Gilpin observer., 1907-09-26
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

in the three banks Of Longmont.
The ore tonnage for the Leadville
district in August reached $4,000 TONS
Forty acres of land planted to wheat
near Windsor thrashed 1,706 bushels
few days ago.
Six thousand nve hundred dollars
was paid recently for ten-acre tract
Of land near Fort Collins.
Montrose 10 to have a new pressed
brick plant. About $500 will be In
vested in the enterprise.
A Berthoud man has fourteen acres
of oats that average a 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.
sold his cattle at $40 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 a town
and the citizens say it will have double
years.
Ten acres of young apple orchard
recently sold for $4,000 near Clifton.
They come high. but think OF the re-
turns.
half pounds carried OF the prize for
the biggest specimen raised In Weld
county.
L. -h1 hat
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 So
a 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 180 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.
Grand jury indictments have been
coming thick and furious at the Fort
Collins during the past week and hard
ly a 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 q 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.
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 IL turned
into the valley.
The bees have been busy around
Greeley this summer. One man has
taken thirty-four tons of the sweet
stun 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 tho
thrashers. Can any state In the Union
show anything to approach this?
In a we'll near Grover. dug to
depth Of 160 feet, water rose to within
four feet Of the surface. Farmers there
there are jubilant over this. as they
are anxious to locate artesian wells.
The Empire ditch in Weld county
has been completed at a cost OF $780,
900. The reservoir has . capacity OF
1900 900 cubic feet OF water. The
ditch will irrigate 10000 acres Of land.
The fruit growers OF Delta are so
prosperous this year that they are go
ing to put some tens Of thousands of
dollars of their surplus cash into a
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.half
inches. It was just nve weeks from
the time the seed was planted until
the radishes were pulled.
District Judge Harry Gamble, at
Pueblo. this morning granted the petit
tiOu VI inc EdSteTu SOiOTduO tOWeT
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 $25.000.
but Mrs. Hanna c. Barker demands
100000.
George G. Briggs. ex-mayor OF Love-
land. Is having made at his expense
mammoth sign bearing the inscription
"Loveland Grand Canon" 1t will be
placed on the walls of the canon just
opposite the entrance. When II is