The Glenwood post., 1906-12-01
PRESS CLIPPINGS


A few inches Of snow fell Saturday
night and Sunday. Turned cold Sun.
day and that night the mercury
dropped to degrees below zero. and
on Monday night to IL below. Meek
er Herald
j. NJ. Waterman has on exhibition
at the Eagle Valley bank a sugar beet
which weighs II pounds and turnip
weighing 12A pounds. They were
produced on his ranch this summer.
Eagle Enterprise.
A great many turkeys are being
shipped from Mesa these days Carl
Walker recently sold 70 big fellows,
Soren Rasmussen has just marketed
between 300 and 400 pounds and j. W.
Burckhalter, E. d. Stewart and others
are selling their flocks. Plateau
Voice.
David Henshaw of Aspen was
brought down from Fulford by A. Il.
Borah last Tuesday in very critical
condition, threatened with pneumonia.
Mr.. Henshaw came over from Aspen
to do some assessment work on mining
claims at Fulford. He was taken to
Glenwood Tuesday night and placed
~, hn tu,i nt hnt
Eagle Enter prise.
The Rio Grande will construct an
ice house in Delta sufficiently large to
put frozen fluid in so cars per day.
Coal shutes are to be built and new
side track constructed long enough
to take care of 125 cars at one time
The company's receipts here last
month were Sl5, 600, and we are glad
to know they are waking up to the
fact that Delta is on the map.-Delta
Independent.
The Perkins automobile passed
through town Wednesday on its way
tc Tonopah, drawn by team of
horses This is the machine which its
owner announced would carry passen-
gers between Yampa and Hayden.
making the round trip of 80 miles
each day. 1t got as far as Oak creek,
10 miles from town, on its first trip
and has been stalled there for the last
couple of months. - Yampa Leader.
l.. E. Brown, who left Grand Val
ley about month ago to manage
Clark hotel at Rifle. was quite Sc
verely burned by an explosion of acct
ylene gas. There had been some
trouble with the gas the night before
and in the morning Mr.. Brown tiled
to locate the leak, and in some un-
known way the machine exploded and
resulted in Mr.. Brown being badly
burned on the hands and arms. -
Gland Valley News.
Mr.. R. P. Davie was greeting
friends on the streets last night and
this morning and had wonderful
bread smile whenever the local sugar
factory was mentioned. He has
awfully warm spot in his heart for
his first love- in the factory line
and is highly gratiied at the wonder
fully successful run now in progress
surprising anything in the history of
sugar making in this state. Grand
junction News.
Manager Holmes of the Grand juno
tion sugar factory was busy all day
today signing checks amounting to
$3.50, 900 in payment for the sugar
beets shipped to the factory by the
farmers on the western slope. The
total of $780, 900 is divided among the
four counties on the western slope as
follows: Garfield, $31, 900; Delta,
1876, OOO Mesa, $42, 900, and Montrose
*21, 900. Mr.. Holmes says that next
month disbursement for beets will
amount to about 800, 600. Grand
Junction News.
Rio Blanco is one of the 30 counties
in the state that will soon get the 10
per cent from all the monies collected
by forest reserve officials. The coun-
ties in interest will receive all that is
coming to them, provided the sum
does not exceed 40 per cent of their
total incomes from all other sources.
All such monies are supposed to be-
expended for the benefit of the public
schools or for the betterment of the
county roads in the sections interest
ed, or tor both nnr noses Let s mt