The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-05-08

man, met in Denver MAY LIST and decid-
ed to ask jewelers. throughout the state
to submit designs for the service by
June lst and from the exhibits the com.
mittee will make selection 1t must
be a solid silver dinner set, to cost not
more than $4,000. plain but rich. and
each piece must bear the coat of arms
of Colorado. The maker of the design
selected must have the service finished
within thirty days after he has been no.
tilted
The Farmers and Merchants bank
of Evans has been ncorporat ed, capi-
taliZed at $l2,50O. John II. Behrens is
president.
A chapter of the Sons of the Ameri-
can Revolution has been organized at
Colorado Springs with membership of
fifty. Henry Trowbridge was elected
president
A company has been lncorpOrat"
for the purpose OF erecting mills in
Montrose, Ouray, Delta and Mesa
counties to manufacture alfalfa pro
ducts and other stock foods
The Farmers National Bank OF
Windsor has been authorized to begin
H.
Dickey is president, James NJ. Allan
vice president, and J. n. Akey, cash
ier.
The Rocky Ford National bank of
Rocky Ford. has been authorized to
begin business with $4,000 capital, F.
A. Hauck. president; G. W. Lewis. vice
president, and w. b. Vaudeville.
cashier.
The present high price of provisions
has made the boarding house keepers
life anything but an easy one A num-
Der of boarding houses for students at
the State University at Boulder have
been compelled to close.
A SOOdly number of COloradOans,
starting from Denver. are on their way
to Frankfort-On-theM Main, Germany, to
attend the international convention of
the Turnvereins. They chartered a
special car to Chicago
Ground was broken at Brighton May
lst for the Wilmore Canning factory,
which is TO cost $50 900 and employ 200
people. The factory will be ready for
this years crops
The Pueblo Business Mems AssOcia-
ton is making arrangements for a ce!e
Stove & Iron Supply Company plant.
The plant, which will manufacture
stoves and steel castings. will employ
800 to 100 men.
The Ruena Vista Hot Springs hotel.
together with the ground. $40 acres,
located five miles west of Buena Vista,
nave be"n purchased by New York
parties, the consideration being Sl5,
600 A water power plant aud trolley
line are contemplated.
a syndicate of Greeley and Erie
farmers purchased the Owl Creek res
ervoir. twelve miles northeast of
Eaton. from Representative Walter
Farr for 20.O0o. for the purpose OF
bringing 80. 900 acres Of rich land un-
der irrigation.
Maps have been filed at Greeley OF
Renslcy reservoir, twenty miles east of
Fort LuptOn in Weld county. II viii be
built as part of the Henrylyn system,
draw water from the South Plate and
have a capacity OF several million GU
bic feet.
An $4,000 macaroni factory. with a
capacity of 500 pounds daily Of thirty
varieties of food, will be established
r
anI the machinery, which has been or
dered from Italy, is expected 20 arrive
by May 18th.
A. B. Hulit, who is pushing the cleo
trical proposition known as the Kansas
Colorado Power q Railroad Company,
reports great meetings at Garden City
and Dodge City, Kansas. and that farm
t.rs and business men are greatly inter-
ested all alGng the line
r. II. Malone, receiver for the Fidel-
ity Savings Association of Denver has
completed ii deal for the sale of the
largest remaining asset Of that aSsoci-
alton, and secured an order from Judge
c. r. Bliss to dispose of the remain
ing Louisiana lands for 100000.
In the District Court at Wlay. May
1st. lafayette Allen was found guilty
Of lnurder in the second degree on the
charge Of shooting J. w. Barrett al
Laird last December. The occasion
was a family quarrel at the end of a
Christmas dinner.
A force of men has been SCI to work
on the Argentine Central railroad,
which ascends Mount Mcclellan above
Georgetown, TO get the road in shape
for operation. The road is practically
open now, most CT the snow Having dis.
appeared. 1t is intended to open pas
scngcr business June 1st.
Work is about TO be started to cs.
tabliSh camp near Starkvllie, Las
Animas county, for the convicts who
will build the state highway. Already
W ,rden Clcehorn has received over
itrat
want to help on the job. or these se",