The Colorado statesman., 1907-12-21
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

streets.
The magnificent new building of the
Young Mems Christian association at
Denver was formally opened on the
10th inst, and is now in full opera
ton.
Never in the history of Denver have
the State Humane society and tie
Colorado Prison association been
swamped with appeals for aid as at
the present time.
The preliminary survey for the An
telope and Bijou reservoirs near Fort
Morgan has been finished This will
bring under irrigation another 5000
acres of land in Morgan county.
The board of pardons at its recent
meeting in Denver refused an appli-
cation for pardon in the case of Sam
Enrich, sentenced from Denver Aug
ust 2, 1904, for the murder of William
Malone.
There is talk of establishing five
new independent packing plants in
the San Luis valley, the hog raisers
complaining of the arbitrary meas
ures of the packing trust in keeping
down prices.
The Southern Colorado Mercantile
company will build a wholesale ware
house at Trinidad early next year
which will be 150X200 feet and five
stories high. Railroad tracks will run
through the building.
The Beaver Land & Irrigation Com
pany, which intends to irrigate &c.
600 acres near Florence, and will place
1000 acres under water next spring,
reports that it has sold more than
1000 acres. Inquiries are being re-
ceived from Alaska to Florida.
A hew school house to accommodate
fifty pupils, the salary of teacher for
six months and all fuel needed is the
gift of the Dacona Townsite Company
to the new school district No. 76, just
organized in southwestern Weld coun-
ty, adjoining the town of Dacona.
On the 18th inst the work of sur
veying for the Henrylyn irrigation
project in southeastern Weld county
was begun and will occupy month.
Preliminary lines have already been
run defining the boundaries of the
ditch, which embraces $4,000 acres.
A carload of Greeley potatoes was
started few days ago for New York
70 be used for supplying the tables on
the big ocean liners and is the sOre-
runner of others to be used for the
same purpose and for supplying pri-
vate yachts, among them that of tie
Vandcrbilts
The cities along the Arkansas river
are cooperating to put stop to the
soiling of the water by earth washed
into it by the placer operations above
Granite. A fund will be raised to carry
on an injunction suit. Pueblo, Canon
City and Salida are the principal
places interested.
Hon. D. e. Severance, after whom
the town of Severance was named,
has offered two lots in the new city,
without any cost, to any one who will
erect a $4,000 hotel on them. The
town has doubled its population within
six months, has added bank and COM
pleted a two-story siX-room brick
school house.
W. R. Wilson of Denver will build
the Chain of Lakes reservoir system,
thirty-five miles northeast of Greeley,
to consist of four reservoirs, with
combined capacity of S3,000,000 cubic
feet of water. Wilson expects to fill
his reservoir by the drainage from
township lying west and adjoining the
site of the reservoir.
The worst fire in the history of
Castle Rock occurred early Monday
morning the 10th inst, wiping out
I half block in the business section and
entailing a loss of 100000. Only the
heroic work of the volunteer fire de-
partment saved part of the block from
being destroyed. The fire started in
the warehouse of c. G. Mcconnell and
is thought to have been the work of
tramps.
AT a meeting of the board of pal
dons in Denver on the 18th inst. the
case of Leonard Imboden and james
A. Hill was postponed until Feb.
when an open meeting will be held tC
consider the applications for the par
Gon of the two. H. J. Hershey and l..
S Smith appeared in favor of Imboden
and Hill, while Harry Kelly was there
to protest against the granting Of thC
pardon.
Red" the Irish setter dog of the
editor of the Evans Courier, has been
made an honorary member of The
Evans band, says the Evans CORES
pondent of the Denver Republican
His master plays in the band and the
dog has attended every band concer
and practice since it started. II
made it his duty to guard the instru
11ents of the players and always
marches at the head of the procession
The Loveland Fruit Growers Asso
citation has taken up the matter OF
canning string beans in the new can
ming factory. An effort is being mad
| to secure contracts for fifty acres TO
next season. AS the beans have to be
hand picked, not more than one acre
is desired from any family. For this
reason the matter has been taken u
| by the fruit growers, most of whom
| have small tracts on which they cal
raise beans.
The government, through w. McCon
nell. supervising reclamation enginee
/ in the West, has leased a suite o