The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-01-21
COLORADO BRIEFS.

built near Florence.
AL Follis, an insane man, wandered
away from Florence and perished in
the hills.
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been withdrawn by President Roose-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 n result of charges made by an
inspector.
The Colorado Fuel & Iron Company
paid S7,O0O,0O0 in wages in 1901, and
turned out product, including 4,043,-
$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 a 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.
The State Fair Association at Pueb-
10 has selected Its date for June race
meet. The first week in June has been
decided upon, inasmuch as that date
will not conflict with any other organ
ization in the state.
A new $4,000 hotel and new ma
tional bank with n 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 Fortnightly club,
the Boulder Hypatia club and the
Women's League of the university. 1t
will probably convene next September.
The county commissioners of Ell
Paso county have decided TO change
and shorten the county road between
Monument and Palmer Lake. The
change will cost $500, and cuts one
mile off the present four miles, and
changes the thoroughfare to the west
instead of the east side of the tracks.
making n more pleasant drive.
Representatives of the three prin-
cipal irrigating bitches in Morgan
county are looking over various sites
with n view of constructing n storage
reservoir. Several sites are offered,
and it is assured that n 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.
The Chamber of Commerce of Den
yer and Cripple Creek will unite in
an attempt to have the Colorado and
Southern construct the long contem-
plated cutoff which will give almost
an air line to the great gold camp and
divert much of the trade from that sec
ton toward Denver. The Cripple Greek
chamber has taken the initiative this
time and promise to leave no stone
unturned to accomplish the desired re-
suit President 1rumbull of the Colo
RADIO and Southern recently addressed
the business men of the gold camp and
expressed himself as favoring the en-
terprise.
The second beet campaign for the
Rocky Ford factory closed on the 18th
so far as the grinding of beetA was
concerned. The crop of 1901 is all in.
The tonnage received this season was
03. $50 tons. Last year the tonnage was
AZ, 900 tons. The grinding began Octo-
Der 2nd, making 1O5 days. The fac
tory will continue to run about n
month longer working up the molasses
by process known as the osmose
The farmer this year received an av-
erage of S4.95 per ton, IA cents more
per ton than last year, and all seem
well pleased with results, as it has
a A Ipn
24,OOO,00O pounds of sugar was made.
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 1t will go higher
Gen. William J. Palmer has an
nounced his intention of donating 100
acres of land and subscribing $4,000
in cash to establish a -philanthro-
pic sanitarium in Colorado Springs for
conSumptives, the institution to cost in
all S2500OO. The rest of the Money is
to be raised by subscription among
persons willing to aid the project with
out expectation of n return. The insti-
tuition will be in two departments, one
devoted to the wealthy patients, who
will be charged good prices for their
care and treatment, all the profits of
this department to go to the mainte-
nance of the other which will be for
poor persons able to pay only a NOM
inal price for the board and treatment.
The sight is not definitely announced,
but will be east of the city. A COM
pany will be Incorporated within a
short time to take up the project and
carry it through. The affairs of the in
titution will be in charge of board of
trustees who will serve without re-
muneratiOn or interest in the financial