Gilpin observer., 1907-10-24
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


BILE.
The Modern Woodmen of America
are to have an elegant home at Colo
RADIO Springs.
The organized unions of Fort Col
Inns have formed a trades assembly
with 260 members.
The assessed valuation of Denver is
approximately $120,000,OO0. This does
not give the real value.
Prowers county is rapidly coming to
the front In the production of splen.
did grade Of draft horses and mules.
Cattle shipments from Routt county
are greater this year than ever before
in the history of that section Of the
state.
A Denver man married a girl to re-
form her and she had him in jail be-
fore the honeymoon turned the first
quarter.
A Longmont man claims the best
seventy-acre wheat field in the state
His crop runs about eighty bushels to
the acre.
For the first time in a great many
years Custer county finds itself entirely
out of debt and with a snug balance in
the treasury.
R. D. MILESTONE, a frontiersman.
was accidentally thrown from his
wagon near Boulder one day last
week and killed.
. The Santa Fc flyer went into the
ditch near Earl 'ast Saturday, and one
death was the result. Many others
were shaken up.
More fall wheat than ever before in
the history of the district has been
planted this year in the Cache La Pou-
Dire and Boxelder valleys.
Two Canon City men think that the
town Of Radiate is properly named.
They have just made big strike Of a
rich coal find in that place.
Yampa is confident that the nrst
train into the town will be seen by
June l. 1908. Scarcity of labor IL de-
laying work on the Moffat road.
1t will be nip and tuck between
farming and precious metals In Colo
RADIO this year. The output in both
commodities has been very heavy.
Dry farming has made good again
in Colorado. and there will, in all
probability, be more land titled under
the new system next year then ever
before.
Over 300 union miners in the lig-
mite coal mines near Colorado Springs
walked out on strike last week.
What a blessing this nne, warm Colo
RADIO weather is.
Mrs. Anna Shandler of New York,
came all the way to Colorado to see
her son, and sad her awakening when
she found him behind the cold iron
bars at Canon City.
Denver is now willing to stand or
the top of Pixies peak and aver that
she has over 100000 good. hustling
souls within her corporate limits. and
there are none 10 dispute.
Eastern Colorado is coming to the
front with oil and gas. There Is NO
telling what Color ado will do yet in
the way of furnishing the necessities
OF the world. She already has done
more than most states.
e. ]. Cavenaugh is running a series
of articles In a Denver paper explain.
ing why times are hard" right now.
He says the prices Of the necessities
of life rave advanced but common
wages remain the same.
Greeley is now receiving its night
electrical current from the Northern
Colorado power plant at Lafayette.
The day current 10 furnished by tho
local plant. Sunday, both night and
day current will be turned on from
Lafayette.
A party of Spanish engineers are in
Colorado learning from the expert
ence of our farmers in reference to
irrigation. That old song is still
good: "They are coming by thou
sands, from every land, the cause CT
our greatness to see, etc"
Forty-five acres OF pears from Grand
Junction returned the fruit growers
in that section over $50 900 this fall. A
Grand Junction paper says that 1t IL
enough to make a poker player green
with envy to learn that the farmers are
making fortunes at pears"
Twenty capitalists from New York
made the trip of over 1000 miles to
look over some mining properties In
Gilpin county last week. They spent
two hours at the mines and were SO
we'll pleased they will stand up for
Colorado like real boosters.
New York daily papers came to
Denver recently for two well known
persons. Miss Nell Brinkley. Of the
Times, and Paul Thieman OF the Post.
Miss Brinkley is a Colorado girl and
her skill as an artist has attracted
more than national attention. She re-
ceives 500 a week on the New York
American, with a three years con-
tract.
Tho directors OF the Montrozoma
Company, which Is running the Famous
tunnel near Aspen, have decided to
raise $250.000 to build a mill, develop
water power and work the mines on
Betoite, Famous and Richmond hills
through the tunnel. The people OF As.
pen believe that this is the beginning
OF new era Of prosperity in that sec
ton Of the state.
It is expected that Denver will have
direct railroad connection with Grand