Gilpin observer., 1908-07-23
COLORADO ITEMS


tons of Morgan and Logan counties
on Saturday, the 18th inst.
Thursday afternoon is set apart as
a 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 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 $4,000
building will shortly be constructed.
Calvin Madison, who was drowned
on the 14th instant in the Gunnisun
river near Delta, was member OF
the Knights of Pythias lodge at Gree
ley.
The Burlington railroad paid the
treasurer of Morgan county S11,4oO
taxes a few days since, being the larS-
est payment ever received at the Of
flee.
City free delivery will be established
at Salda October 18th, with three
regular carriers and one substitute,
and twenty-fou letter boxes are to be
installed.
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
M Edelstein.
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 $400 a ton.
Glenwood Springs has new ce-
ment factory which is turning out good
material and a number of Iew cement
block houses are under way, the first
one being nearly completed.
William Ash is reported to have
made a 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 eXcur-
sions offered are expected to be the
biggest yet"
In 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.
Judge NJ. 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 IN
operation at Greeley in a few days.
conducted by company composed or
Greeley business men and capitalized
at $4,000. Seventy-five farmers nave
given orders for wagons.
The socitl science department of the
Woman's club of Denver has estab-
lished a loan fund from which smal'
amounts will be lent to the d serving
poor notes and securities being taken
whenever possible. The Initial
amount of the fund is 800.
Elias Valdez, aged twenty-one, OF
Capulin, Conejos county, was killed on
the night of July 14th by lightning
There was a small hole in the top O.
his head, the lightning in its course
had burned out his tongue. and there
was a jagged hole in his abdomen.
Robert Davis, resident of North
Park, arrived in Boulder Saturday,
having made 110-mile tramp across
the mountains in a little over three
days. Mr.. Davis is eighty-four years
old but suffered no i'll effects from the
trip and was on the streets as spright-
ly as ever.
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. 1t Is announced
that the company will build this line
as soon as possible.
On Saturday, the 18th inst, for the
first time in twenty-five years, the
Johnstown district was swept by a
hailstorm, injuring fields in a strip of
country twenty miles long by four
miles wide. The storm started in
Spring canon, on the Poudre, and
Travelled in southeasterly direction
through the Fossil creek valley.
J. D. Gwyn, the new chief engineer
of the Rio Grande, left Denver
Wednesday for a 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 Grande 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