The Colorado statesman., 1907-11-23
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

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The Colorado State Commercial AS
sociation estimates that the produc-
ton Of beet sugar in the state this year
will amount to $16,000,000.
A. E. Wilson of Denver has been
granted right of way five miles long in
Pixies Peak forest for generating cleo
tricity for commercial purposes.
1t is estimated that this years crop
Of sugar beets will give Morgan county
farmers in the neighborhood of ST.
O00,000-which is good round sum.
Money to the amount of S197,130
was deposited in the four banks at
Greeley on the 10th inst, which was
fifty per cent. more than was drawn
out.
Ault has nearly completed its new
water works and has purchased fire
hose, carts, ETC., costing nearly $4,000.
The city has had two destructive fires
in its short history.
A large party of Kansas capitalists
interested in the Denver, Laramie and
Northwestern railway came to Colo
rado few days ago in private car
to look over the right of way.
A carload of blooded hogs from Min
nesota is being distributed among
farmers around Longmont for breed
ing purposes. Farmers are preparing
to go into hog raising extensively.
The big steel trusses to support the
roof of the Denver Auditorium are be-
ing rapidly put in place. Work is be-
ing rushed with view to having the
hall ready for meetings by May list.
George Bradley claims to have
hauled the largest load of beets in
Weld county this fall. 1t was taken
to the Mead dump and it's gross weight
was 15,G40 pounds, or 1890 pounds
net
The largest funeral ever held in
Platteville was that of Mrs. Hannah
Birkle, wife of David Birkle. The fu-
neral cortege was over a mile in
length. Mrs. Birl1le lived in the Platte
valley forty-three years and was widely
known.
The Great Western Sugar Company
began paying farmers for their beets
at Longmont on the 18th inst, about
$500, 900 being required. Contracts are
being signed for 1908 by the beet grow
ers, which are the same as used during
the season just ending.
The sheriff of Mineral county has
taken James Selfridge to Canon City
to begin serving the life sentence i'm
posed on him in the District Court at
Creede. Selfridge was convicted of
the murder of H. B. Mckinney con-
tractor at Wagon Wheel Gap.
Joe Butcher, aged thirteen, is max
ing quite business of killing rattle
snakes near Fort Morgan. In the last
two months he has killed fifty-five and
has saved the skins of twenty-five.
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place, a sand hill with a southern
slope, about seven miles from here.
Sheriff Clark of La Plata county has
accepted the bonds offered by William
r. Mason and Joseph Vanderweide,
charged with the murder of Joseph A.
Walker, United States secret service
agent, who was killed at Hesperus,
near Durango, November I'd. The
bonds submitted were for $4,000 each.
Lee Haney, advertising agent of
the Colorado Midland railroad, has
gone East to consult with passenger
agents at Chicago, Philadelphia, Pitts
burg, New York and other cities re-
lative to advertising this state in next
seasons literature. He has made a
special study of Colorado advertising
and many roads are planning to issue
special booklets on Colorado next
year.
The injunction asked by Horace G.
Clark, clerk of the Supreme Court of
the state, to restrain the Greeley
Northern Railroad & Utility Company
from building or trespassing on Clark's
farm, south of Greeley, was granted
in the District Court at Greeley. Re-
Gently the railroad graded for over
1000 feet on this farm, which grading
the owner tore away and then sued
for an injunction.
All records for a single days pro-
duction at both the Grand Junction
and Garden City beet sugar factories,
owned by Colorado Springs men, were
broken Sunday, the 18th inst. At the
Grand Junction factory the output for
The day was 1,730 bags of sugar, and
at the Garden City plant 2,540 bags.
Both of these factories are running at
their full capacity, and the indications
are that all records in production will
be broken this year.
e. P. House, called the Colorado
Burbank because of his development
of plant life on his farm west of Gree
ley, where he is experimenting to pro-
duce grasses and grains for dry farm
ing, has succeeded in developing a
peanut vine with many characteristics
of the sweet pea. Last summer he
sifted pollen of the sweet pea flowers
on those of the peanut vine with the
result that the latter shows stems and
blossoms resembling that of the sweet
peas. The peanuts are unusually
large and fine.
New maps of the Pixies Peak region
are being prepared by the United
States government from surveys which
are being made under the direction of
Richard T. Evans, one of the topo-
graphers of the department. This sur.
yev will cover ahout nm couare