The Holly chieftain., 1909-07-16
STATE NEWS ITEMS

La Junta's six saloons were closed
| at noon July Sth by order Of the dis
trict attorney.
The first box of Grand valley peaches
for the season was shipped from Grand
Junction by the Fruit Growers Asso-
citation on the 10th inst.
The new ten-story building that is
being erected for the Denver Gas and
Electric Company at the corner of
Fifteenth and Champa streets in Den
yer viii cost S5O0.0OO.
Potato Day in Greeley will be re-
vived this year and be one of the fea-
lures Of the big Weld county fair to
be held the first four days in Septem-
ber. Farmers will contribute potatoes
and mutton for the great feast.
Secretary Of State Pearce has ap-
pointed R. e. Croskey, secretary of the
State Federation Of Labor. as head OF
the Denver free employment bureau.
The assistant superintendent will be
Mrs. Louis Van Horn. prominent club
woman.
Tungsten miners at Boulder state
that not since the financial depression
has the outlook for the tungsten indus
/ try been 30 promising as at present
Plans are being made for extensive
improvements in milling facilities, with
/ other arrangements which will lead to
an activity only equaled when the
county was producing at the rate of
three.quarters Of million collars
worth Of the black metal per annum.
George H. Putnam. a mining en-
gineer OF Denver. who graduated at
the State School of Mines four years
ago. was murdered at Pilares. Mex.
July 7th. by Eleno Uriarte. police
man, who called him out of moving
picture show and shot him twice
through the body. Putnam was only
twenty-five years old and the only son
OF Mrs. F. c. Putnam, widow, who
resides in Denver, where his body will
be brought for interment.
Work is to be commenced at once
on the extension Of the tracks of the
Argentine Central railway from its
present terminus, the summit of
Mount Mcclellan, to Gray's Peak, a.
AL feet above sea level 1t Is be-
lieved that the line will be completed
by August goth. Next year a 100-
room hotel, an observatory, and
tower will be erected on the summit Of
Gray's Peak, and tourists will be af
forded a view Of grandeur embracing
400 miles of snow-capped mountains
and level plains
The county commissioners Of Lari-
| mer county are moving toward the
construction of a scenic highway
from Fort Collins to Estes Park, and
have appointed three men to accom-
pany the county surveyor over the
proposed route to determine the feasl.
bility and get an estimate of the cost.
1t is proposed to build the road by way
Of Spring canon over the divide to the
Redstone. through the Missouri canon,
connecting with the Loveland- Estes
Park road at the mouth OF the Love-
land Grand canon.
| To insure the minimum expense in
the experiments looking to the produc-
ton of radium at the School of Mines,
the Denver & Rio Grande and the Col
orado & Southern railroad companies
have agreed to haul all the necessary
ores free of charge to Golden from any
point on their lines. Preliminary ex-
perimehts in radium research are be-
ing carried on by Professors Fleck,
Miller and Haldane, and within few
weeks the actual work of reducing the
pitchblende or carnotite ores, from
which 1t is hoped to produce the pre-
cious substance, will be commenced.
Denver Republican says: 1t is stated
on good authority that the Denver &
lnterurban will extend its line from
Louisville to Lafayette. and from there
to Longmont, building something like
| twelve miles Of double track, one line
to be used for freight traffic and the
other for passengers. The Colorado
& Southern, owner of the electric line,
will by this cutoff shorten the present
line from Denver to Longmont, Love-
land. Fort Collins and Greeley over ten
miles and also eliminate the heavy
grade by way Of Boulder. The cleo
trio line will form a loop, going by
way Of Louisville and Lafayette to
Longmont and back over the Colorado
| & Southern to Boulder, Marshall and
Louisville Junction.
A permanent organization Of Colo
RADIO Republicans living in the city Of
Washington has been effected, with
Joseph Williams of Denver, president;
! Robert navidonn nanvar Saora.