Gilpin observer., 1907-02-14
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

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acres of beets will be raised near Flor
ence this year for the Holly sugar fac
tory.
A snowslide near Silverron carried
away several small buildings belong
ing to the Auburn Consolidated Mines
Company on the 9Th inst. The damage
is estimated at about $4,000.
A large number of Colorado Shrin-
ers are preparing to go to the CONVEX
tion of the order at Los Angeles in
May. They are promised an extraor-
dinary amount Of entertainment.
Mrs. Mary Neff of Denver committed
suicide at Victor on the Sth inst. by
shooting herself through the head. She
was Respondent because Of the death
of her daughter, Mrs. Forrest Babcock,
that morning from blood poisoning.
General Traffic Manager Wakely of
the Burlington has ordered through
trains Nos. 13 and IA to stop at the
new station of Keene because of the
heavy travel through that section of
Weld county. Keene will soon have q
postofice.
BENJAMIN and Earl Tucker of Colo
RADIO Springs and Austin Tucker of
Denver, sons of ]. T. Tucker, the res
taurant man Of Colorado Springs and
Denver, are preparing an expedition to
the far North to hunt for the rare ami
mails that inhabit the Arctic circle.
Workmen cutting cottonwood trees
in Lincoln park, Pueblo, felled a tree
which had two-compartment squirrel
house. In the upper part were several
young squirrels, and in the lower part
q hive Of bees and thirty pounds of
honey. The honey was secured and
divided.
The Pueblo Business Mems Associa-
ton has prepared a catchy postcard
made in the form of folder, and this
will be sent throughout the United
States and Europe. 1t contains much
information concerning the financial,
industrial and agricultural resources
Of Pueblo.
Business in the Pueblo postoffice for
January shows an increase of ten per
cent. over that of the corresponding
month last year. January, 1906, showed
a heavy increase over the previous
year, SO that the advance during the
last two years shows eighteen and one
half per cent.
Superintendent w. H. Tate of the
Union Depot Company at Pueblo has
completed his report for January,
which shows that the sale of tickets at
the Pueblo office was fifteen per cent.
higher than last year and that the
number Of pieces Of baggage handled
wNs 2.071 more than during the same
month last year.
L. B. Morrison, superintendent Of
the Clipper mine, on London mountain,
near Alma, was caught and killed in a
snowslide on Thursday, the 7th inst.
Morrison was on his way down from
the mine with samples of ore from a
new strike when the slide started. He
struggled hard. but was covered by the
slide and suffocated.
Judge Kerr of the Probate Court Of
El Paso county has approved the petit
ton Of the executors Of the Stratton
estate to pay the remaining legatees
under the will. There are ten benefi-
Charles whose beQuests aggregate
$435,0O0 approximately $4,000 inher-
itapce tax and interest thereon will be
withheld from the amount.
In the special election held at Aspen
to decide whether the taxpayers wish
to extend the franchise of the Castle
Creek Water Company for twenty-five
years, with a reduction of twenty
seven per cent. in the present water
rates, only 184 votes were cast. OF
these 126 were for granting the new
franchise and So were against.
George P. Avery of Fort Collins has
been elected by certificate holders Of
the Monte Cristo Rubber Plantation
Company to go to Mexico to inspect
the company's proposition there, e1-
penses paid. The directors in the big
company, which owns an orchard of
5000 acres Of rubber trees, are Gree
ley, Denver and Montana men.
The largest shipment of cement
made from the Portland Cement
Works left Florence a few days ago.
and the cement will be distributed over
Colorado to the west and northwest.
1t consisted Of twenty-eight cars, 5000
barrels, or total OF 100000 pounds.
Most of 1t will be used in railroad con-
struction and government work.
The Willow Creek Reservoir Com
pany has let the contract for the build
ing of it's new reservoir, thirty-five
miles northeast of Greeley and four
miles southwest of Grover, to cost $685..
900. The reservoirs have combined
capacity Of 175,000 cubic feet. will draw
water from Willow creek and bring
under cultivation 1000 acres OF land.
w. A. Merralls of San Francisco has
purchased thirty acres of land adjoin-
ing Denver on the south and on the
tracks of the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe railway. On this site will be
ercted what the promoters say will be
the largest machine shop and foundry
west of the Missouri river, where all
sorts of mining machinery will be
built.
Eugene Engley, attorney general OF
the state during the Waite administra-
ton, was taken to the Sisters hospi.
tai at Cripple Creek on the 4th inst.
in q precarious condition. He had been