Gilpin observer., 1908-12-10
COLORADO ITEMS

nShed In weld county.
A Chautauqua association has been
organized at Fort Morgan and a guar
antee fund of $4,000 will be raised.
Christmas dividends are to be paid
by Cripple Creek mining companies to
the total amount of more than SIPS 900.
The formal transfer of the Grove
reservoir site on Pixies Peak has been
made to the city of Colorado Springs.
Denver building permits for the
month of November amounted to $54S,-
200 This is a gain of S2O2,S45 over
November, 1907.
The new Carnegie library building
at Loveland was formally dedicated on
the night of the 3rd inst. The building,
ground and furniture cost $4,000.
William Llewellyn pleaded guilty to
killing deer at Canon City out of sea-
son in the County Court today and was
| fined $1O0 and costs by Judge Cooper.
1t is stated that Mayor Speer is plan
ming for municipal news weekly in
| Denver to contain reports of the va
| rious departments of the city govern
ment.
The Citizens Building and Loan
Company, capitalized at $4,000 in
1850 shares at 5000 each, has been
organized at Greeley and large num-
Der of shares sold
Miss Agnes McNair, formerly a
teacher in the Eaton high school and a
graduate of Denver University, has
been appointed to a position in the for
estry service at Portland, Ore.
In the District Court at Ouray on
the 5th inst, c. H. Gray and Kenneth
Mayes, who pleaded guilty 10 an at
tempt to rob the Bank of Ridgway,
were sentenced to five to six years
in the renitentiary.
1t is insinuated that there are baby
farms and midwives in Denver that
do a considerable business in selling
babies of illegitimate parentage and
that there is no small demand for such
children for adoption in childless fam
| lilies.
The Pawnee Buttes reservoir, twen-
ty-eight miles east of Grover, in Weld
county, and fourteen miles east of
Keota, is to be enlarged from 1000
600 cubic feet to 100000 cubic feet,
to water 5000 acres to be taken up un-
der the Carey act.
John G. Smart, official inspector for
the state railroad commission is salts
fled that the roadbed of the Moffat
read and the character and weight of
rails used render it safe to install
newer and larger type of engines,
such rs can be made useful on steep
grades with the greatest economy.
Construction of Denver's federal
building may be commenced at any
time after the present lease on the site
expires. February 1st. Congressman
Bonynge teleSraphs from Washington
that no extension of the lease is con
templated. He expects to secure an
additional appropriation during the
present session.
Mayor Speer of Denver is said to be
consulting with railroad authorities
with a view to having the railroads
running into the city cultivate every
waste spot of ground, grow grass, plant
trees and shrubs and have high walls
Of shrubbery running along the outer
edges of the tracks from the city linn
its close into the depot and to have
the depot itself beauty spot.
Filings were made here on the 5th
inst. for a reservoir site which is to
be constructed soon in the northeast
ern part of Las Animas county, to hold
nearly 5000, 0,000,0 600 cubic feet of wa
ter and cost about 100000. This will
reclaim a large tract twenty-five miles
from Trinidad. 1t is understood that
the company proposes to use electri-
city for power in prosecuting the work
of excavation and that the Southern
Colorado Power Company has the con-
tract.
Prof E. c. Lindemann of Boulder Is
said to be preparing a bill to be intro
duced by Senator-elect Cassiday in the
next Legislature which will provide for
state assayer and chemist, who will
test all ores offered and analyze fruit
products for adulterations, charging
therefor a nominal fee. Professor Lin
demann says the office will be self
supporting and at the same time pro-
vide the miners with the means, at a
trifling cost, OF ascertaining the value
of ore from a source which cannot be
suspected of prejudice.
The reclamation fund account aris-
ing from the sales of public lands in
Colorado for the fiscal year ended June
30. 1908, has been adjusted by the gen.
eral land office. The receipts from
the sales of public lands, from which
is deducted the five per cent. of agri-
cultural lands of $19,397.54 were $780,
G80.09, leaving surplus Of such mon
eys Of 1851 ,2S2.55. The receipts from
fees and commissions were $192.-.
S70.40. from which is deducted
2,533.04 paid to registers and re-