Gilpin observer., 1905-02-16
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

organized at Fruita with seventy-seven
charter members.
F.! The American De Forest Wireless
Telegraph Company has begun the in
stallation of its plant at Denver.
A large organization has been
formed at Montrose to build up Mont
rose county and advertise its re.
The Grand Aerie of the Fraternal
Order of Eagles will be held in Den
YER next August and is expected to at
tract nearly $4,000 visitors.
The Moffat road proposes to estab-
lish daily milk train service early
next spring between Denver and the
big ranches in Middle Park.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
pany is contemplating installing cleo
tricity instead of steam power for the
operation of its coal mines in FIRE.
mont county.
Captain Winfield Scott Grove. for
merly with the First Colorado and well
known in this state, has recently been
appointed senior inspector at Leyte,
Philippine islands.
An eastern company is said to be in
vestigating deposits of salt said to ex-
ist east and north OF Pueblo with
view to building refinery If results
appear to justify it.
The comptroller Of the currency has
authorized the Union National Bank of
Greeley to begin business with $780,
900 capital B. d. Harper is president
and E. ]. Decker cashier.
The United States Senate has con-
firmed the nominations of f. M.
Downer as superintendent, Wilbur
Hodgson assayer and j. w. Nilsson
melter and refiner of the Denver mint.
Thirteen members Of the Gallaudet
= College Alumni Association banqueted
at the Albany hotel in Denver on the
10th inst. Some very eloquent
speeches are said to have been handed
out
/ The Denver Chamber of Commerce
has reduced it's initiation fee from 525
to $40 and removed all limitations ar
to membership. An effort will be
made to increase the membership to
5000.
Postmaster o. w. Richardson of
Longmont died on the 9th inst. at the
age of ~ years. He had been post
master for six years. During the civil
war he served in the Twelfth Illinois
cavalry.
The new Fremont county hospital at
the poor farm near Canon City has
been completed at a cost of $50 900. 1t
will accommodate sixty patients and
there are six padded cells for insane
patients.
At the recent first annual meeting
of the Phillips County Farmers Insti-
tute at Holyoke dry weather farming
was discussed and It was planned to
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mill irrigation.
Captain John Brodie Brooks, vet
eran of the Civil War, died at Aspen
I February 7th at the age of seventy
seven years. Captain Brooks came
to Colorado in 1880 and was builder of
the first smelter at Ashcroft.
The Amo Oil, Gas and Development
Company, comprised of Ell Paso
county capitalists, has struck oil at
depth OF 40 feet, seventeen miles east
of Colorado Springs. The extent of the
flow has not been determined.
At Denver, on the 5th inst, William
H. Tallman, a civil engineer, while
standing in a bath tub full of water,
reached up to turn on the electric light
and received a shock of electricity that
caused almost instant death.
Fifty. carloads, or 12,5O0 head, of
lambs, the greatest shipment of the
season, left Greeley February 9th for
market. The lambs were from Greeley
and Lucerne, Eaton and Fort Collins,
and were destined for the Chicago
market.
Miss Katherine Craig state superin-
tendent of schools, and her assistants.
have just completed the compilation of
a book for the use of the public
schools of the state in arranging
Lincoln and Washington birthday cele-
brations.
The Littleton postoffice was burglar.
ized on the night of February 9Th and
an unsuccessful attempt made to blow
open the safe, but the robbers were
frightened away after boring a hole in
the side of the safe and filling it up
with black powder.
Trinidad is to have its two principal
streets paved. Main street Will be
paved from Walnut street west to Ami
mas street and Commercial street from
/ First street to the river. Two layers
of vitrified brick, with cement foun-
dation. will be used.
The State Land Board at its meeting
| February Sth sold 160 acres of land in
| Prowers county to Sylvester Needham
at an average price of $5 per acre. The
Warren Live Stock Company leased
! 10000 acres of state land in Weld
county at 8 cents per acre for ten
years.
Fort Collins will expend over 100000
this year in the construction of new
sewers. Three new sewer districts
have been created and contracts for
the completion Of sewers in two of
them have been let by the city council.
The contract for the third will be let
March 1st.
| C. E.. Collard, while shoveling snow