The Elbert County tribune., 1909-02-11
COLORADO ITEMS

Dr- Jonn Dayls hartley OF Sacr1-
mento, California. viii establish col
ony OF Dunkards in the Greeley dis
trict
DR.. George II. Slower has been
chosen dean OF the faculty OF the Med
ical college of the University Of Den
yer.
Herman Lueders OF Manitou. former
secretary OF the State Board OF Capitol
Commissioners, died at Pueblo ON the
9TH inst
Snowsfides interrupted telephone
communication between Durango and
Telluride from January 22d to Febru-
ary 4th.
Mrs. Russell Sage of New York has
given $500 toward building fund for
the Young Women's Christian Assocta
tion OF Colorado Springs
The Boulder oil field is still attract
ing a great deal OF attention and ar
rangements are being made to drill a
large number Of new wells.
A special short course OF ten weeks
for forest rangers has been started by
the Colorado College school of forestry
at Colorado Springs under w. ]. Nor
rill, deputy forest supervisor Of the
Pixies Peak forest reserve.
The committee of IS which is push;
ing the charter form of government
for Pueblo has decided to withdraw its
application to the city council for
special election. and will probably re-
quest that the matter come up at the
regular spring election.
The State Commercial Association
has taken up the burden of procuring
suitable exhibits from Colorado for the
third Trans Mlssouri Dry Farming Con
gress at Cheyenne February 23rd, Gath
and 25th. The various commercial or
ganizations of the state are urged to
take part In the work
More than 1900 men are now EN-
.zployed by the Eastern Colorado Power
= [dMpany on the great power project
on Middle Boulder creek. Most of the
force is, used on the trenches for the
gravity pipe line, which is twelve
miles long. extending from Nederland
reservoir to the Kosler forebay
1t is generally conceded that the
John d. Rockefeller interests control
the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company and
there is rumor of coming reorganiza-
ton. 1t is said TO be part of the plan
to double the capacity of the Pueblo
plnnt SO as to supply the entire west
ern territory and the Oriental export
trade.
The previous record OF 800 feet In 81
days in the driving OF the double track
tunnel in Pixies Peak granite in the
Cripple Creek district was eclipsed in
January by Superintendent James A.
McIlwee and his picked force OF ma
chine men and miners at the portal
heading of the Roosevelt deep drainage
tunnel and the new mark stands at 435
feet.
The American Machine & Manufac-
turing Company has been organized at
Boulder, the incovporators being J. H.
Wallace. w. E. Whitacre and r.
Lindemann. 1t will build the Linace
motor car. and in addition will do a
general machine and repair business
The company is capitalized at 100000
and will at once commence the erection
ef brick and steel building.
: Twenty-one members OF the Denver
University football team were enter
I tanned on the night of the Attn inst. at
"a banquet at the residence U w. c.
Johnston in Colorado Springs. The
young men were accompanied each by
lady friend and the party travelled
in special car. Mr.. Johnston, who
formerly lived near the University in
Denver. is a football enthusiast.
The Greeley canning factory wants
]. 800 acres of peas for the coming sea-
.son aud one-half as many acres of cab
bage and tomatoes. The needed acre
age is being rapidly pledged by farm
ers and the early crop of peas will be
planted from the middle of March to .
the first of April. Many acres of to-
fmntoes have been pledged in the vi
cinity of Platteville and Fort Lupton
and the cabbage acreage viii be cas-
lily secured.
The Greeley sugar factory, the Model
mills and the Greeley starch factory
have presented the Greeley CONNER
cial club with an exhibit of their pro
ducts showing the processes through
which the raw materials pass to the
finished products. The sugar beets
show eighteen processes before II be-
comes sugar, the potatoes eight pro-
cesses in the making of starch and
wheat requires twenty-three stages be-
fore being made into flour.
A national park for Pueblo and
Custer counties in the Greenhorn
mountain range is projected by resi-
dents OF both counties. who will ask
Congress for an appropriation to main
tain 1t. The location is thirty-five
miles southwest of Pueblo on the