The Holly chieftain., 1909-11-05
COLORADO NEWS

sent from the Denver hatchery to be
placed in South Boulder creek. An
other consignment went to Frazer
river. in Grant county.
A condemnation suit was started ON
| the 2Sth ult, by the Denver, Laramie
& Northwestern railroad against fif-
| teen property owners along the right
of way between Greeley and Evans.
The Windsor National Guard com
pany has organized under the super
vision of state officers. DR.. ]. II.
Shane is captain, Emmett Fuller, first
lieutenant, and DR.. N. J. Miller, second
lieutenant. About thirty men have
been mustered in and there will be
forty-eight on the roll call
The incorporation election at Limon
Monday passed off quietly, not more
than twenty-five per cent of the total
registration voting. The vote was
forty-two for incorporation and five
against it. One year ago last June
ninety-eight votes were polled and the
majority against incorporation was
two.
The county of Ell Paso has con-
structed sixty-eight bridges during
the summer. ranging from fourteen to
140 feet in length. Much progress has
also been made in making and re-
pairing county roads, in addition to
the work being done in cooperation
with the state in the new highway
between Colorado Springs and Canon
City.
From forty acres of new land east
Of the new town Of Zeta, in Weld
county, T. j. Latch has taken 5000
sacks of potatoes, 1900 sacks OF
which contain potatoes each weigh
ing not less than two pounds. The
crop is considered remarkable for
quality and size and sixty sacks will
be sent to the irrigation congress in
Chicago next month.
The convention to consider Colorado
immigration and tourist rates, called
by Governor Shafroth, will meet in
Denver November 18th. The conven-
tion will take up the matter Of secur-
ing a $25 round trip rate from Chicago
to Denver and Colorado common
points during the tourist season and a
| colonist one-fare rate that will be low
enough to attract more homeseekers
to the state.
A great scarcity of laborers is re-
| ported from the irrigation construc-
ton camps in northern Colorado. Con-
slant demands are being made upon
the Denver employment agencies but
| the calls for men cannot be met. This
scarcity is due to some extent to the
wholesale desertion of the laborers to
help gather the fruit crops. This is
much more profitable work while it
lasts, and many of the men employed
upon the irrigation projects have
sought employment as apple pickers.
At recent meeting In Montrose
Carmon Layton of Denver and B. A.
Lockwood, Jr., of Des Moines, Ia, who
are promoting the Paradox Valley rail
road, said they had most favorable as.
surance as to financing the road, and
that prospects of it's early building
were bright. Mr.. Layton said al, that
is needed for the actual construction
Is the disposal of a certain amount
of capital stock to the people of Mont.
rose county.
The New York Tribune will soon re.
ceive a memento of Greeleys early
days, in an adobe, sull-baked brick
taken from the old Greeley Tribune
office, built In 1870. now being torn
down. In this building was published
for thirty-three years the newspaper
of which N. c. Meeker, former agri
cultural editor of the New York Trib
une, was editor. Horace Greeley also
contributed to the Greeley paper. The
New York Tribune first proposed the
founding of the colony.
The Grand Junction City Council has
fixed the tax levy for the coming year
at 81 mills, an increase of approx.
mately 25 per cent over the levy for
this year, which was 25 mills. This
is the highest rate in Grand Junction Is
history. The assessed valuation, over
$1,5OO.OOJ, is likewise the largest on
record.
Pinned under the wreckage OF an en-
gine when it turned over, John H. Du
ane, an engineer on the Midland Ter
minal railroad, was so badly scalded
by escaping steam on the goth ult
that he died six hours later at the
Sisters hospital The accident oc
Cured at Cameron, five miles from
Cripple Creek.
An experiment to test the value OF
Colorado grown feeds, for which the
General Assembly made an appropri.
alton of 100000, was set on foot at
Colorado Agricultural College a few