The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-08-07
COLORADO ITEMS

set for August 18th.
September 22d has been set apart
as Peach Day at the Grand Junction
fair.
1t is reported that this years crop
of apricots will be the largest ever
harvested in the Grand Valley.
The Berthoud Brick and Tile Com
pany has completed the delivery OF
100000 brick to the army post at
Fort Russell. near Cheyenne.
Joseph W. Burkhardt of Florence
has been appointed deputy state Oil
inspection. He is employed by the
United Oil Company and was candi.
date last fall for senator from Ere
mont county.
Edwin Gaylord, the well-known
horseman. who conducted the races
during the Interstate Fair at Over
land last year SO successfully, has
again agreed to be superintendent OF
speed events at the September meet
ing.
The Rifle Light, Heat & Power com
pany. organized by local men, has been
taken Up by home capital, the con-
tract let and electric power for light
ing and pumping purposes will be in
Rifle, under the terms of the contract,
by November /.
The State Normal Summer school
at Greeley closed the last of July. There
was a marked increase inattandace
over previous years. A large number
registered for nonresident work.
Twenty received diplomas and it is
now arranged that there will be grad
uations every term of the school year.
On Saturday July 31st the Master
Masons Of the grand Lodge of Colorado
laid the cornerstone of the new Sum-
init county $4,000 court house at
Breckenridge. The principal speakers
were former State Senator H. H. Eddy.
District Attorney James T. Hogan and
Hon. C. L. Westerman.
Two new divisions have been Great
ed in the agricultural department OF
the Colorado Agricultural college, the
department of animal husbandry and
Prof George E. Morgan was given
charge of the first and Prof. H. H.
Banner the second.
A forestry experimental station is
to be established near Lake Moraine
on Pixies Peak, according to present
plans. The government wishes to ex-
pertinent in tree culture at that alti-
| tude and is negotiating with the city
of Colorado Springs. which owns the
preserve, to the end that a station may
be established.
So large will be the exhibiting de-
! partment of the American Street and
lnterurban Railway association, meet
ing in Denver, Oct 4. that Fourteenth
street is to be rooted with temporary
building in order to get room for them.
The building will extend the length
OF the Auditorium. Temporary tracks
will be laid to transport cars and ma
chinery to the Auditorium.
The north heading of the Roosevelt
deep drainage tunnel in the Cripple
Creek district was advanced 319 feet
during July. When measurements
were taken by T. R. Countryman.
deputy United States mineral survey.
er. July 31st. the heading had been
carried 2.2SO feet north of the inter-
mediate shaft, a total distance from
the breast to the portal on Cripple
Creek of 1926 feet.
The state Prohibition party. through
its secretary of the state central COM
mittee, Jay B. Noble, wrote to the
attorney general requesting an ex-
! plantation OF the campaign fund law
/ The letter inquired what proportion of
the fund the party would be allowed
and what conditions were attached to
the distribution. A copy Of the law
was mailed to the questioners and
they will be forced to make their own
Interpretation.
The first steps toward the construct
ion OF 5O-ton reduction plant by the
Colorado Metal & Chemical company,
at the foot of Arapahoe peak in Grand
county. capable of handling not only
| ores Of gold, silver, copper, but also
of arsenic, sulphur. molybdenum, iron
and tungsten, were taken at Denver
on the I'd inst, when the stockholders
of the company in a special meeting,
authorized the issuing of 10000
worth of per cent bonds.
Westminster College is one Of Den
ver's youngest institutions of learning.
Two years ago the work of instruc-
tion was begun in the Central Pres
byterian Church, and last year the
college moved into its magnificent red
sandstone building, costing 5000, ,O00
This splendid building has been fur
nished and equipped for work and
with the opening of the fall term,
September Is, students will enter not
only from Denver and Colorado. but
from all the adjoining states. The
college offers instruction in all the
academic and collegiate studies. It
employs q full faculty of thoroughly