The Holly chieftain., 1902-11-07
COLORADO BRIEFS.

A savings bank is among the early
possibilities OF Boulder. Twenty-Five
thousand dollars was subscribed for
that purpose Saturday.
George J. Bancroft has been appoint-
ed consulting engineer of all the mines
OF the estate Of the late w. g. Stratton
he 10 . son Of DR.. F. J. Bancroft of
Denver. -
Next year. with the promise of anj
abundant water supply and Increased
acreage In beets. will bring the yaluai
ton OF this new Weld county product
to upward Of 81 ,OOO, 900.
In pursuance Of the provisions Of the
national irrigation act about 800 home-
steeds have been taken up under tnd
Wnee reservoir near Sterling, and
nlinSs steadily continue. 1.
Logan county cattle shipments thiI
year will exceed 10000 head, mostly
one, two and three-year old feeders;i
considerable firm block rauge-fed beef.
however, IL being sent out
Sugar beet day at Greeley and Eaton.
on the 30th marked an important peril
cd in Weld county's history. Thous-
Ands were In attendance to view the
factories In operation at the two towns;
A number of Longmont farmers have
organized Percheron Breeders' Asso-
citation and have purchased q thor
oughbred registered Percheron stallion
direct from French importers.
The joint ticket agency Of Colorado
Springs reports that between GO, COO
and $1,000 tourists Waited Colorado
Springs this season. This number is
about twenty-five per cent In excess OF
last years total.
The ONCE of the State Land Board is
doing good work in collecting back
royalties due on mineral leases. Sew
eral hundred dollars have been re-
ceived 30 far and q number OF thou
sands are expected.
Sugar making in the Poudre valley
Is an enterprise which has come to
Gtay. This year the beet crop alonS
will make the farmers richer by $27O,-
GOO. and this In year unprecedented
for it's destructive hail storms. sewers
early froets and scarcity of water.
The Colorado Terminal Lines Asso-
citation has granted = round trip rate
of one fare plug 81 from Ill points in
Colorado, except the Cripple Creek dis-
trict, In connection with the National
Live Stock Association, which con-
venes at Kansas City ON January 18th.
Stephen J. Donleavy of Denver was
presented with q solid silver dinner set
by the Arapahoe county Hibernians on
Thursday night In recognition Of his
Hervices rendered during the Hiberni-
IN national convention in Denver last
summer. Az county president he con-
( trfbuted largely to its success.
The $4,000 worth Of gravity pressure
water bonds lately voted by Sterling
are being negotiated and ground will
soon b. broken for construction Of the
water system, the preliminary work of
thorough preparation OF the sources Of
water supply. seven miles out Of the
city. having already been begun.
Railroad men estimate that nearly
10000 homeseekers, including the bet
Ter class OF emigrants, have located
within the confines Of Colorado and the
adjoining states during the past month.
/ The heavy travel ON homeseekers' tick
cts. which has been maintained since
the rates were put into effect, is being
greatly augmented.
N. Daughitt, live stock agent for the
Missouri Pacific road, states that the
business Of the new Pueblo stock yards
since the opening has far exceeded the
expectations of the company. He
stated that II the stock business In
crease< N the same ratio for another
year Pueblo would be the live stock
center Of the West.
The railroads have arranged Z ons,
and one-ffth tara for the Arkansas
Valley Teachers' Association meeting
which will be held In Ii Jpnta Haturl
day, November 18th. Every county ii
southeastern Colorado from Canon
City to the Kansas stata Mne, will b
represented and It u believed the asso-
cations meeting will be one Of the
most largely attended In IT. history.
R. ". Hawley and Shannon q. Lea
OF the state engineers once have gcuA
on an overland trip to the NebraslIA
state line for the purpose Of measuring
the seepage water Of the 6outh Platte
river. The Investigation will show
how much water returns to the river
after being used for irrigation, and ID
made every two years.
Sterling bids fair to become one o1
the great best sugar csnters Of the
West. her sugar prospects now includ1
ing that Of the George Gardiner gyndi.
cate Of Colorado Spr1nss, . factory I'd
be established BY eastern capitalists
Whose personnel 10 - yet withheld,
and Q pending deal with President w.
D. Hoover Of the Eaton Sugar Coml