The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-02-13
COLORADO NEWS

drill for oil at Fort Morgan, where oil
rock is in evidence.
Sr. Mary's hospital, at Grand juno
ton, the oldest one in the Western
slope, is to have a $4,000 addition.
Dr. George H. Slower has been
chosen dean of the faculty of the Med
ical college of the University of Den
YER
Herman Lueders of Manitou, former
secretary of the State Board of Capitol
Commissioners, died at Pueblo on the
7th inst
Snowslides interrupted telephone
communication between Durango and
Telluride from January 22d to Febru-
airy 4th.
Mrs. Russell Sage of New York has
given $4,000 toward building fund for
the Young Women's Christian Associa-
tion Of Colorado Springs
The Boulder oil field is still attract
ing great deal of attention and ar
rangements are being made to drill
large number of new wells
A special short course of ten weeks
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the Colorado College school of forestry
at Colorado Springs under w. ]. Nor
rill, deputy forest supervisor Of the
Pixies Peak forest reserve.
The new armory at Brush was form
ally opened on the night of the Sth
inst. by a military ball There were
many soldiers present from Fort Nor
gan and other militia companies. A
number of the state officers attended
from Denver.
Gus Olson, the engineer of the pas
senger train wrecked at Dotsero Janu-
airy 18th, left Grand Junction on the
Sth inst. for Los Angeles. where it is
said he is going to recuperate for
few months. He has steadfastly de-
clined to make any public statement
of his story of the wreck.
The State Commercial Association
has taken up the burden of procuring
suitable exhibits from Colorado for the
third Trans Missouri Dry Farming Con-
gress at Cheyenne February 23rd, cath
and s5th. The various commercial or
ganizations of the state are urged to
take part in the work.
The railway switch of Bracewell. be-
tween Greeley and Windsor, may be-
come the site OF town, as Ed II.
Brown has filed plat of Poudre City
for that locality, plating two blocks
Of fourteen lots each. About the switch
there has grown up small village,
which includes big warehouses and
elevators.
Secretary Garfield has refused to
sign the papers for the Grand Valley
High Line canal until the demands
made by the Rio Grande railroad are
modified. The dispute arises over the
question of the right of way near Pail
sades, where the line OF the canal as
surveyed runs through the railway
company's right-of-way.
Twenty-one members of the Denver
University football team were enter
tanned ON the night of the 4th inst at
a banquet at the residence OF w. c.
Johnston in Colorado Springs. The
young men were accompanied each by
a lady friend and the party travelled
in special car. Mr. Johnston, who
formerly lived near the University in
Denver, is a football enthusiast.
The Greeley canning factory wants
1,500 acres of peas for the coming sea
son and one-half as many acres of cab
bage and tomatoes. The needed acre
age is being rapidly pledged by farm
ers and the early crop Of peas will be
planted from the middle of March to
the first of April. Many acres of to-
matoes have been pledged in the vi
cinity of Platteville and Fort Lupton
and the cabbage acreage will be cas-.
lily secured.
The Greeley sugar factory. the Model
mills and the Greeley starch factory
have presented the Greeley CONNER
cial club with an exhibit of their pro
ducts showing the processes through
which the raw materials pass to the
finished products. The sugar beets
show eighteen processes before it be-
comes sugar. the potatoes eight pro-
cesses in the making of starch and
wheat requires twenty-three stages be-
fore being made into flour
A national park for Pueblo and
Custer counties in the Greenhorn
mountain range is projected by resi-
dents Of both counties. who will ask
Congress for an appropriation to main
tain It, The location is thirty-five
miles southwest of Pueblo on the
county line. Those who are back of
the scheme wish to have Congress set
aside the park twelve by fifteen miles.
The country has some of the most
beautiful mountain scenery in the state.
According to plans outlined by the
committee on public health and sani-
tation Of the Colorado Springs Char
ter convention, at public meeting,