The Springfield herald., 1909-11-12
STATE NEWS ITEMS


yer Aolton Of Bradyville. Iowa. The
ranch Is valued At $4,000.
After two years of experimenting. the
Colorado Vanadium Company has been
organized at Boulder and is now pro-
ducing vanadium of high grade in COM
mercial quantities, bringing ore from
San Miguel county.
A number of Norwegians in north
ern Illinois have taken an option on y
tract Of land In Beaver Park, Fremont
county. and propose to establish col
ony for the purpose of engaging In
gardening and fruit raising.
Anticipating greater output Of
garden crop for canning purposes the
coming year, the Platteville Canning
Company will enlarge its factory. A
large warehouse with basement will
be erected to make storage room for
canned goods. The company also will
build large boarding house. This. 1t
Is thought, will solve the problem Of
help.
The county commissioners of Weld
county have fixed the general county
tax levy at 20 mills. out of which the
state gets Al mills and the general
school tax 3 mills. The Greeley town
tax is 81 mills and with other taxes
the levy on Greeley property for the
coming year Is 66 mills. In Evans
taxpayers will pay 81 mills. at Ault
Ills mills. in Eaton SO mills. and at
Windsor 68 mills.
Land seekers from Iowa startled a
band Of twenty-six wild antelope. feed
ing on the Purcell ranch in northern
Weld county a few days since, when
their automobile suddenly bore down
on the band. Eight years ago there
were few antelope on the plains. but
the game laws have had the desired
effect. Antelope now roam in the un-
settled districts In big bands and are
quite tam.
The Burlington railway has COM
pleted negotiations with the city OF
Denver whereby that line agrees to
build the subway under its double
track across the county road north
east of Riverside cemetery. The city
and Adams county will grade up to
either side of the track, expending
1000, on condition that the road dig
the subway and put in a superstruc-
ture for a 50-foot dirt roadway.
Mrs. Ella Palmer, mother of the
wife of former Judge Charles D. 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.
The reconstruction OF the Cliff
House in Manitou sees the passing
Of the old original house, which was
erected in 1874, and came into posses
sion of the late E. E. Nichols two
years later. being under the manager
ment of his son, E. 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
ro9ms and Sc private baths. 1t
will have a frontage of 410 feet and
will be four stories high.
Potato farmers in the Greeley dis
trict say that the matter of growing
and handling potatoes with profit has
become a storage proposition. Mem
bers of the Farmers club who have
been studying the potato question
say that unless conditions change
Greeley growers must hold their crop
through the fall. Storing the crop
would require extra expense, but the
added price received in the spring
will offset this. Practically three
fourths of this seasons potato crop
is now stored awaiting shipment
later.
Believing that the Zip and leg" dis
ease from which sheep in Wyoming
are said to be suffering is not the
same ailment which is causing sore
mouths among the lambs in Colorado
Just at present. and that for this rea-
son the government agents are wrong
in quarantining Colorado lambs on in
terstate shipments. DIR. Charles G..
Lamb, veterinary surgeon for the
State Stock Inspection Board, has
gone to Washington to consult with
DIR. A. D. Melvin, chief of the govern
ment bureau of animal husbandry.
j. S. McClelland, who died at Fort
Collins on the 4th inst, at the age of
N years, came to Colorado in 1872 and
after working as printer. in Denver
for some time started the Larimer
County Express. the first newspaper
ia Larimer county, in April 1873. In
1879 he quit newspaper work for farm
ing and fruit growing. For four years
Mr.. McClelland was member of the
state board of agriculture two years
commissioner of Larimer county
and two years postmaster at Fort Col
Inns. He was member of George H.
Thomas post, G. A. R., was two years
president of the state horticultural So
ciety and has been loyal worker in
the Patrons of Husbandry. being mas
te: of Pamona grange, ,Larimer county.
The Postoffice Department has ac-
cepted the proposal of John Nolan and
Lee Becker, administrators of the es-
tate of Jacob Becker, to lease the
present postoffice quarters at Cripple
Creek for three years from January
1, 1910, including equipment, heat,
light and water