The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-07-24
COLORADO ITEMS

afternoon Of July 18th
Heavy rain fell in nearly all sec
tions of Morgan and Logan counties
on Saturday, the 18th inst
The Great Western Sugar Company
will construct warehouse for storing
sugar. which will double its storage
capacity at Fort Morgan
Gen. w. J. Palmer has donated a
building site for a Jewish synagogue
in Colorado Springs, and a 10000
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 $l1 400
taxes few days since, being the larg-
est payment ever received at the Of
flee.
City free delivery will be established
at Salida October 18th. with three
regular carriers and one substitute,
and twentyfour 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
NJ. Edelstein.
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 Pue bio.
1t is worth s4OO ton
Glenwood Springs has 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.
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.
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 of
Greeley business men and capitalized
at 100000. Seventy-five farmers nave
given orders for wagons.
The socitl science department of the
Woman's club of Denver has estab-
lished loan fund from which small
amounts will be lent to the deserving
poor. notes and securities being taken
whenever possible. The initial
amount of the fund is 500.
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 of
his head, the lightning in its course
had burned out his tongue, and there
was jagged hole in his abdomen.
Figures obtained from the headquar-
ters of the Colorado & Southern in
Denver show that the Denver e Inter
urban, the new electric line to Bou!-
der, carried 1888 passengers between
July st and July 18th. Ever since July
4th the Denver & Interurban has main,
tanned an hourly schedule.
Scott Truxton, inspector in charge or
the construction of the 125foot con-
crete bridge at Portland, Colorado, has
rendered his resignation to State En-
gineer Jaycox and will leave shortly for
San Juan, Porto Rico, to become chief
assistant to the superintendent of pub
lie works at San Juan, a position which
he held prior to his coming to Denver
Crystal park, comprising $50 acres
about two miles south of Manitou, the
recreation spot Of the late John Hay,
former Secretary of State, and in one
of the cabins of which he wrote his
Life of Abraham Lincoln" has been
sold by his widow, Clara S. Hay of Mer
rimack. New Hampshire. to Edison
Pearsall Wall street broker. The
price is stated at $25,0O0.
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
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.
Good progress is being made in the
big dam of the Eastern Colorado Pow
er Company at Barker Meadows, a mile
below Nederland, in Boulder county.
Two 70-ton steam shovels are employed
excavatins for the dam foundations and
four locomotives with dump cars are
engaged in carrying away the earth