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


boxes of pears for S2.564.
There are deposits of over 100000
In the three banks Of Longmont.
The ore tonnage for the Ieadytlle
district In August reached $4,000 IONS.
Forty acres Of land planted to wheat
near Windsor thrashed 1,706 bushels a
few days ago.
Six thousand Ave hundred dollars
was paid recently for ten.acre tract
Of land near Fort Collins.
Montrose is to have a new pressed
brick plant. About $25.00o will be In
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 $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 1t 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 pne-
half pounds carried on the prize Nor
the biggest specimen raised In Weld
county.
Cimarron is showing oats that stand
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.
Grand jury indictments have been
coming thick and furious at the Fort
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 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 10 any QuarTied in
the world.
Montrose 10 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 $1,000.
Fifteen acres Of wheat near Long
mont yielded 1,lt9 bushels Of good
wheat. according to the report Of tho
thrashers. Can any state In the Union
show anything to approach this?
In n well near Grover. dug TO
depth OF lG0 feet. wnter rose To within
four feet OF the surface. Farmers there
there are jubilant over this. as they
are anxious to locate artesiau wells.
The Empire ditch In Weld county
has been completed at n cost OF $780,
900. The reservoir has capacity Of
l.C00.000 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 n
building from which to market their
product next ycar.
In the Crow Creek district they are
showing oats that run eighty bushels
TO the acre. Raised without irrigation.
Durum wheat running between thirty.
nine and forty.onc bushels to the acre
is also being thrashed.
Radishcs In the South Platte valley
have grown ranging In length from
twelve TO seventeen and oncbalf
inches. II was Just Ave weeks from
tho time the seed was planted uuli
tho radishos were pulled.
District Judge Harry = Gamble, at
Pueblo. this morning granted tho petit.
tion OF tho Eastern Colorado Power
Company In condemnation proceedings
10 take immediate possession Of III.
Barker ranch below Netherlands for the
construction Of u reservoir. Tn.
amount of damage win be fised by 4
Jury. Tho company orcfs $4,000.
but Mrs. Hanna c. Darker demands
100000.
Georg. G. Briggs. cY.mayor NJ Love.
land. In having mnde nt his expense n
mammoth nisn bearing tho inscription
'l.oycinnd Grand Canon" II will ba
placed on tho walls of tho canon junt
opposite thu entrance When n Ia