Rocky Ford enterprise., 1908-07-24
STATE news items

Thursday afternoon is set apart as
| half holiday by the business men
Of Greeley during July and August.
The women of Greeley have under.
taken to furnish the new public library
| which will be completed by September
| lst.
The Great Western Sugar Company
will construct a warehouse for storing
sugar, which will double its storage
capacity at Fort Morgan.
Gen. W. ]. Palmer has donated a
building site for Jewish synagogue
in Colorado Springs. and a 100000
building will shortly be constructed.
Calvin Madison, who was drowned
On the 14th instant in the Gunnison
river near Delta, was a member of
the Knights OF Pythias lodge at Gree
ley.
The Burlington railroad paid the
treasurer of Morgan county $n,4OO
taxes a few days since, being the larg-
est payment ever received at the Of
flee.
A vein Of lithograph stone four feet
thick has been found at Turkey creek
near Pueblo. The stone is of good
quality. and has been used in Pueblo.
1t is worth $4OO ton.
Glenwood Springs has a new ce-
ment factory which is turning out good
material and a number of new cement
block houses are under way, the first
one being nearly completed.
William Ash is reported to have
made rich strike of graphite ore.
sixty per cent. pure. between Grape
and Texas creeks. in Fremont county.
The vein is eight inches wide and is
continuous.
The midsummer meeting OF the
Colorado Editorial Association will be
held at Canon City August 10th and
11th. The entertainments and eNcur-
sions offered are expected to be the
biggest yet"
In a few days the Rock Island will
bring twenty more car repairers from
Roswell to Pueblo. The Rock Island
has established car shops in Pueblo
In the last few months. which equal
almost any in the West.
II is expected that January I, 1909.
the Moffat road will run into Steam
boat Springs. The road IS now cont
pleted beyond McCoy's and a new con-
tract will be let on the first OF the
month TO complete the road nearly 20
Steamboat.
Judge n. s. Bailey OF Canon City.
decided that the injunction suit TO re-
strain the county commissioners OF
Pueblo county from going ahead with
the building Of the new county court
house. was without merit and dissolved
the injunction.
A factory for the manufacture of
the Carr beet dump wagon will be III
operation at Greeley in few days.
conducted by n company composed OF
Greeley business men and capitalized
at $4,000. Seventy-ive farmers nave
given orders for wagons.
The socItl science department Of The
| womnn's club OF Denver has estlb-
iished n loan fund from which small
amounts will be lent to the dsserv ng
poor. notes and securities being taken
| whenever Iossible. The initial
amount of the fund is 800.
Elias Valdez. aged twenty-one, OF
Capulin, Conejos county, was killed on
the night of July 1ith by lightning
| There was a small hole in the top OF
his head. the lightning in its course
had burned out his tongue. and there
was a Jagged hole in his abdomen.
The contract for building the Pueblo.
! Florence and Canon City lines OF the
Colorado-Kansas Power and Trans
mission Company. has been awarded
to the Northern Electric Company OF
Madison. Wisconsin. II is announced
that the company will build this line
rs soon as possible.
J. d. Gwyn. the new chief engineer
OF the Rio Grande. left Denver
"Wednesday for general tour of In
spection of the road in company with
General Manager A. c. Ridgeway and
General Superintendent A. E. Welby.
| The Western Pacific will soon be com
pleted and the Rio Granis system will
be put in the best shape possible TO
| make the connection perfect.
Among the new features at the State
| fair at Pueblo next fall will be scholar
ships to boys and girls under twenty
one who prove to be the best judges of
live stock and cooking. respectively.
| President Burch has also announced
that he will erect press building to
be at the disposal Of the newspaper
men Of the state who visit the fair and
to be under the supervision Of the
Pueblo Press Club.
The first hearing before the State
Railway Commission has been set for
July 31st, when the complaint brought
by Congressman George W. Cook
against the Colorado Midland will
come up. The specific basis for the
charge was the shipment Of mangan-
ese ore from Leadville mines owned by
Mr.. Cook. Because Of the exorbitant
rate fixed by the road. he claims that
| the mines had to be shut down.
| Passengers on Denver & Rio Grande
train No. IA, running into Denver. a
few nights since were fortunate
enough to see lunar rainbow, a phe-
nomenon familiar enough in some
parts of the world. but extremely rare
| in the United States. The beautiful
spectacle was discovered as the train
was midway between Palmer Lake and
\ Castle Rock, and word was quickly