The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-02-16
COLORADO EEHS ITEMS

at Trinidad
Colorado Springs Nasors have ap-
pointed a committee TO secure a sire
and specifca lions for a Masonic build
ing TO be constructed soon.
Expert Oil well drillers from Flor
enCe will drill a number Of wells nca-
MCntrose for a company in which Ere
mont county men are interested.
The comptroller of the currency has
approved the conversion Of the Bank
Of Buena Vista into the First Na'i9ua!
bank OF Buena Vista. with $4,000 capi
tai
An Elks temple is to be erected al
Grand Junction 10 cost $4,000 or Up
wards. 1t will be 5oxl25 feet in S.
and three stories high Work will b.
gin on it soon.
a large number of Colorado Shril-
ers are preparing to 90 TO the conyen-
tion Of the order at Los Angeles IN
May. They are promised an eXtraor
dinary amount Of entertainment
The following Colorado postmasters
have been appointed: Englewood
Arapahoe county, Jesse G. Baird. vice
o. }. Baird. dead; WayerleF, Larimer
county, Walter II. Hainey, vice II. {.
Cradle. resigned.
The Alamosa National Bank Of Ala.
mosa has been authorized to begin
business with a capital of $4,000. c.
Nallrich is president. Fred Grooming
ana Wesley Staley, vice presidents.
and W. II. Mallett, cashier.
Mrs. Mary Nen OF Denver committed
suicide at Victor on the sth inst b.
shooting herself through the head. She
was despondent because of the death
of her daughter, Mrs. Forrest BabcocA,
| that morning from blood poisoning.
The Mesa County Fruit Industrial
Association met at Grand Junction on
the 9th inst. and voted to increase its
capital stock from $3.50 to 5000.
The grounds will be improved in prep
aration for greater fair next fall.
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
postoffce.
Benjamin and Earl Tucker OF Colo
| RADIO Springs and Austin Tucker OF
Denver, sons of j. T. Tucker, the res.
taurant man OF Colorado Springs and
! the far North to hunt for the rare ami
| mails tknt inhabit the Arctic circle.
The Pueblo Business Mems Associa-
ton has prepared a catchy postcar
| 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.
The City Council of Black Hawk has
extended the franchise of the Gilpin
| County Light, Heat and Power Com
pany for ten years. This is the COM
parry which was reported to have sole
| out to the Colorado Central Power
| Company for over $500, 900, local stock
holders denying the report.
The proposed erection OF several
| new dumps by the Holly-Swink factory
| for handling the crop of 1907 is e1.
pected to give considerable impetus
to the beet growing industry in the
Pue bio district. Based on contracts al
ready closed, the district will furnish
about 1000 acres for growing beetS
| this year.
| A Farmers institute will be held at
| Greeley Friday and Saturday, Febru
AIRY 22d and 23d. Professors Carlyle.
| Paddock. Bennett, Olin and Cottreu
will be in charge. The subjects thai;
will be the use of water for irrigation.
selection of seed grains and alfalfa.
stock feed and breeding and diseases
OF potatoes.
| L. B. Morrison. superintendent OF
tke Clipper mine, on London mountain,
| near Alma, was caught and killed In q
snowslide on Thursday, the 7th inst.
| Morrison was on his way down FROM
| the mine with samples of ore from
new strike when the slide started. He
struggled hard, but was covered by the
J slide and suffocated.
! Conductor j. Brown of the Florence
| & Cripple Creek railroad reports run
ming into and scattering band Of nine
mountain sheep which were quietly
| browning along the track at a point
| below Adelaide. In making their es
| cape big ram became entangled by the
| horns in the guy wires of the telephone
| poles. The sheep, fine specimen,
| was released unhurt by the train crew.
The Fort Collins Chamber of Com
| merce has agreed upon an energetic
| campaign for the benefit of Fort Col
| lins and the Cache La Poudre valley.
| ouI ttdUlS Vi SpINllols. tdCH
| six members, captained by an officer
| appointed by the chamber, have been
designated to canvass the city and sur.
rounding country for the purpose OF
raising fund Of $1,000 to be used in
| advertising.
1t is announced that work is to be
continued at the Minnequa works, Pu-
| eblo, on the construction of the new
| merchant mill. This mill will be a
| quarter of a mile long and 2S0 feet
| wide, being the largest building under
| one roof, with one or two exceptions,
| IN the United States. The manufac-
| ture of all kinds of structural steel
| for buildings and viaducts will be enc
| of the chief industries carried on in