The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1908-12-12
COLORADO ITEMS


organized at Fort Morgan and a guar
>antee fund of 81 500 Will be raised.
Christmas dividends are to be paid
BY Cripple Greek mining companies to
the total amount of more than sl25,ooo.
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 10 s5is,-
200. This is a gain of s202.345 over
November, 1907.
The new Carnegie library building
at Loyeland was formally dedicated on
the night OF the Bird inst. The building,
ground and furniture cost $4,000.
William Llewellyn pleaded guilty to
killing deer at Canon City out OF sen
son in the County Court today and Wss
fined 500 and costs by Judge Cooy er-
1t is stated that Mayor Speer is plan
ming for a municipal news weekl5 in
Denver TO contain reports OF tha 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 mum
ber OF shares sold
Miss Agnes McNair, formerly
teacher in the Eaton high school and
graduate of Denver University, has
been appointed TO position in the for
estry service at Portland, Ore.
In the District Court at Ouray on
~
Mayes, who pleaded guilty to 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 iliegitimate 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 160, 600
600 cubic feet to 664 ,000,0 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
road and the character and weight OF
rails used render 1t safe to install a
newer and larger type OF engines,
such as 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 telegraphs 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 d 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 a 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, 900. 900 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 \ 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 q 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 q
trifling cost, of ascertaining the value
of ore from q 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
80. 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 we're $780,
6SO.09, leaving surplus of such mon
eys of 1851, 1,2S2.55. The receipts from
fees and commissions were $192.-
870.40, from which Is deducted
S42.533.o4 paid to registers and re-
ceivers OF the local land offices, leav-
ing a surplus of such moneys of $780,