The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1908-04-16
COLORADO NEWS


900 for resurvey of ninety townships
of land in Rio Blanco and Routt coun-
ties.
Charles E. Cast, pioneer lawyer of
Pueblo, and one of the most prominent
lawyers of southern Colorado. died at
his home in Pueblo ON the Sth inst,
at the age of sixty years.
The President has appointed Pres
ton Holbrook postmaster at Black
Hawk, and Warren Geiger has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Bowen, Las Ami
mas county, vice A. L. Stream, re-
signed.
The Laramie, Hahn's Peak & Pa
cific has resumed grading from Cen
tennial, Wyoming, toward Walden, Col
orado, and it is announced that the
line will be built as far as Walden be-
fore Christmas next.
W. l.. Hoover has organized n stock
company at Boulder to manufacture
the new breakfast food, "Diastamyl.
that is being placed on the market.
The company is capitalized at $780,
900, and IS preparing to erect large
plant.
The application of II. Preston, J.
c. Hollanback, V. c. Davenport, Frank
Churcher and James b. Lazier TO Or
ganize the La Plata National Bank OF
Durango. with 100000 capital, has
been approved by the comptroller o,
the currency.
An order has been received by W. e.
Musgrove, proprietor of private lake
near Leadville. for large consign-
ment of mountain trout to be sent to
San Francisco for the banquet to ne
given to Admiral Evans and the Off
GERS of his fleet May Sth.
The Elks' club of Canon City has
won victory in the Supreme Court,
when the court holding that the city
authorities had no right under the To-
cal option law to close the buffet bar
of the club without first proving in
court that it is public nuisance.
Over 500 carloads of baled alfalfa
hay has left the Greeley district since
December list, representing returns of
over $4,000. The hay has all been
shipped south to New Orleans and
Atlanta. Georgia, and it is estimated
that 1000 carloads will have gone TO
market by June list.
Deputy State Dairy Commissioner
Girardet has completed a test of the
Soldiers Home dairy herd at Monte
Vista for tuberculosis, according TO
government requirements, and finds
the herd entirely free from tubercu-
lar disease. He has issued his GER
tificate to this effect to the commander.
The largest bridge in Weld county,
costing $780,. built by the county
and the state, the latter furnishing
$1,000, across the Cache la Poudre
river one mile east of Greeley. was
accepted by the state engineer and the
commissioners on the Sth inst. The
bridge replaces what was known as
the Oak Street bridge. built in 1870,
and is of reinforced concrete. with
united steel Orders.
Sheriff Monteith of Saguache county
removed the three prisoners in the
county Jail at Saguache to Chaffee
county for safe keeping while the new
Jail building has been erected. The
old jail in Saguache has been in use for
thirty years and is being torn down.
All the county bonded indebtedness
has been paid off and the commission
ers have inaugurated the policy OF bet
ter buildings and better roads
Secretary Teller has introduced
resolution directing the secretary OF
the interior to declare the line estab
lished as the thirty-seventh parallel
by the re-survey made two years ago,
the official boundary line between Colo
RADIO and New Mexico. The actual
status of several towns close to the
boundary can not be determined until
the dividing line is Officially accepted
by the general government and by the
state and territorial governments of
Colorado and New Mexico respec
lively.
In the local option elections in Colo
RADIO April 18th the anti-saloon element
won in the following named places,
voting the towns dry" Evans, Ar
vada, Platteville, Ault. Carbondale
Palisades, Englewood, Edgewater, La
fayette, Lyons. Wellington, johns
town and Hotchkiss. The following
towns went wet" Littleton. Buena
Vista. Steamboat. Manitou. North
Longmont. Sheridan. Lamar, George
town. Brighton. Morrison. Erie. Holly,
Granada. Glenwood, Gunnison, Louis
vile, Lakeside and Newcastle
Arrangements have been completed
for the laying Of the cornerstone of
the proposed $4,000 Masonic temple
at COLORADO springs curing tne nrSt
week of May. The ceremony will be
performed by Joseph A. Davis of Boul-
der, grand master of Colorado Masons.
and the entire grand lodge. as well as
prominent Masons from all parts of
the state will be present The work
on the foundation is now in progress
and 1t is expected that the building
will be finished by October 1st when
the dedication ceremonies will take
place.
Work is now progressing rapidly on
laying tracks for the new electric rail
way service into Denver. This is the
line which will give hourly service be-
tween Denver and Boulder. Eldorado
Springs and Intervening points. The
Colorado & Southern railway has built
the lines between Denver and Boulder,