Gilpin observer., 1902-01-16
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COLORADO BRIEFS.


away from Florence and persisted 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been withdrawn by President Roose-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 MS result of charges made by an
inspector
The Colorado Fuel & Iron Company
paid $7,OO0,O0O in wages in 1901, and
turned out product, including 4,O43,-
$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.
]. s. Teaukenburg of Boulder has
begun final survey of the new rail-
road from Loveland to Berthoud by
way of Hillsboro, which will be built
In time for marketing this years beet
crop.
The President has sent to the Senate
the nominations of the following Colo
RADIO postmasters: l.. @. Dana ut Colo
RADIO Springs, B. P. Quaintance at
Golden and Homer II. Grafton at Man.
itou.
The Denver Bricklayers' Union an
nounces that all its demands for the
coming year have been complied with.
They will work throughout the year
eight hours a day, the wage schedule
being S..
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.
]. NJ. Current of Denver committed
suicide at Albuquerque, New Mexico,
ON the 9th inst. by taking morphine.
The act is attributed to business trou-
bles and despondency. He leaves Q
wife and four children, from seven to
fifteen years of age, in Denver.
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.
Forest fires are burning near Buffa-
10 Park, on the Short Line, and In the
mountains south of Cheyenne noun
tain, near Colorado Springs. The long
continued dry weather makes the situ-
alton bad and it is likely that large
quantity of timber will be destroyed
unless snow falls soon.
NtxrfI f-
partmental positions will be held at
Pueblo. April 10th and 22d: Trinidad,
I'd; Grand Junction, April 22d; Albu-
querque, April 22d and 23d; Cheyenne.
April 21st and 22d, and Laramie, April
10th.
At a special meeting Of the Victor
common council the contract for the
Bison Park water reservoir site was
ratified and completed. The total pur-
chase price for the property is $3,-
7O9,2S. The property is now owned by
the city, and as soon as practicable
will be improved by the erection Of
first-class dam.
The county commissioners of El
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.
The board of education of Florence,
in conjunction with the teachers, is
arranging to give the school children
of the district an opportunity to see
the many wonderful experiments that
can be carried on by means of liquid
air. They have secured Professor II.
N. Hanaford of the Boston School Of
Science to work the experiments.
Representatives of the three prin-
cipal frrlgating bitches in Morgan
county are looking over various sites
with a view of constructing n storage
reservoir. Several sites are offered,
and 1t Is assured that a 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.
About the middle Of December the
Supreme Court declared that the at
torney general and the board were in
the board because 1t went
on with the work of sending out the
assessment rolls against the order OF
the Supreme Court, and the attorney
general because he advised the board
to take this action. The court has Just
denied the attorney generals petition
for rehearing Of the case.
A meeting Of the representatives of
all the principal bitches of irrigation
district No. was held at Fort Lup-
ton on the 18th and an organization
known rs the Consolidated Ditch Com
pany of District No. perfected for
the purpose of protecting water right
and priorities and to secure just appor-
tionment Of water. 1t has long been
the custom for the farmers under Bear
and Goose creeks and other tributaries
of the Platte to entirely Ignore the pri-
ority Of bitches below them, and to