps burned.
Just the amount could not be deter
mined until the safe was recovered and
opened.
A largely signed petition was recelv-
ed by the Fort Lyons Canal Company,
directors while in session at Las Ami
mas few days ago, requesting that
suit be instituted against the Amity
canal and the Oxford Farmers canal
to determine their rights to the use of
water as against 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 ]. s. McBeth. Receiver
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within reasonable time.
The SNOWFALL excursion OF the Boul-
der ChautauIuans, July 18th, was a
novel experience TO many of the Wis.
itors. The eXcursionists went on the
narrow gauge road as far us Camp
Frances. the last station before reach.
ing Ward, and from there went on foot
or horseback to the snow fields on the
northern slope of the mountains. There
they enjoyed rare sport, for snow.
balling IN the middle Of July is not a
frequent occurrence, especially for the
people of Texas.
The adjutant general of the state
has ordered a detachment of the mill
tin, consisting of the First regiment in.
fantry, two troops of cavalry and the
signal and medical corps, to partici
pate In the encampment at the Boulder
Chautauqua, July 31st, August 1st and
2nd. The order Is not compulsory and
the expenses are paid by the people OF