The Elk Mountain pilot., 1909-05-20
COLORADO ITEMS

first used in railroad advertising west
Of the Mississippi, has been issued by
the Colorado Midland Railway Com
pany, descriptive of Colorado and the
territory tributary to the Midland.
A movement is on foot to consoli-
date all OF the commercial organiza-
tions in Pueblo. The plan is to have
one great organization. with about
1000 members. and to erect a mag
nificent building with club rooms.
The Sterling Municipal Civic League
observed cleaning up day May 10th.
and the town was thoroughly reno
waited. The work was under the d.
rection Of President Mrs. c. B. Tim
Davis.
The State University at Boulder will
graduate from all departments ap-
proximately 165 students June 9th.
Only 147 were given diplomas last
year. One degree of Doctor of Philos-
ophy. nine degrees of MA. and three
OF C.E.. while two persons will take a
Masters degree.
II. T. West. j. Max Clark. Robert
Steele. Ovid Plumb and b. d. Sanborn
have taken action to continue the cor
porate life OF Union colony at Greeley
for twenty years, made possible by
law passed by the last Legislature. 1t
is kept up to correct errors In deeds
and for the purpose of keeping sa-
looms out OF Greeley.
The F. f. Edbrooke Architect Com
aH IN
Capitol Managers at Denver plans for
a 100000 museum. which will prob
ably be erected in the civic center.
about Fourteenth and Acoma, oppo-
site the new public library. The new
building is extremely artistic and Will
be fitting companion piece to the IL
brary.
Word was recently received at Fort
Collins by DIR. George II. Glover. head
OF the veterinary department Of Colo
RADIO Agricultural College. that the de-
partment would be given class A rat
ing by the committee appointed to in
spect all schools. This will put the
college on a par with the best veter-
inaian institutions OF the United
States.
The Greeley Commercial Club will
ask SO from each of the big ditch
and reservoir companies OF Weld coun-
ty to help create fund to push bill
in the next Legislature to enlarge the
forest reserves at the head OF the
streams in Colorado. for the benefit
OF irrigation. The action was taken
following an address by Directors
Davis and Weld OF the Longmont Com
mercial Club.
Edwin A. Brown. a wealthy Denver
man. who Is interested In the estab-
lishment of municipal lodging houses.
visited Pueblo. represented himself as
a poor man out OF work and was cour-
teously received Mt the 'bull-pcn" and
given n nights lodging in what he af-
terward described to Mayor Fugard as
the most damnable place he had ever
seen outside OF Mexican prisons. He
believes that the Mayor will be sue
cessful In securing n municipal lodging
house.
The largest individual bond. as well
as ons of the most unusual ever filed
in the County Court at Colorado
Springs. has been recorded by George
Foster Peabody. Chase Mellen and
George A. Krause. all OF New York.
executors OF the Palmer estate. The
total bond is for Sc 400. 900. or double
the value OF the estate as estimated
by the executors. although the estate
will probably show values of more
than $5.000.O0O when the inventory is
filed.
Denver parties have leased the Jack
son Lake reservoir. east OF Greeley. for
$500 a year for the fishing privilege.
A seine 5000 feet long is drawn out
by four horses and the catch often be
ing over three tons OF fish. The les
sees get the carp and suckers weigh
ing more than two pounds. Trout.
bass. etc, must be returned to the res
ervoir. The captured fish are shipped
alive In big tanks to Denver where
they are placed in artificial ponds and
sold.
A Laramie. Wyo., dispatch Of the
11th inst. says: Field work on the
Walden extension of the Laramie,
Hahn's Peak & Pacific Railway was
resumed today. when A. J. Weston
and n party of surveyors went to AL
bany. the present terminus. to com
plete the survey for the line to Wal
den. Colo. about 10 miles from Lara
mie. The road is operated to Albany.
and is projected to Hebron. Colo. to
tap immense coai beds owned by the
Northern Colorado Coal Company.
Mrs. Sarah Morley, who settled in
Greeley in 1872. celebrated her eighty
sixth birthday at Greeley on the 18th
inst. She was the daughter Of Judge
Benjamin Raymond OF Norfolk. N. Y,
and the youngest of nine children, five
OF whom lived to be over eighty. In
1886 she went to Chicago to make her