The Lamar register., 1909-11-17
STATE NEWS ITEMS

continue the construction of the Moi
flat road west into Utah next spring.
j. E. Wood has been appointed as
sistant secretary of the Colorado Pris-
on Association. He was formerly gen.
eral secretary of the organization for
New Mexico.
Governor Shafroth has appointed
Mrs. Sarah Platt Decker of Denver
delegate to the National Civic con.
gress which is to be held in Carnegie
hall. New York City. December 10th.
Former State Senator Plat Wicks
died at his home in Pueblo on the 18th
inst. after long illness. having suf-
fered for the past ten years from
paralysis.
A large silk flag has been presented
to the Montrose High school by the
Grand Army and Woman's Relief
Corps. The flag will be floated con-
stantly over the school
More than 500 milk vendors licenses
have been issued by the Denver fire
and police board since the passage Of
the new milk ordinance. On the aver
age 80 applications a day have been
made to the board.
Through freight service will be es-
tablished December LIST between Den
yer and San Francisco via the Denver
& Rio Grande and Western Pacific. On
the same date through freight service
will be established from ST. Louis and
the East to San Francisco via the Mis-
souri, Pacific through Pueblo. in con-
nection with the above named roads.
The Denver & Rio Grande Railroad
Company has acceded to the demands
of its blacksmiths, machinists and
boilermakers. and an increase in pay
of three cents per hour. or twenty
seveh cents per day. has been granted.
effective November LIST. The men will
be paid on their next pay day for No
vember. according to the new sched-
ule.
Another increase has been made in
the price of milk at Cripple Creek
and now the consumers get only eight
quarts for a dollar in the place of ten.
Hereafter no cream will be sold in
the city by dairymen, as a recent ordi-
nance forbids the sale of SKINNED
milk and dairymen say they will not
skim milk for cream and throw the
milk away.
F. A. Maxwell. mining engineer. has
been notified by the state engineer
that he was the successful bidder for
construction OF the road around
Green lake. six miles above George.
town. and work has begun. When
completed the road will be six miles
long and Naylor lake. one of the beau
ty spots OF Colorado. and full Of fish.
can be reached by wagon.
Careful estimates compiled from re-
ports on sales OF trees made by VAR
Gus nursery companies are said to in
dictate that at least $500 acres Of new
orchard will be planted in Montrose
county next spring. A large part OF
the acreage will be in the west end
OF the county. where the completion NJ
a number of small irrigation projects
will bring several thousand acres OF
fruit land under cultivation.
Mrs. Ella Palmer. mother Of the
wife of former Judge Charles ID. Hayt.
the only woman. with one exception.
who went to the front with the Con-
federate army. died on the 7th inst. at
the Boulder sanitarium at Boulder.
where she had been a patient for five
months. With another woman. be-
lieved to have died several years ago.
Mrs. Palmer organized the hospital
corps of the Army of the Tennessee.
Wednesday. the 18th inst. was pay
day in the Cripple Creek district and
st l.,
paid to men employed in the mines.
mills and sampling plants. The books
Of the Cripple Creek Mine Owners &
Operators Association show between
5000 and $500 members at work. and
with the average daily wage scale. in
GLIDING that paid machine drill men
and shift bosses. $40 per day. the es-
innate of the amount distributed. Is
conservative.
The reconstruction of the Cliff
House in Manitou sees the passing
of the old original house. which was
sion of the late Z. E. Nichols two
years later. being under the manage
ment of his son. L. E. Nichols. for the
last thirty-three years. The Cliff will
be. when completed. the largest resort
hotel in the state, having in all 200
rooms and sc private baths. 1t
will have a frontage of 40 feet and
will be four stories high.
1t is stated that coal lands aggregat-
ing in value 100000 are being sold
by the Palmer estate. Colorado
Spring men, backed by eastern capt.
talists. are said to have secured six
months option on about 5000 acres
north and east of the city along the
Rock Island right of way and compris-
ipg the ranch owned by the late Will
liam ]. Palmer near Austin Bluff and
lands belonging to the Colorado
Springs Company of which Palmer
was the principal stakeholder.
The County Commissioners of Pueb
10 county estimate that $4,000 dam
age was done roads and bridges by the
storms of last summer. 1t is serious
because 1t is nearly double the