The Grit-advocate., 1904-08-26
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

| tracks OF the RIO GrdnCe III tHe biaCA
| canon.
Heavy storms have done much dam
age in the vicinity of Trinidad. Sever
al bridges were washed out.
+. G. Cluss was drowned in a stream
near Canon City the other day. Ii was
very high at the time he attempted 10
ford it.
Colorado Springs will have no official
! celebration OF Labor Day. the local un-
f, ions preferring to join in the observ-
ance at Denver.
! Bishop Warren dedicated the Metho-
dist church at La Junta Sunday, August
2lst. and enough money was raised to
clear the debt.
| The night of August 22nd was very
cold in many sections of eastern Colo
RADIO and light frost was reported at
/ Wray and a few other places.
The Denver & Rio Grande Railway
Company has contributed $1,000 addi-
tional to the fund being used to search
for victims Of the Eden disaster.
Through the explosion OF l,200
pounds of molten metal in ladle at
the Radrorf foundry in Trinidad Abram
Garcia was badly burned amout the
hands and legs.
| Several thousand dollars will be eX-
pended by the Denver & Rio Grande
Railroad Company in the Improvement
of the grounds around the depot at
Colorado Springs.
Thursday, September Sth. will be
Watermelon Day at the big fair i'll
Rocky Ford The first day. September
9Th. will be Old Settlers Day, the fair
lasting four days.
Mrs. William Noble wife of a mining
man at Twin Lakes. shot herself, prob
ably intlicting fatal wound. on Aug
ust Goth. Her action is said to have
resulted from quarrel with her hus-
band
A general excursion of farmers fiom
all over the state to the Agricultural
College at Fort Collins. has been ar
ranged by Professor Carlyle for Octo-
Der Goth. Preparations viii be made TO
entertain several thousand guests.
Rural free delivery routes to be
established September 18th in Colo
RADIO are: Lamar. Prowers county.
route 2. population. 4oO. houses on
route. 90; Prowers. Bent county.
route l. population AGO. houses on
route. 80.
Bids were opened for the otero
county bridge. to be built opposite La
Junta, at the Office of the state engi-
neer August 22nd. The bids ranged
from $7S23 to $500. and the contract
was awarded to the Pueblo Bridge
Company.
Nearly s25000O will be paid the
| farmers of the Grand valley. Colorado.
for their sugar beets alone this fall.
Four thousand acres Of beets are un-
. der cultivation in the valley. which
means production of about $500 tons
OF sugar.
I The completion OF the new wing Of
the State Insane Asylum at Pueblo will
somewhat relieve the crowded condi-
tion at the county hospital at Denver,
as twenty-five of the women of the in
sane ward are to be removed at once
to the new quarters
The Nevadaville branch of the Colo
RADIO Fish and Game Protective Asso-
citation has received consignment OF
10000 rainbow trout from the state
hatcheries to be placed in James Peak
and LOChmond lakes. near James Peak
twelve miles from the town.
Close to 100000 head of lambs viii
be fed on peas in the San Luis valley
Colorado. the coming winter An i'm
mense acreage of peas has been grown
and the crop will be fed, without har
vesting to lambs which will be Sent
into the valley from northern Ne"
Mexico and Utah.
The establishment of the new plan
of the Dumont Powder Company neal
Pueblo, Colorado. means an addition
to the production of the steel plant o
the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company
Arrangements have been made for thu
last-mentioned company to manufac
ture $500 shcet-steel cans per day 70
! the use OF the powder factory.
The second largest dam in the stat
of Colorado is being constructed 70
the Cascade reservoir in the San Jual
country. The wall will be los feet il
height and the water stored will reaCl
depth of 100 feet. The dam viii
store 3,07l 100000 cubic feet OF waite
or 500.000.000 feet less than tn
the famous Cheesman dam whic
, stores Denver's water supply.
One of the most elaborate celebrs
tions ever planned in Colorado is bt
ing considered by the residents c
;: Colorado Springs. to commemorate tn
!, discovery of Pixies Peak. The ceI
tennial anniversary of Zebulon Pike
\ first view of this famous mountai
falls on November 6, 1906. and a
ready the people of Colorado Spring
have begun preparations for a fittin
celebration of the day.
# The first Inter-Mountan Festiva
k which was held in Idaho Springs c
@ the 18th, was decided success
e Trains from Denver were crowded
d their utmost capacity and it can
safely estimated that the visitors