The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1908-04-23

The following Colorado postmasters
have been appointed: Redstone, Pit
kin county. Joseph II. Wilson. vice
Joseph j. Smith. resigned; Cameron,
Teller county. Helen Rhodes vice B.
Chadomy. resigned
According to Albert Ross, architect
for the Denver public library. Turkey
Creek sandstone quarried thirty miles
west of Pueblo. is the best he has ever
found. being superior to the product
that is imported to New York at high
expense.
The first steel ties to be used in lay.
ing any extensive section of street
railway in Denver are now being put
down along Arapahoe street, from
Thirteenth to Twenty third, by the
Tramway Company in completing the
Denver & lnterurban electric line
from Denver to Boulder for the Colo
RADIO & Southern railway. The ties
are shaped like rails, but are not so
heavy. They will last much longeA
than wood.
W. d. Kaessner, who has been EN-
ployed for the last year by the Colo
RADIO Springs Electric Company at its
power plant, left Colorado Springs on
the llth inst. for San Francisco, where
he will join the American fleet on its
trip around the world. He will be as
signed to Admiral Evans flagship. the
Connecticut. as assistant to the chief
engineer He has already served four
years in the navy and has been in
every European harbor.
Tonight, says a Greeley dispatch OF
the 18th inst. to a Denver paper, 1855
carloads of sheep left the Northern
Colorado district for market There
are nearly So. 900 head. OF these seven
carloads are from the Greeley district,
and the remainder from points south
and west. Wednesday and Saturday
other sheep trains will follow from
this locality, making over 300 carloads
or $4,000 head to leave this district
for market With these cars $50 men
will go to look after the sheep.
Amid the greatest excitement the
Fort Collins Y NJ. c. A. on the night
of the l4th, just as the clock was strik-
ing II, succeeded in raising s30045 for
its fund, s45 over the amount required
The evening was one of much en-.
thusiasm. and at o'clock the teams
We're still $500 short of the total
amount. Then for three hours every.
body worked and at I o'clock the fund
was still $3.50 short. Judge Fred w.
Slower urged the folks to come up with
their funds, and jdst as the clock was
striking it was announced that the en-
tire sum and $45 over was raised. The
campaign was Il remarkable one and
teams of the members of the associa.
ton We'd with each other in securing
the money.
With the opening of the new Hotel
Boulderado, which has just been com
pleted, the city of Boulder believes il
will be entitled to prominent mention
among Colorado's summer resorts. The
new hostelry contains 100 rooms and
is located in the heart of the city, just
opposite the postoffice and Elks club
The hotel proper cost $150,000 and
$40, 900 is to be put into furniture by
Denver hotel men who are expected
to open it, The hotel was constructed
by the Business Mems League of
Boulder and has 200 stockholders
numbering many very prominent citi.
zens of Boulder. 1t will probably be
operated on both American and Eu.
ropean plan and has many balconies,
as we'll rs three corner roof gardens
1t will be ready for occupancy by
July list.