The Springfield herald., 1907-09-27
COLORADO. NEWS ITEMS

The ore tonnage for the Leadville
! district in August reached $4,000 tons.
Forty acres OF land planted to wheat
near Windsor thrashed ,706 bushels q
few days ago.
Six thousand five hundred dollars
was paid recently for a ten-acre tract
OF land near Fort Collins.
Montrose is to have new pressed
brick plant. About $4,000 will be In
4 vested in the enterprise.
A Berthoud man has fourteen acres
of oats that average little over
ninety-nine bushels to the acre.
Corn, the ears of which average ten
inches in length. and grown without
irrigation, are being exhibited in Wind
SOr.
| A South Park cattleman recently
sold his cattle at $50 head. The sale
will net him between 100000 and $780,.
900.
! There is more ore being shipped
to the smelter in Durango than ever
before in the history of San Juan dis
trict.
| Olathe has incorporated as town
and the citizens say it will have double
the population within the next two
years.
| Ten acres of young apple orchard
recently sold for $4,000 near Clifton.
They come high but think of the re-
turns.
! A sugar beet weighing ten and one
half pounds carried off the prize for
the biggest specimen raised in Weld
county.
I Cimarron is showing oats that stand
seven and one.half feet high and pota-
toes that weigh three and one-half
pounds each.
Wages for ordinary unskilled labor
in Boulder county run from $3.50 to 50
day. There is not an idle man in
the county.
! The sugar factory In Fort Collins
will begin grinding this week. There
will be about $50 tons of beets ready
for grinding.
In the first week of the melon sea-
son Las Animas shipped seventeen
cars of cantaloupes. The prices were
above the average.
I Grand jury indictments have been
coming thick and furious at the Fcrt
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 forest of hay
stacks.
I 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
! Montrose is counting on having a
beet sugar factory in time to use the
first crop of beets raised after water
from the Gunnison tunnel is turned
into the valley.
I 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?
% In well near Grover, dug to
depth of 1G0 feet. water rose to within
four feet of the surface. Farmers there
there are jubilant over this. as they
are anxious to locate aytesian wells.
| The Empire ditch in Weld county
has been completed at a cost of $780,
900. The reservoir has capacity of
100000 cubic feet of water. The
ditch will irrigate 10000 acres of land.
| al co
prosperous this year that they are go
ing to put some tens of thousands of.
dollars of their surplus cash into
building from which to market their
product next year.
| In the Grow Creek district they are
showing oats that run eighty bushels
to the acre. Raised without irrigation.
Durum wheat running between thirty
nine and forty-one bushels to the acre
is also being thrashed,
| Radishes in the South Platte valley
have grown ranging in length from
twelve to seventeen and one.halt
inches. 1t was just five weeks from
the time the seed was planted until
the radishes We're pulled.
| District Judge Harry p Gamble. at
Pueblo, this morning granted the rcti-
tion of the Eastern Colorado Power
Company in condemnation proceedings
20 take immediate possession of the
Barker ranch below Netherlands for the
construction of a reservoir. The
amount of damage will be fixed by d
jury The company offers s25000
but Mrs. Hanna C. Barker demands
100000.
| 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.
The authorities of the State univer
sity, after the enrolment at the end
of the first week of the years term
announce an increase so far of thir
teen per cent. in the schools reEistra
ton and an attendance of $50. or the
different departments, the college of
engineering shows the largest number
of new students-over twenty per cent
in advance. The new shop building,