The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1909-12-24
COLORADO NEWS

$S.47h on the Denver market, break
ing all records for high prices up to
that date.
Repairs on the Rio Grande Southern
having been completed, Telluride is
once more in direct railroad connec-
ton with Denver via Montrose.
After the first of the year every
doctor in the state must report to the
registrar of vital statistics in his dis
trict each birth which comes under
his observation.
William ]. Palmer post of the Grand
Army of the Republic has been organ
lied at Colorado City. the officers be-
ing formally installed by Department
Commander j. w. Wingate.
The new 100000 theater which
James T. Burns is about to erect at
Colorado Springs will produce The
Shubert bookings under contract for
the next five years.
The Colorado Springs Company is
taking steps to park forty acres OF
land lying between Wood avenue and
Monument valley park. The land is
valued at 100000 and is situated in
The. Rev. DR.. Kerr B. Upper. for
merly pastor of the First Baptist
church in Denver and pulpit orator
of note, has been lecturing throughout
the West, but will resume active pas
toral duty again next year. AT pres
ent he is in Philadelphia. 1t is his in
tention to continue his lectures this
winter and to enter a paStorate some.
where next fall.
DIR. ]. A. Lewis, former mayor OF
Manitou, has filed on all unappropri-
ated water rights on West Sutherland
creek, a mile and half west of Colo
RADIO City. and with associates has
started preliminary work on three res
ervoirs capable of developing $4,000
horse power. They will invest $125.000
and plan to eventually furnish Colora-
do City with water and power.
While at Denver few days since.
F. L. Harvey. secretary of the Wash
ington National Monument Society,
said that of all the states in the I'm
ion, Colorado. South Dakota and Ok
lahoma are the only ones not repre-
scented by tablet in the Washington
monument at the national capital.
Such a tablet could be placed in the
monument at cost of about $500.
The Grand Junction budget. ordi.
nance as adopted by the city commits
sioners appropriates over 100000 for
municipal expenses for the ensuing
year. This is an increase OF $4,000
over last years appropriation, which
was then the highest on record. The
question Of street paving and noun
tain water system confront the COM
missioners and the budget includes an
item of six months interest on a $780,
600 bond issue expected to soon be
made for the new water supply.
John Hopkins. the first man to drive
the famous pony express FROM st.
Louis to San Francisco, hero of ma
tional reputation in the terrible Chi
cago fire. and for thirty-two years one
of the best known prospectors and
hunters in Colorado, died few days
since at the Ell Paso county poor farm.
aged eighty-seven. Hopkins was born
in Illinois and came to Colorado in
home.
With record-breaking output this
year of 100000 bags of sugar, the fac
tory at Grand Junction, built ten years
ago by Colorado Springs capital. and
controlled by ]. R. McKinnie. K. P.
Davies and E. c. Sharer, all of Colo
RADIO Springs. will produce 100000
worth of sugar, net value. In order
to increase the output next year, the
tn ri
100000 in improvements and enlarge
ment.
N. L. Drew, general agent for the
Colorado Midland at Colorado Springs.
has made an estimate of the number
of tourists who visited Colorado
Springs the past season. His figures
are 125, 900, based on the fact that for
ty-four trains arrived daily during the
tourist season and that each train
brought fifteen tourists during the
month of June. thirty in July and Au-
gust, and ten in September. with an
additional 10000 tourists for the
month of October.
The recent appralsement Of the
properties of the Colorado Fuel & Iron
Company has developed the fact that
the company's assets amount to $780,
556,476, sum vastly in excess OF the
most sanguine estimate OF the man
agement before the appraisement was
made. The last total appraisemept,
made in 1880. showed valuation OF
properties $19.30S.327.40 less than the
figure at which the assets are now
put. The companys iron ore. coal.
limestone and other lands are now
valued at $5S.335,250, being the largest
item in the assets. Equipment at the
steel plant, coal mines and coke ovens
is worth $34.62O.31s.15, being the sec
ond most valuable item. The rail
roads owned by the company suffered
something of loss by the revalua-
ton. and are now appraised at $780,.
5S2.S4.
Following his recent confession of
guilt in the District Court at Canon
City, l.. E. Dawson, late deputy coun.
ty treasurer Of Fremont county and
former city clerk, was sentenced to
one to two years in the penitentiary
for embezzlement and altering public