The Colorado statesman., 1909-03-27
STATE NEWS ITEMS

II. H. Tammen of the Denver Post
is building $4,000 residence on Cap
itol Hill in Denver. Envious contem-
poraries insist that it should be
painted yellow
The Denver, Laramie & Northwest
ern Railroad Company will purchase
forty acres of school land east of Den
yer for town site, the cost, it is said,
to be 5000 per acre.
Plans are being drawn for a par
ochial school to be erected for st. Jo-
seph's Catholic parish at Fort Collins
at cost of 100000 The great influx
of population, especially of beet work
ers, has created Il demand for a Cath
ole school.
Active work was begun on the 18th
inst. on the Greeley-Poudre Irrigation
system when engineers started final
surveys for the building of the Nc
Grew & Garfield reservoir and the eX-
tension of the Pierce lateral ditch east
ward.
The Pueblo Manufacturers Associa-
ton has made arrangements to pre-
pare an exhibit of Pueblo made goods
in a centrally located storeroom, to be
kept up several weeks in campaign to
have the people support home indus
tries.
Colorado Springs delegates to the
annual convention of the American
Federation of Musicians in Mime
apolis May 10th to 10th, will endeavor
to secure the projected national home
of that organization for Colorado
Springs.
The city of Kersey has issued bonds
in the sum of $4,000 at per cent in
order to take over from the STOCKHOLM
ers of the Kersey Lateral Ditch Com
pany its water stocks, to be used in
providing water for the lawns, trees,
etc, of Kersey.
The state convention of the Farm
ers' Educational and Cooperative
Union at Pueblo passed resolutions
condemning the delay of the Legisla-
ture in acting on needed legislation
and telegram to that effect was sent
to the proper officials in Denver.
Arrangements are being made by
the track management of the Univer-
sity of Colorado for several big track
meets during the approaching season.
Besides meets with Colorado College,
the School of Mines and other state
schools, it is possible that Colorado
will again meet Stanford.
The Colorado & Northwestern Rail
road Company has been notified by the
Eastern Colorado Power Company to
prepare for shipment of 100000 tons
of cement for the Nederland dam.
which will be handled at the rate of
about seven cars day. Shipments
will commence at once and a cement
train will make daily trips on the
mountain road.
The mine owners of Colorado whose
properties produce ores bearing zinc
and lead, intend making a strenuous
fight against the proposal to reduce
the tariff on lead and zinc, bullion. pig
and scrap. They claim that tariff re-
duction means an equal reduction in
the market price of those metals and
would spell ruin to many mine owners
of the West.
The Pueblo state fair directors have
decided to change the dates of the fair
from September 1918 to September
POPS, by request of fruit growers of
the Western slope who believe they
can make a better showing at the later
dates. They ask that one day of the
fair be known as Peach day, and one
grower has agreed to donate three car
loads of peaches to be given away to
visitors that day.
1t is stated that Frank Shercliffe
alias Morris in tho
at Canon City, has employed a lawyer
to appeal his case to the Supreme
Court. Shercliffe was convicted on
charge of numbering a Leadville sa-
loonkeeper fifteen years ago. On his
way to state prison he escaped from
Sheriff Bonner of Leadville, and was
few weeks ago brought back from
Minnesota where he was acquitted of
a charge of train robbing.
The largest mortgage ever given in
San Miguel county has been filed at
Telluride. 1t is for 100000, given by
the Japan-Flora Mines and Tunnel
Company and runs ten years.
1t covers the entire property
and is understood to have been
placed with the intention of commenc-
ing important development work. The
mine is owned by Philadelphia parties.
1t is close to the Tom Boy and Snug
glerUnion.
E. ]. futile has been appointed gen
eral freight and passenger agent of
the Argentine Central Railway Com
pany with headquarters at 314-15 Colo
RADIO building in Denver, vice C. A.
Johnson, resigned, effective April LIST.
The Argentine Central will open its
line from Silver Plume to the Waldorf
mine, Mt. Mcclellan and intermediate
points earlier this year than formerly
probably April 18th. and il is proposed