The Dolores star., 1902-01-24
COLORADO BRIEFS.

believed to be Pat Grove.
Denver seems in n fair way to have
two baseball mines the coming season.
AL Follis. an insane man. wandered
away from Florence and perished in
the hills.
A new wagon road is to be built be-
tween Monument and Palmer Lake to
avoid the hills ON the present route.
The Colorado Mine Exchange has
moved into the new and elegant build
ing erected for them by w. 5. STRAIT
ton.
Thomas Paxton, division master me-
chanic of the Santa Te road at Cley-
burne, Texas. will succeed A. l.. Hum
phrey as superintendent of motive
power for the Colorado & Southern
road.
Manzanola Is agitatIng the question
of the construction of beet sugar
factory. The farmers there are this
year raising beets for the Rocky Ford
factory.
The nomination of Edwin Price to
be postmaster at Grand Junction has
been withdrawn by President Roose-
welt as result of charges made by an
inspector.
The Colorado Fuel & Iron Company
paid S7,OOO.OOO in wages in 1901, and
turned out product. including 4,O33.-
$50 tons of coal and 554 44O tons of
coke, of about thirteen million dollars.
According to the report of the clim-
ate and crop services of the United
States, unless heavy rains intervene
before spring. there may be shortage
of water in many districts next sum
mer.
Walter A. Stockman and Frank Nc
namara, two alleged horse thieves
who escaped from the Jefferson county
Jail. were captured by Douglas county
officers at the ranch of l.. u. Stevens,
ten miles west of Castle Rock.
A new S50.OOO hotel and new ma
tional bank with Il capitalization of
100000 are assured for Grand juno
ton. The Reed Investment Company
of Colorado Springs is back of both the
new enterprises. Work on the new
hotel will be commenced at once.
The next annual meeting of the Colo
RADIO Federation of Women's Club will
be held in Boulder on invitation of the
Women's club. the Forinightly club
the Boulder Hypatia club and the
Women's League of the university. 1t
will probably convene next September
Foul air in the May BE mine on
Squaw mountain has added two more
victims to the list of mine casualties
in the Cripple Creek district The un-
fortunate miners are John Wanner and
Gus Peterson. They We're employed by
Lessees Davis and Bentley.
lished mt Coal Creek. The company is
composed of Italians and the machin-
cry was imported from Italy, the
freight alone amounting to $1,000. Ten
varieties are being made. The orders
already are taxing the plant.
Representatives of the three prin-
cipal irrigating bitches in Morgan
county are looking over various sites
with n view of constructing a storage
reservoir. Several sites are offered,
and 1t is assured that reservoir of
considerable capacity will be built this
year. There is usually plenty of water
and with storage water for dry times
crops would be practically assured.
1t has just been learned that parties
are taking up the coal lands at the
head of Surface creek, near Delta.
Over 10000 acres are now staked and
the men are still at work While no
definite information can be obtained,
1t is thought that either the Colorado
Fuel and Iron Company or the parties
who are talking of putting in the smelt-
er at Delta are securing the coal de-
posits.
1t is thought that Thomas T. Walsh
is back of the smelter negotiations for
Delta, and that in place of building a
railroad to Pueblo from Ouray, as he
talked of doing some time ago, that he
will build smelter at Delta, construct
Ing short road from Ouray and Tellu-
ride to Delta. The parties who were
here In the interest of the smelter
would not say who they represent but
claim that Delta is the natural location
for smelter, and that they expect to
begin operations this season.
The second beet campaign for the
Rocky Ford factory closed on the 18th
so far as the grinding of beets was
concerned. The crop of 1901 is all in.
The tonnage received this season was
03,5JO tons. Last year the tonnage was
$4,000 tons. The grinding began Octo-
| ber End, making 1O5 days. The fac
| tory will continue to run about a
month longer, working up the molasses
by process known as the osmose.
The farmer this year received an ay-
erage of $4.05 per ton, IA cents more
per ton than last year, and all seem
well pleased with results, as 1t has
proven n most profitable crop. About
24.OOO,OOO pounds of sugar was made.
A larger acreage will be put in this
year, and the factory will be able to
run month longer next season. Farm
land has more than doubled in value
since the location of the factory at
Rocky Ford, and the prospects are
that it will go higher.
Mrs. Helen L. Grenfell, state super
intendent Of public instruction, has an
portiohed the school fund of the coun-
ties as follows:
Arapahoe ..si7l1l.32 Las Animass 2,62s. .4s
Archuleta 25l6f Lincoln Ss 10
hsGa HsGs ...... ~ 22s Lss Logan ss.sI
Boulder So. 2,48814 Mineral 100 IN