The Colorado statesman., 1907-09-21
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

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Forty acres of land planted to wheat
near Windsor thrashed 1,706 bushels a
few days ago.
Montrose is to have a new pressed
brick plant. About $4,000 will be in
vested in the enterprise.
II Is claimed that at least 1000 car
loads OF fruit will be shipped from the
western Slope this year.
A Berthoud man has fourteen acres
OF oats that average a little over
ninety-nine bushels to- the acre.
Mathew ]. Drury, a Denver hotel
Keeper, drank poison because his
business was a failure. He died.
Corn, the ears Of which average ten
inches in length, and grown without
irrigation, are being exhibited in Wind
sor.
There is more ore being shipped
to the smelter in Durango than ever
before in the history of San Juan dis
trict.
Ten acres Of young apple orchard
recently sold for $4,000 near Clifton.
They come high, but think of the re-
turns.
Cimarron is showing oats that stand
seven and one-half feet high and pota-
toes that weigh three and one-half
pounds each.
its mineral products, will produce the
greatest crop of hay and grain this
year ever grown in the county.
Grand jury indictments have been
coming thick and furious at the Fort
Collins during the past week and hard
ly druggist remains free from the
bar.
Mining has taken on a new lease of
life in the Wet Mountain valley. The
old Bull Domingo mine is being cleared
out and put in fine shape for opera
ton.
Routt county has never been blessed
with such abundant crops as are now
being harvested this year. The
meadow lands are a forest of hay
stacks.
Fous and six-horse teams are arriv-
ing every day in Gunnison with marble
quarried in the county. The marble
is said to be equal to any quarried in
the world.
The bees have been busy around
Greeley this summer. One man has
taken thirty-four tons of the sweet
stuff from 500 hives. The honey is
valued at $4,000.
Fifteen acres of wheat near Long
mont yielded 1,149 bushels of good
wheat, according to the report of the
thrashers. Can any state in the Union
show anything to approach this?
The fruit growers of Delta are so
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ing to put some tens of thousands of
dollars of their surplus cash into a
building from which to market their
product next year.
u "A contract has been let by the City
Council of Idaho Springs to Thompson
& Wilkie for the construction of a res
ervoir on Chicago creek to cost $780,
600. The reservoir will be for the
storage of 60,000,000 gallons Of water
to be taken from the headwaters Of
Chicago creek. The work is to begin
at once, so that the reservoir can be
completed in time to catch the spring
water.
District Judge Harry P Gamble, at
Pueblo, this morning granted the petit
tion of the Eastern Colorado Power
Company in condemnation proceedings
to take immediate possession Of the
Barker ranch below Netherlands for the
construction of reservoir. The
amount of damage will be fixed by d
jury. The company offers $4,000.
but Mrs. Hanna c. Barker demands
100000.
An all-day temperance meeting was
recently held at the First Methodist
church in Colorado Springs under the
auspices of the State Prohibition
League. Secretary A. B. Taynton was
one of the speakers, and the Roberts
male quartet furnished the music. The
Rev. c. B Wilcox made the principal
address, and the meeting was the be-
ginning of an active campaign for pro-
hibition in Ell Paso county.
George C. Briggs, ex-mayor of Love
land, is having made at his expense a
mammoth sign bearing the inscription
"Loveland Grand Canon" 1t will be
placed on the walls of the canon just
opposite the entrance. When it is
ready a party of Loveland business
men will take it to the canon and the
occasion will be celebrated with ap-
propriate ceremonies. This is being
indorsed by the Loveland Chamber of
Commerce.
Because, as she alleges, he entered
the house late one night without max
ing any noise, and also because his
palate, on a specified occasion, failed
to respond adequately to the tempting
edibles set before him, Mrs. Silas A.
Long, of Colorado Springs, wanted a
divorce from her husband. These were
the woman's chief reasons for accus-
ing husband of being cruel, and they
appeared SO flimsy to the court that
the woman was denied decree.
Former Congressman Franklin E.
Brooks at Colorado Springs has re-
ceived letter from Secretary William
H. Taft. written en- route from Vel
lowstone park to Portland, Oregon, and
L., .,rhinh Taft thani,s COlnra dams for