The Colorado statesman., 1907-02-16
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Colorado Springs Masons have ap-
pointed a committee to secure a site
and specifications for a Masonic build
ing TO be constructed soon.
Expert oil well drillers from Flor.
ence will drill number of wells nea,
Mcntrose for company in which Fire.
mont county men are interested.
The comptroller of the CURRENCY has
approved the conversion of the Bank
of Buena Vista into the First National
bank OF Buena Vista, with $4,000 capt
tai
An Elks' temple is to be erected al
Grand Junction to cost $4,000 or up
wards. 1t will be 5Ox125 feet in sis4
and three stories high. Work will be-
gin on it Soon
A large number of Colorado Shrin-
ers are preparing to go to the conven-
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. j. Baird, dead; Waverley. Larimer
county, Walter H. Hainey, vice II. c..
Cradle, resigned.
The Alamosa National Bank of Ala
mosa has been authorized to begin
business with capital of $685. 900. C.
Wallrich is president, Fred Grooming
and Wesley Staley, vice presidents,
| and w. H. Mallett, cashier.
Mrs. Mary Neff of Denver committed
suicide at Victor on the Sth inst. by
| shooting herself through the head. She
was respondent because of the death
of her daughter, Mrs Forrest Babcock
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 $4,000 to $35OOO
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
postoffice.
Benjamin and Earl Tucker of Colo
rado Springs and Austin Tucker of
Denver, sons of ]. T. Tucker, the res
taurant man of Colorado Springs and
Denver, are preparing an expedition to
the far North to hunt for the zere ami
mails tkat inhabit the Arctic circle.
The Pueblo Business Mems Associa.
tion has prepared a catchy postcard
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 sold
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 ex-
| pected to give considerable impetus
to the beet growing industry in the
Pueblo 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
| ary 22d and 23d. Professors Carlyle,
| Paddock, Bennett, Olin and Cottrel)
will be in charge. The subjects that
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
thS Clipper mine, on London mountain
i No A A1ytna rl,t LIN 1nI g,
snowslide on Thursday, the 7th inst.
Morrison was on his way down froE,
the mine with samples of ore from q
new strike when the slide started. He
| struggled hard, but was covered by the
slide and suffocated.
| Conductor ]. 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 eu.
cape big ram became entangled by the
horns in the guy wires of the telephone
poles. The sheep, a 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
Inns and the Cache La Poudre valley
Four teams of solicitors, each having
six members, captained by an officer
appointed by the chamber, have been
designated to canvass the city and sur
rounding country for the purpose oi
raising fund of $4,000 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 $50 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 one
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