Rocky Ford enterprise., 1908-07-31
COLORADO ITEMS

valuable timber.
There was n very heavy rain and
hail storm at Colorado Springs on the
afternoon OF July 18th.
Heavy rain fell in nearly all sec
tions of Morgan and Logan counties
on Saturday, the 18th inst.
Steps are being taken to form
Farmers union at Fort Morgan. This
organization is backing an independ-
ent sugar factory for North Fort Nor
gan.
The cornerstone Of the new Jewish
temple at Pueblo was laid on Sunday,
the 18th inst The honor of laying the
stone was sold at auction and went to
NJ. Edelstein.
County Surveyor Youngquist of Nor
gan county has Just completed map
of the county, giving all the irrigation
districts. as well as those which are
contemplated.
The Fort Morgan Commercial Club
has decided to employ ndscape ar
tist to investigate different tracts un-
der consideration for a public park
and push the matter to completion.
The following new postmasters have
been appointed: Stratton, Kit Carson
county, Joseph A. Smith, vice w. Il.
Smith, resigned: Sugar City. Otero
county. Thomas w. Butler, vice w. F.
Tarpox, resigned.
Street signs and house numbers are
being placed at Fort Morgan and
large force Is at work on cement cross
ings. In a few days the council hopes
to be able to meet the requirements
for free city delivery of mail.
The state game and fish commits
sioner's office has recently stocked
streams and lakes in Middle park with
100000 trout and will distribute about
100000 more young trout before the
end of the year in the Grand river at
Hot Sulphur Springs and in the Fra
z;er river and Grand lake.
The state school fund. amounting to
S1i9,6S9 for the past six months. has
been apportioned pro rata to the sew
eral counties OF the state. The total
number Of school children In the state
is 2O7,573. against 2O0,411 six months
ago. Nearly 1000 of the increase Is
shown In the city Of Denver.
Theswill OF Henry Schneider, n pio-
neer brewer OF southern Colorado. was
probated at Trinidad July 22nd. The
value of his property Is fixed at $780,
600. OF which $l.70O has already been
paid to the state In the form OF an
inheritance tax. The remainder OF the
property Is left equally to his three
children.
Thirty.five men were put to work
July 22nd at Pueblo as car repairers
by the Denver & Rio Grande. bringing
the force up to 105 men. which is rs
large as that employed before the big
cut was made all over the system. The
men will work on heavy car repairs,
In the attempt to get many cars now
On storage tracks back into service.
!. Pumpkin Pie Day will be celebrated
In Longmont this year on August 18th.
The ladies OF Longmont will make H.
900 pies, and with the pies will be
81, 900 sandwiches and seventy-five
barrels OF coffee. With the festival
proper will be an Industrial parade
In which the farming interests will be
represented. In the evening there Will
be fireworks and a masked carnival.
David II. Moffat sailed from Europe
July 2lst on his return trip after a
brief visit to his daughter, Mrs. J. A.
McClurg. and his granddaughter. Miss
Marjorie, in Paris. The date Of his
sailing also chanced to mark his sixty
ninth birthday. and his relatives and
friends In Colorado kept the telegraph
and cable companies busy conveying to
Mr.. Moffat their messages Of congrat-
ulation.
A black coyote, the first of the kind
known, is attracting much attention
on the ranch OF A. l.. Camp, Jr., near
Greeley. II Is now three months old.
has the run Of the place and is quite
tame 1t was found Ia a litter of
young coyotes. but the others were
Of the ordinary color. The black coy
ote differs from the others In no way
except in color. 1t has been named
Mascot"
The Empson Packing Company Of
Longmont has made filing in the Of
flee of the clerk and recorder OF Boul
der county, on a reservoir site to be
filled with waters of Left Hand. Boul-
der and Dry creeks. The capacity Of
the reservoir is to be 75.5S2 900 cubic
feet and the water will be used for
irrigation purposes. The dam Is to be
twenty.six feet high and the estimated
cost is $4,000.
The farmers of the Sunflower val
ley in Las Animas county on July
23rd. held a monster picnic at Hoehne,
which was attended by $500 people.
The picnic was in the nature OF farin-
ers' institute and addresses were made
by Prof. Fl. NJ. Cottrell of the Colorado
Agricultural College and F. J. Birch.
president of the State Fair Associa-
ton. A special train was run from
Trinidad to the picnic grounds. 1t is
expected to make the picnic an annual
event.
Rapid construction work Is being
done on the Moffat road. Rails were
laid into Toponas July 23rd. and the
regular passenger trains will run to
that point after August 10th. Be-
tween Mccoy and Yampa the rails are
being laid without ballasting the track