The state herald., 1909-11-19
STATE NEWS ITEMS

continue the construction OF the Moi
fiat road west into Utah next spring.
]. E. Wood has been appointed as.
sistant secretary of the Colorado Pris.
on Association. He was formerly gen.
eral secretary Of the organization for
New Mexico.
Governor Shafroth has appointed
Mrs. Sarah Plat Decker of Denver
delegate to the National Civic con.
gress which is to be held in Carnegie
hall. New York City, December 10th.
Former State Senator Platt Wicks
died at his home In Pueblo on the 18th
inst. after long illness. having suf-
fered for the past ten years from
paralysis.
A large silk flag has been presented
to the Montrose High school by the
Grand Army and Woman's Relief
Corps. The flag will be floated con-
stantly over the school.
More than 500 milk venders' licenses
have been issued by the Denver fire
and police board since the passage of
the new milk ordinance. On the aver
age 80 applications day have been
made to the board.
Through freight service will be es-
tablished December 1st between Den
yer and San Francisco via the Denver
& Rio Grande and Western Pacific. On
the same date through freight service
will be established from st. Louis and
the East to San Francisco via the Mis-
souri, Pacific through Pueblo, in con-
nection with the above named roads.
The Denver & Rio Grande Railroad
Company has acceded to the demands
boilermakers, and an increase in pay
of three cents per hour, or twenty
seven cents per day. has been granted,
effective November 1st. The men will
be paid on their next pay day for No
venber, according to the new sched-
ule.
Another increase has been made in
the price of milk at Cripple Creek
and now the consumers get only eight
quarts for dollar in the place of ten.
Hereafter no cream will be sold in
the city by dairymen, as a recent ordi-
nance forbids the sale of SKINNED
milk and dairymen say they will not
skim milk for cream and throw the
milk away.
F. A. Maxwell. mining engineer. has
been notified by the state engineer
that he was the successful bidder for
construction Of the road around
Green lake. six miles above George.
town. and work has begun. When
completed the road will be six miles
long and Naylor lake. one of the beau
ty spots OF Colorado. and full OF .ish,
can be reached by wagon.
Careful estimates compiled from re-
ports on sales of trees made by vari-
Gus nursery companies are said to in
dicate that at least $500 acres Of new
orchard will be planted in Montrose
county next spring. A large part OF
the acreage will be in the west end
of the county. where the completion Of
a number OF small irrigation projects
will bring several thousand acres OF
fruit land under cultivation.
Mrs. Ella Palmer. mother OF the
wife OF former Judge Charles d. Hayt,
the only woman. with one exception.
who went to the front with the Con.
federate army. died on the 7th inst. at
the Boulder sanitarium at Boulder,
where she had been n patient for five
months. With another woman. be.
lieved TO have died several years ago.
Mrs. Palmer organized the hospital
corps of the Army OF the Tennessee.
Wednesday. the llth inst. was pay
day in the Cripple Creek district and
IL is estimated that over s350.000 was
paid to men employed In the mines.
mills and sampling plants. The books
OF the Cripple Creek Mine Owners a
Operators Association show between
$500 and $500 members at work. and
with the average daily wage scale. In.
cluding that paid machine drill men
and shift bosses. s3.iO per day. the cs.
innate OF the amount distributed. is
conservative.
The reconstruction of the Ciln
House in Manitou sees the passing
OF the old original house. which was
erected In 1874. and came into posses.
sion OF the late L. L. Nichols two
years later. being under the manage
ment OF his son. Il. 4. Nichols. for the
last thirty.throc years. The Cllff viii
be. when completed. the largest resort
hotel In the state. having In nil 200
rooms and Sc private baths. II
viii have u frontage OF 40 feet and
viii be four stories high.
II Is stated that coal lands aggrogat
ing In value 100000 are being sold
by the Palmer estate. Colorado
Spring men. backed by eastern oapi.
tallsts. are said to have secured six.
months option on about 5000 acres
north and oast OF the city along the
Rock Island right OF way and compris.