The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-11-20
COLORADO NEWS

Inc assessed valuation OF FL PaSO
county is $22.265.24O, according to an
official statement issued by Assessor
! Schreiber This is $235.000 more than
last year.
The Southwestern Coal Company
has completed a switch to the Colo
ado & Southern road and opened its
nl'ne ne,I Aguilar. with fifty miners.
The force will be increased.
Former State Senator Platt Wicks
died at his home in Pueblo on the 11th
inst, after a long illness. having suf-
fered for the past ten years from
paralysis.
The Rev William Couden, son OF
the chaplain of the United States Sen
ate. has accepted call to the pasto-
rate OF the First Universalist church
at Colorado Springs.
At a recent meeting OF the direc-
tors of the Greeley Poudre irrigation
district it was announced that the
contract for the building Of the two
mile Laramie river tunnel through the
Medicine Bow range had been let and
construction begun. The contract was
let to J. A. McIlwee, of Cripple Creek,
who bored the Cripple Creek deep
drainage tunnel, for about 100000.
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
number Of small irrigation projects
will bring several thousand acres OF
fruit land under cultivation.
While plowing on his desert claim
east of Greeley, J. r. English un-
earthed strange animal. 1t resem-
bes the kangaroo rat; has body five
inches long. tail six inches long.
with a bushy end; and its front legs
are much shorter than the hind ones.
When the dog gave chase, the ami
NAL jumped twenty feet at bound.
1t is believed it is a jeboa, native
OF Australia and the Cape Of Good
Hope country.
The second annual conference of
the boys department of the state Y.
NJ c. A will be held at Boulder De-
cember 3, 4 and 5. Friday evening
Professor Ira De Long will preside as
toastmaster at a banquet to the dele
gates. The address Of welcome will
be delivered by Rev. F. B. Palmer.
After election OF officers Rev. Frank
I. Bayley of Denver will speak on
The Christian Boy as q Citizen
Revival services. conducted by all
the churches OF the city, were opened
churches Of the city, were opened
Sunday afternoon at the First Pres
byterian Church In Pueblo. by the
Rev. Ira E. Hicks, the noted evange-
list. At the first meeting there were
more than 1000 persons present. and
chorus Of seventy-fiye voices rem
dered the music. A temporary taber-
nacle has been erected which seats
1000 persons.
Another record in apple raising is
reported from the vicinity of Denver.
David Peabody, with ranch in Lake
wood, two miles from the Denver city
limits, raised and marketed 1000
boxes from thirteen acres, and II he
had cared to assert the product care
fully, believes that he could have av-
eraged 81 per box for the entire crop.
AS 1t was he got rs cents per box at
wholesale. making the value Of the
crop in the neighborhood Of $1,000.
The Portland Cement Company has
force Of twenty-five men and ten
teams at work four miles west of Coal
dale in the western part Of Fremont
county, grading a narrow gauge rail.
road from Valley station to the corr
pany's gypsum mine. distance of
2h miles. The work is in charge ~
City Engineer A. B. McFall of Flor.
ence. The cost OF the road will be
$4,000, the heavy cost being due II
\ railroai biidge that must be con-
structed.
More than 10000 people attended
the two free concerts given under city
auspices in the Denver auditorium
Sunday afternoon and evening. by the
band of Herman Bellstedt. There
were 5000 people at the afternoon
concert, and 5000 heard the night pro-
gram. Several members of the honor
ary commercial commission from ia
pan were present during the evening
performance. and evinced much In
terest beth in the auditorium and In
the plan of holding Sunday concerts
for the benefit of the people.
Attorney D. P. Strickler. Of the
Stratton estate. has formally notified
the Colorado State School for the
Deaf and Blind. which received a leg
acy from the late w. 8. Stratton. that
II the suit of Mrs. Virginia Stratton
Cobb, Mr.. Stratton's sister. against the
estate for interest on her legacy is al
lowed, the estate will pay the institu-
ticn interest on its legacy. The same